WAKING UP

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“Arise awake stop not till the goal is reached”*

 

I wonder

What do we do first

Arise then awake

Or do the opposite

What does Swamiji mean

 

And one morning

 

I woke up

See, awake first

Then rose to my feet

And arise, later

 

I wonder

Why did Swamiji say this

 

I was charting my day

On the terrace

A breezy whisper startled me

"Look around you

And thank the Lord for this

Wake up will you"

 

I found

The soft baby sun

The Jingling trees

The purple heaven

A solitary star

All looking at me

Singing of flux

 

I woke up

I was reborn

 

*this is a quote by Swami Vivekananda (fondly called Swamiji by the people), a Hindu monk of the nineteenth century

 

Posted for Mary’s prompt @ "dVerse - Poetics - It's Qutoable

 

 

FLY

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A second

So precious time dot

Flies unmoved

posted for Haiku Horizons FLY

A RHYTHMIC DANCE

(A Terzanelle)

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If there’s a deep depression at the Bay    

 The bone dry arid land hopes against hope

 A storm’s to brew to reach the sky they say

 It’s better to rise than sit, brood and mope

 What do these dark flying clouds indicate?

The bone dry arid land hopes against hope

Deflated brain waits to be in full spate

 The blistering heat’s fighting tooth and nail

The bone dry arid land hopes against hope

 The sea’s roaring, the stormy clouds do flail

Droplets poised and the lull’s almost broken

The blistering heat’s fighting tooth and nail

 Euterpe’s flute untie the notes to rain

Parched heart’s quick to drench in words to quench thirst

Droplets poised and the lull’s almost broken

 A rhythmic dance is to be seen at first

If there’s a deep depression at the bay

 Parched heart’s quick to soak in words to quench thirst

 A storm’s to brew to reach the sky they say

Posted for Kerry’s Sunday Form Challenge - Terzanelle @ Real Toads

&

Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United

RHYTHM

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Rivulets stream from pores

Raging sun

Bursts

2

Leaves burst hues to show off

Pride before

Fall

3

Snowfall will invoke Sleep

Migration

Starts

4

The Earth starts and wakes up

Butterflies

Stream

Posted @ d’Verse Poets Pub 

BICYCLE-THIEVES

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Two wheels became

Light, camera and sound

Poverty of post-war Italy

Hit the screen

 Untrained non-actors

Wheeled this De Sica Classic

Safely beyond boundary of time

Posted for Susan’s MidWeek Motif ~ Bicycle @ Poets United

FRIENDS

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I have a friend

Dwelling inside me

She is sweet

Yet knows

When to be harsh

And hard

I don’t listen to her at all

When she is like that

I almost hate her then

I hear her chuckle

When salt clogs my throat

She is so unkind

Though in the stretched summer days

Or long dark winter nights

She speaks in fragrance

She is a friend in need

I am a shadow of her

Posted for Gabriella’s prompt Friends @ Poetry Jam

I AM

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I am existence

I am in relationship

With the universe

Dusts and the stars

Stare at me

We do feel related

The universe will be non-existent

When I shall cease to be

What lingers

When all is said and done?

Posted for d’Verse where I answered the first question (who are you and whom do you love?) asked by MarinaSofia and included the last question as a part of my poem