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Oct 2020 · 77
Grief's Verse
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
I know the dew drops live on wild flowers
With moving wind and calming breeze to temper
Knowing how beauty extinguished with noon
Come the cold end of summer, ardent and true

Yet, like a sorrowed raindrop that descends
Without swoop and decline, a bird can't ascend
Song after tune followed by chirp, music resumes
Until welkin and hell merge, as dust consumes

For I know that pure love lasts an eternity
Whenever the roses lose color quickly
Giving an innocent bud, beauty
Though, I know spring awaits the many

Placing that remnant of our affection gently
It is with great sadness, petals fall patiently
Beneath a conscious will to live is nothing but escape
Today I learned to be grateful for all the things I have in my life. I learn this lesson of gratitude because one must exalt themselves in artistic and spiritual expression. I have left past behind meaningfully looking to the future.
Oct 2020 · 204
Stellar
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
The girl caught in the wire
Knows the right way and shows fiery pride
Instead, of taking the sunshine and more
Clasping the delicate rays with her parched palms

Leaving desolate prisoners inside
A dark day made only of steel cages
They will let in the light, those lying in the shadow
It's blazing outside, it is bright

Cold waters will calm, then turn the tide
Soon the cursed world will die
Women can see the sun when it swallows the earth
It is a ball of hope saving them from guns and guards

Their dreams will turn to ashes
Mothers with empty wombs love them just the same
To them their daughters haven't seen the rain
The sun grins from behind grey clouds and sighs

Soon, freedom will come within their reach, fast
And these daughters will get stuck deeper
The dream slips faster than sand in an hourglass
They deserve love from the depths of hell itself

Until one of them dies by the bullet or ****** disease
They don't belong to them, do they?
These pigs moan if their houses are made of gold
The white men want oil fields with them working
Such injustice has gotten beyond the point that people can turn a blind eye. You need to vote to bring focus on how the black people are getting treated. Its been like this, since the 1600s, and it saddens me that many will let it go on. I live in a different country, but I know this is the right thing to write for people who need to hear this. For those who are unaware, ignorant, and need  to get disabused about slavery, please wake up. It's all on the news.
Oct 2020 · 160
Repost
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
Kids who get bullied in the alley
In school and kicked out of college
Try making it to a league of good writers
As they learn how to punch the keys and I just bleed on paper
Also, letting out the anger
My dad never drank or smoked
But, he loved me a lot
Maybe, I was a bad kid who never loved anyone before
Because I never was treated well in school
One fine day, I stayed after school
Losing to my friends in a fist-fight
After a few years, I got into psychedelics and misfortune
Kept reading in the meantime
Barely processing all those drugs
Let alone the literature
Soon, I started a career as an underrated writer
Influenced by Hell and it's angels
Talking to myself, and making clouds of thoughts in my head
I thought I wouldn't be the only angel head who would become a poet in this day-and-age of hippies and world leaders
So, I wanted to be an author as I kept writing out my epitaph while figuring out nothing
Quite like India without the politics
I never liked mixing the two
It should just be country and God
I always believed God gave me my folks
I gave myself my life and my mess
It was titled mess.
Oct 2020 · 156
:)
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
:)
If you don't
Plan for what you need
You won't get what you
Want
A smile for those are having a bad day.
Oct 2020 · 88
Can't Hold it anymore
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
Life is a long road
Full of metaphors
Full of humor
Life is a long run

I haven't had got the shoes
So, I put myself in someone's skin
They say, the days move by
But, the nights die with the sword

I remember a man hanging
From the crescent moon
With his eyes on the stars
And heart on the lonely earth
Having only his loneliness

Which he couldn't contain
So he shared it
With the world
In the form of love
What is contemporary?
Is it always modern.
Or a form of novelty that takes
On a different form of understanding
That most of share as our own.
Oct 2020 · 118
Women Aren't From Venus
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
In an elusive way, her disposition
The rays that falls from her skin
Drapes that black and blue can't hide
A bit of shine that comes on the east
Resembles the sun, that is tonight

Let's appreciate our girls
The right way, for one day
Instead, of taking the sunshine
For granted, leaving us only
Darkness, shy of the light
They will turn into women, if you let 'em
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8lOLNfnCBg
Oct 2020 · 119
Apple of my eye
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
You've never given
Me reasons to stay
But, your love
Catches my eye like a star in the sky

The surprises come
When I'm lonely
Without your lovely
Face on my mind

When I look at the mirror
Your fingertips touch my softly
I wonder what touches my soul
Bringing my mind in focus

Your lovely presence
Must be a disguise
I hope she'll forgive me.
It's her birthday.
And I forgot.
Oct 2020 · 83
Loveless Sky
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
Its easy to say
That's you're in love
But's its difficult
I know you have fallen
Out of it
Completely
Its the sky that
Brings us thunder
And keeps the rain
In the eye of the storm
Like a boat in
The warm waters
Those waves are
Oh, so cold
After the torrents
Of broken clouds
Make their way down
We'll sail away into
The horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P59RrAHuTYU
Oct 2020 · 80
New Leaf
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
When I saw you
For the first
time
In spring, as flies scurried
Life had new meaning
I felt I could begin again
From that stillness I had buried
When you left my life unkept
The vast valley stared back at me
But that new leaf never turns brown again
Even in an ocean that has dried
Covered by your arms like a vale
Open wide before sunrise
This is where I go to die
Under the shadow and rain
All under your subtle veil
Writing poetry
Hoping for your sunlight
Oct 2020 · 243
In deed
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
In sadness
In pain
In your thoughts
And scents
I find happiness
Down memory lane
Sprinkled with heartache
Like autumn leaves
On road of bare trees
Shriveling and shivering
In the cold November day
Some way
Oct 2020 · 31
I wish
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
I wish I could take a part
Of your mind
And make it my whole being

As your love could fill my heart
The oceans would
Find that they were empty
Oct 2020 · 55
Sad
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
Sad
I met a love
Who counted the stars in constellations
I simply counted the nights, losing track of time
The nights had become better

I had a smile
On my face of ice and fire that coalesced
Into an echo of the past
Much like a comet that had died long ago
Like my love
Oct 2020 · 261
Summer's Dream
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
Summer, summer tomorrow, comes with expectation
A day doth bring here its heat
She stares from the heavens with electricity
With a breeze lithe and scarce, it walks over the earth

Stately and respectful in her stride
She hides behind clouds, when out of sight
Her beauty tempers the mind and calms the nerve
A weather so delicate, not a degree or ray less or more

But, when comparing her breath
The heavens turn and stare, wondering what despair
Plagues the incomplete soul and a heart so bare
Like moons hidden from her nascent stare

Scorning the cold moon, the torn heart
Looks for the summer, while crying for heaven's arms
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Oct 2020 · 52
Perseverance
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
Order and chaos can never coexist
Sin and virtue can complement one another
The textures of an old oak tree persists
Under the weather and torrential helter-skelter of the cold winter

As love is borne from a flawed heart
An eclipsed sun can darken the scarred lands
Blinding those who walk, stalk and trace out a path
For themselves toward a violet sky cowering under the far away stars

With lost children and men knowing their limits
Order and chaos can never coexist
If what persists is the shortness of time
Because time is brief, then, I know love perseveres
Nothing endures, but, change.
Oct 2020 · 162
Autumn Arrives
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
When autumn arrives without beauty
In some months, shall my love bring calm and serenity
Or prejudiced by the brilliant glint of the sun
The oceans hold back the breeze and current

As the leaves know their place
I find my forest in peace
With a zephyr in every corner
As fir, coniferous, pine stand tall

The vines have covered its heart and surrendered
Keeping my love in my palms and away
With a sudden rustle and rattle, He signifies the season change
But, it is the age of benediction and the trees are bare

The heart that was placid has become empty
The leaves have turned brown forgetting love and his Godly stare
No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.
Oct 2020 · 27
Tears in The Rain
Aditya Roy Oct 2020
I miss the drops that poured with romantic ache
Begging to touch the ground, letting light pass
One lady who liked the torrential downpour
Welkin had torn apart to let the sun in
To shine on streets, telling me that rain comes

Because when the clouds thunder and speak loud
Many quell their walk, open umbrellas
To cover the crowded alleys with shrouds
Hanker chiefs wipe sweat and balk at wet roads

The streets shut after every monsoon load
As restaurants quite flooded, close their doors
For men looking for a cup of coffee
As well as women ordering food
They look for love behind the street corners

I miss the days that poured with pained romance
Didn't wear sunglasses to keep out glare
Because when people are under umbrellas
They wear a changed look, with tears in the rain
True friends are like stars, you can only recognize when it's dark around you.
Sep 2020 · 79
Themes of Spain
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
With a heart so warm
A palm of flowers
Folds inward to form
A gossamer web likened to guitar

A lush petal envelopes
The sky, calling it
With a stamen, sloped
Undressed by pollen upon more pollen

In thy heart's rest place
One may age calmly
Like a tree freely grows
Leaving a reflection upon the water

Yet, when away my heart yearns for your kiss
For your presence in things has gone amiss
I hope this strikes your heart.
Sep 2020 · 48
A Goddess
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
So eloquent
In her manner
That I would share the silence
With her
Sep 2020 · 81
Missing Piece
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
Intertwined at one time so intricately
Sadly mistaken for one soul
Now consisting of many fragmented memories
Never forming a real impression that is whole

We have forgotten one another
Realizing that we were the missing piece
Of each other's puzzles
But, a perfect fit isn't the perfect love story

And there are no happy endings, only an endless chase
I hate breaking up my poems.
Did on the insistence of my mum.
Sep 2020 · 126
Broken
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
If I don't remember you
You will always have a place in my heart
Like a reflection in a cracked mirror
Endlessly looking at itself at each segment
Never looking at me, though
Poignant isn't it, that we are both broken
How do you like this?
Read the next part to mend this part.
Sep 2020 · 42
Autumn Fall
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
The new age is what remains
Of what crumbles as it extends
It's sinewy hands on a road of memorable debris
Mixed with memory of rain and the electric heat

What is true as ice and fire
Has turned to ashes soon, as the building in the corner
It joins the rest, like the tears of skies
That are stars which know the joy of freedom

Yet, saddened by their lack of mirth on this earth
I know with isolation comes a need to be noticed
With being noticed comes a need for solitude
What remains of the past is her fur and wainscot of her house

What covered us in a storm
Has gone from the tattered welkin, if it existed
What gave us green on a grey day
Once had shade for weary travelers before autumn fall
"What is the late November doing
With the disturbance of the spring
And creatures of the summer heat,
And snowdrops writhing under feet
And hollyhocks that aim too high"
T.S. Eliot
Sep 2020 · 75
Pandarus
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
As clouds swirl overhead
The streets free, as wandering harlots move
Hazel meets the brown in looks that forbid
Ecstasy comes from love is ordained and true

Apollo and angels casting their arrows
He bites his lip, as she leaves him again
Pressing his cheek against the antiquated columns
Feeling the cold, as the heart loses love

Untouched by rain under the lacquearia
Night and day, in the secret Eden
In the bushes of honeysuckle, hidden
But as he waits, time finds someone
Ready for love, again and again
Don't look for love, look for someone looking for love.
Sep 2020 · 53
A Light Bulb
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
Often, a room is so dark
That you can almost sense the light outside
Even, if there is nothing illuminating the insides
Of the mysterious belly of a cornered room

When it is light
I remember my childhood
My love with a spontaneity found in Kerouac books
If I try to relive it is already dead like a bulb that has popped

Alive all of a sudden
Sep 2020 · 29
Poetic Silence
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
Sometimes
We don't have anything to say
For that there is silence

Poetry is what fills that void
Replacing it with a love for words
As esoteric time passes
Sep 2020 · 37
Help!
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
I really wish I could take
My dog out for a stroll under the celestial sky
Yet, working under a cement roof tailored to our needs
Keeps us both safe
While nature is sweating out under the sun
Due to high temperatures
When will we mix money with fun?
Sep 2020 · 25
Beaten Shade
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
When it rains
The cloud with their shapely faces
Seldom hide, although grey

Within the sky, thunder bursts fearless
Carrying clouds back to the earth
Bringing passers to hutted places, leaving merchants penniless

Afraid of being drenched
And judging others
Who seek shelter

Yet, in our innate sadness
Some of us tire of dreaming of better weather
Because our beaten shade is all we have
Sep 2020 · 35
Songbird
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
If a swallow
Spends long enough in a cage
It learns to warble
Rather than forage

When it's wings swish-and-flick
The air vibrates
Giving it the flight
It truly deserves
Inspired by Maya Angelou :)
Sep 2020 · 26
Punch-Out
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
If you write a school essay
You will earn money
If you write a short poem
You will earn a voice
...
Sep 2020 · 65
Three Haikus
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
One of the faces
That I keep in my closet
Belongs to her

She has seen
The skeletons that dance and rattle
And the pale face that knows fear

With a blurred vision
I watch the words of love
Wash away like a sight in dark
Hello peeps :)
Sep 2020 · 35
Something
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
There's something about you
That chills me to the core
There's a love unlike yours
That I cannot ignore

There's something about you
That doesn't make me want to leave
Even when it is getting late
As the clock resounds over vacant streets

There's something about you
That completes this loveless rhyme
Making it melodious like Liszt
Comprising of an exquisite delicacy

There's something about you
Utterly panoramic and magnificent
Like the head of an unrelenting fountain
Careening at the turn of a cliff

There's something about you
That completes me
Yet when I am with you
You never reveal the best of you

Maybe, it is the lack of "something" that intrigues me
Sadly, I am attracted to an enigma
Nothing more
Nothing less
A concept poem.
Sep 2020 · 41
Angel
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
Angel
I know your name not your song
From every corner of a room
Maybe you will see the light in the dark
I might be wrong

Between us there is no talk
A full circle and the endless sea
A moon meant for us
On empty streets, you fly or glide
I know not where our lonely skies touch

Angel, seemingly lost
The earth is for us and our purpose
Emboldened, you cross water and land
Wondering where it all ends
It is all embodied by silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDyTcDqW7kU
Sep 2020 · 31
Psst
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
There are memories clawing at me
The walls have marks on them as well
The streets are as empty as December skies
Now, it seems the orange clouds won't show a silver line

I wander through the breeze effortlessly
Pondering on how the winds blew
I had the best of times and worst of them just as easily
The skies will be blue someday, not now

When we no longer care for ourselves
Like a twig that hangs from a tree
The parched crevices of a forest
Yearn for youthful streams

Much like how your young face
That bears a semblance of hope
Wrinkled by the lost fire of the past
I know an ember lurks in your wooden heart

When streams run through the forest
Youth returns losing it's maturity and ambition
Ceaselessly it claws at my walls
And those orange clouds are the ebbing slowly
A little surrealism.
Sep 2020 · 57
In A Broken Mirror
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
With one reflection
She saw all she wanted
And didn't need, at the same time

But, she accepted them
Just the same
Unable to choose from a million looks and taking as they are

It is unfortunate that she has to make a choice
Because I tell her the mirror
Is flawed because my eyes cannot get used to her

She is accustomed to herself
And that is the real tragedy
If her inner beauty was based on a mirror

Because if that crystal gaze staring at her
Shatters into a million pieces
One in those million would still catch my eye
I'd say,"Hey, you're one in a million!"
Sep 2020 · 34
With The Passing Of Time
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
The stars fill up in your embrace
Skies inflate in your splendor
You hide in plain sight
Yet, are so bright during twilight

A moon I look upon
There is no way or escape from this struggle
As I shrivel in this mortal coil
Knowing being without you is immoral

But, in my obsessed mind
I keep replaying words
That had lost meaning the moment they left my mouth
It is that obsession that drives me see you asleep

Peaceful, with someone else
However, how can skies as empty as us
Have more than one moon
I was yours and you were mine

When did that change?
I hope this theme resonates with some heartbroken people.
Sep 2020 · 47
Let's Clear The Air
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
Let's not lie to each other
For a better way to speak to one another
Let's not hide our heart's malcontent with flowers
And cover their thorns with warm words

If we cannot live our lives happily
May the hope for a better future rest with our pessimistic souls
In the form of friendly embraces and felicitations
Meant for people who were once strangers to our kindness

Let's clear the bleak air
Over our shrouded faces
Lest no one can communicate with us
On this two-way street called love

Which is now a one-way street for me
I don't know about you
But, at least I am here
I know the writings have become rare. But, at least I'm here.
Sep 2020 · 43
Poison
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
Some people may wonder the labor
That goes into being in love
Falling out of it
And in a strange way
Is like a mortal coil
That strangles me to a sudden death

I have myself, and my own poison
I hope this change in style appeals to the folks here.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Sep 2020 · 38
Life is a Fast Lane
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
Don't get off it.
Wait for the right turn.
Sorry for the lousy driving metaphor.
Sep 2020 · 35
The Songbird
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
As I believe in you
Tell me is it the worst thing
That I can possibly do
You always stay true to me

You think love is a word away
But, when that love goes away
I remember you
And that is what you didn't give

Too many things made it into the mix
My head bursts with love
And it has broken wings
I wish I could fix you

I know you felt the same
But, the words won't escape
So soon, hope tells me love is a maze
As well as a light at the end of a cave

I shall keep you warm
Even in winter's cold burn
As I breathe, I will believe
A little by little in myself

Those wings have found flight
With no dreams of coming back
I'm sorry, if your bird has flown
Someday I will fight back

Now I must rest, with many miles to fly
Many children to bring happiness too
Hover over many a cloud
I, too, have to hear myself sing till the end

For that I need to hear the song
Given to me by your timeless journey
Where I toss and turn
Wondering when the journey will come to a close

Time flies
Not me
Sep 2020 · 45
Hopeless Roses
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
With a different kind of color
Her roses are a blur in the road to heaven
In the desert, she is my water
When I'm stuck in the middle of the Seine
Often wondering where the sky goes
When we are looking at the moon
And time flies with places to move to
I can always count on you
To accept my roses, hopelessly
In love with your hands
As well your lips which sign some sort of
Affection for my roses
Such are the rosy cheeks, that my bouquet
Seems futile indeed
Sep 2020 · 32
It Doesn't Change
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
Her honesty
And it's still sweet
With a little brutality
One cannot hate the truth
When it comes from those truthful lips
And lying eyes
With a seductive smile
There is nothing I wanna change
About her
Only that I loved her
Sep 2020 · 31
Seep in the love
Aditya Roy Sep 2020
As we seep into the loveless sky
Seeing it through with each night
Knowing not what follows
With each kiss, I let out a sigh
Never knowing when it will come back to me, though
Aug 2020 · 58
Sound of Silence (SOS)
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
When silence hurts
There is nothing like a knife
To cut the tension
If the wire is thick
Then, will we see it through thick and thin
As I keep cutting the excess strands of awkwardness
With my biting humor
I leave some scars on your heart
Unintentional
But, this silence pains me
Because it isn't the same silence
We had years ago
When we first met.
Aug 2020 · 40
Words
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
I wish I could express
My pain to you
But, words don't cut that
Deep
Aug 2020 · 26
In A Deluge
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
On a new day
Where new beginnings
Seem brighter than
Happy endings and cool sun-rays

In a deluge
Where snowy mountains
Crackle under your feet
More than
Leaves under your moccasins where they meet

I miss some of these memoirs
I wrote somewhere safe
Now they got hidden under a
Pile of things which were meant
For you to take

Such is my childhood, unneeded
So innocent
Like an icicle aesthetically placed on a cave
Ready to **** someone at a moment's notice
With a deluge of spontaneity
Aug 2020 · 41
Cast Aside
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
You left me as a work in progress
A poem unwritten
A song unsung
When I am complete
I won't need your help
If I do, I will be completely undone
Cast aside by the thought of you
Aug 2020 · 49
Cast
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
In a boring day
Amidst the concubines
All in the palace shells
Roomed in the book
Cloistered from the rest
The king keeps slaves to himself
Just for that one fine day
When boredom sets in
Like the summer breaks into summer leaves
Untouched by water and spring
In a boring day
We cast aside our differences
Ignorant of each other's wealth
Tempered by our grace
Embracing our space
Accepting our distance
Cast out into the wilderness
Aug 2020 · 66
The Dark
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
Thanks for reading my lines
Leaving me in the dark
Fading behind
Now when I see the light
I will always remind myself
That you left me when
Time was a darker side
To an endless sea of seconds
With the waves never seemed to surface
On the sands of time
Within the coffins and graves in a cemetery
Our faces were warped by the Terpsichore breeze
That danced over the mud and grass on a dandelion soil
Where the fire was pure, and the trees were so blue
It all must have been the skies covering the golden sun
When the trees turned green again
I said, thanks for reading my lines
As soon as time ended on a sunlit evening
We made the sun ours, as long as we ran
Time never ended in the darkness
Aug 2020 · 55
Her
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
Her
She's like the rain drops that fall in our hands
A grey eyed wolf in the cotton white skies
She looks down, out of reach

She owns the streets drenched in puddles
Reflecting the relics
Washes the sidewalks every afternoon

The flowers in her hair bloom in many hues
Like jewel mines
Which need to be searched thoroughly

She lives on a rainbow
Letting me gaze on her
Soon, the earth will be variegated, with nobody left to stare

Looking into the skies of black
We take what is clear
Seeing what we lack

A brown fog that clouds our sight
Asking for me, and a bit of you
I cannot remember what day it rained

But, when the rain comes, I find myself smiling
Cherishing her
The memories, often, coming back
Comparing someone to rain. Can you imagine? The beautiful, melancholy and transient experience of torrential downpour. Put into a bite-sized poem named "Her." I don't who it is, or who it isn't.
Aug 2020 · 34
False Face
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
I have spent my entire life
Thinking myself to be someone
Yet, I am someone else
Within that pretense of life
I see some falsity, and many know what I see
As they see it themselves, in all its entirety
Like a ocean emptied out by nightfall
On the shore, where it covers all of it
The shells, mollusks, scales, grey bits of leaves
As a sudden wallowing mire screams from the tempest
Formed underneath the debris of wet sand and waters
Eternity washes away like a footprint
Much like a star wiped out by a black hole
With every passing hour of time
And with its passage, I lose some face
My friends turn to enemies, I wonder about my fate
As I curse myself for this false face
I have put up my entire life, much like still water
This poem for myself as well as others. But, more for the people who love poetry and cannot live without it. Also, those who want to love poetry and need someone to relate to. I do not mean I am a good poet. But, I believe in poetry, and I hope that feeling resonates with my respected readers and new audience.
Aug 2020 · 29
Thin Veil
Aditya Roy Aug 2020
Who lurks behind that thinly veiled sky
Beneath the clear blue dye of midnight
In its opportunity, I have seen some clarity
Its a dream, much like the next
Only, when you hold my hand, next to me
All the stars submerge, and we float
Like the diamond sky
Away we shall shine crazily
Unveiling our inner spark, along with our madness
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