July 20, 1969

source

Astronaut’s amazed

Bright Earth rises in the sky

Feet on dark moon-dust

 

 

Posted for Poetry Pantry @ Poets United

Say the Names

Mayavati, Advaita Ashram source

As I utter Jaisalmer

I find

A little girl

Springing from my heart

Running with deer feet on the golden sand

Towards a gorgeously decorated camel

To take her to the medieval golden fort,

Sonar Kella* 

Alas! It’s only a dream.

When I say Mayavati

I find

A woman

Stepping out from my heart

Slowly trekking the snowy Himalayan path

Towards a monastery nestled in the lofty height

Beckoning her with a smile of renunciation

Advaita Ashram**

Alas! It’s only a dream.

 

I say the names

I listen to myself

I dream

They’ve become my soul

I’ll see them one day

I say the names

Till the heart stops beating

Fort at Jaisalmer source

 

 *A book written by Satyajit Ray, the noted Indian film director. The book, meaning, Golden Fort is a detective story based in Jaisalmer, a place in Rajasthan, the largest state of India. It was also made into a film by Ray. We as kids simply adored the book and also the film.

 

**It is a monastery of the Ramakrishna Order.

 

In both the places I could not go in spite of all the arrangements.

 

Posted for Sherry’s Midweek Motif ~ Saying the Names With Love @ PoetsUnited & I used a few lines from Al Purdy’s poem “Say the Names”

Return

The sun sets to rise again

With a leaf shower Fall is back

Dusk songs of homing birds

Fill the evening bowl

Raindrops mingle with sea

Then embrace the cloud

I watch Nature play in cycles

As I walk my twilight path

Towards the dark door

I wonder will I return to light

Once more?

 

 

Posted for APED Prompt 65 – In a Flash #5; Today’s word prompt is “Return”

Martyr

“Who told you to touch my things?

There should be limits to trespasses

Uh oh don’t try to serenade

You are no bird of paradise

I hate that martyred look of yours

Could you please get lost?”

Her stony feet

Can’t walk out of this hell

Of every second of her life

A sigh escapes

 

Posted for APED Prompt-63 where the prompt word is Martyr suggested by Usha Menon

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Also submitted to Real Toads where Kerry is holding FLASH 55 PLUS!

The House

Are you afraid

When you hear the groan?

It’s no one else

But the empty house

It remembers

The joyful shouts

Of the happy children

Cycling on its pathway

On each page of its memory

There are stories

Written in gold letters

Not all happy

Yet there was no dearth of emotion

Now its garden is a wilderness

Three brave souls

Who went there to spend a night

Never came out

Nor was there any trace of them

It’s no tourist spot

That you buy ticket to explore

And enjoy

Beware! Don’t get caught!

The house broods

And lets mystery grow around

 

Submitted to APED Prompt-62 Weekend Wordle#9

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Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United

A Word That Rose

A Word that Rose—

Though mild - It seemed

Grew - Twisted Twirled and Cold

Became a Thorn that shot a heart

Beyond the Realm of Right—

A Word that Iced a fountain-smile

Like souls in limbo Stays

In pain – regretful sighs

No Earth – nor – Hell – neither Heaven

 

I used Dickinson’s poem A WindThat Rose for my inspiration

                                                         

Posted for MTB dVerse where we are writing in the style of Emily Dickinson

Acceptance

Misery

You are also a gift

Of kindness

From God

As it is from Him

I accept you

From the bottom of my heart

 

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