The Savage and the Princess: 343 Version
Wild Blue Skies.- ivory mountains.
pine tree crystals. - towers. wild geese.
apple breeze. summer - palace. young Irene.
20. songs haunt - winds. Arts, pout
Iron. Gold. doubt.
eyes dark shiny.
Proposals refuse
"Heartless" haunted
truth Obscured
Clouded lies. abolished - hunting. king trusting.
servants spies. Irene - ride forbidden woods.
Eastern dark Sparks.
Savage heart. Callous. - sinner lived blinds.
ruled nameless gypsy - tribe. sabre words.
- charm never wines.
- dawn avenges waif .
hell fury's name. - out glory fame.
lancet blood red
lion untamed
bloody battle fierce. - lion killed lame.
Night after day.
day after night.
always same,
savage sword - blue bloody games.
hoofs thundered.
earth shuddered.
flutters savage came
night. Lost Irene.
heart fell waterfalls
Sparks arms. Luna - silver Fountain brown
- skin tanned. kiss
- wild flower. Cold
- warm. charm. melting
- life volcano burst.
- love wept. cried.
- They said goodbye.
Savage jumped palace
Swinging Oak tree.
Crescent. crown dismayed. - princess left - China.
“promise me Sparks
once just once - before I die".
- "yes my sweet
- princess i'll cross"
- The jungle desert
Gypsy dances
brought no pleasure.
six rains. Left
crossed boundaries wild.
67 days nights.
Froth danger, struggle - eternal strife saddle
free thundering
typhoons rafted
seas. Bleeding
feet knees. Out
of France Spain
Cordoba dark
churches white
sea gulls, rocky
terrain. wild
African land.
Morroco, Khairwaan.
Cannibals Witch
heads. Thick Jungles,
Zulu Masai tribesmen.
Crocodiles Phythons.
Lost. Unexplored land.
Marshes, African
elephants. Flies
sickness Rains
disease. Pygmies
Poisoned arrows
Unknown tongues
faithful friends.
Sahara, Egypt Arabia.
Nile Cairo. Camels.
Caravans. land of pharaohs,
desert storms
furnace sands.
Hunger,
thirst,
killing
him. did not die.
Jerusalam,
land of Christ.
Palestine Damascus.
Baghdad Persia.
Herat Ghazni.
Khyber pass,
Afghanistan.
mystery India.
Punjab Indus.
bleeding
sweating
aching
pathways wild,
Asia. Lion traps
snake pits. Gladiator.
Tiger leopard land.
had to hunt.
Himalayas, crossover.
Finally Tibet.
Monasteries.
Meditation,
Snowy terrain,
bite winds.
jagged mountains
dizzy heights.
slipping feet
icy nights.
dear life
Irene.
Dusted.
reached
Chinese soil.
Rusted
promised.
Mongol mountains.
rice fields,
con hats.
Wells. nights
rice bright
Chinese market.
Fireworks. lights
red. Yuan dynasty.
Marriage. Arthur
- Irene. A smile
tired eyes.
bloody clothes.
cynical smile
before light
with yellow men
played hide and seek.
mounted rode away.
hunted till Mid
Arabia. last seen in
arms by Abu Sheikh
Khan the camel boy
told his sixteen
grand children.
King Arthur's horses
Cui Hung's men
left defeated.
A gypsy folklore
married the savage
one rainy African
afternoon deep
amongst pygmy
friends. away
from eastern
dark, ivory
mountains. Love
found . monotony
bound.
Arthur dead.
Polo returned.
Yellow river red.
Love bloomed.
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Reshma Poems 1998
LONAVALA 1997The hills are silent
and the waters speak
The butterflies are dancing
The honey bees sleep
The sense of timelessness
in the slumber of nature
The green leaves and
the beautiful stream
Here I am lying and dreaming of thee
As the hills are alive with memories
that we never shared
I will let this moment pass with glee
Or just let time cease
And love you endlessly
Your eyes are radiant
and your gaze speaks
Your life is vibrant
But your emotions sleep
Here I stand to watch your fancied whim
Too proud to let go and weep
GLAD I FOUND YOU©
'glad I found you-lost were thee?
"the jewel"-a diamond’s envy,
A wonder
mother earth’d agree.
In the whispering leaves of a pine groove up north
The whirlwind glides on calm Caribbean seas
A hurricane: as a trawler would split
In a passion thy name that is insanity
In the purity of a snowball
In the tenderness of a drop of dew
In the softness of a flowing breeze
In the way that only I have known you
You blew from soft to extreme
In wake and in deep slumbered dream
And the centuries that I have known you
I have always adored, cherished,
admired and loved you
THE AWKWARD FEELING©
I long for your sight
Those beautiful eyes
Forever awaiting
A sparkle of a smile
A phone-call
An eternity away
Missing and uneasy
Powerful, intense
An uncanny feeling
The warmth of your smile
The ease, the poise and flow
A halo of a persona
The grace your glow
The tenderness of the moon
The freshness of June
The purity of your soul
Its a pity I lost you.
YOUR EYES ARE MY REASON TO LIVE©
Your Eyes Are My Reason To Live
The air that I breathe
The illusion that I dream
And at nights I wake up
By the beauty of your face
The pink smile
Those twinkle of your eyes
Your hands are so tender
And the hair is so nice
It flows like waterfalls
That’s melted from the ice
As the sun warms your soul
Your life makes my life
worth living
Your skin is so soft
And the glow is so bright
Your presence in my life
Is the presence of dew
in the desert at light
You are the rose that
in my barren life grew
If only you knew
If only you knew
SOUL MATE©
Out of the skies of jet black midnight
Came the star most bright
And life-mine - the eternity of darkness
Is filled now with flaming light
And the love that’s here
To the heart most dear
In the inky mist - unsettling
Comes the dawn most clear
Comes from the holy gates
A ivory ray to my heart straight
Eyes blink to brightness inure
Recognise my soul-mate
THE NIGHT OF 23. SEPTEMBER 1997©
The skies have burst open
But star there is none
Showers of your secret love
May someday make us one
You are the air I breathe
& my most beautiful dream
The love that I seek
My most fancied whim
How can one not love you
It's pure, clean, beautiful
sparkling, fiery, calibred
proud & true
The love that I feel for you
Can you feel it too.
STEALING GLANCES©
Stealing glances
In the midst
of human crowd
Among the chatter
of computer lingo
I look at
your beautiful face
I take in as you
opiate my senses
Your cascading hair
And clear eyes
The fair little nose
And your sparkling eyes
Your secret, shy smile
Is it for me?
Or are you just laughing at life
Endlessly!
ROSE©
Your laughter has the
innocence and freshness anew
Like mountains full of roses
bathed in dew
Its a sin to notice
what's real but not true
When one should have affections
Where they are not due
WHERE ARE YOU TODAY©
Not seeing you is a feeling
that can be explained
But I’ll try
It’s an unfulfilling feeling
with a little bit of pain
Its rather dry
DARKNESS©
Darkness and dark gray sky
Hostile thunder and unkind sky
Throwing fire and showers
Electricity talks and water flies
What’s in September
should have been in July
Your coldness
meets my lack of faith
And I hate the games we have to play
Yes, No, Maybe.
Maybe Not.
The games go on.
DREAMS©
I still catch a glimpse of you sometimes
On nights in a dream within a dream
I convict me of the love that’s a crime
As I gaze at you in the golden stream
SOMETIMES©
You give a look sometimes.
Sometimes half a smile.
Sometimes gazes, frequent!
Sometimes sheer indifference.
Some looks take a while
You sit there in front of me
Confused
As I blush.
A genuine smile
touches your soft lips
A hidden mischief reaches your eyes
STARS©
There are the stars
They look so near
& the waves
The wind blows clear
& the sand
Wish you were here
And I
In your arms
I feel a glint of a tear
A sacred purity
It feels so clean
& emotions taken over
by your dreams
The wind blows clear
The feelings feel far fetched
and real
Sky is a purple hue
A shade of yellow
A touch of blue
A hint of red too
And then
There is you.
Pure and clean
My holiest dream
Purity as I smell the winds
Purity as I live my whim
And what I feel for you
Is true in the truest of trues
LOVE YOU
Love you more than the stars in the skies
Love you more than it rains in July
More than the sun
that dips deep
in the western oceans
And planets
that flow in their circular motion
Love you forever
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
More than words can feel
Or thoughts can say
On humid eves
And sunny days
Like birds love to fly
Or fishes that swim
in tides
I love you from deep within
the deepest of my insides
And the volcano it
stirs within can forever drive me wild
A LIGHT
9:20 am 26 September 1997
Soft silentness
echoes my room
Gently,
I wake from sleep
& soon
I remember you
& your presence
in my life
The rain splitter-splatters
in a West-Indian rhythm
From gray mass of menace
& gloom
comes a light to my mind
A ray called Rose
A love that’s true
1997
LADY DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES
1961 - 1997
[3:50 p.m. of 1st September 1997]
Her spirit graced alike the gold and coal
The broken hearts and wounded souls
Loved she, the unloved, uncared
And people who were a broken whole
A beauty that no one knew
Did not see through nor understood
A humble majesty
A peoples crown
And the world weeps
The universe is sad
The queen is dead
The queen is dead.
Blue is the sky
And the air is dead
Black is the dusk that glooms
And black is the red
A angel that once walked the earth
The queen is dead
And not just in name
nor in royal blood
Just her eyes that cried
for the weak as
she carried the eternal flame
and the kindness that forever flood
From dawn to dusk
From day to day
From wake to bed
The queen is dead
The queen is dead
And come alive a thousand nights
And not a single day
Cause life is dead
and the heavens are alive
The pain is great
The queen is dead.
THE LIGHT THAT SHINES NO MORE
A soft touch
on harsh seas
and storms
A soft flame
A gentle form
And to the cold
and the alone
she spread a light
And kept them warm
A princess that no one
knew
saw through
Nor understood
A charm
that held the arm
Of lonely and misunderstood
A life that’s now far and gone
A long night without a morn
The princess’ gone
O’ she’s gone.
As sun silently leaves
the dawn
.
PERFECT STRANGERS
We knew each other
a stranger now,
smiles politely
We loved
And now a vacuum
defines
What we feel
We cared
And nothing remains
Only emptiness holds us
together
Who are you... What happened
Only losses and losses
again and again
A thought as you I see
How empty are we...
How empty are we...
MISTAKES
Lets learn from our mistakes
and carry on
Not get stuck in a rut
that we call our own
O Lord in heaven
Let me go on
Not follow a mirage
that only I can see
Lord let me be me
Not a shadow
Nor someone else’s decree
Not somebody’s whim
based on their family tree
Not somebody’s fancy
Give me a life
Set me free
Give me a life
And let me be me.
WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE
Where are the people
that I called my own
Where is the crown, the sceptre
and that jewel-studded throne
Where is the splendour
and the golden horizon
As I live in the coffin
in the graveyard called life
Where are my own?
Where is my tribe?
YOUR EYE WANTS TO CATCH MY EYE
Your eye wants to catch my eye
There's the hope for a smile
There's a tear unexplained
There's an excuse for pain
Your obsession is insane
But Rose my dear,
I've spend my life in tears
And they don't corrode me
like acid could
Only feel fear
of falling in love again
'Cause I no longer want
to deal in pain
No longer need to carry
poison within
that softly kills
The proposition is insane
So we will meet between life's
tender joys and sorrows
You coldness has destroyed my heart
We'll meet someday, somewhere in the morrow
Such is life
And cruel is fate
Love is soft
And hard is hate
I have waited long enough
It's your turn to wait
A WOMAN LOVES ONCE
A woman loves once
& loses forever
& recreates no magic
no percent
of original desire
it is her decree
to live a vague promise
in a nowhere land
a near miss
to none a target
in the desert sands
No quench of thirst
a compromise
she calls her life
& completes with diamonds
& gold
she loves once & lost forever.
And quietly she grows old
MY LOVE IS ....
my love is ....
madness
overflowing
with
obsession
&
an eternal passion
softness and a
touch of arrogance
risky & yet it's tender
insecure & sensitive
its insane
it lasts forever
ROSES IN WINTER
Roses in December
They bleed and tell
an old tale
Forgotten
Yet throbbing
in the vague grounds
of memory
As dew would drop on
desert sands
And flakes of snow
simply pretend
Of heartbeats that got out
of hand
Long time ago
Just once
A chance
A chance
A chance.
THE GLITTER OF THE HUMAN RACE Saturday, January 03, 1998
Each smiled under a million lights
Their roar of laughter seized a might
Happiness to crown their mirage and hype.
Joy to add a dash of flight.
Each tried.
Each lied.
Life betrayed each one of them
Even those who could apprehend
The king, the pauper
The knight and the joker
The lord of vast boundless lands
The assassin, the farmer
The vile and the lover
The rosy lady and the iron man
The priest, the sinner
The serf and the soldier
Even those who could understand
Even those who had the proverbial knack
Life broke their robust, mighty backs
Each smile: a hollow, hopeless lie
Each twinkle: a vain pretence
Love laughed at their faces
And hopes died
While affections
lived an unearthly disgrace
In the midst of questionable joy
Life left without a trace of trace
And Yet they smiled
Happy with varnished truths
Content in self-fulfilling lies
Afraid to accept the blatant truth
Afraid to acknowledge and cry
They cheated
None but their own selves
They knew.
Whom can we blame ?
Not them for their sordid
super claims
Not them for their stupid
power games
Not them. They are too lame.
As laughter: a disguise used
For a sigh , a tear
A potent shame ,
whom can we blame?
Life set a poignant trap
In every eye carved a deficient dream
In every rank, a hollow frame
A silly, fruitless, unfaithful game
A farce, the human life became
Pride, without substantial claim
Hypocrisy, an eternal flame
Greed, lust and infinite pain
Whom can we trust ?
Whom can we blame?
An unfinished shadow
which has no name
Whom can we love?
Whom can we tame?
Life's innumerable sorrows
Or life's innumerous games.
THE EVE IS THIRSTING FOR YOUR LOVE
The eve is thirsting for your love
And the grey clouds kissing
the rainbow of a hue
The red, the purple, the yellow and the blue
Your smile is the only true thing in my life
And your love which I lost centuries ago
I have regained
And the feeling is strong, intense, insane
Your eyes like a tender waterfall
speak a thousand languages
without a murmur of a tear
And yet we are here
Near Not dear, Vague, unclear
Living individual fears
LORD II
Thank you for the sun
& the moon
& newly born drizzle
that sprinkles in June
The grass plush, permed in green
The rainbow, a multi-splendoured dream
The flowers on earth as they grow
The fires on hearth, that warms the soul
The waterfalls pure and clean
The Sun that rises high and sets low
The birds that sing in spring on trees
The beautiful branches with lovely leaves
The honey, the nectar and the buzzing of the bees
As every trifle of a miracle that I can see,
hear, love, feel and believe
As life overflows within me
TO WIN AND TO CONQUER
Conquests the highest dream
of a man’s quest
A burning desire to reach the top
To conquer crests
Conquest
‘Cause love betrays
& emotions go berserk
As time puts you
through the ultimate test
Conquest
To go higher than a falcons nest
You don’t have to try too hard
Or too much to be the best.
Conquest.
You are truly blessed.
JULY 1998
Rains
Torrential with the breeze
In the wild mountains
And a desire ... of unease
Stranger
Than the lightning
A trifle thrilling
A little frightening
Fresh waters
Crystal across the meadows
Below the green hills
Amidst the shadows
On old forts
And ancient palaces
Amongst known figures
And unknown faces
Somewhere
A small feeling is born
Merged with a little care
And it's alive and painful
It's there!
WILD RAINS
Wild rains,
Falling, drenching,
Burning out the fires
A lightning and a bolt of blue
Within the sky,
Wetting the greens,
Cooling the scenes,
Scorching the soul.
As gray splashes of nothingness
Wash the empty whole
An ecstasy that the rains have seen
Touching my life where you have been
& A constant subconscious memory
A little smooth &
A little fiery
You are everywhere
& Yet nowhere
In consciousness of my subconscious
An unconscious desire
A companion to my lonely heart
My only heart
Which is set to betray me
I wish I can let things just be!
And it wants to surrender to thee!
I MISS YOU AND I DREAM OF YOU
I miss you and I dream of you
Mountains that I want to climb for you
Stars I want to capture
When this night
Envelops the world
So slight
And eyes that are filled with sorrows too
I think of you
It rains and I can visualize you
A mirage we call this our life
A hope, that destiny destroyed
I dream of you, I think of you
The softness in your voice
Is a sweet embrace
Just a trifle smoother
Than thy smile
Not sweeter than
Thy face
Thy beauty does
That to me
It gently rolls
& Softly sets my heart
Free
Tuesday, May 19, 1998
YOU
Your innocence brings the
Freshness of spring
In your voice
And your wild smiles
And the softness in your
Tender styles
The richness in your sprite
Has the light of dawn
In the darkest of nights
You are a wave of purity
In this wild mindless world
The sweep of your hair
In ever swerving curls
You are a joy to behold
And life to lost souls
In a world full of strangers
You are the warmth
When everything is so cold.
ROARING RAINS
In the roaring rains
And wanton waterfalls
While the wild winds feign
The white, flowers flow and fall
On the dark black seas
And the wet ebony rocks
Within the soft singing of the streams
And the mild buzzing of the bees
As the butterflies blame
Jaded grass green
My spirit will call thy name
Under snow covered skies
And the desert scorched lands
From highest peaks
And lowest valleys
My spirit will call thy name
As thin air speaks
And echoes sound in lonely alleys
My love for thee has neither pride nor shame
On the highest peaks
Through strongest breeze
My love flickers like an eternal flame
My spirit will call thy name
ON SLOPES OF MATHERAN.
Green, greener
A haze of blue
Somewhere in the hills
Should have met you
In a mist amidst
Valleys and streams
A personification of
Most beautiful dreams
Where I could be me
And, you could be you
Unfortunately, when our tracks met
Few moments were all we shared
Two strangers in nowhere land
A smile, few words and a warm hand
An arrow from nowhere
A twang without a meaning
A feeling, a feeling - definitely
A feeling!
An emotion above everything real
A feeling that says you are special.
Note: Met Lucy in the train, Special moments – these, 19th Oct 98.
SPARKLES
There’s a sparkle
In the clean clear waters
And a silver glint
Of hope
As the sun’s ray touches the gleam
I experience a spirited rush
Of racing emotions
Something that seems new
Coming from you
SHORES OF TIME
I stand on shores of time
Waiting for life
To take a flow
As a horizon I distant see
Makes my heart jump in glee
Or some untold morning mists
Which unfolds in melody
And a hint of sadness
A pain
A melancholy
Across the thorns lies paradise
Maybe meant for you and me
The air is fresh
And your reflection
Embraces the evening skies
That’s all I have for now
Your reflection
An echo
of lost times
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Absolutely Daniella
Thursday, January 12, 2000a stranger walked on
a strange street
in a blind night
among stones and trees
and houses with lights within
that failed to recognise him
who once they so well knew
knew his feelings and understood
with them he had once shared
a whisper of a love affair
which died
on this very street
he’d laughed and he’d cried
he’d loved and she’d lied
seven years come and go
as the pain twinkles in a fear
a pain distant and yet so near
rendering a sweet blow
that feels dear
he walked alone
careful not to wake the ghosts
without shedding the tear
he’d held
a small light somewhere
knew his name
had seen the passion in his gaze
had seen the kisses he’d shared
seven years are not leaves
that fly away in winds
trees forget people
and streets forget names
humans become strangers
and strangers become friends
he pretended
he knew no one
walking in a glory - empty
a strength - hollow
feeling no tear - no fear
the ghosts are dying
sleeping soundlessly
under their respective graves
Who comes? Who goes?
Who cares? Who knows?
Thursday, January 20 2000
there’s something about wintry nights
the breeze sings a cool melody
and the stars wink in the skies
as you stand on the gravel
feeling the sea in the distance
hearing imaginary waves
oh! It’s the breeze
when the silence is the conversation
and love is paramount
in your mind
no past present or future
just the here and the now
and you alone with yourself
Soft, sweet, sanguine
Soft, sweet, sanguine
A golden droplet fallen from heaven
A lovely little lost dream of a dolphin
Softer than a song: cuter than a penguin
A more beautiful woman I’ve never ever, ever seen
A voice that is so soothing, a smile that’s gentle
A spirit that is wild and a glance of an angel
Your eyes are so beautiful
Your face is so nice
Your hair is like the waterfalls
That’s melted from the ice
When your pink lips part to form that lovely smile
A man can lose himself in this life that’s an isle
Cause life is so beautiful and it could be lost in a while
Your trust is so rare, that’s lost in people’s guile
When the rains are heavy
When the rains are heavy
And the storm is cracking like a whip on the floor
My heart is light, jumping and thumping and it’s happy
I’m happy cause I’ve told you and you know
I wonder as my glee ebbs and flows
I feel that you feel and I have been wrong before
I wonder if you are a dream I have waited for
Or is life heading for another disappointment as before
The sun comes out sooner or late, that’s life. That’s fate
I think I can live without you before that’s too late
It’s painful to know that I know nothing
But than love is love higher than hate
Some people touch our lives, my friend
Some people touch the core of our existence
Like the moon creates tides
As the breeze touches the sea
Creating waves
Like the waves touch the shore
Hitting into the heart of rocks
Creating sand
Ebb and tide
Joy and sorrow
Love and hatred
Today and tomorrow
You have touched my life in
Oh so many ways
Someone, somewhere, somehow
The world goes on
As waves of time hit the rocky shores
And corrode them like only time can
Sometimes time stops, pauses, forgets to tick…
Like the moment my eyes met yours. And I
Lost you in the infinity of your eyes
The world was mine
The feeling was divine
Moment, hours, years froze
Feelings shivered and gently arose
And an empty pause of nothingness
A vacuum that world and life had been
Found meaning and…
Existence lost its priority to you
Your clear eyes and mystical smile
Took my life over while tenderly touching
And gently taking over my world
But there are dreams within dreams
And worlds beyond worlds
Further than what
Eyes can see, ears can hear
Or hearts can feel
Times change and
People turn corners, go out of range
Strangers become friends
And lovers feel strange, restrained.
Time teaches us to live, give in, give.
Forget, start over and forgive
Time ticks and world becomes still
For each other we shall always be
Someone, somewhere, somehow
Beating in the innermost, small, central, dark corner
Of the other’s heart
Living in memories
Lost in the pages of our lives…
Somewhere!
Someone!
Somehow!
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Floating free in your deep blue eyes
I surrender to you all my nine lives
And each dive I take in the pool of your eyes
A part of me gently dies
And explodes in a million and one sighs
Falling free from the blue of the wild skies
I feel at home within your li’l heart
Flying through the layers of warmth
Hidden in your moist eyes
Each time I think of you
What we can and cannot
or would not do
A arrow tears into my heart
And fills with bloods old, old scars
A part of me softly cries
WILD WILD RAINS
The rains lashing in the dark
Causing the occasional spark
As lightning flies
As the drops drop
Dance, jive
Die and come alive
Within the blink of an eye
Within that one mad
Magical moment blind
All at once and yet again
It’s love
The blessing as it pours
From the skies
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The Savage and the Princess
The Savage and the PrincessHigh above the ivory mountains
Surrounded by pine trees
on crystal towers
swept by the wild breeze
stood the summer palace
King Philip's
Where one summer came
here to stay young Irene
20 she was then,
the summer palace
she had never seen.
Irene, the beautiful princess
Her songs haunted the winds
Artistic, beautiful and slim
Soft the structure; and trifle bold
pouted lips. Iron willed
Beautiful body and simple soul
Irene the princess could lip-read
Hands: tender, lovely, and strong.
The fingers artistic and long.
Her eyes in the dark shone
Though her heart no noble won
Her smile melted hearts
tender as her heart seemed
She confessed she could never feel
As nobles proposed her hand
Proposals (from near and far) a lot
She refused. None a after-thought
"Heartless she is " (said her friends)
But heartless she was not
The truth is sometimes if not most
much more than meets the eye
Obscured by appearances
haunted by ghosts
and sometimes rare
Clouded by lies
Irene had abolished hunting in the land
And defaulters she would apprehend
"Never shall one kill the beast
For mere pleasure or a royal feast"
As the king trusted his daughter blind
She was his favourite and always on his mind
But the servants never shut the spying eyes
One day the princess
wanted to riding go
And riding, she went
- Her father could never say no.
In the forbidden woods,
In the forbidden land
But Eastern dark was
Beyond the Irene empires
No soul ever dared wander
Eastern dark was ruled by Sparks
And Sparks killed on slander
most referred him a savage
a hybrid of a noble woman
a hybrid of a cruel man
Sparks lived on plunder
A savage at heart
Callous and sinner in more ways than one
Savage lived in the blinds
And he hated the Sun
He ruled over the Gypsy tribe
which settled in there 1200 AD
whom he loved; they could at him jibe
The savage lived the dark
hunting the wild gave him a satisfaction - cynical
He was a villain at heart
Sharp at words and quick at vocabulary
Learned.The blood of the noble woman
Evil. The heart of a cruel man
He could charm the birds off trees
Though his charm was seldom if at all
wasted(?) on birds or fleas
Women and never wine
were his weakness prime
Killing in his land was not considered a crime
And thus on the morning he killed
to avenge the death of a gypsy waif
The lion had skinned
He had made a trap
When word came that Jessica saw the beast
under the Red Sand Mountain
Sparks rode as hell had no fury's name
Out aside with sword and shame
Pulled out his silver lancet sharp
Hunting gave his glory fame
And down the woods the Lion came
Sharp the eyes mammoth the frame
And quick before the sound through harp
Savage down from his horses came
And eyes across eyes did meet
And two animals none could tame
As though the silence could much speak
Their grey eyes a single burning flame
Sparks - Savage was not just in name
One strike left the lion lame
One must the other eat
Both animals were on their feet
A roar the wounded lion gave
A scratch
The blood: Sparks could not save
And silence then became discreet
The pride and arrogance left insane
A smile reached the Savage eye
His arm bleeding like it rains
His lancet one and a half metres long
Swished across the air like a song
The lion was faster than most
The lion played the jungle host
His claws penetrated Savage guts
And deep deeper the bloody cuts
And blood his own
Made Sparks smile
A battle A battle A battle
a mile
Sparks adored the lions style
And speed he caught up in a while
The golden mane he came close
And as the scarlet blood flows
Swish, went the Savage eyes
The lancet moved faster
Hard and high
The sabre cut the lion's throat
A smile
The hunter gave a gloat
And Savage killed with poetic rhythm
Killing on slander; the Savage anthem
Night after night, day after day
It was the same, the savage and his bloody games
As evil Sparks gained Savage name
And hoofs thundered
and earth shuddered
When Savage came
And Savage came.
II
Lost her way that night
Irene the beautiful princess
The horse stumbled as she
fell in the waterfalls
The horse died
She fell in Sparks arms
The horse died
She felt not
Irene had never cried
She felt never
Pain or pleasure
The Luna night
The moon was out
As she stood awashed
in the silver light
and the waterfalls
'Fountains of youth '
it was called
The tribals believed
She was all but undrenched
Her white skin on white glistened
as she caught the savage eye
He smiled his brown skin tanned
He smiled she had a beauty rare
Looking ravishing in the moonlight
like a wild flower
that touched his savage heart
As he picked her
indignant by the Savage touch
and before she could reason
he kissed her
amidst the water falls
She was cold and then she was warm
intrigued by the savage charm
She couldn't love
She couldn't hate
"Friends" her eyes shone
she wasn't an ingrate
but the savage wanted much more
He used friendship as a bait
"Aah ! young man lets be friends
Friends to the core !"
Her extended hand
met his
His eyes a seldom smile bore
"A very special friend?" he mused
"So be it".
But friendship was not his wish
Her ignorance was her bliss
He helped her out of the eastern reach
As they rode back on his black steed
which sped through the jungle's silver light
And send her home late that night
Much after he stopped to say good bye
Much after he paused to say good night
*
"I hate to say good bye"
he stopped at the palace gate
"How could someone part
with something as beautiful as you
and why !
I hate to say good bye"
One tear in the cruel eye
"Try", smiled she flattered, yet untouched
"Try" her luscious lips glowing
Her twinkled eye all knowing
The savage feeling growing
As he pulled her
The spying eyes
"I love you as I've never loved,
I'd live and die for you" said he
"I don't know I can't feel
I don't know If I want to"; said she
"Then please do, or don't know thee
How much I love you
Don't ye love me
Irene" He stopped "Don't ye love me"
"I don't know...
Summer palace is not my abode
I will have to leave someday
my father has plans for me
To send me to a foreign land
to further my knowledge
And love is too early for my age
Sparks, I don't know, I don't know, "
was more than he could hear
"I don't care when you go
I don't care where you go
But till then be near"
As he came close. One hand stroked
fingers through her hair
She resisted
"She always would"
thought he "Indeed, very rare"
The princess could lip read
The savage had seen women
The savage had seen life
"but never in my entire life
have I seen a woman as beautiful as ye!"
He kissed her cleopatra nose and held her
She made him feel things never felt
When he felt her
He kissed with a savage force
And then kissed gentle as a rose
"This girl is a woman "
Savage thought
And savage was enough of a man
to know that
(The princess could lip read)
Though right now he felt more like a boy
fondling
caressing
touching
holding
his puppy love as if it were his favourite toy.
III
He looked heavenwards and
said "Lord I deserve her"
As lord looked down upon earth and said
"No my son I love you and can't curse
But you sinned in thy life
You deserve not true love
You deserve much worse"
"Father in heaven holy be thy name
May you - we always hail
Lord I can't give her up
I shall fight
I shall fight tooth and nail"
"So be it my son
consider this a battle you never won"
Arrogance laughed and fear cried
All but lost was savage mind
His love and his hate
were they but his unfortunate fate
"Unfortunate" a word he never self used
The savage was in a ironical way amused
"And when again shall we meet"
He turned towards her
"On full moon night" her face lit
"All right then we shall meet under this very oak tree
All right I will come after I finish hunting"
"But hunting is abolished in my land, Sparks"
shocked she "Don't you know ?
Animals we have to save"
"But my jungle is not within thy boundaries, princess
I'm your lover not your slave
Or don't you know!"
She smiled again, her eyes lit bright
"I never even once thought so"
A promise he would keep
he gave up killing that very night
Till the day she was within his hearts reach
A contract he would not breach
A promise he would keep
He rode back to the jungles he came from
Savage did not sleep that night to dawn
Next morning early He
came out of the leafy blinds
The savage wanted to see light
As the sun came out
from nowhere
For his eyes it was too bright
Golden was the green and black
his mother used to worship the sun
As he bowed on his knees in prayer
She had changed him
And he was only too aware
And without even a single rumble
The crust of the savage heart crumbled
It could only be love
But two sided it was not
Not yet atleast
And somethings are realised
much much too late
They walked in the night
She cancelled her party with kith and kin
As he looked at her
Her mane unleashed
She looked as if she were a dream
wild as a jungle flower;
Colour blushed her face
exotic was her aroma
He wanted to hold her
He wanted to kiss her
As he stood mesmerised
under the tree
Savage never forgot that night
Never felt that way
A little tongue tied
"Be mine, be my bride"
He sighed
"No Sparks, I'll have to wait and see
It's something I can't just decide
You are free though to go
and choose any girl for thyself
Can't decide at this juncture
what I want myself"
Arrogance we are born with
Patience we learn the hard way
And once it comes through
It is and will remain there to stay
"I shall love thee forever princess"
"But forever is a long time"
"And now? what is wrong with now, Irene?"
"Now Sparks, is the wrong time"
A weakness a weakness a weakness he must find
Use intinct
use intuition
use experience
use the mind
A weakness a weakness a weakness he must find
Sometimes confusion
sometimes love
sometimes arrogance
makes us blind
And all but in control was the savage mind
"Only the dumb can't decide" he persisted
"Then count me with them" she resisted
"Don't leave, Oh ! Don't leave,
Don't leave yet! Please don't leave"
the tiger meowed
She smiled and she stopped
"What is it with you ?"
"I think it's love and I know it's true"
"Sparky ! No body is indispensable"
"Exceptions are independant
And exceptions are undependable"
"Your patience does you credit"
"When you love something wait long
before you grab it
Irene I must touch you"
"And you claim you love me true?"
"Even true love Irene must touch" he hushed
"I don't think as much" she blushed
"And what difference shall a kiss make, tell me"
"My words Sparks my words exactly"
"Passion adds colour to love
Passion adds flame to fire
and passion is not lust" he tried
"True love is to feel without having to touch" she replied
"I have to go now, I must though
I go on morns by the river for a lone walk
I wish you could come but it will be dark
and you live so far"
"Princess, I shall start early
and find my way in the dark
then there's always the pole star.
I shall meet you at the palace lawns
I shall meet you at dawn"
He woke up at three and reached at quarter to five
She lay dreaming when suddenly his face appeared
in her dream before her eyes
She awoke and she stretched it was already dawn
Went near the window to eye the palace lawn
He stood right there dressed in black
She hurried and moments late
she was there
And they met time and again
sharing happiness anger grief and pain
The savage could not let go
And the princess did not know
Moments hours and days
Golden sunsets Silver morns
They all made way
As they basked in each others warmth
Hot afternoons & Chilly rains
Through jungle banquets he went without meat
A promise A promise A promise he must keep
As the Savage waited
held back tear in his eye
for a sound reply
Softly he spoke
"Darling I want nothing from thee
I just want to know and know for sure
If it really is love you feel for me
Irene! Break the chains that bind me
Irene! Let your true love find me
Can't we live for the moment
and the moment alone
One moment at a time
One moment to the next
Let this moment freeze
Let this moment be our best
And then if our love be true
It will survive and far outlive
the harsh realities of life's cruel tests
Tomorrow Irene none has foreseen
Tomorrow is but a dream
And since yesterday is a has-been
Today is all we have my beautiful Irene
All I need know is, is it love thee feels
Should I stay or should I leave"
"Sparks I will be gone for two years,
too long a time to save love
and to save tears
And then maybe I'll go for more
It could even be four
I want not you to lie in wait for me
Let me decide in a day or so
My decision will bind ye
or set you free"
And when alone he walked in the forests at nights
As she lay asleep in her palace at the other side
He looked the stars seeing her face in the moons
An answer An answer An answer he would have soon
And when he would see her in the evening tomorrow
The answer would bring him pleasure or
The answer would set forth the reign of sorrows
He met her next to next evening at five
he was late
But his heart stopped after what she had to say
was said
"And have you an answer" he looked in her eyes
As she nodded, and he sighed
The moment of truth atlast
As he looked down the palace grass
She said "No" thats all she said
He looked down.Sad yet unbetrayed
Her answer may have been his fall
But she had spoke the truth after all
As the princess asked
"Do you want to be left alone
with thyself and thy thoughts ?"
"No" he hissed his thoughts far-gone
He looked down and looked up again
Up above the rest:Up much above the crest
Up at his father in heaven
And his heart screamed
"God you have done this to me
No tears No sorrows but I feel betrayed
Lord you just could'nt let me be
But it is thy will, not mine
And am I just a mere pawn
of my fate
The goodness with which you had
set my heart free
Is it all gone with my fate
I will do it to the the mortals you love
What you have done to me in hate
Fire and blood rains will color thy earth
The earth shall be torn from the centre
All your loved souls shall run helter skelter
And I be not feared by your curse
And may my downfall be the cause of your mirth
I will set fire wherever I shall go
And don't flatter thyself I shall survive the blow
Never shall I be one with you
I am the son of satan
I disown you
And the virtuous shall weep
As my heart weeps today
Oh heavens your dawns be black
And dusk be bloody
My defence will be my worst attack
Lord almighty I am done
And all because you wanted some fun
Widows shall cry and orphans shall weep
A promise A promise A promise I shall keep"
"Threaten not me my son
You still have a lot to learn
The day of judgement await
And then resign to your fate
You are a mere mortal yourself
And spoilt by your whims and fancies
Spoilt by your silly victories
Spoilt rotten and arrogant you are
But this time you have gone too far
much much much too far
You deserve not a mere curse
You deserve much much much worse
But fortunate you are
your past deeds still hold good
Don't tell me What I do
or What I should
Threaten not me my son
Threaten me never my son
Let all thy good deeds be undone
Go your way, live thy life
What I want done will be done"
The fear shut Sparks up
For the first time Sparks felt
the power of raw fear
Silence and silence alone
Uninteruppted Undisputed
He descended
As towards the river they walked
There was none a after-talk
And Sparks his eyes blood shot
His emotions on the brink
Helpless, he was and yet ready to kill
"Sparks, Will ye share the thoughts thee thinks"
"I will Irene I most definately will"
They sat by the river bank
The sun set, the red disappearing
to give way the night blues
And in the air the purple hue
"Am leaving tomorrow for the land
of the hebrews
The desert,
the arabs,
the nile,
the sands"
"And us, will we still be friends, "
"In feelings only, I don't see again we ever meet
And then princess all good things come to an end
Better to part in smiles than to part in deceit"
She closed her eyes, as she sat, putting her head on her knee
Quiet, very quiet As Savage turned
She moved not even yet he was moved
Her eyes closed and thus she spake
"Nothing " a mere whispered tone close to tears
Could she feel after all?
After all these years
of Heartlessness
Heartless she was
hath said her friends
"Lets walk it's our last eve together"
pulling her up
Hand in hand
But she was wordless
And Savage tried in vain
to make her smile
As her feelings burst
like a volcano bursts
once in a life time
and she finally cried
The Savage believed not his very eyes
Her tears she could not hide
Tears gushing out her face red and warm
Savage spoke "Do you oft cry when friends depart"
He held her "Are you sure you love me not
Just look me cross in my eyes
Cross thy heart
Say you love me not
That's all I want from you
Just say you don't "
She looked at him with tearful eyes
"I think I do"
Her lips were warm
"I think I do"
As he held her
She wept and cried too
As he kissed her
Hard and long
It was dark and time flew
She responded unrestrained
As relief spread in the savage mind
there feet cold in the waters
and their hearts warm within
As true love the Savage found
And the princess -
emotions she finally felt
Her heart finally cracked
just before the gold in it melt
As they stood in each others arms held
The eve brought back life in their deserted
souls
with a lot of smiles and some useful tears
The savage and the princess
The tiger and the deer
The impossible dream that came true
As he looked up above the dark blue-red
-purple hue
and thanked his father in heaven
And begged to be forgiven
Words he had spoken in vain
His arrogance be forgiven
His father smiled
As Savage spoke
"I don't care if I lose her now
I don't care if this be the greatest mistake
of all
I don't care if the flight of emotions
cause me to a commited fall
It is better to have loved and lost
then to never have loved at all"
They lived at a time one day
Their love selfless and had a passionate quality
The animal magnetism that they experienced untamed
saw sparks in the jungle fire's duality
which burned at both ends
Wild is a word too mild
Burning with passion bright
Blood red passion
And sometimes gentle like blowing winds
through whispering groves
And gentle is a strong word to use
soft like the morning dew
Free as a flying bird
The love they shared in three months
far exceeded the sheer intensity
of love's personified shadow
people feel in a life time
what they felt for the other
IV
Savage entered the palace grounds one night
Swinging up the Oak tree
Crescent was the moon
As he reached the palace balcony
Lost his balance as he almost fell
holding on to the creeper
The guard turned blind-eyed
as Savage jumped within
Entered her private chambers
She lay asleep dressed in cream
She awoke with a start
His hands were quick to
lock her open warm mouth
her frenzied scream
She recognised him in the dark
As he kissed her
"I had to see you"
Her body felt like soft cream
one hand moved up on her silky legs
She got up from the dream
to move away in time
"I want you"
"Sparks someone will see
You must go
You must" She urged
He smiled enjoying her disrelief
"All right then, Kiss me first
and maybe I shall leave"
As he held her
She couldn't resist
As she lay in his arms
Timelessness and love's mist
She fell asleep
As he held her night to dawn
And just before the gleamer of light
He got up and jumped out holding the tree
And rode away in the steal of the night
Helina the youngest daughter of the king
saw him leave
She complained
The king was disbelieved
and dismayed
Enraged, He
send out for his daughter
"You are my child, my right hand Irene
How could your judgement falter
How could you a mistake make
You whose judgement I pride upon
Oh Irene truly my child Iam dismayed"
"Father he has changed completely
He is a man capable of loving
a woman complete
with his heart
his soul
He is brave and
He is bold"
"His soul he has to lucifer sold
Your happiness is mine
But I strongly disapprove
You shall have to make a choice
whether you want to go the orient
to learn the art of creating silk
Or you want to be the savage bride
and live like he lives on barbaric hunting"
Ambition crowns individualism
Ambition overpowers feelings
As the princess decided to leave
for China
tears brimming in her eyes
And told savage of her plans
when she met him that night
"Iam going far east, but to your heart
I shall be near, I will be back
and We shall meet
To my heart you're much too dear
I love you and I always will
To you I shall always be true"
"Princess When do you leave ?"
his silence spoke
"In a week
And I shall not be forever gone
I shall come back" she said
He stood quiet "All right then I shall wait"
And when she finally had to leave,
As they met before she left
"I don't know what future holds
But promise me Sparks
that you will see me once before
I die
if I do in foreign land
You will come to see me"
"So be it my fair princess
I shall keep my word
If not any other promises
As time goes
I shall keep this word"
She left in her father's ship "Irena"
Leaving him behind in the dark
As she sailed to the distant shores of China
The jungle felt like a desert to the savage heart
And Gypsy dances brought no pleasure to Sparks
He couldn't live without her
He realised when she left
As the the hard hit fact sunk in
He looked up at the stars and he saw her
Love's separation is it's own delight
and heart aching
He waited for six rains
But she never came
One day he took his steed and just left
informing not the old wise man Morooni
or his best friend the third princess
Isabel
He crossed the jungles and rode like hell
He had to see her
A journey of 67 days and 66 nights
Froth with danger, struggle and eternal strife
Horse back and saddle free
through thundering typhoons in rafted seas
Bleeding feet and bleeding knees
Out of France through Spain
Cordoba
The large dark churches with crosses
over them
The white sea gulls, the dark fishermen
The spanish guitar.
Evergreens and rocky terrain
into the wild african land
Morroco, Khairwaan
Cannibals and Witch heads
Thick Jungles, Zulu and Masai
tribes men
Crocodiles and Phythons
Lost.
Unexplored land
Marshes, black-mudded and red
quick sands
African herds of big-eared elephants
Flies and sickness
Rains and disease
Pygmies the tiny men
Poisoned arrows but
helpful hands
Unknown tongues and
faithful friends
Sahara, Egypt and Arabia
Nile and Cairo
Camels and Caravans
The land of pharaohs
through desert storms and furnaced hot sands
Hunger, thirst, killing him
But he could not die
Jerusalam, the land of Christ
Palestine and Damascus
Baghdad and Persia
Herat and Ghazni
The Khyber pass, Afghanistan
The mystery that was India
Punjab and Sindh, Indus
bleeding shoes wounded knees
sweating salts and aching feet
pathways wild, Asia
Lion traps and snake pits
Tiger country and leopard land
The savage had to hunt
He had to live not be killed
to see her
He lived on sheer will
Himalayas, crossover and
Finally Tibet
Buddhist Monastaries
Meditation, self-control and resistance
peaceful clan
Snowy terrain, biting winds
And the jagged mountains with dizzy heights
slipping feet and icy nights
As he held on to dear life
And his tired eyes searched for his Irene
Dusted,
he reached the chinese land
His skin colour a darker tan
rusted
He had promised her he would be there
Far from the Ivory mountains and the pine trees
Far from the horizons his eyes once reached
Far in the far east
The Mongol mountains
The rice fields, the con hats
Wells where he quenched
his thirst
and as night engulfed he found
himself
In the bright chinese market
dusting away the brown dust
greeted by fireworks
And lights red
As he splendoured
The Yuan dynasty
at it's best
The King Chui Hung's 89th birthday
As beautiful exotic China lit up
He searched and his eyes stopped
He saw his Irene
in one of the palace balconies
A smile reached his tired eyes
After years a genuine smile
He stood there numb
Their eyes met
And atlast
"Irene" he mumbled
The princess could lip read
"I will climb the gates
tonight to meet you
Irene I have waited for this moment
for years, have you?"
He whispered through the layers of wind
that seperate them
"Yes I have"
Her eyes spoke
As tears streamed down
as she saw him and his bloody clothes
The traveller had reached his destination
"Oh Allah be praised, Jesus flourish
and Buddha I surrounder, All mighty ye granted me
my only wish". They finally met
Responding to her soul call
making love out of nothing at all.
The promise he had made
He kept without a single regret
They met.
And made love
Wild and soothing
all through the chinese night
In each others arms
Next morning before light
They made love once again
"Nights and days
I've dreamt of thee
that someday you
return to me,
but you never came.
I lost hope
Am I to blame?"
"Sparks Your trust is little compared to mine
I was always yours and always I shall be thine"
"Sorry my love but life has
taken away all the trust from me
which on your face shines"
With the yellow men of the
Yuan dynasty a week
they played hide and seek
One eve came the time to leave
And "Now princess I must leave
East is East and west is west
And the twain have met but once
And once I thought it not possible
I came across waters and
I came across foreign lands
just to set my eyes on you
And how beautiful thee has grown"
She looked at him with crying eyes
The love he had thought he would never find
Wiped away the raging doubts in his mind
"Irene will thee be my bride"
And then he forgot the world
leaving everything aside, he cried
"Yes" said she
and witnessed the early stars
His happiness unbound afar.
And the rest was history
As he carried her and mounted
on the steed
and rode away to the semi-golden horizon
The chinese hunted till Mid Arabia
And left the heated land
just two miles further from
where they had laid their tent
As they were last seen arm in arm
Smiles
seen by Abu Sheikh Khan
the camel boy
who rented them the tents
for two sovereigns
who grew old to tell the tale
to his sixteen grand children
The tale of the savage and his passion
The tale of the princess and her true love
of all King Philip's horses
and all Cui Hung's men
who left defeated.
Till date none know where they went
But the gypsy folklore goes as such
The princess married the savage
one rainy african afternoon
deep within the wild land
amongst his pygmy friends
The hybrid of a noble woman
and a cruel man
There were stormy times
but happy they always were
The land where flourished true love
away from eastern dark
and ivory mountains.
Where they loved and lost
years later to be found in the east
to be lost forever.
But this time life had found them
together
and
the monotony that was Savage's definition
of a marriage
had bound them together.
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Tiger - The color of passion: burning bright!!!
The Wound That Healed Not (16 Aug. 1992)The tiger was wounded
his heart was hit
& torn apart
The pain extreme
It felt so real
Though roar he did not
his heart bled
he should have fled
he should've atleast
fought
A thousand arrows
poisoned
hit him straight through
the heart
She lived in the wild
west
He ranged from eastern
dark
The tiger loved a lioness
a breed apart
a class apart
The tiger lived in the
rain forests
alone
where amongst thorns
never a rose had grown
And suddenly he felt
lonely
helplessly so intense
The bull he had
slaughtered
The goat got away
scratched & bleeding
The ram he tore apart
The lioness had hit the
tiger (a gaze)
right through the heart
And he bled all the way
hoping to say
the things he knew he
would leave unsaid
It rained heavily that
night in the rain forests
the tiger ate not
slept not
restless - fever
burning him
giving up on her very
dreams
he was cold, he was wet
fire burning within
tears in the rain
(unseen)
trying hard to forget
the pain was excruciating
his love had reached the
final crest
And now he could only
fall
East is east
And west is west
And never the twain shall
meet
And tiger could not stare
defeat
And some one had said
love is blind
He had left memories
behind
It kept raining still
The birds cuddled in
straw nests
three days & three nights
Lioness & tiger were
friends
The best
Could his love survive
the
acid test
Where east is east & west
is west
He loved her a lot
more than he ever had
more than he ever could
have said
His ego permitted this
not
It had never before
and everytime he saw her
he loved her even more.
But he would go on
and the wound would heal
from one battle to
another
Roar he would not!
he would hunt again
And never forget the pain
He would rest hard
to regain the strength
He loved her
and he always will
Though tigers are born
not
to love
the breed live to kill
His ego couldn’t survive
her
but roar he did not
in acceptance of defeat
East is east & west is
west
And never the twain shall
meet.
It rained a lot that
year.
love is blind
Sometimes love is
discreet
As tiger blood met the
waters.
Death before defeat. + #
Though that was not to be
unfortunately
the tiger lost
as in possession
as in defeat
The self fury of blunder
he could not meet
he had blundered
for the first time
in life he admitted
the fact
he had blundered
though the lioness
did care
and good times they did
share
but love their was none
the tiger had a lot to
learn
cause black is black
and white is white
White
the tiger tried to jump
in
Hoping to clean the
poison within
but black is black
the white turned grey
and that was the truth
of their relationship
Grey it was.
at a small point their
boundaries did meet
So it wasn’t pointless
after all.
The Jungle War
The tiger lived in the
rain forests
among more foes than
friends
In the jungle of life
amidst danger & strife
where survival never ends
The lion & tiger were
best of friends
In the blaze of life they
dived
in the land amongst a lot
of quick sands
Life taught them both to
survive
Their arrogance remained
unmatched
The spirit of freedom
left untouched
In their personal hell
they lived
Amongst the world of lost
beliefs
Lost hope and lost faith
Impossible to retrieve
The lion was a king
crowned and accepted
his authority
unquestioned
his ego unintercepted
To the tiger loneliness
was a way of life
No love was shared, no
feelings shown
he clawed and killed to
stay alive
surviving on the edge of
a knife
And thus he fought alone
The lion walked the Sudan
heat
The lion walked with
bleeding feet
The lion was not a pussy
cat
constantly cultivating
his might
preparing day & night
In a world where the
strong survive
In a world where the weak
die
Setting himself for the
final fight
The lion fought the last
battle alone
No friends
no family
no lovers
beside
in the unknown
only memories of the one
he loved
The leo-tigerus were best
of friends
but all good things come
to an end
From friends to rivals
And rival to foes
How? and why?
nobody knows
Lightning thundered
as people wondered
It was a fight to stay
alive
None of them could
surrender
Their friendship died a
natural death
The bitch had blundered
The war began
The venom spread
The fire ran
The ice crackled
as fire met fire
The jungle flames
leaped
higher & higher
They fought
And none won
day and night
and night to sun
And yet!
No one won
A level they could not
draw
Yet!
That's what they lived
for!
And none of them
could ever withdraw
The Leo claws power &
might
The tiger instinct
faster than light
The earth shook
Mountains crumbled
What a fight!
What a fight!
The fight went
on and on
surpassing
night & dawn
They fought
summers
winters
autumns
rains
& spring
But none a result
it could bring
None could be
crowned the king
Killer instincts
do not a king make
Just power & might
do not battles take
But the final fight
alone it must be fought
You have to kill to stay
alive
The jungle beasts are not
pussy cats
Living on jungle knives
among thorns and never
roses
Facing every danger that
ever poses
A little sentimental
sometimes
that’s all
But he gets up quick
who learns to fall
They had got up a million
times before
And every time they fell
they got up once more
But all bad things come
to an end
And one day when the sun
rose bright
after a dark starless
night
They shook hands
on the bloody Sudan sands
They became friends.
Dark Twilight
The Sun had set long ago
The bats filled the night sky
Starless, black None a glow
black clouds looming large
the self imposed hibernation
had come to an end
He thought he might die
The cold turkey came and went
But he was still alive
The bloody rains had smeared the earth
The sleeping tiger awoke
Weak after a week atlast
in a mirth he spoke
The withdrawal symptoms very much there
after the night mare came and went
the paralysis had worn off
The smile had a crack The spirit had a dent
Though the body still hurt
And hurts normally go
Experience had taught him defeat
No matter how hard the blow
the pulse, the heart beat
The strength slowly returning
He had survived
Or so it seemed
And though for his warm blood
The winter was finally over
The hunger was in his eyes
He had done his good deeds
Enough to last him a life time
Now it was time for the feed
And he knew he will
Have to go for the kill
The tiger was now a nocturnal creature
Living
hunting
eating
at nights
for a lark
Bringing death to the unsuspecting soul
There are no mirages in the dark
None a fire,
None a star,
Not even a spark
deep within the eastern shadows
deep within the eastern dark
This is life
You lose sometimes
You win some
Though losing ain't a crime
And winning ain't always for the best
Strange sounds kept the jungle alive
As east finally met the west
His friendship had survived the acid test
The tiger let the rabbit go
No good killing the harmless for his food
Let not a bystander suffer the vengeful blow
The tiger would go for a tigress blood
And that would do him a hell of good
The tiger walked in a tiger stride
Happy, relieved, grateful to dear lord and her
Grateful he had survived
Tiger's trust
The tiger trusted not
any one but the golden claws
She believed him
and overlooked his wildness
and all his flaws
Unfortunate is a word
the tiger never had
to self use
Her care was almost there
on the way to love
But she refrained
He accepted her
Trying to understand
her silence
And almost did
Her feeling was softly
growing
His instinct the all knowing
And he trusted her word more
The jungle looked like Eden
Tonight the stars are having
a field day
She had drained out his hatred
And set his heart free
with a love so true
He couldn’t believe
None of his actions
were justified
The golden mane shone
in a mirage
which was more beautiful
than the life he had led
hunting and killing
in hate and love
She made him feel love
And that changed his life
almost completely
Jungle Part 17 Oct. 92
The tiger and the lioness
went separate ways
cause none could compromise
and each wanted the else
East is East knowing which
The tiger did not cry
The rains had stopped
The tears had gone long by
Something’s cannot be helped
This was the way of his life
Through hibernations he had learned
surrenders and blunders and futile strife
that nothing forever lasts
He would through this live: survive
survival was inevitable
From failures he had learned to achieve
killing 'cause god had made him that way
and his resistance to change
Alas the tiger went untamed.
As he looked towards searching for someone
he could blame, the tiger went untamed.
The race had left him lame
Betrayal was his power game
And his ego was ashamed
His love had no name
his pain left him insane
the tiger left untamed.
When he didn't want to live
He wanted just one chance to believe
she cared.
She could not grant him that
There relationship had no name
The tiger went untamed
When he could exchange his life with that of a peaceful
dove's
The tiger went untamed, wild and without the lioness'
love.
The White Tiger
The mountains were high
and the cliffs were dizzy
Jagged the edges
For him it was easy
The white tiger continued
his climb
Onwards with passion and fury
On to the crests his spirits loved
As ambition reigned
And efforts were crowned
Onwards the climb
Onwards the climb
Towards the golden sunsets
And eagles nests
Towards the glory
onto the tests
The final crests
The final crests
As the sole detester of defeat
And a achiever when impossible the feat
To go and give his best
And rise above the common herd
As magnanimity filled his soul
And power preserved
Though he was bold
Praising the ones that deserved
Passing the coniferous
The winter was cold
He was a tiger
And he was bold
To go and achieve his best
The final crest
The final crest
2nd Sept. 1993
Sacred is love but clandestine my past
As emotions run amok and true love never lasts
Your beats today for me your feeling betray
While I at a loss of words wondering what to say
Like a tiger on the bank of Nile
watching my friend die
Praying you might pull through today
But you have fallen prey
To my dead porcupine heart
One quill, when could tear you apart
My battle time has come
Love and War don't mix
It's unfair of me I know
Like poison mixed with rose
Tempting and as lethal & smelling still sweet
I hope you forgive & someday you understand
That goats and tigers don't meet
While philosophers & artists & politicians pretend
Though two become one
Yet neither in bliss nor brotherhood
In a blind night
One devours another.
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Princess Poems
Written between 1991 and 1997 in the wake of a mirage called true love. Nice, fresh, sweet!PRINCESS
I forgive you my murder, princess
Cause I have only myself to blame
Only myself with whom I shall live
Only myself to bear the shame
You can't fight destiny my friend
Or draw waters from empty wells
You receive only grime
This is my life and no one need tell
Bad is my time.
When I die, bury me deep within the soil
Don't burn me
because burning I still am and always shall be
Lower me down gently but don't burn me
May your life have the splendour of spring
May white flowers fall as you pass under the tree
As your feet touch the morning dew
May you smell the gardens which like perfumes of Arabia
feel romance in your soul and bring joy to you
I pray to him to give you everything
I didn't receive in my life
as I sleep under the cold stone
As usual all alone and done and undone
As the sands of the lost world stay
atop my tomb untouched by human hand
May my death blossom in the ruins where once I stood
Proud and thought that life I understood
As death engulfs me today
May peace fill your soul
And sleep not evade your shining eyes
Like it once did mine
I haven’t slept ever since
Laughter like pearls within the sea of your tender heart
You may never have to search for
As more flowers in the spring bloom
And keep you away from the dark gloom
Cause we live but once
and die forever
when neither life or death
is ours to choose
where true love comes but once
May it never pass you unseen
And one day your heart it will melt
To feel the emotions you thought would go unfelt
And it's summer, green are the trees
Can you feel your heart beat
As you are touched by the breeze
That was once someone you knew
It used to be ME.
NE
It's better to love the one who is straight
Than to remember the one who you hate
and times and again when your love is fruitless
You know you are justified by loving the one she is straight
Than the one who- you betrayed
Who betrayed you.
That's why I love you
Cause even if you don't
You will be true
Understand when you don't, how I feel
LAST NIGHT
I woke up last night
looked out searching
for the pole star
It was there
True love like a soft rose
is the feeling which
brushes you
and makes you feel complete
True love I have chosen thee
of all people in this world
True love like tides
does not ebb or go high
It is consistent
It is constant
It is real
Honest like the blood
that flows in your body
Passionate but just the right proportion
Lovely like the autumn floor
with flowers scattered all over
True love has no conditions
Except the condition It's unconditioned
True love requires no faith
Or trust
True love is a meeting
of souls
Not mere bodies in sheer lust
Yes true love stands first
And that’s how I feel for you
That’s where ye will
always be first
SAME NIGHT
Are you awake too princess
at quarter to three
I’m missing ye
Are you missing me
Is the night playing
tricks with you
Are the stars smiling at thee
I hope you are allright
Though I might not sleep tonight
If you can't feel
I could apprehend
September's come to an end
Are you falling too
Wish I only knew.
POLE STAR IN DESERT NIGHTS
Sometimes in life we go without a friend
through long dark winters
without a soothing touch,
or a helping hand,
a lot of blisters
an ear unlent.
Friendship a term so foreign
The concept petrified me no end
You have removed a lot of pain
When distrust is a way of life
And betrayal a power game
when disgust the consequences
You have taught me to trust
It's good to know that you are near
And though most were not, you are warm &
you are sincere
I’m glad you are here and I’m glad it is now
I wanted to thank you long ago I just didn’t know how.
YOURS SINCERELY
TRUE LOVE
Inside the waters blue
Near the beach in Juhu
You consented
you cried
I held you
Your face was warm
Your tears salty
It was evening
It felt like dawn
Our love was growing
The pain gone
The feeling yours
atlast showing
I was inside the waters
Knee deep
And heart beat yours
tender seemed to skip
I kissed you
As love between us rose to touch
the skies
I’m December you're July
And the love between us centuries lost
found us atlast
In a place near the sea
I held and felt what true love
could mean to me.
And life's smiles would have been few
Ne, if it were not for you.
LIT UP FROM HEAD TO TOE LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE.
We share common philosophies
And mutual understanding
You know I think a whole lot of you
There's no need pretending
You look at rainbows
and I at stars
You look at heals
I look at scars
you bring out the child in me
Show me what a world it could be
Try to make me
The nice guy I never was
You don't deserve a thanks
You deserve an applause.
WE GET ALONG LIKE A LIGHTED MATCH AND A STICK OF DYNAMITE
You little twerp we always fight
Afternoons mornings day & nights
A lot of times you make me smile
A lot of times you make me wild
I wonder why I can't hate you
And your name prompts me to.
I guess it's because you are funny
and cute as a bunny
And times when you make me snarl
PS Just don't push me too far.
YOURS COMBUSTIBLY,
FIRST ROSE
Here's something that looks
just like you
But all it's qualities would
never do
Exchange the world finest pleasure
for the rose in your house grew
and that's you that's you that's you
THE EVES WITH YOU (4 OCT. 92)
The first time I saw you
You were standing within the sea
As moonlight was streaming down on ye
You were singing I fell in love
but honest to god I didn’t know how
your birthday at the PDP
The dinner at New Yorkers
Our morning walks Our evening tea
And one day I proposed
You didn’t want to think
My love & friendship yours
Life goes on but love grows
The eves with you are exotic
Not all affections are platonic
The rains burning us in & out
Sunsets of gold And skies red & black
Red clouds & golden goodbyes
We have an attachment
Neither friendship nor love
Tug of war
pulls in the separate directions
Eternal confusion
You fill my life with warmth
Just can't keep my hands off
My silence intrigued you
I broke down one evening
You pulled me out of the gloom
Cry alone you didn’t want me to
We met at the temple
went for the longest drive
The city, the beach before us stretched
The idea of love far fetched
We park beyond the beach
The policeman didn’t seem to like the idea
Pay off - a dollar & Rs 10
The silent walk hand in hand
in darkness and on good sand
8th 6th and 10th road
Jamnabai Narsee & temple of the sun
The bunked States and music lessons
The PDP Where rocks meet the sea
We stood there As you I held
Your crust crumbled And your heart melt
The feeling you didn’t feel
in your eyes gleamed
We compromised
My love & friendship yours
I carried you up Napean Sea floors
We once had our dinner on the road
Sat at garden grounds met under your house
Roses & poems Untimed kisses
changing buses walking rains
which grace our meetings
sometimes before sometimes after
changing routes Lack of directions
The destitute home
The Xerox shop
Vile Parle station
Punjabi food tastes good
when am with you
Our bear hugs
my old house on Juhu Tara
my kindergarten Challenges
Don Bosco high, my house
203 ltd bus stop
Bold & beautiful
Santa Barbara
only on Star plus
BBC and MTV
The American library U.S.I.S.
The charmed watchman The charmed lady
The road side junk-food
ISKCON Hare Krishna Hare Ram
The boring dance
you shined on that eve
I at my best
black
white black combine
unmerged
white shines most on black
Experiences Diet plans
Exercises Greeting cards
Beauty parlour Eating Sev Puri on 8th
Sandwiches on 6th
Yoko's - Bandstand - grape juice
hand in hand
The drive, the song
Lure
No commitments
Unsure
Fasting religion & vegetarianism
The Dadar bridge and catching buses
Among crowds amongst rushes
Local trains and Rocky terrain
call it love call it friendship
our silent fights survived it all
Constant consistent
without a rise without a fall
The whispered words
The unsaid look
love?
"I don't know"
A dream called you
losing ain't a crime
something’s last a lifetime
Drenched when your clothes I wore
Malaria I sat on your bed
OK! OK! to the core friends
something’s just don't end
Percentage game 95 - 5
I’m December you are July
I’m winter you are rains
We combine the November rains
Nose bites and hug tights
It's special wrong nor right
The iced tea - Choochee
my lioness my princess
The silent zone we can't go on
who knows
life goes on love grows
miracle of love
ADIOS
I stand in front of the ocean,
where we first found love
Have we lost it again?
The eve coloured cream, blue, red, violet, black;
personifies our pain.
The red sun plunging into the sea
Your crying eyes still burning me
And life watching and mocking our sorrows
Will we have a tomorrow ?
As I stand on the shores of time
trying to let waves pass & hasten the flow
May be the warm water at my feet will soften the blow
Your honest eyes have touched my life with a faith anew
You were the rose that in my barren life grew
And when my head lay in your arms
I felt the peace that childhood never knew.
And now that you have gone
and only darkness left to embrace me
As beyond the horizons where you live now
Only black ahead with not a glimmer I see
As I wait cause tomorrow is another day
And then I wait for the one morn
when you shall return
and hold me like only you can
Kiss my salty lips
And touch me
like your life has touched mine
creating a rainbow
which can outlive time.
I know you shall return
sooner or late.
I shall wait, I shall wait, I shall wait.
ONCE
We loved each other once
Now only darkness remains
And the sun that has set
is lost forever
And none has gained
I feel for you amidst this pain
Though feel not
It’s unreal
And its all very insane
THE FIRST KISS
The night was softer,
much softer -
Softer such
The night was softer
than thy whispered touch
Dark it was & yet - light
The October moon a shade - bright
I held you and looked into your eyes
Your words
didn't conform yet
eyes don't lie
Soft were you & yet warm
your hair let loose and our song
Haunting through the breeze
Alone in the dark , we stood under the tree
A flicker of eyes , a nervous smile
Oh God! I loved you : more than heavens had stars
You were near but my feelings had gone too far
I felt you hair and then your waist
And slowly, all softly, my lips
touched thy brow
A bite on your nose
As my tongue flickered
on to an ear lobe
Closer I held you & yet not tight
The rustle in the air
in the soft of the night
Your quacking lips
Your nervous smile
No passion just a lot of love
And lot of any emotion is passion though
The love I felt was intense
slowly and softly my lips were nigh
Fresh as a dew drop
Your lips were moist
not very warm
The touch of silk
The feel of breeze
The taste lingered
left behind within me
And oft on rainy nights
and orange morns I miss
The beauty of our first kiss[YP1] .
THE RAINS
The rains outside my windows
brings memories to the mind
the love that we once shared
the love you left behind.
And everytime my heart flies
To the land of you and me
A part of me gently dies
cause once you & me were we
And today as you move far
to distant horizon as I see
and feel all the forgotten scars
so tell do you remember me
And the past that we had
and the dream we had shared
and the feelings we lost
and memories we gained
as the sun goes down on me
today
and as life had us betrayed
and smiles your eyes felt
and love your heart saw
are still a part of my wounded past
and the wounds are raw
I KNOW
I love the way you smile
and the way your eyes look
when you give me the stare
I know you
and seems like eternity
if only you could feel the way
I do
Even if it were just for a
moment it would make my life
worth living
Cause true love is not in receiving
it's in giving
THAT EVE
The rosy eve, a washed grey gloom
The barren trees, the dead gone leaves
And when you were here, all eve's did bloom
Today black destiny makes our hearts grieve
The eve has faded here, the light gone
Not a single ray, a single shadow'd bring
And oft when I look at the autumn outworn
I'm reminded of you and one time spring
A single star above me shines & yet no light
It brings: sole memory tears my heart
and none a single hope nor a single sight
of my love, as heaven and hell's blown apart
And not thousand sorrows to justify how much
my heart bleeds one black eved night
Neither thousand roses could e'er blush
And sparkle like your face nor gleam like thy sprite
I hope you are allright wherever thou art
wherever thee feels free & wants to be
May death never do us part
Unless Us became You and Me.
MARCH 1994.
Seeing you today with hair untied flowing mane
today; reminded me of the blossoming spring. Insane
was the purity of love felt I through heart beats
of mine; it was a tender, provocative desire yet discreet
And when the evil doer had done his deed
An extension of her love is the attraction I feel
It's not you, it's her I love & ashamed I'm still
While hatred, venom & vengeance flared but my love went
unkilled.
17TH JANUARY 1994
Gone are the days of glory
As the soft mist surrounds us
You must have looked for love
But friendship has found us
It is better to have & lost
People say
But losing is in bad taste
So cherish the friendship we share
Than an affair broken in haste
Thank you for the times you were there
With black gloom around us
And thank you for everything
When bad times had found us
Just before the lights go off
the sun tears the grey apart
And menacing the orange - black scoff
Brings my favourite memory to the heart
THE SEA
The sea dances with a lot of grace
The small boat putters through
And my heart bound freely unlaced
I think I'm much more in love with you
The sun drops down and cooler it gets
while darkness surrounds me wish you were here
Too much love more than I could forget
As absence makes the heart dear
But this separation is hard to hand
You are tough though I not weak
And our partings have become a trend
And love just a lucky streak.
THE SWANS
The white Swans danced in the sunlight
And into the moss filled pond
There was innocence and their eyes were bright
And their love went on and on
Day and night they played in the waters
Pure and clean was their dream
There was a lot of love and laughter
And there eyes had a lustrous gleam
But good things are fragile
And then the Eagle came
It was quick dangerous and agile
with a deadly game
And the male Swan wanted to fly high
As promises were made galore
And the Eagle crested into the sky
And the Swan tried to even the score
They flew over the waterfalls
And above the fields
Above the green valleys
Into the hills
In the deep forests
Near the springs
Seeing the oceans and
the pretty coloured horizon
As life was beautiful for the Swan
As he saw beauty he'd never seen
Whereas the other Swan was sad and lonely
Helpless and depressed
Love had left her life
And the feeling of pain was fresh
And one day the Eagle challenged
the Swan to fly to the snowy flights
of Everest
Cause that was the ultimate crest
The Swan accepted
The flight started
The danger was afoot
1000 feet the Swan couldn't breathe
1200 feet the Swan gasped
And fell
1200 - 1000 - 800 - 600 - 400 - 200 - 100
(The Eagle did not care)
Zoom! The descent
Into the waters
90 - 80 - 70 - 60 - 50 - 40 - 30
20 - 10 - 5 - 1
And the Swan nose dived into the waters
The wings were bleeding
And the dream was shattered
And the spirit was wrecked
It took him 3 months to reach back
To the familiar pond where he had loved
As he saw her crying
He begged forgiveness
She had a heart of gold
As came back the days of old
He was disillusioned
But he saw the light in her eyes
And his heart flew higher than
Any Eagle could fly
And thus he understood
the value of her love
And his love for her
went much much much above.
EVENING AFTER SHE LEFT
The orange eve, the summer sun
The train halting it's onward run
Quarter to five my wind blown face
The tousled hair the carefree race
Mahalaxmi junction of the lords
Walked up the stairs amongst the lot
The summer sun unkind: I crossed the lane
Promiscuous the sun & shade
The light green leaves, the blot of glade
Missing the most wondrous gaze
The soft hair , the starry eyes
The sheer laughter brightened my sprite
The true love, golden the heart
Oh ! Time hath set us apart
Now Ne further - further still lay
Across the seventh sea where night is day
(and my heart thus in sordid dismay)
Dispair! And God knows I miss
the rainbowed stare, She doth care
Across the jaded trees on stone, I gently pass
Across the race course , green was the grass
As a kindly soul gave me a ride
Across the road Haji Ali lie'd
And God knows I've been here before
Love had hit me hard and high
Had prayed here across the shore
(When Ne was nigh)
An angel that never refused, the beliefed heart
the open palm
I had prayed. Soft the wind had brought my spirit calm
"E! Angel on me mercy have,
O! Angel shower me with true love"
Haji Ali I had prayed on this very Muslim spot
An isle within the sea, a tower of peace - angelic abode
A heaven of shed tears . A relief to broken hearts.
Once I had asked my lady fair, the love seen in her eyes
Was it for me?
She feigned uncare. But I did feel it was there
The love that angel mercie'd in her heart was thus there
I looked across the sea calm , today .A sea sad and grey
And thanked the magnanimous heart for makin' my lady say
A tearful "I love you”, on the beach in the crimson hue
A smile, and soft the sea moves
Soft as a dream , her love true
Soft as my head against her bosom felt
Soft as her lap would seem
As grey rebound the orange star
As fire burnth the sky & sea
Her memories engraved upon my healing soul
burning within me
True love yours filled my heart with glee,
takin' over the dark cynical me
Crows black & Seagulls white
welcome the spirit of the night
seeming to fill the eve sky & sun's downwardth ride
Within the sea , spots of rocks awaiting the tide
A tide which filleth the empty blanks
A tide cometh tomorrow
And my love awaits thy return in May
to wash the painful sorrows
The deafened quite, Black's black
while white is white
As together they fill the purple skies
in mist of seldom joy alight
On the wall I had sat , the wall that faced the sea
On the very wall , once she with had sat
her eyes were all for me
As we had walked ten clinical stairs
Hand in hand, lip on lip
My lady fair my lady fair
She'd cared
And heaven bestowed.
A faithful friend turned lover
Flowers fell from above
The solaced moment , the princess' charm
It rained gold dust of pure love
THE HEAT & DUST
The heat & dust
is the ultimate truth
There is no spring there is no fall
it's just a dream
in the world wherein
there's no love at all
Just a lot of greed , passion , hatred & lust
The heat & dust
The desert we walk on
without sandals or shoes
The mirages we cross are passing by
No fresh water springs
No shade ever ,will this sun bring
No one to hold you
when tired you fall
No one to hear you
when desperation calls
Not a soul in sight
Not a star to steer you by
across in lonely nights
Please walk alone
And let the feet bleed
And none to live on
And none to feed
Death & darkness
amidst daylight
If this be the day
what be the night
But please survive
you've to reach
thy destination to meet
death alive
Cause death is thy destiny
You know this
You aren't naive
A survive wins
But a winner not survives
Please go on
This is twilight
And thus will be a long night
There may be dawn
Suneal go on
If heat & dust don't get you first.
GOOD-BYE
My time has come
My life is done
My love is gone
Goodbye Cruel world
I'm going I'm gone
The candle that lit
so bright
had to die
The world has shut
it's doors upon me
As God welcomes me
home
with open arms
"Son, come back
you've pained
When you needed
warmth and light
It has rained
When you cried in
thirst
A famine reigned
And here's your death
People rejoiced
But no one gained"
Oh! Death be with me
Be faithful
Be a friend
Since this is
where I stop
This is the end.
STILL MISS YOU SOMETIMES
I still miss you sometimes
On nights in a dream within a dream
It's not a sin but certainly a crime
As I see your shadow with in a stream
You don't deserve what I feel
For you love, was a compromised deal
I hate myself & It's true
I hate myself more than you
We loved each other once
Now only darkness remains
And the sun that has set
is lost & none have gained
I love you still with all this pain
And I think you know not how I feel
Its all very insane
THE DAYS WITHOUT YOU
Painful and painful life gets
One hurt after another
Now you are gone and gone is
the will, the wish, the desire
to live again
Once you were near and life was
right here
overflowing within me
Not a hint of pain
Life was dear
You gave the desire
I lost the fear
of loneliness and gained
(It was your decree)
a moral sense of right and wrong
a sense of responsible behaviour
You left me. But darling I'm not that strong
I can't stand losing you
We had a love where our whole lifetime
wouldn't suffice define what we felt
And sorrows fail me
Cause the hurt when much too deep still dwells
cannot fill the void within
And thus I don't weep
And time has failed to cure the pain
Neither has the pain gone
nor have I learnt to live with it
I’m not angry; How could I be?
I love you and I've never loved such
I love you too much
And I have learnt a valuable lesson
Our love was much above
ordinary passion
MOONLIGHT AND ROSES
The moon was silver
and roses were red
The river was silent
in the million things it said
The race with destiny began
and I tripped & fell
How quick my tears dried
How fast my blood stopped
flowing from the wounds
Only time would tell
Life goes on
For some it is
calm quiet and serene
For others
Harsh, painful and mean
As I sat alone on the banks
done all alone
As I looked at the side
Too much blown had flown in
I sat there through the long night
God It's been unfair
You just couldn't care
I trusted you but..
You were never really there.
OFF AND ON
Off and on I remember you
The love that we had
& feelings that were true
Your dewdrop lips
Your smiling eyes
Your lovely face
Your poisoned lies
Oh! What love used to be in 1992
There wasn’t your clan
Just me & you
Your voice still awakens me
on sleepless nights
Your touch makes a tear drop by
To the one I may love forever
And never again see
Tell me, my love,
Do you ever think of me
Your face tears my heart apart
A soft pain
A harsh pang
A hurt like no other
Oh yes! We loved once
We loved once!
We loved once!
THE LAY OF THE MOON
The lay of the moon
was the small pond
Darkness lit by the moon
The woods dark and bluish brown
surrounding the bank through and through
The lay of the moon
as the canoe moved
Deep in the dark woods
Combine silver and blue
The lay of the moon
Serene
as a fly buzzed across
in purple blue night
Cherries - purple and blue
As the moon mirrored cheery emotions
She was in a white gown
And he was in blue
The moon had met
the ponds leaves
Blue
There were lotus flowers
Soft and blue
Not floating nor still
If only they knew
after the day of the gloom
Came the lay of the moon
THE NIGHT OF JUNE 30TH 1992
On a starry night
with dark blue skies
deep within
the jungle
lush green
The fire flies
The whole world
bathed in
soft
sparkling
silver
moon-light
The nocturnal sounds
unknown
unseen
amidst nowhere
There seemed
none a soul around
Though you were there
on a whim
on a fancy
You were there
in a dream
You were there
with him.
Beyond the reaches of your eyes
The empty black horizon stretched
filled with fire-flies
which like dew drops of gold
fell from the heavens above
as your heart beat non stop
It had to be love
The feeling was ecstasy
charged with excitement
of the unknown
of the wild
Just then the wind blew
and one by one
all your dreams came true
The fear was mild
though the heart didn’t quite agree
The emotion had bound thee
You looked for love
and
It found thee!
The jeep halted
the wild boars bolted
in the blue
The squirrel sprinted &
ran up the tree
The pigeon flew
The red carpet unrolled
The table was set for two
As the Ratpack served
the dinner to you
In the middle of nowhere
You were dressed in red
Among the few things he said
was a "Yes"
The world stood still
"Yes"
You felt like a princess
from a fairy tale
"Yes"
You were asked for a dance
Your senses were sealed
You were in a trance
You couldn’t even stand still
"Yes"
The syllable touched thy ear
Your lips twisted to a smile
Oh Dear!
Your eye held hard
the undropped tear.
There wasn’t a single sound
Not even the rustle of leaves
and grass
You were lost in the wilderness
around
Years of friendship was love
Atlast!
I always thought love is blind
No trust that seems to be the trouble
Dreams are bubbles
THE DIWALI OF 1995
The winter has set in
with longer nights
and cooler days
And to commemorate the season
Diwali's here
The festival of lights
It brings a nostalgic feeling
And means different things
to different people
Of childhood
When you spend
your days dreaming
and nights excited
When you played with guns
and crackers
With joy and laughter
With friends
And family
Of Youth
When love touched your
heart and soul
And lights shone brighter
Than the stars in your
eyes
Of Age
When wisdom brushed
your life
and grandchildren
create a
nuisance around you
as you watched their
glee with a
magnanimous heart
and ate more sweets
than the Doctor ordered
To me
It means a time to remember
People like you
and how important you are to me
May this Diwali bring light
in your lives and music in your souls
May this Diwali be as sweet
As the sweets you may eat
May love in the form
of light enter
beyond your heart
To the Spirit
The SOUL.
May you be happy.
Happier than you have
ever been.
DIWALI IN 1996
This November
The skies are dark blue
with stars that
burn like embers
Across the purple hue
And candles with a glow true
As we sail across life
And distant shores anew
With fond remembrances of you
We hope the voyage of your life
Though with tide and ebb
Be most colourful
In life's intricate web
We pray you have no storms
through the journey
And your coast be clear
And you reach the horizons
Your eyes can see
May this Diwali be the brightest
And New Year most promising
unfolding and fulfilling
with each passing day.
SOMETHING’S HAPPENED
The whisper in the winds
Has a familiar note
The red of the sky fills my
soul with melancholy or
Is it glee?
I shall never know
Thy smile is a genuine treasure
I have found
Your words soothe
When there's only pain around
The green of the hill
awaits the rain
The touch when it comes
will drive insane
As the sunny heat
hardly bears in the mind
As life goes ahead
Only memories left behind.
As the rose melts with dew
I melt when my heart touches you
THE LITTLE SPOT
There is an empty spot inside the sun
A red mass of nothingness
A fire without a side nor soul
A rebel without a very cause
The name : aimless aggression
No light just fire
No love, No desire
A spot without any soft
No gleam, glimmer nor sparkle
Its just red hot
It thirsts for ice
It lusts for water
A little blue is all it seeks
There are tears in its eyes
Though it can hardly speak
LIFE ON EARTH
Have no right to play games with minds
with a selfish heart and the troubled mind
Why do I feel alone
Is it the trend
of the nineties?
or is it me?
A sea of men
everywhere
not a place to go
nor a moment to spare
I can play this game
And Win
I will
But to what end
To what mean
To what thrill
Its strange
Everyman's alone
in a swarm of faces
Nameless and strange
Where we are stranger
Strangers to our own land
Our own people
Our own life
We are all strangers
Though life is the strangest of all.
THANKING YOU
A teacher is a star called Sun
For planets
each and every one
We absorb light
The eternal bright
And absorb what
we need learn
Speaking
the language of the soul
touch hearts, enrich the mind
It takes the broken
and makes it whole
It takes the timid
and makes it bold
Like flowers spreading
freshness and joy
Like rainbow speading
colour in rains
And when darkness reigns
all alone
A teacher is a star called Sun
Suneal Varma as on 11 October, 2003. 5:22 pm.
HIGH THE MOUNTAINS
High the mountains
And deep the valleys
Covered with green grass
And white flowers
The Falcon rules the sky
and soil
The sparrow sits there
Day-dreams & cries
Heavy are the showers
And the white peaks high
As the white birds and
Eagles forever they fly
As the sherpah sings a song
anew
A song long forgotten
Every word is true
A song filled with roses
And wild drops of dew
A tune lost in ages
A language is unknowm
But the story remains
As the tale goes on and on
OK HONEY, IT’S WAR!
OK honey, it’s war!
Your games, your rules.
Let your cold silence
Dictate terms
Let my pride speak
With my own passion
And freeze.
That’s what you wanted.
Here’s that
Let our pride collide
And squeeze
Our love for the other.
Lord
Lord have mercy on my soul
Lord thy mercy on my soul
let me for others live
and before I take learn to give
Learn to forgive
And not in sheer vengeance burn
you know, lord & I don't
I have a lot still to learn
Not over-confidence to shatter my dreams
Just faith enough to fulfil my whims
I know I know I have sinned
There is a lot of poison still within
But let that be in my past
If the good didn’t
let not the bad last
Lord have mercy on my soul
To face the truth let me bold
Selfless so that for others I live
Gratitude to you and let me always believe
Till the day I turn to rest Till the day I turn to dust
I’m thy son bring out the best.
Forgive me my sins
And do not bring me to the test
cleanse me from within
And let hopes tomorrow bring
Though if it brings pain
let me not complain
Bow not my head to anybody but you
And for the things you have given me
THANK YOU
for the confidence to achieve my goal
Lord have mercy on my soul
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The Broken Pieces: 1990 was a crazy year of love, pain, infatuations, hots and what nots
THE BROKEN PIECES
The words are left unspoken.
The feeling undescribed.
The thoughts, confused.
My eyes jealous and pleading.
My heart lonely and bleeding.
The tears don't show.
The love won't go.
The mind desperately misleading.
The heart hopes.
The head copes.
The love known existent.
And I ... I am still persistent.
The night lonely, dark, long.
The feeling unaffectedly strong.
My head cautions,
The flow of wild emotions.
Life longing still,
in the still of the night.
The city lies dead.
The hopes have fled .
The lonely heart beats,
in the still of the night.
MOMENTS
Life is made up of moments
which usually pass or go
The moments that have gone before
Never come back you know
It was one of my wildest moments
When I fell in love with you,
your smile, your gaze.
Your hand was warm and friendly
It was then that my heart betrayed me
Things went out of reach
The world stopped to exist
MOMENTS
My heart vibrated in my head
MOMENTS
You became a part of my day dreams
We walked down the stairs
We became friends fast
And the friendship still lasts
But the moments that never belonged to me
The moments we shared
The moments that made my life
were never really there.
The moments we stole
The moments we never had
Your moments . My moments. Our moments
were unfortunately never there.
DESPERATION
Warm September mornings
Cold December nights
Soft wind
flows through
An aroma
A presence
A shadow
A feeling,
that you are there
On the beach
walking with me
hand in hand
on the sand
A feeling
I try hard
to preserve
A hopeless dream
Up against
a much dreaded
tomorrow
Moment of insane
truth
you can never be mine
Desperation
creeps over me
takes over
The fury
building inside
filling my eyes
with unseen tears
leaving behind
a broken pride
Life is a lonely voyage
Your thoughts
a hopeless taboo
Frustration mounts
I run out
in the rains
On the streets
in vacant hour
of midnight
Shouting your name
saying
I love you
Insane!
MISSING YOU
A few tender words are all I need
The love glances are missing
The privacy is invaded
The love is unfaded
your quivering lips
your smiling eyes
Our songs
Our words
Still haunt
my body
my mind
I'm missing you
And the loving that we are
habituated to share
The joy of kissing you
And your love full of tender care
Days - Weeks - Months
I'm missing you
Your kisses & hugs
Indifferent shrugs
Your touch
Your smile
And mainly
YOU
LOVE
Love sprinkled rosy dewdrops
on my heart
Just before it bled
just before you fled
And the stormy night
when you left me
It was raining
not only from the skies
The emotion was in my eyes
The memory scarred my yesteryears
And filled my life with unseen tears
Now the phase has changed
the peace after a storm
The storm lasted a life time
A love was washed away.
ONE NIGHT
After two
Twisting and turning
Wondering what to do
Moonlight
All of me is
thinking
hoping
dreaming
of you
Sunlight
your shining face
Moonlight
your tender grace
Stars
your shining eyes
Heart beats
and sighs
as I lie
in my bed
when I'd
rather be with you
instead.
Your lips
tender like a rose
Waves form
as your hair blows.
Wind splashing the sea
Is it saying
something to me?
Just when my feelings were gone
like some dark night without dawn
And those years of pain
And still it's insane
I'm in love with you once again.
MEMORIES
The rains are falling
from the skies
Whispering to the heart
taunting the mind
The beach is empty
on a quiet Monday morning
As I walk alone
by the sea
With my own shadow
and your memories
The waves are rushing away from me
The rains have finally stopped
As birds fly away
The grey waters kissing the distant horizon
Are on a standstill
Love torn between my passion & identity
Stuck up in a timeless coma
of feelings and emotions
A Passage
A Period
of utter despondency
and
you
THE LOST TODAY
Sunrise and Sunsets
walks on the beach
talks in the trains
The sweet nothings
silent phone calls
Meaningful glances
That golden period
is slowly becoming
a vague dream
I never had.
The blurred images
of yesterday
merging into
lost today
CROSS-ROADS
Life's brought at cross-roads
Lost is the sense of recognition
The selfless love that was our life
The tender emotion that used to be love
The heart is torn with pain
Our loss was nobody's gain
Our action beyond comprehension
Our words insane
'cause life has brought us at cross roads
As each of us takes a separate lane
FATE
The smiles
The tears
The missing years
Unfulfilled dreams
Unknown fears
Your love unseen
My passion untamed
Our affair
"has-been"
Whom could we blame
I know
I came
too late
But then
That's fate
CONFUSION
The storm sweeping
my heart into melancholy
The love and tears
showering from the skies
My heart beats in excitement
and dances in glee
Simultaneously
Stranger things
life has done to me
Memories of my past
hits at my heart
As the future knocks
at my door
I stand confused and jealous
of the unknown fears
As I stand up
to open the door
PRESENCE
Last night in the gloom
of black darkness
I felt you
in my room
smiling
When you have gone
and its been a year
but the shadows of truth
still remain
The fact that our
egos clashed
long before
our heart's met
The communication
slashed
Our egos clashed
and only darkness
left behind
But you shall
remain unseen
in the shadows
and the recess of
my mind.
GOOD MORNING
Fine morning
Your conflicts
Controversies
Arguments
Hopes
Ecstasies
My emotions
displayed
Your feelings
did not sway
It was love
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Today
I love you
I want you
I need you
to be
For one & only
one person
And that is me
MAN
Every man?s an island,
(alone)
in sands of time
bleeding within
and smiling still
Searching (a friend)
The long search that
never ends
Every heart?s a desert
Bare and empty
a cactus within
and smiling still
Blowing the agony
with the storm
Destroying the foot-prints
of people dead or gone
Every life?s - a burning torch
burning on its own
trying to set alight
long dark rainy nights
Every dream?s - a sunrise
that man lives for - on and on
crossing the journey
in the dark
awaiting his personal dawn.
THE EVENING SAY IT'S FINAL GOODBYE
Red Sun
plunging into the sea,
Your blue eyes
burning within me,
Words that we
could never say
Emotions we
never talked out
And Today
when it is
too late
You?ve decided
to walk out,
In every street
I see you
laughing
Your lips
blushing
Your eyes
smiling
Illusions
Your voice
We met,
We talked
You complained
You teased
My anger
and your submission
Illusion !
I asked
You refused
You kept looking
still
Your eyes said
something
I knew you didn?t feel,
Stars are out
tonight
A tear drops -
A sigh
It's you, I know
My heart
won?t lie
In every street
In every alley
I see you
walking past
And my
heart blasts
This place will
become an
empty desert
after you leave
If only
you could trust
If only
You could believe
My heart won?t lie
The sun plunges
in the sea
And through the air
that PANAM flies
Before my tears could dry
The evening says its
final good-bye.
LONELINESS
Life's filled
with tears
tearing through insecurities and fears
The feelings left behind bears heavily on the mind
Utter loneliness
Love's torn between The head
The heart
and you
And it survives
in my heart
your eyes
our tears
and sighs
Until?
Oh! it always will.
FREEDOM
The bird flew at last
from one tree to another
spreading it's wings
and breaking free
Over distant hills
and mountains
which it first saw
loved and cherished
flying towards golden sunrises
over roses and daffodils
Not once stopping to see
flapping it's wings
and breaking free
The spirit sways in the winds
As it moves across green forests
and light blue streams
Flies over the distant seas
with sparkling sunlight
which glitters like gold
The heart jumps in glee
Over the cities and the bridges
the desert and the snow
stopping every while to
quench it's thirst
and flies away.
Wanderlust. Wanderlust.
Before it dies
and turns
like all of us
into golden dust.
The mountains
and the sea left
behind.
But the spirit wanders
as it sings
Let me be
Let me be me
love and hate and cherish the beauty
that is life
Let me see life
with my own eyes
Let me be
away from the chains that bind us all
and gently
set me free !
THE BLOODY WAR
Don't sit, Don't bend, Don't kneel - Suneal
Go out & fight
The war has just begun
It might be an eternal strife
It might be your final fight
It might be the end of your life
Stop not give it all you have got
Hit it with your best shot
Think of it as the best battle
You have fought
You will fight
Day & night
Come what may
Come what might
Don't sit Don't bend Don't kneel - Suneal
Go out & fight.
LIVING APART
You shall live in a part
of my life
forever,
You shall beat with heart beats
of mine.
As I walk towards
sunsets every evening
when the sky turns red
and nights when I
lay sleepless on my bed
On afternoons
when I smell
flowers fresh.
In the rains
when I picture
you outside
my window
your playful
smile,
your eyes,
your hair
Was I really there?
With you holding
your hand
in the rains
kissing you
on the beach,
praying for you,
living for you.
Selfless love
was it
between us !
Listening to our
favourite songs,
eating chicken frankees
and loving !
Our fights
Our arguments
Our love
Our hatred
Our stubborn
decisions
and Gate way of
where we stood together
Well yesterday is gone
Tomorrow can never be mine
As I drown my today
in hopeless tears.
DESTINY
Fight not
Destiny my friend
You will try
You can't win
You'll lose
in the end
To conquer life
The worthless pretend
Fight not destiny my
In the ocean of life
with species of thousand kinds
I swim alone
-upstream
sometimes to a nightmare
which looks likes a dream,
And you can see me,
admire me,
love me,
touch me,
But not enter my life
which like vacuum holds
nothing within,
Cause life has passed me
long ago
Long before you started
living
And I feel old and ancient
And there is nothing
that I can live for
Nothing I can find,
in the ocean of life
and amongst species of thousand kinds
I swim upstream
to a dream
that can never be true
And even you
have do not recognise
me
in a midst of
two people
Where one is you
And third one is
me!
THIS IS LIFE
What happens
When you lose hope
And the pressures
become hard to cope
When the world turns
against you
And your life sees
no colour but blue
When your love
turns into hate
And you blame it
on your fate
When your dreams become
your fears
And there is none
who would hear
This is life
The colour is black
This is life
to defend you must attack
This is life
The eternal strife
This is life
it cuts through you like a knife
It seems to be love
and it seems to be happiness
But every time you ask for more
life gives you less
This is life
We come here again and again
to lose not to gain
It's a mess
It's a pain
It's a reality
This is life.
NOTHING LASTS
Among shadows of my past
And the future dreams
I am searching for my self
Which has been lost
somewhere unseen
Nothing feels real any more
My life is the ultimate
illusion
And It has been good
I am not complaining
But what is it worth
Will success give me inner peace
or the love that I have missed
since birth.
Will someone I finally meet
Who will make me feel complete
Cause life changes very fast
And the people you depend on,
the love you share
the place you live in
Nothing lasts
INSANITY
This heart, this lonely heart
of mine
has been burned out
of insanity
The haunted place
had a city which
was alive-once alive
has been burned down
insanity
Yesterday morning one voice
woke me up from
my slumber
I asked, "Who is it?"
"Your love-Your insanity"
You have been with me since
centuries, as a close
confidant
But nothing suits me
more than
My love-my insanity
ONE AFTERNOON
The crazy
March afternoon
heat.
The fan's not
fast enough
The soft breeze
is blowing-
the leaves,
The earth's
scorched.
A mosquito
bites me on
my leg
and I'm
devastated
I stand
in the balcony
gazing at the
empty road
which leads us
nowhere
I'm thinking
of you (imagining)
seated in
that fashion designer
class of yours,
talking to Reema
Sheetal,
Drawing among
the girlie - chatter
awaiting your teacher
thinking of me.
May be.
Reading Cheiro
and then your own palm.
getting out of
the college
awaiting a 84 ltd
Alas its 25 mins late
That?s fate
As Reema
invites you to her house
No you are not in the mood.
You want to go to
a quiet place
and think of me.
Call Dina and talk
about me.
Hope for me.
Pray for me.
Write to me
(You can't)
You don't have
the address.
Oh! my God
what a mess.
At last you're home
and the phone
refuses to ring
You are too tired
to eat the food
that Pinky brings
The evening brings
a soft breeze
as you stand
against the well.
Still hoping
for the telephone bell.
imagining me in
my long strided
walk.
entering your life
your heart
wants to sing.
An illusion.
Bored you return
home to your
empty bed
to spend another
sleepless night
I wish I was there
to hold you tight.
I am missing you.
LAST MEETING
Churchgate station
at quarter to four
standing by the bookstall
I am really bored
Waiting for you
as you enter the scene
And my heart beats
wildly within
I walk close behind
your back
A finger on your shoulder
you look behind
Smiles exchanged
A drink was shared
We take a empty by-lane
I talk out my confusion!
You tell me about
the days (in 6 years)
When you missed me
My happiness knows
no bounds!
Time flies.
I talk about roses
and you
About my past
and your family
Jokes and smiles
unaware of the staring eyes
Oh my God
its late
We walk (almost)
hand in hand
I smell your hair
But I can't promise you love
Because I've broken many,
We take the 4 ltd.
Back home
Its really late.
My stares make you
uneasy
We get down the
bus, separately,
I wait by the phone
your blank call arrives
I ring again to find
every thing is all right.
I can't resist seeing
you once more
And I come,
Our secret
safe
Our eyes don't meet
but our feelings match.
Goodbye.
FIRST MEETING
Mayor's bungalow
I'm late
It's a bad habit
I can't break,
The pizza's cold
And you're there
We see the secret beach,
On a quiet corner
in Bombay.
We talk and eat
There isn?t an awkward moment
feeling or thought
It's as if we always
understood each other
And the six years
gap was never there
We walk We talk
on the sand
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon
I don't know
what I feel
for you.
But our meetings
leave me feeling
good and complete
for the first time
in 22 years.
And I'm humming
old love songs
with a smile on
my lips -As I return home
at six.
LOVE'S DEAD
Among the dead days
And rusted nights
Careless talk
And salvaged pride
A bloody war,
Two heart breaks
A red triangle
And the lust for life
Only timeless passion
left behind
Tender words gone
Tender moments left alone
Fallen leaves
among bare trees
Emotions have fled
The heart has bled
The feeling is no more
The care has gone
The Love's dead.
LETS BE FRIENDS
You go thy way
And I'll go mine
We've separated
Well that?s fine
The overwhelming passion
you felt for me
had to die
We are growing older
I love her not you
That's what I told her
Our love died sweetu!
You & your selfish ways
Me & my ego
It all had to go
It all had to end
And maybe if we look at it
We could be friends.
BLEEDING HEARTS
Why do we draw blood by
nailing our own wounds
to colour our own lives
to wash away the miseries
with scented knives
bearing the pain
living the shame
to tear our own hearts
to pretend happiness
& live loneliness
BLIND LOVE
Blind love is what I felt for you
You had passion
which came in as love left
leaving behind a void
hard to fill
Because I was true
and I was blind
Reassured that you were mine
When all you ever wanted
was my body
Which haunted you
night and day
You never loved me
I was a fool to believe
You could never be mine
Though you did say
Your lies were not hard to see
But I was blind
TRUST
Trust is hard to come by
in today's world
where betrayal is a power game
which we try hard to win
And it's a shame
We lose the love and warmth
and the childhood glow
No longer warm and friendly
I used to be
Cold & cruel
from life & it's blows
It's a shame!
Have hurt soft souls before
And everytime there were tears
I did it even more.
To add fire to the fuel
Yes I?m cruel
and a coward too
When once I was bold
Trust is hard to come by
And God knows I try
But betrayal is a power game
To win again & again
Instead of filling your heart with love
fill it with pain
To clean the poison inside
Which I try hard to hide
It overflows time and again
But one has to keep control
Once bitten is twice shy
In a world where trust is hard to come by
THIS NIGHT
Will this night never end
Will these dark shadows ever pass
Will we never land
from this flight of darkness
in the place where love had first
found us
Away from the midst of life
where enemies surround us
Will the dawn ever break in
Or will we live in the sin
of our had-beens
in the darker most chambers of our souls
We live here to hide
from the lights which are not allowed
Searching for the dawn outside
And when the glare does come in
Will we be able to withstand
the dawn at the darknight's end
I hope but fail to see
how love & light can
ever set me free.
Your soul haunts me by night and day,
Why do you care when you are so far away
You walk in my house in the spirit of night
And let the ghosts of our past
haunt our souls
Cause time won't fill the hole
that life's left in our heart
in our souls
In a world where we don't love
we just pretend
I hope this night never ends.
SPRING
Oh spring thy soul fills me with doubtful satire
Oh love thy touch brings me hopeful desire
Your smile like the morning sun illuminates my world
Your tear like hushed dew drops gives thy face an added lustre
Oh life thy sight fills me with congenial bliss
Oh life welcome to my world something is amiss
Come in fill it with a light anew
bring back the glory of fate
fill my heart with love so true
let not my soul know the mean of hate.
The rains have gone
The darkness has lifted
to bring us a new morn
Love has filled my heart
with joy
Lent radiance to my face
The birds white fly towards golden horizon
God ! I love the human race
Nature beauty and splendour
And the female gender
the flowers yellow
shine on the fresh morning
may more love & laughter
spring bring.
The taste of heartbreak is bitter-sweet
Sometimes afloat in nostalgia
Sometimes drowned in defeat
And the pain and agony lasts
for a life time
And every tear adds to the crime
It touched
SIR RAGHUNATHAN
May came to an end
And in came June
The time for school
Was coming soon
The thought of school
send a chill down my spine
'Cause our teacher was Raghunathan
which didn't seem fine
He walked with the
style of Travolta John
His talks sounded
like a Saxophone
His Science talks went over
my head
My marks in Maths made
him see red
He couldn't understand
what was wrong with me.
I couldn't understand
what he spoke to me
But when angered he
is a tiger wounded
For example when a fly
on him landed
Just when he was on the boil
The fly made his mood go
Further spoilt
And this Mr. Raghunathan
who wouldn't hurt a fly
Hit it so hard that
it had to die
When back to his senses
He thought a funeral for
the insect would be
justified
So the dead in his matchbox
coffin lay
was called upon to take
it's last ride
In the funeral Sir,
cried his heart out
and for two whole weeks
He forgot to shout
Good or Bad
Whatever be the kind
A man like him
is hard to find
THE SAVAGE STORMS
The blood red evening skies
The gloom of the faded twilight
The echoes of the blowing wind
The onset of a lonely night
A storm is heading our way
the storm is here to stay
The wind echoes memories my way
Memories
of enchanting eyes
that once betrayed
Time-
(backward) flies
to those fateful days
My heart beats in my head
My feelings are misled
Dream and reality meet
The wind stronger blows
The emotion wilder shows
Agony of my sole defeat
Realisation of which grows
The dream
that was once true
The reality
that was once you
The sudden gush
of memories
cloud my mind
Heart beats
pound in my head
Alone left behind
Before you ran
before you fled!
The pangs
of our past sorrow
will follow all the way
till tomorrow
The storm?
The storm part of my past
The dream that didn?t last
The storm blowing outside
The mind blasting inside.
The love
gone and dead
The heart
tears it bled
The leaves
in the air blew
The storm
inside me grew
Bringing to my mind
the day I first
stared at you
Where did it come from?
The Storm
The memory
that crossed my mind
The memory
that you left behind
My eye
caught your eye
Your blush
and your sigh
First glance was
indifferent
Next few were
surprisingly frequent
My senses warned me inside
It just seem right
My love at first sight
destroyed my pride
Your courage faded away
your confidence in me betrayed.
The blood red evening skies
still brings memories to my mind
brings voices to my ears
To my eyes it brings tears
And when
your hand I held
Then
my love you felt
How did it start?
The storm!
Storm stopped outside
The fire grew inside
Closer and closer
still I came
Who would take the blame?
Your hair
blew on my face
as I held you
one hand on
your waist
another on your
face
I held you tight
with all your grace
You lied !
You lied ?
You lied.
You said you loved me
And I was a fool to believe
You lied.
As I stroked your hair
In the dream that wasn?t there
I know you don't
but I care
I care.
I care.
The thunder in the skies
The fear in your eyes
Closer still I came
My passion set aflame
We couldn?t stop !
The Storm
You melted in my arms
Your beauty and my charms
Our lips softly touched
Your cheeks slightly blushed
Our lips fully met
And the wild fire it set
Our senses
on a ignite
On a wild, thoughtless
stormy night
The shock
from the vibrant touch
The breathless heart beat
made you insecure
and nervous
As you turned to retreat
I caught you in your flight
And held you tight
in the still of the night
Your eyes sparkled
and lips trembled
Where did it come from ?
The Storm.
I whispered in your ears
before you disappeared
Leaving behind doubts
distrust and fears
The storm
went on and on
The love
was dead and gone
My life torn apart
Crash!
Down went my heart
The storm passed
The love didn?t last
And all that
it left behind
fallen leaves
broken glass
and painful
memories
My world was broken apart
The storm crashed on my heart
Your memory remains a soft dream
which I couldn?t redeem
Our love was a savage storm
Me-I couldn?t reform
The storming emotional passion
Was it just another day
The rains lasted a life time
Our love was washed away.
MAGIC OF LOVE
Love is a soft dream
which breaks gently
like dawn
It colours your life
with a rainbow
and in your heart
puts a song
You walk with a
new bounce
And the world
becomes a better
place
Your thoughts revolve
around her
You just can't forget her face
She walks with you wherever you go
The birds sing. The grass becomes
greener.
Your emotion like river flows
And it shows
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Poetry Post Tusiata
POETRY AFTER TUSIATANaming Names
This is the place that I belong
Mark. Blue Crayon.
Isle.In Paper Cacti
Blue Sky Sin. Killawords.
Word Soldier. Tiger Bug.
Blank Shots. Cacti Juice.
Winds.nz wordwizard
Wild roads. Apple Rises.
Red Mustard. Suenil. Sonyl.
Syunis. Skit. Mark.
Word Warrior. Jet Blue Sky.
Rising Sands. Paperworks.in
Purepopcorn. Grasslands.
Tiger Cacti. Stray tiger.
Love a Tiger. Living dangerously.
Living on the edge. Flashy ideas.
Red chili. Wilderness. Wild roads.
Words Pic Me. Sunny mail. Copytiger.
Red Chili. In. Color by words. Tomato Reds.
Independence.in Renegade. OpenSpaces.
WildWalks. WildSkies. Footloose.
Wanton Sky. Tigerzinnz. Blue Sky.
TomatoStar. LadyBug. Tigeronthesun.
Leomon.in WordPickle. Redcactus.
Icetea.in. Sonyl. Sunil. Suneal.
Sundaymorning. Solin. Islet.in
Applets. Waterbuffalo. Suniel.
Ideasinaflash. Gobananas.
Red bananas. Endlessways.
Sledge.com Earthenpot.com
I really like to carry on
A sequel to wildblueskies.com
Is now blueskyfox.com
Crossing the Pacific
New Zealnd
Is the promised land.
A peaceful clan.
The pigeons unafraid
Walks in the park
The seagulls fly
Close to land
Oh New Zealand
A land of many clans
& lots of jobs, jobs, jobs
Bond N Bond + Connex
Chubb Security + First Security
Applications, Applications, Applications
And reject letter. One size fits all.
Sorry. Skills are good but in
This instance. Please feel free. Wish
You luck. Bye bye loser.
Economy is booming Immigrants happy?
Equal Opportunity. A rising mists.
Scientists and Doctors are taxi drivers
And Petrol Pumped Super Market attendants
A bloody myth.
Kiwi Experience. Can do attitude.
Won’t do for names that are not
Matt. Dick. Nick. Chris.
Wrong name. Wrong number.
Wrong color. Sorry.
No sweepers job. Or driver
Job. Or temping in Xmas.
Only large Whittecoll Santa
Stealing money from credit cards.
Let alone technical writing
Marketing guru jobs. Only
Shopkeepers that shout and
Young Maori boys and
old advertising farts. No.
Welcome. Kia Ora.
Saleable Crap
Where’s the fire?
Where’s the anger?
Discounts & Countdowns
Economy and Relief.
Growth and taxes.
Hopes and tears.
And millions of hearts.
About four.
Broken hearts
Charred. Scared.
Angry. Confused.
Walking Queen St
Bopping girls. Half boobs.
Shiny legs. Lipstuck smiles.
Cold hearts. Winston smiles
On Billboards.
Trying to calculate
crime rate and welcome
Foreign students.
Lost Yellow Souls.
Dark Day
It’s a dark day
The Korean Shop
Will overcharge
For condoms that are free
The Chinese lady will scream
On esteemed clients and customers
The kabab guy will go a Jihad in red
The Fiji Indian has Fiji hate for
Being abandoned in Otahuhu.
The Maori boy will abuse helpful
Strangers. He’s on P. on Pee.
On a bus to Lincoln West.
Paul will reject cause Paul
Hates the other Paul and
Takes it out on his students.
The Mormons will hope
In Manurewa in a large brown
Church in green skied grass
And Sesa will smile. She always
Smiles. Aries enthusiasm.
As the world wild goes further wild!
Oh Emma
Grey Lynn’s empty.
So is Waterview
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