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Oct 2018 · 63
Development
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Modern skyscrapers are urban peaks
And mountains are heights of stamina
Both are the zenith of achievement
In India
Oct 2018 · 86
Pope Pius X
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
The townspeople
They prayed for the
man to come off the steeple
He came down
But couldn't make pope
Oct 2018 · 90
Great-Grandfather's Clock
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Time after time
I could find myself
Looking at the years differently
Oct 2018 · 70
Fly Away
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
A balloon the higher it flies
The hotter it gets
The closer it gets to the sun light
It becomes tougher to touch sky full of clouds
Oct 2018 · 90
Macabre
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Looking at the rain
I saw the clouds a little foggier
Must have been my glasses
Oct 2018 · 52
Secret-Keeper
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Enigmatic people come and go
Some lost in their secrets
And some reveling in the World's secrets
Oct 2018 · 58
Hunger
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I once hoped for an idea
But it would have nourished
My hunger
Oct 2018 · 71
Nostalgia
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
busy days
busy faces
Something lost between
The traces and remnants
Of yesterday
Oct 2018 · 140
Apostate
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Me shelter
My veil
These are things
put together well
Me shelves
Keeps the kettle called black
Coal fueling it's function
Apostate that I am
Oct 2018 · 106
Cerise
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
A wine glass
Is intoxicatingly blood red
Seriously
Oct 2018 · 64
Lagos
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
water brings the flow
Of life
Only when a tortoise comes out of it shell
Oct 2018 · 41
Lodging and Longing
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
The motel shines on the
Name it holds
For a passer-by who roams
Oct 2018 · 53
Confessional
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Churches run with holy water
Homeless people can't drink it
But they do ask for it
Unconfessed
Oct 2018 · 238
Sea faring
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Floating on the water
Fleeting sense of balance
Fleeing life
To bring peace to my life
Oct 2018 · 112
A Cat On The Hot Tin Roof
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Nine lives
A toss of Indian change
Brings three lions
Oct 2018 · 86
Cattle
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Milk bottles, cats, doorsteps,mailman,milkman
Milk under the doorstep
Nine lives in the  making
Drinking someone's else's milk
Mailman sends out another's letter of absence
Who really brings milk
Oct 2018 · 145
Drop In The Ocean
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
A swan swims through
the river of journey
A journey of teaching
For its cygnets
And their wings
Ripples giving the river some drop of depth
Oct 2018 · 72
Sweets and Caffeine
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Six blocks away a cafe lies
Taking in lovers by the hour
And singles by the minute
Serving coffee and sugar
Milk pours out
And the bitterness becomes an aftertaste
Of the conversation that once took place
Among two people holding each others glances
At the face of it
Coffee breath
And Chocolate cake
Oct 2018 · 55
Rage Against The Machine
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Sent me to a town
Where the houses are close
And the hearts closer
One day an arson came
Set both on fire
Oct 2018 · 47
War
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
War
Warriors walking
Running for their lives
lifeless
Oct 2018 · 95
In a tin can
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
The homeless sit on their
knees
Forgetting about the tatterdemalion and
The grease
Money fills their pockets
Full of holes
One that takes it in
And the one that puts it in tin
Sleeping soundly
But ill
Oct 2018 · 84
Deserted
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Love is a beautiful thing
Understanding is brilliant feeling
Indeed
Loving and understanding a woman
Is a thing of feeling
Oct 2018 · 42
Watercolours
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
The Painted face of
paintings
Salvador Dali
Oct 2018 · 15
Old Poem
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Remember the time
When the girls looked at you
Now they don't do they?
You've probably changed
But to me you haven't
Only the women you set your eyes on keep changing
Sincerely if you keep gawking
You won't get anyone closer
Or get them talking
Settle down if you really crave desirability

Get a job and earn the big bucks
Or find a girl and let her make you feel like you are the best
"Intelligence is without ambition is a bird without wings"-Salvador Dali
Oct 2018 · 48
Reserved
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
So you choose this cafe
Of all places to state
Your reason
For existing
For being my delight with caffeine
Sweet
Oct 2018 · 82
No Judgement Just Justice
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Accusers write yellowed pages
Placing the hands of law
Above the human touch
Casting flaws
Aside
Life can be as such
A melodramatic tale of ******
But when it comes to yellow pages
Then most crimes stay indoors
In the life of rhymes
So when you write about ****
Don't ruin the poem
Take your time
Pen down experiences
Not the feelings
For which you are appealin'
Because the enemy will always run scot free
In a court full of friendlies
With the criminals of course
In Justice Kavanaugh
Oct 2018 · 68
Honesty
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I am honest
I have keep to
Telling myself
Since I am the loneliest
Honest
Honesty is the hardest word-Billy Joel
Oct 2018 · 146
packed
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I have written papers
I had read rhymes
I have read essays
And I have read the Times
"Power is the great aphrodisiac"-Henry Kissinger
Oct 2018 · 51
Widowed And Away
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Behind closed doors
Lurks a person
Who keeps score
Of when you last came
Oct 2018 · 126
Rome and its Romantics
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I walking down the alley
I couldn't stop with my folks
They live across
streets
Two miles
A cafe
Where you pick up the habitual sweets
Cheap at the expense of time
And Essence of fun begins when you're closer to things
Closer to Rome
Oct 2018 · 786
Blood Of Red Wine
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I witnessed ******
The body inside
With inside frigidly
Probably tampered with
After the authorities left
The same lascivious lady
Was in the house for couple of seconds
Before I had entered
I had just run my errands
Knife lay on the floor
Gun lay far from the door
Policeman probably accompanied
The criminal along the way
Carry the along the weight
Disrupting the interiors
As the rug
Makes the crime bloodier
Blood
Of Red wine
Lay on the Floor
I managed to break
Oct 2018 · 71
Jailed
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Rights of a criminal
Is in the perception of time
Of the committed crime
Oct 2018 · 62
Benediction
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
A writer uses his
Instruments to lay
Beatitude
To religious display
Oct 2018 · 32
Manhattan
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
How did you find your place
Home in this city
With so many streets
To roam
The heart wants it wants. There is no logic.
Oct 2018 · 177
SoulMate
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Live is lonesome
Even if you choose live
With or
without soulmates
"Reality leaves a lot to imagination"-John Lennon
Oct 2018 · 79
Tresses
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
The floral vase was broken
The roses look complete
On the vase and in it
Life calls for perfection not completeness.
Oct 2018 · 40
Pithy Saying
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Life lessons
Given
In the art of living
Never taken
For granted
Oct 2018 · 58
Memories
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Places that seem
Nostalgic in your head
Still exist
Love is the flower you got to let it grow-John Lennon
Oct 2018 · 181
Rain
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Looking through the rain
I saw the skies cloudier
Rather than grey
Guess I was wearing sunglasses
Time is alone. Is not is wasted-John Lennon
Oct 2018 · 430
Benefit of The Doubt
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Point was made
But the feeling of doubt
Seemed longer
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion"- Jack Kerouac
Oct 2018 · 154
In Vino Veritas
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I met the greatest poet that ever lived
But he had no one to rhyme with
Live alone
Poem's seemingly timeless
"Our batter suitcases were on the sidewalk, we long ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"- Jack Kerouac
Oct 2018 · 147
Rear Window
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Looking
Through the
Door
To the Outdoors
"Drama is life with dull bits cut out"-Alfred Hitchcock
Oct 2018 · 874
Anthem
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Get up, Stand up
Stand up for your rights
Don't believe the hype
"Life is our dictionary"-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oct 2018 · 94
Ergonomics
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Friendship is a single soul
Dwelling in two bodies

Competition is two bodies
Dwelling in one hobby
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."-A.A. Milne
Oct 2018 · 48
Love Waits
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Head on babe
Slowing my wait
Over to my place
How's the journey
I'm in a coffee house
Looking at the scenery
Of couples
Looking at each other eyes
Feels nice

You keep me company
When I'm asleep
In the morning
You give me reason
To laugh
When I'm yawning
You finish my sentences
When my thoughts become
Noisy

When life turns to dust
You're the rain that brings it up
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light"-Plato
Oct 2018 · 240
Flower Humor
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I've never done this before
However, I find myself writing
More and more
About flowers
Flowers that I never adored
Maybe because I'm not a kid anymore
Because I've been in love before
"We cannot learn without pain"-Aristotle
Oct 2018 · 107
Funerary Flowers
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Tragedy strikes the day
The dawn of an era awaits
But a rosebud's about to blossom
However, it shies away
Even at the light of day

Smile again
Fluttering on leaves
Fluttering through the breeze
Leaves are often withered
Giving home to birds of the same feather
Flocking together
"Gather ye' rosebuds while ye' may"-Robert Herrick
Oct 2018 · 213
Webbed-Feet
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I live in a town
Where the lights never go out
But the moths never come in
Because spiders are the citizens
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."-George Orwell
Oct 2018 · 175
Love Potion
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Bumping into a girl named Destiny
After stumbling on pebbles across the ocean
Left me with false notions
Of love and its nuances
I reckoned the water will always be satiny
And love is a painting
For the souls  waning
And the Sun shall always set for us
In the West
Laying slumber to the endearing scenery
Laying memories to a peaceful rest
Funnily, the tides always had an affinity
For washing away writings on the sand
Realizing now,
God didn't bring the two of us together
On this colorful land
With utmost sincerity
Towards a God named Romance

Even though Destiny
You changed places
And left me at the mercy of my fate
I know the horizon is unanchorable
Similarly, I know I shall go looking for you again
In these treacherous waters
Even during hard-hitting rain
With inchoate courage
Even when I'm somnambulant
Dying within the Earth's recesses
Within time's everlasting edifice
I shall foolishly go looking for you again
Just to erase your pain

And in my hour of demise
I won't expect you at my burial
I easily surmise

Because I hoped to grasp what was destined
For us
In the firmament
Of this exemplary universe
And as the Sun rises
During day-break
Nevertheless, the same way
And my soul will rise
Ending its indignation
Brought by You
Not being bothered by the evanescing memory of
You
"A man's character is his fate"-Heraclitus
Oct 2018 · 181
Thallasophile
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Diving in the bluest parts of the sea
Cerulean hue escapes the underwater serried scenery
Under pulverizing rains and thunderbolts stimulated by God's solitary hand
The sea takes on colorful countenance as it strokes the grains of foreign sand
Rambunctiously rising against the randomness of these tawny lands
Almost turgid and ****** in its flow
The waves of bliss call out a raspy roar
As the sweltering hot water laps against the sensual shores
Timelessly
Salty and foamy water cupping the ******* of the salting
Sun's about to snore
The tides will come once more
"Why do we love the sea? Because it has some potent power make us think things we like to think"-Robert Henri
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