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Aditya Roy Jul 2019
The thoughts are provoking
Your necessitous thoughts that you collect
In your professing of love
And the kindness shared in the petals of the rose of the beauty so eloquently
The impulse, thoughtfulness and pressing matters of *******
They rivet in the circumstance of the talk of life
You make the population with your coitus
The flower of your love in the spiritual innocence
There is no old time sake, I mean the drink
The risqueness by which you hold those flowers
Makes if I want the same symbolism in my rich life
And if I thought about the past, it would be thrown like a sculptor's hand
Sullied by the system of marrying two concepts
The rose and the somnambulant feeling of your love
Keeps my love awake without the water
I'm sleepwalking into your trustful hands
The kiss would wait for a time
Sealed by a rose
Unwatered, wilting
Aditya Roy Jul 2020
Why are men essentially
Different from women?
Ask yourself as a feminist
If you would do unto a man
What man wouldn't do unto a woman
In that perspective, it becomes clear
That men and women are quite similar
We can restrain ourselves
Only that women are less restrained
It should be noted that emotions have a role to play
However, to assume gender empowerment
It is necessary to find similarities
Between each gender
Thus, we can live harmoniously
Unless male patriarchy is the ultimate hindrance
To feminine sexuality
Aditya Roy Jul 2019
The optimist is technical about his dreams
The realist is political about his philosophy
The pessimist is looking at the glass, wondering
The politician is sure, he will drink up the whole thing
Wings of fists should be hurled at these inns situated with flings
The banker is sure that he will follow the stars of confusion
When the houses crash like the ending of radicalism or shaking money-makers
Stringently, striding, stirred-up; I can't get enough
Staccato, semaphoring, please stop; was that you, or me
Stentorian or is it a voice, just a word that gives me sesquipedalophobia
Too many words, by now that why we should leave immortal institutions
Following Immanuel's Kant's words, he'd have a palpitating heartbeat, since, I generalized philosophy
I guess we let six days of fiction fly, why weren't olden people persuing
Reading their manuscripts, and making books by the 15th century
Can find me a couple of ordinary names in a book of deities?
Half-measures and half-wit got me nowhere
Arriving somewhere, as I arose to the departed memory of dying
I feel alive, this might be just the bird that flys
God, please do not fight me or make me slap myself for wanting more.
Since it's a Genesis' Ornithology, truth is only subject to philosophical argument, or religious extremism
Aditya Roy Dec 2018
If life's in motion
It'd be swinging
With my shifting devotion

I'd love to be on
A merry-go-round
Coming back full circle

The merry go-round and swings
All bring gentle minds to the same song
Aditya Roy Feb 2020
Tither there, where day rises like a mountain
Hither here, comes a tear from the eye of the fallen sparrow
The arms of the clouds envelope the sphere as hair do
So sad and so beautiful
If his hair were wires
Then they'd be most beautiful and black
When Earth will forget us
And we start neglecting mother Earth
Like lovers who have impediments of the albatross
Yet the freedom of birds lost in flight never making it out of the dead sea
So sad yet so beautiful
Such is the curse of looming love
That infects my foliage like a gentle blight
My Lydian weaver, feeding
I'm waiting for your divine providence, my lover
Aditya Roy Jul 2019
Poetry is a simple litany
It just requires a couple of words
That need ample explanation through literary verse
Why you need a stone to bring back the dead
And a rock to keep you steady
When your death is written in a cleaner slate
Aditya Roy Jul 2019
The flow of the water is harsh
When it gains speed
It's soft when it's stagnant on marsh
It's changed when the trees are burning as we speak
But, the water might drown us out and so will our mistakes
So, I'm precarious about cynicism
About time I find the right piece of me
In these broken places
Where there schisms and facsimiles of the same problems
My responsibilities are resonant with their yeses
But, my passions keep telling me to change-up
My pursuit is somewhere in between this mess
Kumomi is a creative process which combines the randomness of spontaneous painting with the control of mindful drawing as a meditative art form.
Aditya Roy Sep 2017
Have you heard the song
“Get off my cloud”
Who is it by

Takes a while to finally
Understand who meant to say this and why
‘Cause the first date makes you seem weird and shy
But whereas you are high
Blissfully high

On a cloud of thought
That relishes feminine company
But seeks individuality
If something is suffering
And that is the symbiotic alacrity
Of love at first sight

So please get off my cloud
I’m leaving
Goodbye

You’ll need the Stones
In your bag to get down
And for us to have another night on the town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhPRuAve8k
The Rolling Stones-Get Off of My Cloud
Aditya Roy Sep 2017
Bob Dylan said in an interview
For the 1970 intentionally underwhelming album Self Portrait
That people need leaders more than the reverse point of view
And so do you
So get off the government’s property
Or they’ll rig the functioning of the military and bring the full force on you

Follow your leaders
Because with your political views
They think you’re blind people who can’t see the crowd
And are simply fireplace thinkers
But what about the people who have a bonfire which they share with heart
Instead of having a hearth
Get off the government’s property
Run from place to place and observe propriety for a start

To them we say go get a job
To clean our urbane streets
But they hope they don’t have to rob
Or get owned or robbed
So get off the government’s property
Or they’ll own you literally and party members will get you mobbed

They lay claim on all the money
Making everything taxable instead of free
For the poor who don’t even enter a tax bracket
And always lie and beg on the streets and cause a blissfully ignored racket
So please get off the government’s property
While we enjoy your money as you stay off the stock market
The government also owns the land we live on. Unless you're rich and can keep your rights as cards in your nice wallet.
Aditya Roy Nov 2018
Kept my books
on the top shelf
My glasses kept me
Occupied with the theft
"Pale important stars and humorous moon"-E.E. Cummings
Aditya Roy May 2019
Compromise if you must
Leave people if you please
But, you must not please
Only left with the appeased the deceased sanity
Is leaving with the knowledge of despair
I sacrifice and some more
To desist you, I won't take your answer for the ultimate
Truth for two days
Seriously, could resist pint broken and teeth shook
The wars and the broken nerves cling onto you
Comforting you from the fear that you're not here
This place is only for us to tread without tears
Aditya Roy Dec 2020
Because I love you
I need you
Maybe, I loved you too much
I was meant to lose you
I lost you in a stream of deletes texts without meaning or purpose.
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
When love dies
Hate isn't born
Forgiveness is
That which does not **** us makes us stronger. -Nietzsche
Americans should know the universe as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. -Cassady
Aditya Roy Feb 2020
If I travel through air like birds
If my love traveled through spirit
Rough barren land caresses thy seas
As rivers growing old and perennial
They would wave away the dust as war halts slowly
When desert met rivers
I found an oasis in your love
And an ocean in your heart without turmoil
That was the captain of my lost soul
This is the last adventure until I reached center with a ghoul
Until we both found gold under a still silver lining
Circumambulated and emptied into the special wraith, our love

If dust turned to dust
Air turned to air
And ash turned to ashen hand
Everything lives and then dies like ripe fruit that hath fallen
All love needs is a little love to climb
Seraphim, cherub send us blessings in the form of amorous verses such we imbibe
I love thee like a daydream that is puerile indeed
I love thee like a paralyzing nightmare that is the agony
I'd rather be hurt by you
Than untouch your love without your passionate appeal
Let us search pleasure anew
I have many sorrows to keep
I have many sorrows to keep
Before I find the verdant mildew of thy warm sinew
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
Gone in a fast second
Buried 'neath a train
Hurried in the breeze
I hope the rain never leaves this place
Ghost of time wanders
Hovering above the past
The memory of summer is jejune
With strands of the sea as hair
A coffin of a foreigner walking the thin line
Somehow peering through clever eyes
The ghost of time came fast behind
As easily as the past died away
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
Do you remember
When you were the ghost
I had a feeling
That you were the one
While we wade
Your eyes would shine
Now in your scars they flicker
I can keep waiting
While walking
You cry in memoriam
In august reveries stalking
A vast interior of trinkets and memories
Have turned me into a
Ghost of my past
Aditya Roy Aug 2019
Sweeping up your streets
Up to the sea, which run at the seams
Atleast, you listen to my pain
Listen to my past, billowing meandering black
The ghost of the past, are something we repose on. Appreciate life as it has been given, you might be able to take it if it leaves you.
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?
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Dreams
After
Dreams
Turn to nightmare
Words d not express thoughts well. They always become a little different immediately after expressed, a little distorted and little foolish
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
You have the silver
The gold in a mine
Your soul is alright
My life is yours
You are mine
Hearses wash on the tarmac canvas
I can't weaponize freedom
Or explain paradise
It is the feeling
Of being with your withering smile
That shines wistful and listless
Like the golden sun
Ill people walk the streets of gold
Looking for you
Aditya Roy Dec 2020
To me all girls look the same
The women who love having fun
Look as indistinguishable as each petal
On a flower under the radiant sunshine
But, girls become women
Dreams become reality
Everyone undergoes change
Change is constant
But, transformation is rare
Girl, you'll be a woman someday
One of my rare poems.
Aditya Roy Nov 2023
You cannot overwater
A plant because you missed a day
And expect it to grow
The same way
When we love someone
We often overcompensate
For the mistakes we have made
And hold on to too much regret

Love naturally
Because time is on your side
Love freely
Because time heals wounds
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
It's just like the night bled
Trying to keep the stars so quiet
The moon is locked and in dread

The vault of the sky tries to deny it
The rain can't be felt
Only the music can be heard in footsteps

Moonshine sails away
How far it is, it is lost
Even if you have a cloak and dagger

You can't tell who caught the stars
It is the fear of days turning to dust
That I finally woke up
Aditya Roy Feb 2020
I hold you close to me
Wishing you were mine
Every time you weren't
Just a pic of you stays inside

But, you never give up
So I leave it
Without a kiss on the doorstep
Only the promise of being read stays

Your words are on my lips, though
Because we look far and wide
My letter tells me you kissed it instead
I miss you, that's why

Written in the back is a poem too
Addressed to dear you

My letter exudes poetry
When you carry inspiration in your mind
Penning a new copy
For a simple last letter
It feels good to be read
Line by line
For the last time
Aditya Roy Jun 2020
I knew nights like this
Did not come around often
It all started with a phone call
Telling me, I'm home alone
Only you deserve me
All of this uttered from some soul
I glorified long ago

Cold December night, I think
If I look closely, the streets of Delhi
Were streaming with clouds of foggy
Moonlight that curled into an endless steam of tea and romance
The kind of fog that covers the top of warm lips
Embraces the eggs lying cold desolate on a bachelor's tray
As I drifted out of my home on an empty stomach
My mind in a rumble over the row with my Dad
I couldn't recall where I had seen those lights
That had turned yellow now
That day, I bought a cigarette in haste
I remember because I got it on a loan
The vendor says,"It's alright. You smoke all the time."
I could hear the humdrum of my heart yell to an unrecognizable roar
Not a dull one, straight from the lion's den
Maybe, I might die soon enough before I pay him for the endless cocked lighters and cursory cancer sticks
I rushed into the Ola cab, bought some chewing gum
Condoms for the bedroom
A matchbox for the road
Her kiss was in my list
The cab driver says,"45 mins, boss."
"Can't you go any faster?"
"Well, the traffic is what you see, what you get."
Man, gaining my manhood would take a lot more than fights and nerves of steel
It would need *****
So, I let out a projectile of my lunch out of the car
It may have been those ******* eggs for breakfast too
Or the ceaseless music love run carefree

Anyway
So, I reach the door
There she is
Bright as a pale morning
Welcoming as a hug in summer
We made love with some haste at first
Until, the kissing started and we ripped our clothes
To reveal what was inside
Seemingly patient
Waiting for this day to begin
Ending sooner than a tornado on an ocean
Surmised by a whirling rain of Monsoons
Misty as the howling wind on Tuesdays when the car goes for a spin
Unshared and undiscovered by two souls
Who coveted and coveted
Only trying to sift through the essence of youth
All I discovered was, the old man I left back at home
The mother I left weeping
Never expected me to do things so recklessly
As I lost her in the end
Unwilling perhaps, the trains kept coming
And I could not stop myself from
Setting foot on the last one at midnight
All of them strangers
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Climaxing but polluted
Head in the clouds
Look at me
Clouds closer
to grace
in the eye of the beholder
Their's beauty
Bolder than the blackness
Is the polarity
Of you trying to do
More for reality
Society slowly
Breathing
Breathing slowly the truth
Of Damaging Industry
Climactic change
has caught our towns
By burning papers
And cut trees
Seem to age well
Understood
They cannot bleed
The tree covers the canopy
Of the Sun bleeding through the tree
"It's always impossible until it's done"-Nelson Mandela
Aditya Roy Nov 2021
I walked into her apartment, her hands I held
Her hands were boney, sinewy, and weakly curled
Around mine
She had a good life

Among the lamp shade and sewing tools
Carelessly strewn, I held her head on mine
I cried out my lungs
Imagine my surprise when she spoke

She wanted to live
Because life was full of passion
And friends should not be set aside
For death can always sit beside in silence

Her scent filled the room
Fragrance that reminded me of fresh air
The windows were open
She had let out a sigh with rising sun

Her eyes twinkled like the oceanic green
Stars paled in comparison to such sheen
Death never looked so serene
On a face
Aditya Roy Mar 2019
Terriers and teary homeless dangers
Addict in his teen years
Ruining his plain games I wonder
If he could sacrifice
Sour it's true
I'm telling you
If you could teach you could be rich
With the right arrogance and the angst
Opportunity
There's a fervent desire for need to be fulfilled
With a girlfriend
Aditya Roy Aug 2019
Some love the boys
Some love the beach
Some love the sun
Some leave the sunshine behind
Some find it in moonshine brands and goblets
Aditya Roy Apr 2020
I read the newspaper
It was a habit
That was inculcated when I was a youngster
They said you could sell them as bundle
I got a couple of rocks
As I fit them in the trolley
Nobody noticed that I had tricked them
My mother reprimanded me
As I kept looking for a reprieve from hunger
Now I follow the world's footsteps and don't worry
Lesson- be honest, it helps you and others.
Aditya Roy Nov 2018
The ringing drums
Keep the bells
Of the salvation
Tolling in the temple
Of fog
"Acting is the expression of neurotic impulse. It's a ***'s life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity"-Marlon Brando
Aditya Roy May 2020
Be kind
For those you meet
May never know kindness
Based on a Socrates quote.
Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
"You're blocking the light."
She said laconically
God replied,"Sorry, I think I was being shortsighted.
Here you go."
Almighty doesn't move
"Thanks" he approbates
"Dominus Iluminatio Mea"-Oxford Motto (The Lord Is Our Light)
Aditya Roy Aug 2019
I look at the simple things
Keep the complexities in my mind
To conserve my doubt, and move forward without looking behind
In the shadow of death, drop on the counted spells
Conserving God in magic, it's his state of mind that dreams horizons
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Getting a hint of blue
I look at the bluest colors
Of the waters
To find my reflection
Even though it's transparent
"I know love is, it it is because of you"- Herman Hesse
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Counting stars
Fire
For eternity
Counting the comets
Of ice
As shooting stars
Inadvertently
Pelting stones
On your window
Hoping for a
Distant glimpse of you
Looking at my nebulous existence
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."-Stephen Hawking
Aditya Roy Nov 2018
Memories fade away
When Imagination flies
Crowds raising questions
When you're living
And waiting for a sign
See streets live up to their standards
Like beggars look up to you
For change
My manners, abominable at times became sweet.. as i grew older i became drunk. Why? Because I love the ecstasy of the mind. I love, love
Aditya Roy Jul 2021
This is all I need
To keep you here
My world is empty
Without your embrace

Where goes the sun
It wishes for someone

On a golden ring

It's okay as long as it is love
But, it hurts and it's no surprise
This is too much to deny
But, that's alright

How much can I hide
There is so much to say
What is going on inside
Is a lover game

On a golden ring
A song based on some chords I just wrote.
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Lurching
In the sunshine
The heat gets to you
In the gold mine
Gold
Breaking backs
Lacking heat
Of fire and love
A coal miner
Home at family
Where it's black as the night
Soot by the fire
The chimney
Is the legacy of your life
And tire
Black as death
Gold as the breath
"What goes on"-Rubber Soul
Aditya Roy Dec 2018
Are you a rebel of the mind
Fiddling with ideas
Unsatisfied with what you find
"All things are difficult before easy."-Chinese Proverb
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
I found beauty
In a dash of spring
In it's still lingering
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut"-Alfred Hitchcock
Aditya Roy Feb 2023
I always thought the sky could be blue
In those paintings, the clouds were out of tune
They were grey like my heart
They were white at times

The blue sky never knew
When the rain would pour
Or if the sun was to come out
If the people were there
Aditya Roy May 2023
If the moon calls out your name
It lets out a whisper
Because my heart speaks to it softly
Aditya Roy Jun 2020
Cases of wine
Oak and limestone
She has got it bad
The limelight

On her face, potent
Ill enough, sad enough for a fad
The prudent student is a sight
Hanging from the Giants box

Here at the dude ranch
Where watchers sleep
Waist to waist
Waiting for the next train from subway to subway

This place is like gossip columns
Gosselies, my town on a medicated night
For ******* dog like me
From Mariah, the maiden far east calling at three

In the morning
In the morning!
The Tom Waits Challenge: I was supposed to write a poem using a Tom Waits song. So I chose a signature name of a town and added a few words from Steely Dan.
Aditya Roy Feb 2020
It is surprising
How motivation can be found
In the loneliest people
And gracefully welcome them
Since they are the ones who talk
For hours about their loneliness
So motivated to be part of the whole
But botherations come
After all allegations come I'm an owl awake at night, and I can't sleep
Therefore I'm a bird at day
When I escape a hole
And finally see the light
I'll find your inner voice
With it comes ability and avoidance
You have to learn to love yourself
I'll be a part of the whole world if you let me sleep peacefully
But, I have many miles to keep
And seeds to reap
Aditya Roy Nov 2018
The beautiful dream
Broke my ideas
Of leaving grace
Graceless
As the god
I followed
He had the same name
I was just a boy
He was my idea
Of adolescent fame
We lay by the grass
Grass
Was the peace for me
Waters
Was the reflection for me
The trees brought me
A peaceful reflection
Lying with the gayest
Kisses under the sycamore trees
"Love takes off masks we fear we cannot live without and we cannot live within" James. A. Baldwin
Aditya Roy Dec 2017
When I look at the stars with you lying next to you
On the grass the aliens feel so far away
But when you and I turn around at the same time
And look into each other's eyes
We realize that aliens at least exist

They are on this planet itself
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away
Aditya Roy Mar 2020
The night is bright
As the day exists before
The dawn breaks our hearts
At least the night doesn't remind me
Of you anymore
Aditya Roy Jul 2019
The girl who got away
Blocked her account
And left me with her memories
The girl who got away
Won't look at me now
But, will notice me in a crowdy street
The girl who got away
Probably, likes watching movies with someone else
But, watches the same movies we watched all over again
The girl who got away
Probably, got a lot better in terms of physicality
But, her heart is a bunch of bandages wrapped with each other
The girl who got away
Loves reading books
But, cannot bear to stop imagining life without reality
I just keep finding her in that library called love
The girl that got away
Met me for the last time
Leaving an everlasting memory which said, "I've moved on."
I finally understood what it meant after I loved someone else
And finally, when I gave back the books, I took from her on rent
She appeared to have become a cautionary tale
Quite quaint isn't it?
Unless I have moved on with dignity
And gratitude on display
Here's my book in a time capsuled by nature
Titled "Gratitude"
For a lover's fortitude
Each fortnight, this love story brings me strength for eternity
For swingin' lovers looking for respect
Aditya Roy Oct 2018
Time after time
I could find myself
Looking at the years differently
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