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Oct 2018 · 132
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 · 844
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 · 78
Jailed
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Rights of a criminal
Is in the perception of time
Of the committed crime
Oct 2018 · 80
Benediction
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
A writer uses his
Instruments to lay
Beatitude
To religious display
Oct 2018 · 38
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 · 182
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 · 85
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 · 47
Pithy Saying
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Life lessons
Given
In the art of living
Never taken
For granted
Oct 2018 · 64
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 · 252
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 · 461
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 · 165
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 · 155
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 · 936
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 · 104
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 · 54
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 · 254
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 · 121
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 · 232
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 · 222
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 · 242
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
Oct 2018 · 101
Fustilugs Has An Admirer
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
So guess what?

What?

My crush texted me
"I've been thinking about hanging out, a lot."
Out of the blue
Without hint or clue

Then what did you say, girl!

Lemme, lemme finish first
So I reply, I haven't in a while
But, since it might be friendly not a flirt
So why not comply

Why not indeed, good on you
Then what

So he says well
I had to go buy some things for mother's party
We can perhaps catch a movie
Instead

I thought splendid
So asked him when will mother buy the return presents

Then?

She's coming with us to the date
And he didn't ask her to leave us 'lone, for ****'s sake
Hope, you enjoy at the least.
Oct 2018 · 103
Crime Holds No Passion
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Crimes are a thing of the past
Always brought up as a standard
Always determining who grew up fast

What the caitiffs don't realize is
Crime has no credibility
It is just a ruse to trick
So, when the time comes to fill your idol's shoes
You're just a wayward stone that ******
"Small aim is a crime; have great aim"-A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Oct 2018 · 99
Awkward Rabble
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Dear lovers,
Awkwardness belongs in the bedroom
Not at the table
We need some leg-room
Yours' Sincerely,
Writer
Oct 2018 · 94
Fustilugs Gets Hungry
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
It's dinner
Light's are turned down
Dimmer
Mmm
Dinner
Fustilugs means clumsy.
Oct 2018 · 119
Aphorism #1
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I found love in a hopeless place
Finding stride to a worthless phrase
Incisive, yet, biting I hope.
Oct 2018 · 155
Heroic Display
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Heroism is for the brave
Fanaticism is for the depraved
Iconoclasts of today
Are the outcasts of yesterday
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness"-Aristotle
Oct 2018 · 187
Fustilugs
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Wrapped my gift
My mind's going adrift
Rapped on the door
Forgot to stub my cigarette
It's my in-laws home
I'm quite the idiot
A starting of a series of fictional haikus
Oct 2018 · 248
Life On The Farm (Ballad)
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Life on the farm
Is for the strong of heart
Who can find new and verdant green patches
Of grass even when the soil is parched
It is for those optimistic in mind
Who expect the caprice of rain
Even when it is a scintillating day
Where the sun has barely been away
It is for the experienced in body
Who can find that hint of moisture in the air
Without a sight or sound of something GRAY
And tell from there cattle's awkward gait
That it's time to lead them to their hay
Or become coyote carcass-bait
Not to mention, farmers are some of the hardest workers.
Oct 2018 · 113
The Place
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Sometimes walking on my way home
I used to wonder who owned the road
But, when I saw abandoned souls without phones
I realized that they paid "the place" more attention
Than pedestrians in the traffic-zone
Always busy texting
Homelessness brings you on the streets.
Oct 2018 · 188
Autumn Once Again
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
My previous life was a sad song
Till you came along
I withstood the pain through and through
To give way to something new

If I would share
To think you'd care
This is when I'd speak to you

When all of autumn falls
As leaves turn brown
On the grass above
Pictures if captured sooner
The moonlight would enrapture

When the breeze swirls
In heavenly curls
Just like the hair that rests on your shoulders
I'd hug you tighter
To feel what is like to get older

You'd hold me at arms length
Telling me,"I can finally love once again."

The end is getting longer.
The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold
Oct 2018 · 204
You Can Call It Love
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Times have changed
I'm not the same
Rivers flow deep
But there's no rain
You know my mind now
Girl, I've lived with you
But I've wanted you too
Every day for 4-3 years
I never met someone's as wonderful
As you, girl

But, before your heart was mine
I was bedazzled
For a long, long while
Nervously, I came closer
I wanted more
Because of the way *** made me feel
Being ready for you was something so unreal
Stupid, I know
But I loved you to begin with

A single aversion
To love and its chances
Shocking me and my very kind
Avoiding glances and romances

A single aversion
Touched my soul, leaving me blind
And hurt
Taking sometime till I learn more about being a lover
A feeling of disillusionment took over me too.
Oct 2018 · 132
Timeless Tiffs
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Love's a game
In the beginning
But ends
Pretty quickly

Hate's a responsibility
To take sides
Against the enemy
Love brings out the winner. Hate brings out the loser.
Oct 2018 · 269
Creativity
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I have bought things
Wanted things
But not as much as this entity
Called publicity

I have sold things
Relinquished things
But not as much as this entity
Called authenticity
"I'm an instant star, just add water and stir"-David Bowie
Oct 2018 · 105
A Shooting Star
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
When a kid
Hoping for the height to touch the clouds
When a teenager
Hoping for just the sun's warmth amidst crowds
When an adult
Hoping for time at home makes your family proud
When an old venerable person
You realize you are
Too old to touch clouds
Until knowledge tells you that that desire lies in foggy mornings
Too old to look for sunshine
Until experience tells you there is nothing more beautiful than the sunset
Too old to keep your family intact
Until wisdom tells you each person goes their own way
When in death
Hoping to reach Heaven laying behind some star
In space, away from this Earthen abode
"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them"-Jack Kerouac
Oct 2018 · 342
Confundus Charm
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Do you drive past her place
At night
In that isolated town
Where the streetlights don't light up
Do you walk past her window
Whilst staring at your shadow
Wondering how things ever got so out of hand
Do you cycle with your friends past her fences
Wondering why she never comes out anymore
Getting tired of the suspense?
As your friends keep asking
Whether she sneaks out
Because she is grounded
Or she doesn't want to be seen by you
And they chuckle
At the thought of this
Confounded

She's a small town girl
Give her some time and she'll get around
After all she is vulnerable in your arms
Just like all the other girls
Old draft for my zaftig ex
Oct 2018 · 196
Lovers' Charm
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
A boy blurts out something
It really isn't demeaning
But it is worth contemplating
An awkward pause
Thoughts linger
Uncertain of cause
Until cold silence leaves
Bringing warmth in the beginning
And talk of love ensues
Whilst loving, I’m still charming you
Understanding someone, is knowing everyone.
Oct 2018 · 78
Life's A Win
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Thoughts of feather
Lay within
Fly untethered
Life's a win
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder"- Albert Einstein
Oct 2018 · 217
Dormiveglia
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Intoxicated by
Aged, wooden feelings
Of yesterday's
Faults
Those fruity notes in Pinot Noir always arouse the senses and stimuli. But it is all in the mind. And when it comes to being unfeeling. You are as strong as the oak that holds inebriation. My lost friend.
Oct 2018 · 69
Wanderlust
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
The beauty of a journey
Is marked by
How far it keeps bad memories
Not by how far you travel
"Not all those who wander are lost"- J.R.R Tolkien
Oct 2018 · 118
Heart
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
If not for death
Life wouldn't come from within
To leave the soul
For something different
"I'll stop wearing black, when they invent a darker colour"- Wednesday Addams
Oct 2018 · 85
Feathered Dove
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
If not for love
The breeze wouldn't
Have no swing
In lovers hearts
Accepting atmosphere
Formed within

Found treasure
In a feathered dove
Flying from sea to sea
Colour is everything, black and white is more-Dominic Rouse
Oct 2018 · 85
Whiteness Of Our Flaws
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
If not for rain
The sky wouldn't fall
But I guess clouds would always be white
Without the need for silver linings
In the story
Of every person
That starts at day-break

Life
Could be so mundane
Mellifluous apperception of problems.
Oct 2018 · 194
Borrowed Breathing
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I walked up a narrow stairwell
Hearing the soundly innocence
Within my despair

Blood stained the wainscoting
The sanguineous dispaly
Only leaving my temples hurting
I was about to scream, "******!"
But, I wanted to see before I weep
In case, I get a seizure

In my room
Everything, still like water
However, sepulchral and suspenseful
The macabre got to me
When I saw mother hanging from the ceiling

Gaining consciousness
I found a knife in my fingers
Saw a man fleeing

Now, I realize
I'd rather be dead
Than be living on borrowed breathing
The pain of seeing perpetrators get away with crime. Only to realize you'll be the main suspect.
Oct 2018 · 159
Disjunctive Desires
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I used to feel safe
Hiding in precarious dark alleys
Away from the orphanage

Realizing only now
Some friends leave
For better futures and families
In mysterious ways

I used to feel safe
Knowing there is food
That is thrown away
By little men with big pockets
Who just seem to get ahead

Only finding out now
I may have to work as a waitress
Or a cook at an abusive home
instead

I used to feel safe
Thinking about the ****
That gave me birth
And conception to feeling glum
Knowing they'd gone astray

Coming to the conclusion
I had no uncles
And no family friends
Back in the day

I finally feel safe
Knowing there is a place
For attractive women and intelligent men

Little do I know
Intelligence is subjective
And attraction is ******
I get ***** everyday
Never to be praised for my intelligent display
Women will speak up when they can speak up. Don't conform them
Oct 2018 · 119
Racism
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Decisions appear colored
When you're on the wrong side
Of the race

Jumping over fences
Is easier
When you're trespassing
Remembering how much power words had at time like the Civil Rights Movement when cause had effect; Malcolm X spoke unhinged about the general consensus. Speaking about what is right in the things that were once considered wrong; he removed a simple black and white picture thus, revealing reality to us. Bringing revelation was a function also undertaken by James Baldwin. James Baldwin was an American novelist and essayist. Bringing about a movement even the hugely tabooed topic of sexuality, and lending credence to his tastes and bringing representation to other troubled men and women, alike, he introduced social acceptance amidst segregation and prejudice.
Oct 2018 · 72
Cynical
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Better to condemn sinners
From Hell
Than to discern
From Heaven
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law"-Marcus Tuillus Cicero
Oct 2018 · 65
Heaven And Hell
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Repulsive words
Have been spoken
By men with broken
Hearts

Beautiful words
Have been spoken
By men with broken
Morals
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven"-John Milton
Oct 2018 · 50
The Essence of Time
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
A ticking
Clock
Talks
"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."-William Faulkner
Oct 2018 · 59
Timeless Clocks
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Clocks slay time
As William Faulkner says
Too bad you still aren't alive
"Follow your inner  moonlight, don't hide the madness"-Allen Ginsberg
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