Thanks for showing me the mirror
Where it is written a-loof
But I am just emotional not a-fool

Bharti

Expletives are explored
Requisites are implored

Grooming artificial intelligence!

Bharti

When poets thoughts go bare
They evince without care
Minds brimming
With stories to share
With every phrase
Minds undress
Layer by layer
Some use fiction
Some illustrations
Nevertheless, for them
Spilling beans is always fun

*Bharti

Nature depreciates beauty with time
Talent is the beauty mask!

Best time of the day is night
An opportune to set things right

Best right is hidden in the wrong
An opportune to emerge strong

Best mostly comes from worst
An opportune to keep up in adverse

Bharti

When your grey is marooned
Life seems like a goon
Pliability is cached somewhere
Boldness becomes a tough affair

Brooding over roughs
Becomes the way of life
Seething over pain
Is all you think is fine

Strong mind becomes
So fragile and meek
Constant approval always
Is then what you seek

Yes, yes, you are
B
      R
            O
                   K
                         E
                                                     N from within
But do you realize
Only a broke knows
Value of everything

So unleash the pain
In one go and just holler
Remember, every holler
Makes you stronger

Once your anguish
Is washed out in tears
Your vision to foresee
Future becomes clear

Say cheers to life!

Commotion of waves
Filters innate dross
With a heart in rave
And soul in gloss

*Bharti

Don't get close to me
Get close to me

Bharti

Nowadays everywhere
Amid the boast of confidence
No volunteers for "nothing"
Unaware
Confidence radiates silently
It needs no puffing

Work is worship, since childhood
Is the lesson ingrained in my brain
When I am at work today
I found that lesson vain

Actually, it’s what kind of mentor you get
For he is responsible for all you feel
He can shape your day into a boon
Or push it into an absolute reel

Commonly, all shirks are crowned
Mostly, all wise are push aside
People do it all to be there
To become the apple of their eyes

I strongly feel at work
Your work should be your face
Deserve before you demand
Claim what is yours with grace

I lived by this principle till date
That’s why raise came to me very late
At the end of the day I am content
For work is to live; it’s not all your fate

Ages ago, story of a girl
Dejected for what she looked
Thinking just fair and beautiful
Had rights to glory booked

Did not realize that beauty
Lies in the eyes of beholder
Always self deprecated
Life felt like a boulder

A breakthrough insight
Blind to the imminent change
Discerned beauty is not just looks
It's in wielding ones skill range

Dawn of this realization
Broke her sealed senses
Now she is her own favorite
Exploring life beyond fences

Bharti

Artists are like crystals
Must be handled with care
One slip
Oops!
You loose it all there
However
On the brighter side
Even if they shatter
They still glint
Whatever be the matter
Crystal cleaving
May scatter the lusture
But the process
Can never douse the dazzle

I cry oceans full
Do you care?
I die thousand times
For that glare
Thoughts are broken
Lost that flair
Shattered into shards
Can you repair?
Cloudy monster
Played on mind
Needed an angel
To unwind
Since angels
Are rare to find
Did it all by myself
Unfolded the blind!

With
Airy freewill
And
Fiery determination
Striving for
Watery perfection
On
**Earth

Emptiness is NOT nothing
One is empty of something
Like an empty cup
Is empty of tea in there
Still full of air
Likewise
I am full of cosmic miracles
But empty of self existence
Thank you mother nature
For lending me
A bit of earth
A bit of air
A bit of water
A bit of fire
And all that you share
With your borrowed elements
I came into existence
Infact I am just a manifestation
I cannot exist on my own
There my emptiness is born
I realize this truth
That's why I now know
Emptiness is NOT nothing
One is empty of something
This thought is not negative
Infact, it makes me humble
And pay due
Gratitude to you

I am looking in the mirror tirelessly you know
As it is mirroring you from tip to toe
It is taking much time to dress
As I am wearing your interests

But in the end I look eyeful

Bharti

If there was a way out
To get you by my side
Probably, I wouldn’t write
Since, it is improbable
Elsewhere
I need to weave this fable
Hence on paper!
Still, so powerful
Your virtual presence
You nourish my heart
Nurture my thoughts
And father my pen
Oh! how fervently I wish
Something
Miraculous to happen

Bharti

On you
When I ruminate
I pulsate
Can you hear?
That pulsing throb
Peace of my share
That you robbed
Oh no dear!
You just don’t
Else, you wont
Plunder peace
With your charm
Tantalizing me
To be in your arms

I know I know
Its my figment
As of now
But I wish to
Feel it live
Every night
I resolute
Next day
Will surly
Spurt out
Probably
It plants
In your heart
That love sprout

Till I muster
The courage
To express
I will
Just wait
And ruminate
On you!
Because it unwinds
My locked smile

*Bharti

For every earnest question
Your response lacked conviction
An adroit silent escape
Saying that’s how I am made
Is like hammering my gentle trust
Leaving my crackled heart in crust
Just like your dire attempts to woo a foe
I wanted a fraction of that attention you know
I still in hope, of being understood
later or soon
Follow you like a goon!

When every day clock ticks again with sunrise
Spring out with energy just like you got a surprise
Unpack the day with love thinking what could it be
If the gift is not to your liking, set your spirit free
Think “for someone you are the gift" to feel the glee*

*Bharti

I can move mountains
With your little love equal to a mole
With the tiniest corner in your heart
I can make fractions into a whole

While I am busy rigging life
In many different ways
In the backdrop it secretly
Plays its own game

When I get a chance to live
I waste it all exploring the term
Only when it’s on the brink
I realize its importance

I should have done this and that
Is what all I am left with in the end
Fettered with austerity and apathy
With self I could never befriend

One day I will die
Leaving everything behind
So with god gifted eyes
I don’t want to turn blind

That’s why I assimilate
Adulating life is dearest
So, I decided to try
Love life regardless

I will try and erase every “wish”
Turn most of them into reality
If not at the grand level
Whatever at least is in my authority

Gift of health and peace of mind
Are the best one can receive
Thanks to God for the irreplaceable gifts
It’s just you and in you my belief

Bharti

Humans to nature: “I” have mind; “I” control you.
Nature to humans: Ha ha ha. I don’t mind; play with it; finally, “I will show you”.

Listen to me silly. I will explain the fact in your language. I am like your whole body. To me, you are like a single tissue of that body. Damage of a single tissue does not dissolve the body. But the tissue is gone forever.

When heart and mind close
And everything blows
Just a prayer
With tears in eyes
Calling for god
Helps you rise

*Bharti

'I am different', all think the same
'I am unique', this notion hackneyed

Your euology to me afterlife will be futile
When I have been waiting to hear you all this while

*Bharti

I weaved a fable with you and I
I played my part you didn’t try

Bharti

Through the day
I think about you
Each time you
Make me feel new
Remarkable,
That indelible musky waft
Your face like a handcraft
My solitary moments
Often confined in spur
Every now and then
I find myself
Admiring your picture
Always,
You play on my mind
Now I know
Why people say
"Love is blind"

Bharti

Grey billow of clouds
So hopeful these are
Filled with watery pearls
Guaranteeing remedial shower

Flashes of light
Sounds of accosting thunder
Declares to the dead world
Charging to live the real wonder

Season's first kiss
Between rain and earth
Leaves indelible petrichor
Uplifting spirits for all its worth

Bharti

Indent your view to a little right
Perfect profile proclaiming light

Bharti

Our planet is like
A spec of dirt in the space
Our ego bigger than the space
In the human race

We call ourselves
**** sapiens, the wisest race
Still we fight bitter than animals
Dismissing the nature's grace

Of being unique.

If you were gravity
I were substance of all
Then, in every form
I would freely fall
For you
Why even imagine
That fall is still true

Bharti

I always held deep reverence
For people in three occupations
Farming, medicine, and defense
For the reasons appealing

Farmers feeding
Doctors healing
Defense shielding

Seasonable occasion
To sing about defense
Today these lion hearts
Will be my subject to pen

We may critique our nation
For it slithering move
But one team deserves
Applaud for being resolute
Team defense
For formidable reasons
They fight for us selflessly
Irrespective of seasons

I reminisce my visit
To Wagha border once
It's elating to see
Armed forces lacing
Our pride in balance

Forgetting all bitter
Citizens fervently cry
Jai Hind
Unanimous voice in reflex
Don’t know why

Joining defense is a willful step
A malice can never serve
Day in day out these brave men
Hold our pride in suave

Salute to these people
Who for us
Sacrifice their lives everyday
These true resolutes
Uphold our independence
In every possible way
Second by second
Minute by minute
Month by month
Year by year
And will in
Years to come
For this
Bharti’s
Salute to them!

*Bharti

Clinging to PAST TENSE
Trying for FUTURE PERFECT
Making all PRESENT TENSE

All VERBS tensed.

To be together, forever
You don't have to be like me
You just have to like me

Bharti

I may not be yours
But you will always be mine
In my mind
My fetish you
Like stowed in the cellar
An ageold bottle of wine

Bharti

In retrospect, I found
Something profound
"I want I will; I don't I won't"
WILL is the mother of all actions
That's infallible, abide or shun
But then,
What shudders the WILL train
Reason is common and plain
When hurt, I stop
My follow WILL slops
So,
WILL needs fuel incessant
If there's no support
Goose self-motivation

*Bharti

Yesterday, less was more and merry
Today, more is less and dreary
Tomorrow, happiness will be history

If the memory
Of the entire world
Is erased right away

Without opinions
Imagine!
How serenity comes to play

What is the use of language?
By far, when it has
Only caused
Humanity to stray
Words have
Just become
A fabrication
To impose oneself
On another
Like a prey

Oh! nature
Erase the memories
So, ignorant identities
Fighting for attention
Can stay
Out of the way
For identity crisis
Could force one another
To only care and aid

If mind is let too loose
It goes for a wild goose chase
If it is held too tight
Its ability is smothered in this case
Holding it still while thinking
Retains its natural pace

during the day
my shadow
walks behind me
that I can't see
in the inky night
my unseen
comes to be

in the light
what I hide
from all to see
in the dark
comes alive
in words
to form
my midnight poetry

Mirror mirror, 'Who is better?'

Mirror replied, 'One who does not compare, is rare.'

Mostly I smile
Sometimes I wail

Mostly I care
Sometimes don't share

Mostly feel adored
Sometimes ignored

Mostly overjoyed
Sometimes annoyed

Cheers or tears

One thing is certainly true
Any which way I think of you

Bharti

He was silent and stunning
She was spirited like a spring
When they opposites attract
I think its natures trick
To balance the act

*Bharti

Nature needs nurture today.
Remember!
If NATURE does not ALLOW
Our lives would not be WOW!

*Bharti

Amongst good, better, best
In pursuit of the last
Mind and heart wanders
'Oh I wish....'
Is we live by then
When better is agreed
Before the best occurs!

Bharti