Sarita Aditya Verma: Poems

Apr 2021 · 269

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Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

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Forever in the air
We know it is for free
Out existence on it solely depends
Never did we know
Someday, some would have to depend
What is produced in factories
At a heavy cost
As no more can they breathe in
On their own
For what is forever free

Apr 2021 · 415

What is done is done

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

What is done is done

When the day is done
For the day
And the thoughts settle
In the quiet of the night
The thoughts find a resting place
Picking up the peculiar
And particular moments
The day had
When it had just begun
Rolling out the perfect hours
And those
Wasted, like an amateur
Trying to find the best time
Losing out
Swears by the alarm
At leisure
Counts the seconds and every minute
To cherish
Through the day
Together
The hands only met twice
Rest of the time, stretched wide
Apart
Running around in circles
Shrugging shoulders at ten past ten
The clock says
What is done is done

Apr 2021 · 240

Second wave

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

Second wave

These days
There are many who are going through pain
Uncertainty has caught us by the neck again
The virus lurks, has been on a house hunting spree
Causing distress
It’s been here for a while, creating stories of its own in every home
After a brief pause, back to bringing our lives to a pause, if not standstill
The world its classroom
Sending out individual and group invites
Nudging us to face it, brace it
Trying to teach some life skills
Will it be able to create a new world
A better one
We’ll see
Hopeful with prayers on lips
This time we are better equipped
Empowering each other with help and support
To heal

Apr 2021 · 1.2k

Sun in the sky

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

Sun in the sky

The sky looks great
When the sun is up
And the clouds are late
Spilling bright threads
Doing crochet patterns along the vast blue
Slowly, curling back into a ball of white
Swathing the sun
In rose gold silks

Apr 2021 · 709

The old fire station

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

The old fire station

Long lost road
To the old fire station
With a beautiful archway
The fire engines
In bright red
Never knew rest
A drill or two, a day
Fitness parade
For all, to learn to save
Now
No sirens
No calls to attend
The bells ring no more
Snorkels saving lives
Salvaged many a blaze
All gone
Peacefully it retires
Alone
Amidst old walls

Inspired by a photo

#old #fire #station

Apr 2021 · 352

Time now

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

Time now

The time is now
Why is it said so!
Time keeps moving
Now and forever
How does this now stays
When it keeps moving forever
Constant
Now

Apr 2021 · 598

Stars

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

Stars

Brilliance of the light
Reflected by the miniature chips
In chiseled geometric stars
Mysterious and magnetic
The energy source
A burst of radiance

🌟

Apr 2021 · 882

Golden summers

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

Golden summers

In sun dappled lawns
Runs a golden rivulet
Copper-pod tree crowns

#copper #pod #flowers #fallen

Apr 2021 · 782

Beliefs and Mistakes

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

Beliefs and Mistakes

We all have our beliefs
And we follow them
Wherever they take us
Sometimes they bring us luck
Sometimes we are stuck
By the same
Unable to move beyond
The mistakes
Unable to acknowledge
Any
They bring us whatever we believe in
The beliefs
Allow us to live through
The mistakes
The luck
The success
All the experiences
And soon
We learn to live
Believe
Life is a stepping stone

#beliefs #mistakes

Apr 2021 · 794

The pen

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

The pen

Years ago
A pen was found
Its grip was blue
Slightly chipped

It wrote
Everyday on sheets, white
Flawlessly on the lines
Words did glide

It had a special place
Where it rested
After a long day
At the desk

Its home was warm
A wooden drawer
Strategically placed
Easy to fetch

Now it has been years
It longs to see the desk
At dawn
A practice now clearly gone

It lay still
In the wooden drawer
Cold and blue
Ink-less dry

#the #pen

Apr 2021 · 198

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Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

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Sometimes
The thought of thinking
Is the last thought on your mind
And thoughtlessly
You are thinking
Of thoughts
That take away all your time

Apr 2021 · 564

Beautiful

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

Beautiful

What’s beauty that is captured
In frames
Youthful exuberance
Trapped
In evergreen bottles
Translucent
The potion for immortality
Sought and sold
For
Weary souls and brittle bones
opaque the vision
Fractal-intrusions

Inspired by a movie

Apr 2021 · 1.6k

It’s not about fall

Sarita Aditya Verma Apr 2021

It’s not about fall

The leaves grew wings
And flew off the branches
Some along with the twigs
The breeze was gentle
And the leaves knew they could fly

🌿🌿

#leaves #breeze #fly

Mar 2021 · 1.7k

Vintage portrait

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Vintage portrait

Big and black
The umbrellas
Knew not of any other size
And colours

A rainy day
Decades ago
I reckon

Men on foot
And bicycles, black
Peddling the tar road
Soaking wet

Their attire
Native, pure white
Monochrome
The photograph

Inspired by a photo

#vintage #portraits

Mar 2021 · 946

March into May

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

March into May

March has marched in
Half way through the month
It is hot and has brought summer along
The grapes and melons have turned sweetest ripe
The mangoes have arrived too
Raw and green, they are best pickled
Come May
King Alphonso, will be here
From the wild coastal lands
To conquer every heart
For a golden reign

#march #summer #may #season

Mar 2021 · 492

Paper-weight

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Paper-weight

Light as a feather
Drawn by winds, the paper flies
Paperweight it needs

Bills in paper nails
Value packed, together stacked
Business they made

Light as a feather
Changes course, as does the wind
Fair weather friend

Be not the paper
On the nail, stuck forever
Nor a paperweight

There is so much to paper, light, yet holds weight
Be like the paper, yet not get weighed down

Mar 2021 · 340

Lily

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Lily

Floating lily pads
Dewy and refreshing green
Delicate white blooms

Mar 2021 · 275

Up in the hills

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Up in the hills

Up in the hills
Fearless, flapping wings or standing still
The birds knew the way around
Their home
Overlooking the concrete jungle
Fearless, flapping wings or standing still

The tiny yellow flowers
And their tender stems swayed in winter
Green and pretty after the rains
Divided by the walkers trail in between

Sun soaked and dried crisp
The flowers on the stems
Know of their browning end
Shine with a golden glow
In the first rays of the sun

4th March 2021

Mar 2021 · 1.0k

Magic lights

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Magic lights

Blue linen
Unclouded, the canvas light
Air brushed with strings of white

Beneath the curtains
Rested the stars
Twinkling all night

The morning star arrives
Magic it has in mind
Golden drapes gently unfold

#sun #stars #sky

Mar 2021 · 363

The fake story

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

The fake story

I refuse to read
The same fake story twice
The emotions overpriced

Each time I try to get familiar
With the many characters
Stranger they become

Permanently masked
Hollow faced
No place for a heart

No inferences to derive
Learnings flattened
Morally deprived

Once a learner
Slowed down by the bends
The fake story with no ends

5th February 2021
An expression of collected experiences

#fake #story #experiences

Mar 2021 · 346

Fear-less

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Fear-less

People do things
And do not
For the same reason
For some kind of fear
Fear of failing self
Falling off the grid
Losing to someone
Hurting
More or less
Daredevilry too is not totally fear-less
There are stakes behind
For real
No one
Ever is completely
Fearless
Although everyone says
Fear-less

Mar 2021 · 426

Grey Sky

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Grey Sky

Neon lamps lit street
Blurry wet the reflection
Grey clouds haunt the sky

Mar 2021 · 639

Forked

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Forked

The road forked
Like the serpent’s tongue
Tales it held, for none to know
Only to be told
By the ones who were bit, once

#road #forked

Mar 2021 · 180

Fragrance of the rose

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Fragrance of the rose

The rose, red in sun
At prime poised and posed in pots
Fragrant potpourri

🌹

Mar 2021 · 297

Will it happen

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Will it happen

A day washed out from the memory
No a day washed out as if never existed
No not from the memory
It never was meant to be
So it was never a memory
To change the wrong from the right
To know the right from the wrong
To make the right moment
To remember
Yes a memory

Makes no sense
Or does it
In the first place
Or at last

Mar 2021 · 659

Rainbow words

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Rainbow words

How would you know
The words that stand in the corner row
What meaning they held
In their little fists
Until they were asked to show
One by one they follow each other
Make a chain, a festoon, hung low
For all to know and read
Dispersed as seeds
Their different beats
A melody sweet
Across the valley a rainbow greets

Just some words, they found themselves together
To make a rainbow

#rainbow #words

Mar 2021 · 254

A fresh coat of white

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

A fresh coat of white

Pretty red cottage, shines bright
Under the brilliance of the fresh coat of white
The lawn in a deep slumber
And the road freshly plowed
Misty clouds, mountains, cold blue
A journey to embark upon
As it snows

Written- 12 February 2021 6:35 am

Inspired by a painting of a place in Himachal Pradesh

Mar 2021 · 265

Swept away

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Swept away

Rustling leaves gambol
Smile, as the wind sweeps them high
Fragile, and at peace

🍂🍂🍂

Mar 2021 · 1.0k

Wings spread wide

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Wings spread wide

A flight of freedom
Wings spread wide
The eagle soars
Its shadow on the promenade
Clear and bright
In the offing
The skyline soars

#eagle #wings #soars

Mar 2021 · 410

Summer lemonade

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Summer lemonade

Brimming with cubes
Happiness poured minty chilled
Summer lemonade

Mar 2021 · 503

Evening by the sea

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Evening by the sea

A whiff of salty air
Wayward breeze flipping your hair
Mirthful birds
dart into the waves for a quick bite of fish
The sun smiles with a orange glow
As it takes a bow, at the horizon

Mar 2021 · 562

Hindsight

Sarita Aditya Verma Mar 2021

Hindsight

I wish I could delete all the good memories
Of the place and time
Ever lingering
In my mind
To erase the pain of missing them
Time after time
In hindsight

Feb 2021 · 249

Unflinching

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Unflinching

Unflinching
The heron, ready to spear a fish
Its reflection caught in ripples
Unsteady

Feb 2021 · 470

Real

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Real

True
It had to be
To be able to show
What it saw
Reflected - Reality

Feb 2021 · 126

The mind let it be...

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

The mind let it be...

My tongue
Wouldn’t stop talking that day
My mind warned numerous times
Hold, but it just wouldn’t
Instead it turned back
Lashing again
You just mind your own
I need to speak
And say
What I need to say
Like a puppet in hands
Of donated organs
The eyes welled
Appalled

Feb 2021 · 134

Understanding

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Understanding

We don’t speak much
But
We mostly read
From
The same page

Feb 2021 · 865

Raw

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Raw

The sadness you see
On the walls
Painted in different hues
Unblemished sans the happy shade
It’s not the colour blue
Primarily it never could blend
Faded away
Under layers
The colour of no origin
Unblemished by the happy shade
Leaves a permanent stain
On the walls

Unedited thoughts

#raw

Feb 2021 · 358

Someday... Hp

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Someday... Hp

Someday
One day
This bad gateway will lead
To the end
Of the words
No one writes
No one reads
No posts
In any order
It could be

Bad feeling... sorry

Will read more here :)
Certainly invest more time

#502

Feb 2021 · 723

In the land of sunshine

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

In the land of sunshine

In the land of sunshine
Slanting palms, oceanic breeze
Brightly painted houses
And bougainvillea vines

Music is alive
Song and dance
Pristine beaches
Sunsets are divine

February is vibrant
Colours on the streets
Festoons and masks
Carnival time

🔆🎭🔆

#goa #beach #family

Feb 2021 · 1.0k

Crystalline

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Crystalline

Cold mists and paper clips
A minuscule vapour cloud
Covers a story, neatly filed

Streams had dreams
The river knew of
Gently flowed into the bay

Warm water springs
The freezing cold lake
Shares the revelry

A beauty to behold
Damp air and Crystals of salt
Into the pan, white

#crystalline #water #story #salt

Feb 2021 · 461

The empty

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

The empty

Visibly hiding
Behind the words
The emotions
By the empty
Unheard

Feb 2021 · 307

The flame

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

The flame

The flame flickered
It knew it had lived enough
Helpless the lamp stood with the soot

🔥
🌿🐾🌿

#flame

Feb 2021 · 210

Politically incorrect

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Politically incorrect

No
No more
Cant put up
With the same old dominant stuff
A rebel, politically incorrect, stood up
All knowing the consequences
Of subsequent distance
Better alone
Than to be weighed down by the pretentious

Just some thoughts
Venting in words

Feb 2021 · 1.0k

Fragrances

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Fragrances

Ignited incense
Sandalwood fragrance lingered
Two doves flew up, free

🌿🌿

#fragrance #incense

Feb 2021 · 509

Rays

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Rays

I like the way
The mellow January Sun
Shines by the evening in my kitchen

#sun #rays

Feb 2021 · 300

All in a minute

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

All in a minute

The roar of the ocean wave
Birds, flapping their wings
In and out of water, close to the shore
They prey, avoiding being one
An airplane flying above
The reverberating sea
All in a minute
Silent again

Feb 2021 · 244

Gateway

Sarita Aditya Verma Feb 2021

Gateway

What’s so good about this bad gateway
It chooses to stay
And
With it
Tends to get away

Jan 2021 · 1.1k

Dusk

Sarita Aditya Verma Jan 2021

Dusk

The evening
Gently wrapped up all the light
Off the aurulent sky
Unfolding charcoal hues
The stars glimmer dimly
Somewhere a rainbow arcs