Love Is Not A Greeting Card

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made
                        like bread; remade all the time, made new"  
                                       
                                  -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

I won’t tie you up to my grief
My child
Be free, lie in the lap
Of God
My love is now free
From fear
Of losing you
Rest in peace
My child
In the heart of God

                         

Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ LOVE is not aGreeting Card @ Poets United

                  

Silence

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All words are shattered

Broken pieces piercing deep

My heart oozing void

                  

Posted for Alan’s prompt Silence @ Poetry Jam

Time

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Eyes were new and so were the bones

Frolicking, chirping without moans

Summer-Spring of life with flowery frill

Universe sang just chill, chill, chill

Autumn’s still glowing with a bright light

Yet sinew’s losing that omnipotent might

Dawn, day and dusk have a strange new feel

Universe is singing chill, chill and chill

A time will come when harvest is done

The mind will long for the hidden sun

The sleepy physique will show time’s weal

Universe will whisper chill, chill, chill

The body and mind will be full of mirth

Awaiting keenly for another birth

 

 

Posted for Bjorn’s hosting Sunday-Mini-ChallengeTime-travel  where we are to write a poem using past, present and future time in the same poem @ Real Toads

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 Sharing with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United

A Simple Prayer

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Thank you for the Home so sweet

Thank you for the Souls we meet

Thanks you for the Bards who sing

Thank you God for everything

 

Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Gratitude@ Poets United

How to Sleep

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Switch off the world

That glitters on screen

Or buzzes in your ears

At least two hours before

You go to bed

Hang a No Entry board

Inside the beautiful premises

Of your mind

So that no unwanted thoughts

Lay siege to your fort

Even if they shout outside

In their glaring silence

Simply ignore

Talk less

Food mustn’t be heavy

Neither for the body nor mind

Take a simple book

Even a children’s book would do

Mustn’t read lying

Sit and read

It’s good if the bed is comfortable

But mind needs the real relief

There’s no need to panic

If sleep doesn’t descend on the eyes

Read

Feel happy

Close the book

Switch off the light

Lie down

Rest

Good Night

 

Posted for Gabriella’s prompt ~ A How To Poem~ @ Poetry Jam

Enticement

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Luscious life luring

Oh to leap or not to leap

Let’s give it a try

Either we get it or dream

Both delightfully toothsome

 

Posted for Poetry Pantry @ Poets United

Health

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Give something healthy

To the body

To the mind

And to the soul

Everyday

 

Rule the taste buds

Never let them be

Your lord

You are not the body, are you?

 

Be the ring master

Lash your mind

To go through

The fiery rings of restrain

If a tiger can do that with flames

Is a human a lesser being?

Practice is the key

And knowledge is mind’s food

Be selective for the mind’s diet

It should listen to us

For you are not the mind, are you?

 

Select dawn and dusk

To be with the soul

Feed it with the soft hued sky

Don’t be surprised

If events made of words

Want to play as pranksters

Frighten, excite or annoy you

Let the belligerent words

Rise out of the blue

Let them jostle and fight

Let them raise a hue and cry

Let Paris elope with Helen

Let a Kurukshetra happen

Be the witness

Simply a witness

Keep a watch

For a long time

Be amazed at the power of words

But don’t you ever mingle with them

Why should you?

You are not words, are you?

Keep a distance

And see how one day

All these fizzy thoughts

Burst into nothingness

All the waves recede

Tranquility reigns

And omnipotent Dweller

Of the body shines

 Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif~ Health @ Poets United