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May 2020 · 57
Heavenly
Aditya Roy May 2020
I have lost my writings
The boat has left without me
A cloistered room aboard holds me
A prison cell is cold and lonely
Fishes swim easily
I say this is heavenly

Swans vanish into the fog
Coming out as cygnets
Like ships set out in triplets and fleets
Soon, my message will reach
Heaven!

These are two years
Behind a four by four cell
I wish we were diamonds
Hard to find
A living hell.

They searched for me
In waters of doom and turgid waves
Swallowing all the whales
I gasped for breath and prayed with each
There's no heaven.

The seas released me
Down by the starboard
A comrade of mine eats his warm bread
Fixated on stars
Heavens must need me

He may have remembered
The constellations each night
With only his eyes and no map
We are diamonds, easy to cherish
Hell, isn't it?

Water lay bare and my escape stared
My eyes felt the daring glance
Of the guards who fulminated
As I went alone with the diamonds, hard to carry
I say this is heavenly, sarcastically
A hint of facetiousness
May 2020 · 25
If the rain comes
Aditya Roy May 2020
It is a long summer
Ending as the winds
Come to close to bring warmth and lovers
Love is all they think
Thinking is all they do
When they are in love
As wise men question fools
They wonder if there is any answer to life
Fools are only ones who know
The answer is love
And they rush in
If the rain comes
The last line is familiar I know
May 2020 · 45
My Hometown
Aditya Roy May 2020
I remember when
The rain was a daily occurrence
Windows would shut and bottles would float
On the empty streets in the wind
It was a sudden love that went scarce
Or the disappearance
Of my hometown
That I started to cry
I still miss the rain
That reminds me that tears can hide
This is your hometown too
Where I scurry in alleys and run near trains
The cars will pass me by
Like my childhood does
The trams and rickshaws will go on double time
The buses fare
Everywhere
It's not the same
If I'm not here
Without my friends
If you can understand
What it's like
To be away for years
Then I may be talking of your own town
The rain may be scarce
But, we will both
See face to face
If it ever comes again
May 2020 · 26
We Are Infinite
Aditya Roy May 2020
I've watched the stars
So many times while thinking about you
That I might have counted all of them
Taken from the ending of "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower."
May 2020 · 25
No Regrets
Aditya Roy May 2020
If I could
Run from problems
I would choose to walk away

If I could
Escape from fear
I would choose to face the music

If I could
Run from problems
I would choose to face them with you
May 2020 · 79
The poet
Aditya Roy May 2020
Just because you are in love
Doesn't mean he is
He just loves your words
Because they make his poems
Like trees make a forest
Waiting for the right poet
I hope you understand this one.
May 2020 · 28
Slow down woman
Aditya Roy May 2020
There was a fire
A cinema full of smog
A boy with a toy
A girl without a voice

We let the theatre burn
The curtain call
Everyone screamed
All fell down on all fours

The cinema lies in ruins
The boy held on to his mom
The girl stole herself away
From the mirror, wishing she was strong
Partially based on the Chechen rebels.
May 2020 · 51
Airport Check-in
Aditya Roy May 2020
Your hand, please
Your warm lips
Your suitcase

You shouldn't be armed
Your looks could ****
So I cannot let you leave the country

Your legs
Your eyes
Your purse

I want them shut
If opened
They will see all I do for your love
May 2020 · 20
Don't Argue
Aditya Roy May 2020
I want your hand
Your lips
Your suitcase

Closed
It's cold outside
Stay inside
May 2020 · 39
The Black Butterfly
Aditya Roy May 2020
I looked for a moth with eyes black
A body of yellowy gold
It was camouflaged on the brick wall
Which I never had touched
If I hold the redness of the wall
The moth stayed making conclusions of its own
We both were attached to something that made us feel unwelcome
As I kept searching for the moth in the darkness
The cold brick held together by masons
It fell apart and left the moth in a pile of sand
That is when I saw a host of black and yellow moths
Touch my hands
I was no longer an ugly butterfly
I was a colorful moth in their eyes
The Black Butterfly
It is always bad to be disliked. It is when people dislike you, that you can abandon hopes of making an impression.
May 2020 · 41
Awakenings
Aditya Roy May 2020
We were forced to see the stars, under the vault of the sky of awake summer
Our children hid in quaint cottage trenches
Jovial, bright burning their flowers
Morbid and miserable perishing to the scent of youth and sound of guns
Thus, a brother lives in the south trench
The sister bends the steel and makes guns for fun
The youngest makes a wild gesture at heavens
The illuminated son comes on the horizon

Hugged by a valley and mink
Pushed into swarms of pink people
In Mediterranean waters, one can feel their warmth and rose sands too
Spread across their skin of nakedness and salinity
Like the Biblical flood that carries shipless waves
That takes away the verdigris moss too
A chorister in the sky sings to open skies of music and staves
Soon, the children of Gods will capsize as ships do

Intoxicated by orchards of red and blue
They trespass the general's chateau
The golden leaves fall, with a crackle and reddish rust in the wet trough
Trees lose their ****** and flare
Abandoning all doves and their penumbra and shadow
Wondering what is ruined, in a hungry fatigue
The children leave their hiding spot, unawate
Only waiting for the bird to tell them to get away

It is time to run from the past
The stars will die and this Earth shall cry
Soon, the war will be over
The flowers will burn with a prudery
As petals curl inwards and hover
After a while no one will feel the humidity
I am still throw pebbles and stones across the road
On the general's chateau
Like Apollo's arrows
Reading some French Symbolism
May 2020 · 79
Diamonds in the cold sky
Aditya Roy May 2020
Some rare nights
When I think of the world
The fabric of space and time
Just splits the swirly smog

It is for some seconds
Through the cloak of darkness
Before dawn
In the painted knit of jet black skies

I can see the diamonds of the night
Like people on empty streets
They are scattered
I wonder, lonely stones come from where

They seem to belong to me
No one shares the same stars as I (except a poet)
Yet, they choose to be in the coldest nights
When I think of your cold glare

Except, diamonds are forever
You're the scientist
Who taught me this
Through heartbreak

That a ball of gas
Which is million miles away
From our living world
Is already dead, is only alive as an afterimage

All we have is our love poetry
People are now eternally in the present
That is why some of us are poets
Because we live in the past like dying stars and write
How do you like this play on words? Trop romantique?
They say, if you are attached to the past, you die a little everyday.
May 2020 · 44
Stuck at Home
Aditya Roy May 2020
The first thing you want
Will be the last thing you need

The first thing you need
Will be the last thing you even find.
How does one make friends?
May 2020 · 45
Sexus (Short Poem)
Aditya Roy May 2020
I find writing
On something alive
And dreamy
A dying art
That decomposes into madness
May 2020 · 28
The midnight walker
Aditya Roy May 2020
You keep your glass
Near the bedside
It has milk
You get up for cookies
An empty tummy..

You see the fridge empty
Only eggs smile at you
The spelled out magnets are distracting
Making it easy to get cosy and easier
I can see you in the pale moon
You are hungry...

You fry an omelette
Nursing your stomach
The eggs have found their place
On the tray
No speck of doubt
Reminds you of your dead hour
Or the day when the rain fell
You look outside the rain pelts
The window calls to you to fly away
To bed
May 2020 · 82
Ship in darkness
Aditya Roy May 2020
I might be strange
My dreams seem strange
It takes familiar things
To calm me down
Yet, all of these frivolous things
Feel
Strange
A political poem on the front page
A love poem in my inbox
Seem familiar, yet
Never make it
Like a ship in darkness
Very strange
May 2020 · 21
Time is good to us
Aditya Roy May 2020
Scraping red dust from porch
She sank into tears
The soil was sullen and ploughed
The time was right for joining the army

He left his home and went down south
Time is good to us, he assured her
Write a letter to me everyday, my love
He got away from her ornery look

She reminds herself, he is alive
The rifle's jammed and no one's behind
The gun that will not fire
For her, it is good that he is back

He left with another woman
She joined the front lines
As she was left no choice
Neither did she have a voice

They pleaded stay at your earthen home
Harvest the wheat and feed
Your lonely mouths
It was a doubt that carried her away
She never came back

The fire was shot around
The line was drawn
The time is good
She never bore another son
May 2020 · 42
The Amazon Sings
Aditya Roy May 2020
If you listen to the humdrum of water
Slow paddle of boats on the mire
You will notice the langurous breeze
Coalesce with the humidity
The bumbling flies and flying bees
Ferry the nectar of a thousand trees
In all this noise
You can hear the Amazon sing
I hope my friend, Sarah likes this.
May 2020 · 30
Craving
Aditya Roy May 2020
It as easy to
Fall in love
As it is to lose a craving
May 2020 · 26
Different Strokes
Aditya Roy May 2020
Poems are like enemies
Once you hate them
You cannot stand them
Let them grow on you
As they will offer some perspective
Despite, it being different
Than what you know
May 2020 · 23
I love you the most
Aditya Roy May 2020
I know my love is happy
If you sit with me, it's true
Albeit, our neverending journey
Will be complete when I am with you
May 2020 · 46
Serendipity
Aditya Roy May 2020
I met her at a bus station
I thought could impress her with quotations
A book of poems and that was all
A poem doesn't have to say much
I express that I was bewildered
Our love wasn't hindered
It was like summer, open and free
Like the skies right before evening
I pressed her to be my best friend
She said to friendship their is no end
She knows there is no beginning without it
What's the difference
If we are madly in love
My lover speaks like silence
No ideas on violence
May 2020 · 22
Echoes
Aditya Roy May 2020
Let's disappear
Your words were so clear
Let the echoes
Travel through the night

When you meet me with another
I cannot resist a look
These are echoes
Traveling through the night

Your thoughts were her
Once familiar, now strange
Let's make our escape
With the echoes of the night

Your face with criss cross lines
The hands that held me by strings
Now see what the echo brings
Through the night
May 2020 · 27
She was a killer
Aditya Roy May 2020
The first time
I laid eyes on that shy iris
It was my heart that burst
Now that we meet for the last one
My heart is buried
Your eyes have become dangerous

Find someone with those legs
Stand up and move forward
Keep your heart strong
My sweet Iris
May 2020 · 42
Recuperating
Aditya Roy May 2020
These people meet so effortlessly
When will I make contact
With somebody
The universe sends signs
I am the only one it denies
Now I have an opportunity
To bring my ideas to light
How will I leave the dark
I need a place in this city
May 2020 · 41
Your kiss
Aditya Roy May 2020
I want your lips close
To mine
Yet, I want to give you space
Everyone needs their time
Soon when the time is right
I will utter something beautiful
Not love songs
But, how I am closer
To kissing
When I am not near you

Yet, your kiss is on my mind
May 2020 · 26
Walking on 52nd Street
Aditya Roy May 2020
She is a preacher, a lover
Partly practical, practically dreamy
Partly truth, partly fiction
A walking contradiction
She walks as she hovers
Her feet are on earth
She is actually ethereal
A walking dream
I've never been to 52nd street
If you know me
I am what a cold shower is to a hot steamy bath
A wilting flower to a rose
At least I will never touch you
Because I may get hurt
Because I am cold as dust
The stores I go to raise the money
For a good ***** hotdog
Just so I can eat some ****
I am not that cunning
I could be down for dialogue
My mouth is sewn shut
As your ash turns to a ghost
May 2020 · 20
The late nights
Aditya Roy May 2020
Each night is another adventure
An unapologetic adventure
I still stare at the others
They seem so real
Just like every fairy, ****, queen
All of them have stories
My bed is lifeless like my wheels of fire
A car roamed the streets..
I don't even drive these days
I just wipe the cumulus clouds
Forever and ever
Till next day becomes a dream
I spend late nights with you
I have met a genius..
Who counts the nights and stars
And even the nights are better now
Reality climbs into every night
May 2020 · 22
Midnight
Aditya Roy May 2020
The best way
To express yourself
Is by praying for many
May 2020 · 41
Rude
Aditya Roy May 2020
Magicians are interesting
They can conjure
And trick someone
They are similar to God
In some ways
They are as powerful
Because they can trick the mind into believing
Like faith and religion
May 2020 · 18
How to concoct a poem
Aditya Roy May 2020
To concoct a poem
You need the sanguine of an infant
And the sweat of an adult
Good luck finding these
It is just an allusion to innocence. The other part is the grit and persistence only an adult has.
May 2020 · 50
Prince de charme
Aditya Roy May 2020
There was a heart
That needed aid
Kings love the queens, the sad end for him
He died with a frowning crown
May 2020 · 21
It wasn't true
Aditya Roy May 2020
The truth is fire
The lies and water burn out my ire
You say things that aren't forgettable
The untruths I forget
As you look so cute
Being uncouth and all
My dead legs were fit in ripped denim
The pockets were hanging out
I said we should hang out
You lit a smoke and lay yet again
As I prowled that face of yours
It is so fair and truthful at first
I realize that lies aren't bad
The truth is just ugly
As it takes us all and engulfs
I didn't want yours
Neither do I care
About "true love"
I know it "waits"
May 2020 · 87
The Best Of Things
Aditya Roy May 2020
I love you
I didn't even see the door
I seemed to have missed the flower
That was sitting sad and true

If I asked you
When will we pray
You answer
As my heart breaks

My sky would fall
Rain would gather through troughs
As I brave windy storms
You have been brave enough

I couldn't see the robin on the swing
Oblivious of the cage it's in
It still sings
Appreciate the little things, as life becomes difficult. The bigger things will then appear easy. When the time is right, my friend.
May 2020 · 26
The Song of the forest
Aditya Roy May 2020
Sages speak wise words
They flow like a breath
Though my veins, unstirred
As the years go by in a death
My heart grows and I look for answers
I still ask myself where do I tread

This page of lyric speaks to me
It has passed through my doubts
Resounding through echoes of thee
It is more sterner than my mouth
Bit by bit, it guides me amidst the trees
My pen knows not what it has found

After my dance with death's spirit
My beautiful poem cries and wails
I yearn for an end not merit
This is my song and picture, not a tale
The paths show some light and the forest splits
The rest of the poem disappears in the hail

I may have forgotten the lines
If you shower me with praise
The song of the forests dissipates with time
Yet, I remember the road and its precarious ways
Knowing this I know the answers will rhyme
As I find a maze of questions, once again
Inspired by some people.
"Your very flesh shall be a great poem."
May 2020 · 105
Secret Poem
Aditya Roy May 2020
Sages have spoke wise words to me
They flow like invisible ink
Through my veins and my world
As the years go by, like grapes turning to ethereal wines
When my heart grows fonder
I sit and think a little about our surreal time
And write a secret poem, timidly
That has passed through ages
Like that invisible print and fabric of time
From me to you and sweet as eglantine and ageless still
Bit by bit as my love turns to malady
My pen loses it's strength and aptitude
My pallid hands clench on the last glimpse of eternity
My penmanship as the Earth cries
Of your simpler times 'twixt with mine
You are simply my Achilles' heel, my depth and picture
It seems as time goes by
The rest of the poem disappears
Like those forgotten beauties and lies
If you light a match underneath the papier
You will find my abstract love suddenly appears under those lines
As invisible ink flows like a sultry tide, true as fire and ice
Just look over here.
May 2020 · 88
Diamonds and Rust
Aditya Roy May 2020
A gaze from crystalline eyes
Is a worth a million mines
If only I could find her in the places
I go to to find romance
Instead I find diamonds and rust
Some days are diamonds and some days are stone.
Apr 2020 · 35
Sleep comes easy
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
You are a dream
That I spend my life
Sleeping on
I hope to wake up
And find you
Sleep comes easy then
We are such stuff. As dreams are made on; and our little life. Is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest Act 4, scene 1
Apr 2020 · 61
Heaven Sent
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
I remember
The day when we became
"friends"
Now we are enemies
Apr 2020 · 36
Beautiful
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
Many things can be considered beautiful
A song that dances in some
A poet that sings of better
A dancer that writes a lyric
Because it is meant to be
Apr 2020 · 183
Anima
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
Well, I wake up
To the morning with dogs
Around my socks
Your mom is breaking the window locks

To let out the monkey from the zoo
In the afternoon
They are replacing it with a parrot that talks

So it doesn't fly out of here too
Come into my house
Ask for a flaming hot pie
The kitchen will delight the animals
You ask,"Who else lives here too?"
Slightly surreal I know. My mind is in tatterdemalion.
Apr 2020 · 34
Gimme some shelter
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
You gotta enrich yourself
Inept or no good
If the food tastes good
You need to eat without a soup spoon
Gather your hands and shuffle
As you ruffle your wrists with nothing to prove

What's the time, my man?
They tell us that a fire
Is enough of a truth
How about I light a cigarette
It's the time to die, easy
Can you feed them
Or you think you'll stay in your mobile

Will you still eat your brown rice and seaweed?
Apr 2020 · 28
The second chance
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
I looked into your eyes
Of gold
For a second chance
Like I kept digging

But, it turned into looking for a silver lining
Your heart had turned cold
The skies were I had to look

Searching for grey skies
I was bewildered by your rain
It drenched me and told me
Tears aren't enough
Apr 2020 · 70
Buy the numbers
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
It was only two days
I called you
Asking you where are your friends
They were in the fields
Playing in the heart of mountains
Now they chase the racing rebels
Insurmountable task isn't it?
Try to come down from your golden pedestal
I just don't buy the numbers
This is how a orchard burns
This is how a sad shore buries the reeds
All of it to keep the truth in a square jar
For a square second
Apr 2020 · 49
Calm
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
Have you been knee deep
In war
Muddied clothes and all
A matchstick can light
As long you are alright
This is all you need to know

Have you seen blood
Or the red of brain
Turn inside out like a hood
The military will give you perspective
You have to find the good
For the hour, that's all you need to know

Have you seen the rain
Gurgitate bodies like a river of dead
The delta is rife with flesh and guts
"It is just like yesterday."
The soldiers scream
That's all you need to know

It seems like yesterday
I saw the river of dreams
Turn into a battlefield
Producing only nightmares
No hope or calm
That's all you need to know
Apr 2020 · 66
Rosier than rubies
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
As I carve you and blacken your face
The page will lose beauty
As soon as I add colour to your cheeks
Rosier than rubies
Apr 2020 · 39
Cloud Shelter
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
All along the zoo station
There sits a girl in leopard prints
Her hamstring aches
As adumbrated headlines are in the prints
Thellenistic books lie as the library sits silent
Librace wears his socks with his gold chain
Like a train runs on the tracks and carries Jesse James
Soon, the outlaws will outlive the sheriff's pigpen
This girl has been here for a night cap
Her books fall from her shoulder
Like her hair
A handsome fellow arrives
And sweeps her off her feet
She has never been to the circus
And pulled the strings
Apr 2020 · 79
Warm Greetings
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
Hello, everyone
I am writing
I am sure that you have written too

Soon, the government will ask for our poems
When they forget that the medical reports
Are too difficult to read
When they realize it is too late, our poem will live
Apr 2020 · 20
I want you
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
The words of your love
Fly away like doves
I doubt the universe
Will write a book and demonstrate circles
You laugh like circling butterflies
When the sun goes down
Your laughter is the only miracle
In the night, you sleep and demons depart
As the angels remind you, "I want you a lot."
And remember my dreams
Where I synced with yours'
Your nature is like an azure stream flowing through my dark forest
Apr 2020 · 17
Shooting Star
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
You had your shot
At your dreams
It is impossible now
The stars are too far away

The dandelions leave
As the sun that will not understand
You wait for the night to pass
Everyday

The stars are too small
Messes up my mind
When I clear my head
I lose the ones shooting down to come closer
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