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Mar 2020 · 188
A poem about death.
Shivam S Mar 2020
What does death look like to you?
To me it is two protruding feet
(No shoes on them, just bare feet)
out of a white ambassador window
on a chill september morning.

The legs of my father's father
shrunk in demeanour and their toe fingers
tout & white as storks, evenly spaced
on the surface of a village summer pond.

His body inflated as if in water
like a toad floating in space
his clay skin a bit brighter
and a wry smile (and a fly) on his face.
Everyone has a picture, a memory of death and how it feels and looks like to them. This poem is about my first indirect encounter with death and how it keeps coming back to me year after year.
Mar 2020 · 159
A prayer.
Shivam S Mar 2020
Does a prayer require a god sitting above?
Or can an agnostic whisper a few words
Not knowing to whom but for.

Pray for the child who slept hungry this night
And many a nights before.
Pray for the mother who could not sleep after the beating she never asked for.
And pray for all the sick and the dying and the downtrodden and the poor.
Pray for the rich and the kings and beggars for despair knows no bounds.

You can hear the anguish, the cry if you listen closely enough.
I can hear it amidst the sound of a clock trumpeting the endless journey of time.
I can hear the soft murmur of thriving lives around me, some alive , some waiting to die.

I pray to all the gods I have never seen, that I will never see.
I pray to the kind, the cruel, the altruists and the selfish to be more.

Tell me, does a prayer require a god above or just the one for whom these words are for?
#prayer #poems #poetry #writing #agnostic
Mar 2020 · 129
What makes a man, man?
Shivam S Mar 2020
What makes a man tick?
What reduces him to ****, to go berserk and run
Creating art and guns, what makes him hate?

I have seen men banging their heads against a wall.
I have seen men not once crying taking the greatest of falls.
I have seen men, cheaper than cheapest, kinder than what you and I can ever be.
I have seen men, give away their lives, for reasons lost, lost in the sea.

What makes a man sick ?
What eats him to death, to go so numb and frail
To build bridges and rails, and to write Macbeth?
#poetry #anothershittypoem #aboutmen #cheers #ss
Mar 2020 · 222
3.20 A.M. - 3.24 A.M.
Shivam S Mar 2020
It's 3.20 A.M
And I hear birds
Maybe lost.
Crooning for what
God knows.

One hour from now
40 years back
Mr. Marley will be
Rolling his blunt
Rolling in his grave
For what?
Only god knows.

It's 3.24 A.M
And I am writing
A poem.
For What?
God knows.
Posting the most random burst of a poem here after nearly 2 years. I missed this place.
Aug 2018 · 291
Women in the woods
Shivam S Aug 2018
I see a woman in the woods
sitting by her hut kneading dough.
She is bonny, sultry and country-side,
her face radiant with a glorious glow,
like the sky bleeding crimson with a tranquil halo.
Only the trees in the backdrop are bit scraggy.

But what is she doing alone in the wilderness ?
No woman of our time in her right mind
would go to the woods, let alone live there.
Maybe this is why,
Its for good that she is in a painting
hung on the wall in my room --not real nor alive,
luckier than those who were ***** last fortnight,
and their bodies left to rot here in the forest.

Who is gonna paint those women in the woods ?
Nov 2017 · 616
Just a dream.
Shivam S Nov 2017
She gave me hope
of a love she never felt,
She snatched it again,
And again & again.

We would tell each other
Our dreams of us,
In which she was mine
And I was hers.

Now we don't talk much,
It may seem.
But after all
She was just a dream.
Nov 2017 · 416
Letting go.
Shivam S Nov 2017
To let go is beautiful
To let go is to change,
Come this fall
when trees shed their leaves
Letting go of a season,
waiting for a new spring
and their flowers to blossom.
Nov 2017 · 475
In a river called time.
Shivam S Nov 2017
All of us change. Time is not moving but we are, measuring this stillnes within our petty clocks only helps us count our days until that final second strikes. I prefer to remain firm but humble passing away into this silent space. Revolving and rotating, Changing my seasons, Witnessing Death & Sadness, Feeling Happiness & Love. Living this single second of the infinite time which engulfs us, I keep breathing.
Just a random thought brought to writing this morning.
Aug 2017 · 568
To Father
Shivam S Aug 2017
Dearest Father,
I know you are sad
For i am the son
No one would really have.
Still you love me
And gods know its true
For no one would do
As much as you
Have done for me
My dearest father.

Father,
I remember
the story of a poet
Who died hungry,
And how only a few
Acclaim fame in this virtue,
But,
He did not die angry Father
As many people do.
As many people do.

I know not Father,
Of what would become of me.
Literature has bit me
and set my mind free.
Of all things uncertain in this world
Poetry is the purest of love,
For it makes me write about you
My dearest Father,
The only man I love.
The only man I love.
Aug 2017 · 568
Starlights
Shivam S Aug 2017
I miss her tonight
but then I realize
that we share the same sky.
I miss how her eyes
glittered that night we met
as the stars do,
And oh the way
She looked at me
I remember my heart
fleeting, sinking, beating
under her lovely starlights.

I don't sleep at nights
and wonder if I am
awake in her dreams
of us wandering across
our moonlit sky
and how our silhouettes
against the moon
for once eclipses
the majesty of the space
and it's infinite starlights.

I miss her every night
looking at our sky
dreaming of my starlight.
For ***
Aug 2017 · 434
Oh ! How the trees sang
Shivam S Aug 2017
Trees are singing today
as we do
when feelings stir our souls
and now the winds
stir them too,
as they flow by
brushing each leaf
with a tender touch,
and to see and listen
how they rustle in joy
my heart whispers in
a constant susurrus
of all things serene
and beautiful.
Jul 2017 · 652
The catheter in my vein
Shivam S Jul 2017
I wonder if you know
of the catheter that
pierces my vein,
and of the mask
which helps me breathe,
All those endless nights
Wincing in pain.

I wish i could tell you
of how my blood
spluttered when they
pulled out the needle,
but nothing compares to
the pain of how i could
not tell you these things
for you have gone
so far away,
for you have gone
so far away.

It hurts more than
the catheter in my vein.
Shivam S Jul 2017
Sing a song
Tell me your name
Quote a man
And your never ending pain.
All these years
Which you have kept
From you and me
All the same.

Girl sing a song
Tell me your pain
Show me your scars
Of all those wars.
That you have fought
In the name
of god
All the same.

Sing me a song
Tell me your name.
We will sing it along
All the same.
Of all those scars in the name of war which never heal. No war brought any good to this world.
Sep 2016 · 777
September
Shivam S Sep 2016
September.
Every year you come
And take a lot more away.
First my old man
Then her too
they were love
of my life and true.
September .
If only could you
see the crimson storms
rumbling in my hearts
and not come soon.

Hearts.
Yes, I have theirs too.

Go away September.
Until comes the moon.
Jun 2016 · 702
Dreams ...Not love
Shivam S Jun 2016
Love was never for dreamers
for it shows dreams of its own
never fulflled not even close
dreamers have died seeing this unending prose.

I dont wish to die
never hoped for it or vied.
i wish to fly
even if it means to be alone.

My love may never come true
nor do my dreams of us
i will make dreams of my own
and fly and fly all alone.
Sacrifice of love for dreams you have seen
Nov 2015 · 543
Never Again
Shivam S Nov 2015
I don't want to stay
because i feel
i might fall for u
and u might not feel the same.

Again.

I never wanted to leave
i never did
I never wanted to stray
never.. even if god's are in way.

Never.
Feb 2015 · 527
God Send
Shivam S Feb 2015
I was never one of them
I was a god send
my nature lies in trust
my words mean no harm
Treacherous,superfluous
liars,fake,malicious souls
wander around me
with their potential harms
I couldn't be them
I can never be.
My hearts of soul
lies not in these flukes,
These virtues of monotony
I am not one of them.
#TobeHuman #mankind
Jan 2015 · 8.6k
The Day Of The Capricorn
Shivam S Jan 2015
Today trees play the role of minstrels
with the wind aiding to their songs.
Birds fly and chirps
and whispers among themselves
perhaps they too feel,
what a beautiful day it is.
Sun burns bright and exuberant
filling each corners and every curve
with it's best of the lights.
And every now and then
flocks of stork wander tirelessly
and soar low and high
in this radiant ocean of serendipity.
Sep 2014 · 787
On hearing Chopin
Shivam S Sep 2014
Some tunes with them
do not only carry
melodies rhythm and beats
but a few of them
tells us of stories untold
desires not met
love not found and
a crimson heart dumbfounded.
#chopin #Music #Stories
Sep 2014 · 449
Angel in my heart
Shivam S Sep 2014
when there was nothing bright
you came out like a sun
in my sky.
when there were always lows
you bound a spring to my toes
and made me leap high.
you were always there
when i needed utmost care
you are the only angel
i hold in my heart
and can't even tell you
about the demons in there
fearing you would fly
i hold you captive
but....
i feel it's all
worth a try.
#Selfishness #love #Feelings
Sep 2014 · 530
Darkness in me
Shivam S Sep 2014
I am blind
even then i fear the dark
and everytime
when i am out
it's all black in there
i ain't a part you see
then why does it
makes me feel
that dark and black
are now in ****** heart of me
i am blind you see
even then i fear the streets
such darkness is inside me.
#Darkness #pity
Jul 2014 · 1.0k
Unforgivable
Shivam S Jul 2014
There is something with that tree
it makes me feel so free
then i look up to the sky
my soul goes out to fly
and when i am gone
with the birds
i feel so lonely up here
then i feel... oh ! love of me
i have done the unforgivable
and when i am done
all alone i look down to the fields
where wrong and right meets
then i feel this is it.
This is the land of the unforgiven.
Jul 2014 · 631
I Dream Of Death
Shivam S Jul 2014
Music in my head
hands of love in mine
peace all around
and then to fade away
with the western sun
into the crimson sea.
# death #wish #dreams #life
Jun 2014 · 1.2k
Love in chains
Shivam S Jun 2014
You talk of peace
then you slay me away
nocturnal are your keeps
and i am bright as day.
you call me freedom
and bind me in chains
this love of yours
brings nothing but pain
how can i be ever slaved
in cages that withers with age.
so many times i have told you this
you can't buy me love
just roses won't suffice
this affection of yours
is like a poison dart
shoots through air and breaks my heart
You grant me freedom
and chop off my wings
now flying and soaring
are out of my schemes.
this is what your love
has done to me
i am free and alone
but can't even dream.
#love #heart #dark #song
Jun 2014 · 476
Knowing
Shivam S Jun 2014
We rush ourselves because of impatience
urge to know it all that is
in due, we restrain finer details of glee
wondering in the end what it could been have be

curiosity to find,sometimes does blinds,
sudden hint of truth,and lost to be remind
chasing the truth is against the very nature of it
let it come to you,aside all deceits

sometimes waiting is worthy of what you perceive
in due process,reasons you receive
#knowing #self-knowledge #lessons of life
Jun 2014 · 669
Ever
Shivam S Jun 2014
Ever fed a poor hungry for days?
If you did,you would know what gratitude is.
Ever listened to a needy mother's wail?
If you did you would know from where real pain hails.
Ever seen a bird knitting her nest?
If you saw you would know what selfless love is.
Ever noticed a child fall and get back up?
If you did you would know what persistence yields.
#poor #needy #humanity #inspiration
Jun 2014 · 434
To My Master
Shivam S Jun 2014
let my inner fire kindle at the slightest sight of thee, o master,
for in my luminescence they catch a glimpse of thy greatness;
#tribute #spiritual
Jun 2014 · 407
Thoughts of a pessimist
Shivam S Jun 2014
I see myself burn within me
wondering who lit this fire
(Was it me?)
being human i blame at thee
what to do,what not to do
pondering over what's gonna be
#pessimism #unbearable pain
Jun 2014 · 405
To my own people
Shivam S Jun 2014
Each Day i die in shame of my own,
my own people with their fearful tone
each night i breath in suffocation of guilt
in constant gaze of people with doubtful tilt
#shame #guilty #criticism
Jun 2014 · 357
Words
Shivam S Jun 2014
Charred beyond recognition
my soul lies naked in earthly matters.
i speak my heart and get wounded my soul,
i speak my soul and get broken my heart,
at last i speak my mind and lose them all.
#soul #words #broken #pain
Jun 2014 · 452
Sketch Of a Girl
Shivam S Jun 2014
I never said you were beautiful,
lest i dare to bind you to a single word,
no word alone could never ever define
of the wild charming angel you hold inside your heart.
Your eyes glitter as if hope finally found an abode of dreams and love to reside in
and your smile speaks for a thousand emotions yet leaves others wanting for more.
This is how you will be to me and words will never fall short every time you cross my mind and heart,
you have this effect on me,an impression of freshness and spontaneity blended in one.
#defining love #girl #feelings #raw #emotions
Shivam S Jun 2014
I could rip off the skies for you
and keep the brightest of stars
but nothing could match
the twinkle of your eyes
and the endless galaxies
which whirls in your heart.
my soul yearns to hold you
the divine which you are
and my heart whispers in a constant susurrus
of the cosmic celebrations
it would indulge in
upon the meeting of our souls
that are yet so far.
#love #soul #yearning #mizpah
Jun 2014 · 649
My Old Man
Shivam S Jun 2014
I remember my grandpa
clay of skin penetrating eyes,
bald head,wisdom lines,shrinking deep within.
always jovial and calm,
rarely he smiled,silence ineffable
never did he scold,as i said ,jovial.
I couldn't talk to him an eye to an eye,
seemed like he knew my darkest secrets,
but never did he told me,always trusted me.

I remember my grandpa.
I remember his last days.
always quit,sleeping whole day,
but never did he lost that look of a hawk,
sometimes at night went out for a walk.
Oh! I remember how i used to wait for him
to get back from work and he always came with a smile on his face.

but one day he went away as usual,
caught my ******* to say goodbye,
I don't remember seeing his face,just a touch of hands,
then he went away.
i waited for him,and he came.
not as usual,not on his feet,but in my father's lap,
my father wailing away,i felt a pang of guilt..
i saw his feet ,tout as a stork,
cold as ice.
His whole body
shrivelled like a dry flower in its own shell,
i touched his bald head,as i used to do,
only this time it was cold and he didn't frown,
i bet i saw him smile,as we all cried.

I remember my grandpa.
hawk eyes,clay of skin..
i remember him.
#Memoir #death #love #loss
May 2014 · 1.1k
First Meeting
Shivam S May 2014
What else if not love sprout in my heart,
for i saw you first on a spring morn;
and you of all were in your best form,
like a dancing lily of the season itself;
#Firstlove #loveatfirstsight #lovesong
May 2014 · 1.7k
Mizpah
Shivam S May 2014
When you touch me
my joy loses it's voice
but comes out in sighs and happy cries
the blood beneath my skin
stops to savour your touch
and dances like a whirling sufi
under your starry skies

when my eyes meet yours
our hearts beats in rhythmic waves
like a melody that i crave
each vein of mine vibrates
like a harp string
pumping blood music
which makes me sing.
#love #reunion #romanticism #obsession
May 2014 · 358
Angel Of Nothingness
Shivam S May 2014
She turned into ash
as i held her to my chest
now the soot has reached my heart
and has become dark
she transformed into nothing
to me she was everything
her light now is just a flicker
of the blazing radiance she was
she was sun to me
she was a moon to see.
#love Lost
May 2014 · 432
Reading with style
Shivam S May 2014
This morn i was reading The elements of style
which i kept as a desktop file
you see a writer suggested it to me
said:"Dude,you wanna be a writer then you got to get this knowledge vile."
being a begineer i downloaded the file
and started reading the Elements of style
First two to four lines-- i am good
next two lines-- got me confused
and before i reach the next-- stupified
i called the writer again and said:
"I don't get anything"
"Oh that's just perfect,you figured it out quickly",replied the writer
I was flabbergasted,"what do you mean?"
"Explain it to me when you understand it,will you ?",
and then she hanged up.
I must say she got me this while.
#humour #narrative
May 2014 · 480
On Art
Shivam S May 2014
Who dare outlive art!
primitive,yet supreme,omnipresent it is.
in the alpha,the omega,circumpunct within!

Who dare pass untouched by it!
even the opposites blossom beneath.

Life is art,so are we.
art resides into self,layers unseen.
who dare outlive art!
for it is thee...
#Tribute to art
May 2014 · 777
Bewitched
Shivam S May 2014
What have you done to me?
my heart bewitched by your strange love,
turning into ice kept inside a furnace,
every moment it melts into my tears,
my intuitions taken aback by cowardly fear,
I see whole world laughing at me,
as if i am a statement of  some humorous blasphemy,
I see your eyes mocking away at my dreams,
which surely I dreamt ,only to be stranded by your tyranny.
roses now don't seem red anymore,every petal stained in my blood,
music don't seems blessed anymore,just a wretched piece of cacophony,
what have you done to me?
am tired of your wicked sophistry,
every thing you promised,now cowers beneath the veil of mystery...
what have i done to thee..?
Oh! Your wicked sophistry,your cursed affection..
has shrink wrapped me inside my tears..my fears
This is what i feared,that you could do to me,
but what have i done to thee....?
#broken heart #love
May 2014 · 435
An artist's wish
Shivam S May 2014
O god! pour all thy art in me,
make my body thy grail;
carve me into a sculptor of thee,
so that mortal men may trail;

make my soul a humble tree,
so i may stoop with my deeds;
to paint thy kingdom aside all creeds,
and at last make mine parched soul free;

O lord! pour all thy art in me,
so blessed would be the heart of me,
a tiny little part of me!
#art,#spiritual
May 2014 · 410
To Him
Shivam S May 2014
All my life i have waited for you to reveal to me,
and you surely did,
in a child's selfless smile,
as a wind brushin' away my cheek,
in a robin's nest of love.
Yet every moment i wish for more sign's of relevance,
keeping me amazed,humble and grateful,
oh almighty! of your esteemed presence in my heart.
#Spiritual
May 2014 · 1.1k
WONDERLAND
Shivam S May 2014
This is not a wonderland
certainly not a wonderboy i am
this is not a dreamers clan
certainly not as delusional i am
This used to be my paradise
now no greater love would do suffice
This was once a wonderland
where lived the wonderboys clan
This was once a Dream of mine
where i wandered ahead of time
Now the time seems to run away
as the dreams too stray behind
This was once a wonderland
i used to be the wonderboy i am
This was once a wonderland
a dreamers clan..
My wonderland.
May 2014 · 390
She Was Something
Shivam S May 2014
I loved her lips
she adored my hair
both of us fondled
in that hot summer air
i would make excuses to meet her,
you see,she was my neighbour
and at times would do me the favour
but the pleasure exceeded beyond imaginations
i would wake up everyday for her fondly sensations.
Yes i loved her lips and yet never kissed them
she loved my hair and would always touch them,
i craved that mole beneath her lower lip and the one on the shoulder
the two black dots had become the center of my endless fantasies.
At times she would press her against me
and my whole body shivered in a fountain of lust
she would look at me with those luscious eyes as if now she would tear my flesh and eat me up,
Oh! I should have eaten her up the very first time.
I loved her lips,i still do
she adored my hair, (I wonder does she now?)
thinking about her makes my soul bare
and writing certainly doesn't do much fair.
Then i went away as did she
and with this ended,the steamy noons,the luscious looks
endless fantasies and her glossy lovely lips.
I still love her lower lip and the mole beneath it,I still do.
Apr 2014 · 398
Confessions Of A Single
Shivam S Apr 2014
A gaze into the maiden eyes....
sight of some untold pain inside ....
i asked her to share the same....

"don't follow the shadows of my pain...
don't rest in the shade of my heart....
my soul is but  burning sand...
turning into glass to break again..."
said she....

and then i left her in the lap of solitary bliss.....
with flames in the heart and a painful twitch.....
thus i wander alone in these heavenly lands....
with a crimson heart in my hands...
wishing it would stop some day...
as i rest beneath her lovely rays,
as a wish is all that a man can make.
Apr 2014 · 541
A Dead Man's Wish
Shivam S Apr 2014
When i am yet of this world
understand me as i ought to be
believe in me as i should be,
and when i become of the afterlife,
bury me in satin my friend,
do not burn me from your thoughts,
as i yet wish to live from the underground,
as this is all i would have lived for.
And if you do burn me,
let my ashes fly with the easterly winds,
so that i may yet live again,
wander aimlessly over the sands of grain...
and feel the scents of homely joy,
like almighty's beloved toy.
Apr 2014 · 582
Puppies Near my room
Shivam S Apr 2014
Everyday i see two puppies near my room,
playing,bouncing,barking,running around and around,
(real happy with no gloom always happy and cheerful playing)
sometimes they wag their tail and run behind me,
and foolish of me i start to sprint away.
sometimes i wonder if they fight,
because today they are sleeping apart at night,
one beneath the stairs and the other on a rug,
not an air of love between them,
laying in a corner both of them sulk.
perhaps their mother would come the other day,
and make things okay,
then they will bark,run and play insane,
around and around near my room again,
and i will run from them.
Apr 2014 · 780
I and She
Shivam S Apr 2014
I look into her eyes,I see me.
I listen to her heart beating,mine stops.
I feel her touch,nothing as such.
I fear her wrath,end of all above.

She says,you are not the man i loved,
I say,now love you don't see me as such.
She says,My heart doesn't beats for you,
I say,i could stop mine for you.

She sheds tears,says you don't understand me anymore.
I shed the same,said,has there anyone been before?
She Walks out,leaving me cold,
I wait forever,wishing i should have told.

She went,I wept,
Left me numb,like a wasted bread crumb.
yet i wait,that she would return one day,
As i walk on the road,at which she strolled,
leaving me cold,numb,like a wasted crumb,
Like a dead man's tomb.
I remember she,
Such is my love,
and she said "You don't love me anymore"?.
how could she?
Apr 2014 · 575
Rock Of Sins
Shivam S Apr 2014
I look up to the sky,clear night,
I see my rock of sins,
bloodied in past misdeeds..
everyday the symmetry fresh,
different shades,never to fade..
they say our sins wash away,
I say they evaporate,
or else how could i see my rock of sins,
crimson in it's gloomy way..
crimson as the blood in my veins,
and dark as my secrets prevail..
everyday i gaze at my rock of sins,
float up there by all means...
I wonder if it would stray away,
and redeem me of my vicious ways..
oh! my rock of sins,in the sky,
floating in the crystal night everyday...
Apr 2014 · 408
On Light--A Different View
Shivam S Apr 2014
What is light,if there were nothing to be shone by it,
these objects of bright a reminder of it's materialistic glory;

And what is light,to a needy child,sitting by the window beneath it,
where he sees the world shine by it's luminescence,except the darkness within;

And what of light,if it ain't bright,
would it still be the signature of hope,an aura of positive,
which it does proudly carries;

Would it be still more divine,
if it's all,except of as it is?
Apr 2014 · 444
These Emotional Fools
Shivam S Apr 2014
These emotional fools,
are being used as a tool,
Why do they care,everything that happens?
is there no one else in these so called "lands of just and the fair"?
These emotional fools,
what do i do?
are being used as a tool...
now i leave them too,
i don't want to be one..
ohh! i will go insane,idea itself profane..
These emotional fools,
what do i do?
what could anybody do?
To These pathetic fools...
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