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Tuesday, 30 June 2020

Mystic Trail



A trace of hazy mist,
I pace in pearly tryst.

My mind in loops of night,
to find solace in light.

Milky way curls to sing,
hopes sway in silver spring.

At dawn a trail of dreams,
I yawn as my heart beams.


*This poem has been written using the Essence rhyme poetry form created by Emily Romano which is a short, structured form of 2 lines. There are six syllables in each line, with an end rhyme and an internal rhyme. The internal rhyme is across 2 lines only. This poem uses different rhyming pattern for the four sets of couplets.*

Grandpa's Tree



The lush mango tree in blooming youth
dances to the whispers of summer breeze,
I remember grandpa's sheer joy in his eyes
bubbling a world of stories as he'd planted it.
His love and fatherly care in those sprouts
made green leaves drip shimmering kindness
on moonless nights, wrapped in mystic blankets
as he taught me folk songs playing his flute.
Ten years later, the mango tree reminds me
his kindness, love and grace in strength
to be sprinkled in a world without him
ripe sweet mangoes gifts bestowed on me.
A glimpse of white clouds peeping through leaves
swaying with wind seems like his symphony
dancing on flute echoing folk songs in my memory.
A tender shade of tranquility in my life,
grandpa remains with me in a mortal world
cocooned in the branches of his old tree.

Nature's Dance



Blue robin in garden sings a soothing song,
dew drops dance in rings blushing all along,
skew golden rays of strings covering a furlong,
new dawn of rebirth brings summer here daylong.
Few butterflies sprout wings to fly lifelong,
strew colors on rushing springs where they belong;
queue of red ants clings to branches too strong,
view to a world of little kings all dressed wrong.

This is a rhyming poem with triple rhyming scheme, i.e., in every line, the first, middle and end words rhyme with each other.

Role Reversal



His hands clasped tightly, one in mine, one in mother's. Days of baby steps made us nod in encouragement -- we let go. Daddy took his first balanced steps post crash. A memory of joy, watching him walk again.

dad's first leap of hope
puddles of joy held my breath--
gleaming roles reversed 


*This poem has been written using the Japanese Haibun form(invented by Japanese poet Matsuo Basho) which is a prosimetric literary form that he used to combine elements of Chinese prose genres with Japanese haiku themes. The range of haibun is broad and frequently includes autobiography, diary, essay, prose poem,short story and travel journal. Each haibun must have a title, followed by a short prose-like paragraph. Afterward, a simple poetic haiku (three lines of 5,7,5 syllables respectively). A haibun may record a scene, or a special moment, in a highly descriptive and objective manner or may occupy a wholly fictional or dream-like space.The accompanying haiku may have a direct or subtle relationship with the prose and encompass or hint at the gist of what is recorded in the prose sections.*

Enticing Glance



In a room bubbling exuberance
and a gaiety crowd dancing to beats
we sit across each other ten feet apart,
his whispering pulses become audacious
every second approaching my heart
and I shiver as they unravel my layers,
intimate desires beneath naive smiles.
Flickering lights on his velvet skin,
topaz brown eyes decipher my love,
unveiling pearls behind chandeliers
as I make nervous moves to blanket them
in timid blinks of my lush orchard,
but he knows for I see him smile,
his blazing patience till we escape
this cacophony to face each other in euphoria.
Beads of sultry lemonade on his lips 
kiss my fingers as I touch my glass,
he seems jealous of my crystal earring
embracing my cheek, entwined with my hair
and I envy his cotton white shirt
draping his ocean of passionate dreams.
He folds his sleeves, I tie my locks,
we've taken our first steps,
now ten steps apart drenched in mists
of our heated breaths we float at night,
our glances intermingled in frequencies,
that only our fingers can decode in smoke,
weaving patterns in the air between us,
my anklets kiss my fragile feet,
embellished in raging storms we drown,
in waves of hushed union escaping through vents
of a moment standing still known just to us,
pouring through crevices that moisten parched lands.
He has read my fantasies in folded memories,
electric touch flaming my passionate side
as his fingers hold mine in our recluse.
We've made love without physical touch,
and now we dance on pearls of octaves
intertwined with beats on the surface,
curling in laced rhythms of ancient ragas.

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Forlorn Gift



He just signed a grand contract
in curves of ink I worship now,
memories of writing on frayed pages
fade with twirling winds of time.
Dark ages of catastrophic wars
lit by my poured hope in desk lamp.
His grandmother healed prisoners in pain
with their agony preserved in diaries,
legends, hope, lost days of love,
they narrated, she wrote, I absorbed.
Ah! What freedom I'd experienced
being a scribe's magic wand of faith,
a light to the tattered world in rags
shone across grey skies to guide
derelict souls with valor on journeys,
I'd been a mighty sword in disguise.
Gifted to him in a transformed world,
beneath crumbling desires I weep,
I crave to pen emotions not business,
my brave stories in graves asleep.

Orchard of Perspectives

       


         Black boxes atop a vintage shelf
            adorned with dust of opinions groan.
               Oh they are overweight with burdens
                  quivering to shed a few genuine thoughts
        but they burn in the fire of red dragon
             that engulfs snow-clad valleys somewhere
                 or those driven by processed thoughts
                    cocooned in silver foils of inclination
             Insane frenzy still remains for verdicts
         declared by those deemed righteous
      yet this orchard boasts of supremacy.
    I've bubbled a thousand crimson ideas
       nascent and pious they seemed to me.
         Alas! we all have been presumptuous
           every human is conditioned thus to be.

         A folklore lost in the Indian ocean
            fills my blue cup to the brim
              'succumb to the obvious or breathe'.
                 My bougainvillea seeds sprout in cacophony,
        I let them dance in multiverse of drops
           my eyes witness dimensions in perspectives
               stagnant rivers now rush to travel
                 as far as my mind opens rusty gates
        displaced neutrons explode in a Big Bang
            here's to another beginning of existence.
               My mind sprays fragrance of blue roses
                  extinguishing raging flames of supernova.
        This trench needs to be extended
           beyond seven seas and continents of Rome,
              let bees and butterflies fly in unbiased harmony
                 to suck nectar and produce infant honey.

      I've planted my primrose of valor and hope
         in the orchard of perspectives at last,
           wiped dust of assumptions from black box
              wrapped in banana leaves under oak tree.
      I'm not free of my opinions but let them be
          no longer do I succumb to frenzied wars.
             I've got a song for my cuckoo to orchestrate
                my tunes absorb opinionated fumes in universe
    and crush them till they nourish aroma of light
         that builds an abode for explorers that roam
             in a luminescent entropy of ideas that flutter
                around judgement but not pulled down by it
        pumping superimposed energy to newborn pearls
    that breathe free with all perspectives.