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 Apr 2015 Nandini
Amitav Radiance
I watch that flame
Flickering coyly
Yet so powerful
Radiance around
Wakes up the flame
Within me
Reflected outside
A silent bond
Flame sways
My eyes follow
It movements
Burns with passion
The air and silence
Adds to the ambiance
Here I sit alone
With the flame
That lights my path
 Apr 2015 Nandini
Amitav Radiance
Night’s still
Tireless hymns
Of the night
Echoes
Sky’s lit
With brilliant
Stars
Time to let go
Of weariness
Peace of
Darkness
Silent warriors
Fending off
Tiredness
Night wraps
Itself warm
Cozy cocoon
Soul rests
To emerge
Refreshed
At dawn
Night’s still
Till dawn beckons
 Apr 2015 Nandini
Amitav Radiance
There are many emotions
Remain inexplicably hidden
Words cannot describe
Search for the right words
Only leads to tangled mind
Caught in the web of vagueness
In the labyrinth of ceaseless struggle
Emotions, silently remain there
Buried in the heaps of vulnerability
 Apr 2015 Nandini
Pablo Neruda
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.
 Apr 2015 Nandini
Jason Cole
the heavy heart is a heathen
corrupter of better nature
committer of soul-treason

fueled by the miserable notion
that death is twilight
and life is dawn

to flight, to flail
to rage, to rail
to weep, to wail
to no avail

to unhope

and all of this minus the mercy

©Jason Cole
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