Autumn 🍃🍂🍁

When the morning breeze turns pleasant,

gently cooling your cheeks with their presence.

When they blow the hair in your eyes,

making you lift your chin like a happy pup from a car window.

When the sky is turquoise and crystal  clear,

turning sunlight into transparent gold.

You know Fall is round the corner,

waiting to mesmerize with its magical powers.

Colours to drench you in, beauty to soak you with.

Autumn, the showstopper amongst  seasons!

Continuous thoughts!

Let us be ourselves, and embrace the universe. 

Though, what we are but the minutest dust in comparison.

Let us mitigate the sizes of our Egos and embrace the limitless. 

What good is it if it divides us into a billion pieces.

 

The Pine Trees

They reach out towards the blue sky, sometimes crystal clear, sometimes cloudy and sometimes dark in the days like night. 

Hold the earth firmly with their roots, embracing mountains. Stand tall at the edges of the roads, winding like a serpent around the hills.

Loaded with beautiful cones hanging from branches like earrings worn by  Goddess Nature.  

With their intoxicating distinct smell, they embody beauty and sturdiness at the same time.The stark straight trunks of the trees, visually endow strength to the mind and heart.

Pine trees, make one acknowledge how one can brave all hardships and still  stay strong, firm and flourish if they have the support.

Support of the environment around them, their soil, their climate, their air, their temperature and how we need to preserve all. 

Just like humans, if they have the social support, they thrive, they prosper, they live with better morals, values and stronger character and it all needs to be taught and preserved.

My thoughts...

My thoughts are like a dandelion,

A little bit of breeze and they spread, 

Far and away.

Can not pull them back together again,

No matter how much I try.

All equally important, 

all an individual in themselves.

Sometimes they  reach where,

I want them to.

Sometimes they just travel away,

To the unexpected.

I wish and hope , they root themselves,

In the lands of adventure and love.

Resurrection

The sky  descended upon the paddy fields, resurrecting the earth with a kiss from heaven.

Luxury

Looking at the western sunlight of the setting Sun, I wonder, 

no matter how the day has been, 

this time of the evening never disappoints. 

Enjoying the daily show of the burning red Sun,

dipping behind the buildings,

from the luxury of the dining room,

I wonder, if this is all that I want.

Be free

Be free,

like the air, the sunshine, the river.

Take a leap of faith, do not fear.

Great! If you are caught by someone.

Otherwise, get up on your own.

Do not be made invalid by pain.

Of loss or failure or rejection.

Try standing up on your feet.

For life to let you fairly treat.

Free your heart from expectations.

Do not be bound by limitations.

You can surely touch the sky.

Only if you would let yourself try.

 

Continuous thoughts

 Thoughts come and go like flash of light, 

difficult to capture, like lightning crackling in the sky.

Sometimes, you don't even get its meaning,

words, ideas, phrases out of nowhere,evoking memories, faded with time.

They are like dreams that you can never remember ,

but always feel its mysterious effect in the morning.

Thoughts which jolt you out of reverie,

bringing meaning to the moment, giving way to clarity.

Sometimes confusing, sometimes empty,

Sometimes downright idiotic, sometimes just crazy.

Shards of brilliance at times, getting stuck in the brain,

beautiful, like butterflies, right in your face, but flying away.

If you succeed in lassoing them, they are the ones, 

which turn into pieces of beauty.

literature, inventions, discoveries.

Rewinding

Resetting the clock of routine, in a village.

Rewinding, revisiting how it used to be.

Childhood memories springing up.

Refreshing walks amidst the fields.

The fragrant smell of wet mud.

Encountering the familiar but forgotten odors.

Greens, till the eyes can see, yellow of mustard like sunshine.

Tall symmetrically planted trees creating fascinating geometrical patterns.

The simple food made with utmost care and love.

Stray pups running in the narrow lanes.

Beautiful calves, staring curiously at the passersby. 

Life seems to slow down here, the traffic, the noise, nowhere.

Chirping of birds occasionally disturbed by the sound of tractors.

Time seems to pause here and conciousness of being, jerked forward.

An open letter

You are on my mind night and day.

Obsessive of your presence one way or another.

Thoughts keep reverting to you in sickness or in health.

In joy or in pain, in happiness or in sadness.

In company or when alone.

Don't want to lose you, ever.

Dear HOPE, 

Not just I but we all need you, want you.

Do make your presence felt, 

Whether in the form of a little vial or 

The immunity developing in our bodies.

Do stay with us forever, never abandon us.

Drench us in the sunshine of positivity.

Give us the courage to feel for others.

The strength to be selfless and empathetic.

Let us transition smoothly from one year to another,

Happily.

Please let us all have a very Healthy new year.

Regards, 

Us.

Be yourself

Who do you wish to be?

If not yourself.

Who could you possibly be?

But yourself.

Where do you wish to be?

If not within yourself.

No one and nothing can fill the void,

When you aren't  yourself.

Transfixed.

When the sky bows down to caress the waves,
the audience stands still.
Mesmerized, transfixed for eternity,
transforming into rocks at the shore.
As if cursed for witnessing the union of Gods!
The Earth, the sky, air, water
and the fire they withhold.

Photo Credits Go  To Cdr. Rajesh Sinha

         

The good poet

A good poet writes poetry for everyone, still,
writes as if you are the one being talked to.
As if the words on the paper are meant  just for you.
As if the emotions are only for you to be felt.
The love,the longing, the pain the heartbreak all for you.

Who writes like you are being held in an embrace tightly.
As if you are safe inside the blanket of the woven poem.
As if the world spins around only for you.
The life, the lessons, the gratitude, the prayers all for you.

It's like magic! uplifting people, giving them hope.
Making them look forward to another day,
waiting for life to keep happening,
In a brand new way.

Real world.

For half a lifetime have been living in a world of my own.
High time I stepped out of it to meet the real world.
Hope it's not as deceitful as I feared it would be.
Hope it is prettier than I imagined it to be.
Where love exists not only in books.
Where people are basically good.
Respect for others natural.
Life without limitations.
And all can breathe.
Equality exists.

Learning

Learning to listen, without any words being said,
and watching the world, without being there.

Learning to feel plethora of emotions, without being touched,
and reaching out to others, without being physically present.

Learning to spend dateless, day less weeks and months,
and holding on to the memories being made at all hours.

Learning to prioritize simplicity over complexity,
and being deadly calm in the midst of a storm.

Learning to love and fall in love, all over again,
With the ones I always loved.

Learning to respect and admire nature and its beauty,
and pledging to take care of it in the future.

Caught in a loop, in the never ending cycle of learning.
Learning one step at a time to restore sanity.

Will learn well,
and this too shall pass.
 

New Year Wishes

May the New Year bring rays of sunshine in your life...

Bright enough to make you shine like the silver mountains in the distance.

May your future be as  brilliant as the shimmering snow, capping the peaks.

May you glow with health and be as strong as the mountain range itself.

May hope glimmer in your eyes like the vast expanse of blue sky.

May the sadness, if any, in your heart, be lifted like fog by beaming smiles of loved ones.

May you always cry tears of joy and laugh in the face of adversity.

May you be good, do good, see good and inspire goodness in all.

                                   Photo Credits Go To Meenakshi Bakhshi.

The Healer

Why  the roller coaster of emotions?
Highs and lows, hugs and blows.
One day lovestruck and taken,
Next day completely heartbroken.

Is it actually someone else's doing?
Or one's inner battles.
Neglecting our own consciousness,
Letting others rip it to tatters.

Would it happen if we loved our souls more?
Than the one's who is breaking it.
Expecting others to make you better,
When you are your own best healer.

Life

There is more to life than pleasure and pain.
The universe is out there for experiences to be gained.

Life needs to flow like a fresh water river.
Emotional stagnation shouldn't stop it ever.

Armed with armour of knowledge and love.
Explore the world and rise above.

For life is not only about  personal happiness,
It's  about  what is our role in the world and usefulness.

Getting used to.

Getting used to the Sun rising,
from behind buildings, instead of mountains.
Getting used to the Moonshine,
having to compete with the bright lights.

Learning to like the concrete jungles,
Instead of the hills and lakes.
Learning to love the patch of green,
amongst the high-rises, instead of endless span of trees.

Adapting to breathe in air, less clean,
than the one we took for granted.
Adapting to survive life and its surprises,
learning, getting used to, as each day passes.

Gemstones.

Fireflies of sunshine shimmering atop hills of Jade.
Or are they gentle Emerald waves, in which the boats swayed.

Turquoise of sky spreading blue in the ocean,
Sapphire waves reflecting, hide and seek in motion.

If only the arch were a ring and water could be carved.
What a brilliant gemstone ring nature could have served.

                     
                      Photography Credits Go to Shaishav Agarwal