Sarita Aditya Verma: Poems

Aug 2020 · 313

Well

Sarita Aditya Verma Aug 2020

Well

Took a shallow breath
From a shallow depth

Narrowed eyes
From the narrow thought process

Living in a well
Limited space, imagination

Little significance
It held in a unfathomable world

A shallow breath, depth
Limited thought process

Some odd thoughts

#well #thoughts #limited

Aug 2020 · 323

Lit lanterns

Sarita Aditya Verma Aug 2020

Lit lanterns

Lit lanterns
Lit up the lonely tree
The night knew its darkness
Was for all to see
For the lanterns, they knew
They lit what was to be seen
The tree
Forever, it knew

Inspired by a photo

#lit #lanterns #tree

Aug 2020 · 228

Friend

Sarita Aditya Verma Aug 2020

Friend

The heart knows it’s right
The instant it sees a soul
Not through the eyes
It’s all about the vibes
Yes, A friend

A little one for friendship day
Happy friendship day to all at HP
Stay safe and happy

#friends

Aug 2020 · 46

What if it rained...

Sarita Aditya Verma Aug 2020

What if it rained...

What if it rained rocks
Would anyone like
Are we used to of being pelted down
With rocks
The reason why it stands
Like it should
A rock, solid

What if it rained flowers
In autumn, yes
During a baby shower
Weddings, when the bride and the groom exchange garlands
They are showered with rose petals
By the guests
On the stems, flowers look best

What if it rained wishes
The world, one can imagine
Full of chaos or happiness
What would it be!
A world full of wishes
Fulfilled

Jul 2020 · 176

Not titled

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Not titled

Compare not
Do not come and pare down
What is not yours

In a courtroom
Judgments are fine
Out of that, keep it to yourself

Talent is to show
Come out and shine
Latent lost, never undermine

Couldn’t come up with a title
Been writing too much !!

#not #titled

Jul 2020 · 240

Painting

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Painting

Painting
Abstract
Dull
Bright
Colours
Grey
The pallete
Held many

Choose
As you please
Just paint

Your thoughts

#painting #your #thoughts #abstract

Jul 2020 · 184

Sorry to share

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Sorry to share

Chop and dice
Sauté add some spice
In the wok
Let it simmer and cook
Perfect taste

News at nine
The neighbour brings
Dinner we eat
Bland face
Sorry to share

Sorry to share, but writing is a coping mechanism!

#sorry #to #share #sad #news

Jul 2020 · 94

Her thoughts

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Her thoughts

It took her a little while
To get accustomed to the slow, empty roads
It reminded her of the olden times

The evenings were always busy
The traffic on the the road
Made it so

She sat in her vintage swing
Her gaze fixed, moved
As the traffic moved at a steady pace

Strangers
She in her vintage swing, her gaze fixed
Me in the passenger seat, waiting

She took notice of being noticed
Gave me a knowing smile
The traffic moved

An aged lady in her galley facing the main road
Watched her from the passenger seat of the car

#her #thoughts

Jul 2020 · 347

Lavender Ladder

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Lavender Ladder

I saw a lavender ladder
Parked against a freshly painted ivory-beige wall

Wonder how many men climbed
Up the lavender ladder
In blue overalls

Wonder what the lavender ladder saw
At the top
Was it witness to any falls

#lavender #ladder

Jul 2020 · 96

Seasonal

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Seasonal

Sun over the mountains shines
The rose bush stands aplenty reds, since June

In July it rains, the season, like the year somewhat changed

Tea and coffee not the same
Nothing lasts forever, not even the change

August and September are soon to come
And they will bring rain

Will make a rainbow
That will shine out of the windowpane

#seasonal

Jul 2020 · 64

People and hurt

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

People and hurt

I always choose people
over hurt
Knowing my own flaws
I reflect
A second chance
a mistake
Everyone deserves
and makes

In a loop
{Pain lessons understanding love}
Function repeat

People I meet
People I keep
I choose to delete
For upkeeps

However negative this sounds and reads, I have finally learned to let go off people who only bring hurt
Silence does the speaking

#people #and #hurt

Jul 2020 · 51

The poem that....

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

The poem that....

✨✨

I do see you in the
‘latest’
You never let me know
When you are
’home’
At least let me know,
when you make it to the
‘front’
I believe
I deserve as much
To know
The poem that trends

✨✨

Jul 2020 · 182

Many thoughts

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Many thoughts

Much to think

The chatter

In the mind

Many thoughts

Circumnavigate

Nineteen to the dozen, can’t talk like that

So I write and post

These endless words

#many #thoughts

Jul 2020 · 176

Dear 🦠 virus

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Dear 🦠 virus

Your presence is daunting
Mandatory it’s to wear a mask
Breathless my thoughts within
Upending, life saving task

To watch and keep our distance
Untouchable, it makes one feel
You have arrived, for a reason
Beyond our comprehension it is

Taking away the loved ones
Closely, I have witnessed, few
Our loved ones, you caught them too
By the grace of god, they were set free

Every single day
Your presence somewhere out
Is known, not seen
To me you have taught to be stronger within

To be freer than yesterday
yet not claim someone else’s freedom
Love and compassion, in heart
Keywords of this blessed life

#novel #coronavirus

Jul 2020 · 384

The Dew

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

The Dew

The life of the dew

In the morning

On the flowers, beautiful it looks

To the human eye

To condense and collect

To drop as a dewdrop

To holdback, it knows not

On this earth, it lets go

In the morning hours upon the grass

As there is sunlight up the sky

Beautiful, the life of a dewdrop

#dewdrop #the #dew

Jul 2020 · 199

Magic strokes

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Magic strokes

Candy floss clouds merrily
Twirled in the clear blue sky
The sun knew its rays were best dressed,
golden yellow

Beneath

Above the trees, flew some birds
They chirped twittered and whistled
To each their own
As luxuriant flower beds
Welcomed, fluttering butterflies

#magic #strokes #nature

Jul 2020 · 213

The poet and the critic

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

The poet and the critic

The poet is the writer
Many thoughts in his mind
Lay scattered as seeds
To be planted in words
That the birds should eat
The critic is the bird
That savours the fruit
Thus begins the journey
Of the poet and the critic
Together they flourish and thrive
On the tree of poetry
With rhythm and rhyme
The poet and the critic

Just some thoughts

#poet #critic

Jul 2020 · 153

Footprints

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Footprints

Little footprints

Up and down, the slide

Merry, they go around

In the park

Swinging

See-Saw, they play

#little #footprints

Jul 2020 · 179

Invisible

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Invisible

Invisible the sting
Stinging the pain
Pained by the misery
Miserable they remain
Invisible

Invisible thoughts!

#just #words #invisible

Jul 2020 · 135

Awaits

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Awaits

From the corner of the eye
He peeked out for the teacher in the corridors
None in a close sight
He signalled to the peers
While one of them mimicked the teacher
Adjusted her glasses as the teacher did
Before and after the children greeted her
Amidst giggles and hushed tones
The children and their little fun
Between the classes, lost
Locked doors now stare
At the empty corridors

Awaits

#awaits

Jul 2020 · 329

Be limitless

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Be limitless

Whiling away
Comes easy
Trying takes a lot of trying

Don’t ever quit
You have immense potential
Believe in yourself

Express and communicate
Your fears your beliefs
It’s freeing a relief

Regrets and progress
Part of the process
Of finding true self

Be limitless

Written- 20-02-2020

#be #limitless

Jul 2020 · 100

The head

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

The head

The head that heads responsibility

Doesn't looks for a heads up

The head that heads responsibly

Sets the path of light

Dutifully

#the #head

Jul 2020 · 177

Images

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Images

Miraculously mysterious

The images in the eyes

Not a match for the one in mind

The visionary, sees through

#images #visionary

Jul 2020 · 245

Some moments

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Some moments

Special moments
Not always in words framed
In memories vivid
As long as lived
Cherished

#cherished #some #moments

Jul 2020 · 406

Overwhelmed

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Overwhelmed

Sleepless, the day sighs

Night dreams of sleep

Open eyed

Had a lovely busy day today, just had to set these words free ;)

#poetry #words #overwhelmed

Jul 2020 · 185

Canvas

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Canvas

Connoisseur curates

The walls adorned, gratitude

Reverence in paint

#canvas #art #abstract

Jul 2020 · 84

Wordomatic

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Wordomatic

Words have meanings
People have feelings
Dictionary caters to all

Just titled this one, wordomatic
And then google searched, found a game with the same name. :))

#wordomatic

Jul 2020 · 196

Words Try

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Words Try

I gave words a try
Wrote them
They helped me fly,
free
In my mind
Abstract, as freedom is
Now, we never stop
The words, and I

#words #try

Jul 2020 · 344

Aura

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Aura

Borrowed from the sun
Magnetic beams Coalesce
Charismatic soul

#aura #people

Jul 2020 · 232

Complex Compound

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Complex Compound

Anxiety and fears, components
of a complex compound
Many elements of emotions mixed
Atomic mass fixed
Unbalanced emotions
Dilutes every element of the equation
Catalyst elements of happy quotient
Higher atomic efficiency
To balance the equation
The strength of the compound
Equilibrium

All chemicals, sometimes need a fix
Just a complex thought

#complex #compound

Jul 2020 · 522

Moonrise

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Moonrise

The moon, shy and demure
In her peaches and cream finery
Appears into the faint blue sky
Glides up delicate and slow
As the sky turns midnight blue
Soon she changes hue
Rises in full glory
As she goes up the charcoal sky
amongst the twinkling stars to stay
Now in a fiery orange glow

Written on 18th May 2020 11.20 pm
Inspired by a moonrise video

https://youtu.be/PmM85I31Bgs
(was shared by a friend on WhatsApp)
Moonrise in Australia

#moonrise

Jul 2020 · 370

Misty memories

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Misty memories

Misty waterfalls
And mud trails
Mountains covered in green
Like the meadows
As you climb up the top
You savour corn on the cob
Roasted on charcoal
A zing of lemon, butter and herbs
While taking in the view of the valley down
Moments to minutes, gentle hours
Memories in old photographs

#mahabaleshwar #photographs #misty #memories

Jul 2020 · 173

Prehistoric( me)

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Prehistoric( me)

Those days science and literature did not mingle
In came life and it said lessons you must learn
Logic, rules and the laws of life
Metaphorically matter
Riddled with emotions
Cradled in the hearth
All together

Just for fun

#prehistoric #me

Jul 2020 · 87

Shadows

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Shadows

Shadows
Early in the morning it’s bright
Making me feel upright
The day progresses
The shadow now short and stout
Reminding me that the Sun is mighty and I must crouch
Evenings are pleasant, the shadow tall and exploring
Expelling any kinds of self doubt
Never ever leaving
Except in the dark

19th July 2017
Time -1:47 pm
From the drafts
Very old thoughts, raw and unedited

#shadows

Jul 2020 · 156

There is hope

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

There is hope

The woman on the street
Up and early, she sweeps
The litter off the concrete
A job to keep

Through the window
A world slows down, not sleeps
No traffic snarls, on the highways
The signal silently beeps

World at the moment, changing
Good and bad, the exposed pieces
In Unity and humanity, there is hope
Together, for the world to live in peace

Air is clean, there is pleasant breeze
Disjointed thoughts, hoping for world peace
And free from crisis

#hope #world

Jul 2020 · 64

Vulnerable

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Vulnerable

Your thoughts and words

You think they are yours

But once public

You never know

Where they go

Credited or not

I set them free

As I was once told

By a wise man

Who sure has seen it all

Wisdom gathered over the years

Mr Joshi, my friend had once told me so, I keep
his words close to my heart :)

https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1988562/mr-and-mrs-joshi/

Jul 2020 · 188

An Ocean

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

An Ocean

An ocean to swim

An ocean to fill

Courage

To spill

Mind

You

#mind #ocean #courage

Jul 2020 · 58

The signs

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

The signs

The signs read

Misinterpreted

In depth

Rarely read

Jul 2020 · 71

Goal

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Goal

The mind, minds no sets

Racing thoughts

The game

The heart all set

Changing mindsets

Jul 2020 · 170

By the stream

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

By the stream

The doors, open
The home somewhat broken

By the stream
The poems we read

Missing from the home street
By the stream, meet

Read many, some new
Some you always knew

Time forsaken
Doors open, somewhat broken

Missing from the home street
Lost, maybe found

By the stream
The poems we read

Hp pages, latest home front

#by #the #stream

Jul 2020 · 143

The tree box

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

The tree box

Two rows of seeds
Gift wrapped in ***** of mud
Two I had planted in pots
In a month’s time, I remember
I plucked a few lady’s fingers
Lovely the produce
Soon they faded
Gardening and growing vegetables not my forte
Love plants, but tending to them and nurture
Not what I can do
So I further gift those seeds
Where they are nurtured and nourished
And the fruits and vegetables
Well produced

Inspired by a box of seeds which came in as a gift

Www.thebombaynaturalcompany.com

“Growing your own food is like printing your own money”

Inspiring words :)

#the #tree #box

Jul 2020 · 212

Dark tunes

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Dark tunes

It’s dark and cold
Just before the dawn
Bedewed Baby leaves
Rare jewels shimmer under the street lamp
The birds have set their tune of mirth
It’s always the same with these birds
A new dawn, rising
They have welcomed
Just the same
What’s with these birds
I wish to know and learn
Do they do karaoke dawns
Someday, I wish to sing along
But today, as happy as them
I listen to their mirthful song

Listening to the birdsong ( 5:00 am)
10th July

Jul 2020 · 222

Strange( World of words)

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Strange( World of words)

The thoughts invisible
Invincible the cape of words
Now they haunt

Between keeping mum
And wanting to express
Lies the lies of quiet

Sometimes I write a lot
The Words, written
Sound better
Than the spoken

Strange is the world of words
Spoken and written
Both heard

All four set of words
Written at different times
Straight from the drafts

#strange #world #of #words

Jul 2020 · 199

Little joys

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Little joys

Puddles of joy
In the eyes of the little boy
Knew his favourite candy by the stick
Home deliveries, now real quick

Cleansing thoughts
In the word machine
Filigree of words
Wrought on the screen

The mountain tops covered in hues
Rainbow of flowers, on the plateau
White swans joined and prayed with folded heads
Grass turned green, the sky baby blue
The creator creates endless landscapes

#little #joys

Jul 2020 · 365

Ribbons of rains

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Ribbons of rains

Ribbons of rains
A translucent sheet
Papery streamers
Down the streets

Children dream
Of castles and moats
To sail their
white paper boats

Yesterday’s flowers
Colour the pathway
For every passerby
As they take a final bow

It’s raining here :)
7th July

#ribbons #of #rains

Jul 2020 · 109

A World to love

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

A World to love

The world in a place
Never dreamt of, for itself, nor its inhabitants

Everyone is going through something
That nobody should

Ripping at the seams
Much to accommodate, distressed

Some on the edge, the going is tough
Losing to stress

For some there is everyone
The fabric of love, three-plied strong

If possible be there for someone
A blanket stitch at the seams, saves fine

There is much to explore in the world we inhabit
We need our world, and the love it needs
Let’s give what we can, and receive the same

#world #love #safe

Jul 2020 · 98

Sun Swept

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Sun Swept

Yellow rays, swept off the sky

Light Showers through the grey

There goes another day

Jul 2020 · 137

Now

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Now

Moments of simplicity wasted not

To make hours of happiness

#now

Jul 2020 · 447

Madhumalti

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Madhumalti

Clusters of madhumalti
Bloom through the dark of the night
Fragrance of the flowers
Leads to a bright new day

Madhumalti(Combretum indicum, is the scientific name of the plant, also known as Rangoon creeper / Chinese honeysuckle)

#rangoon #creeper #madhumalti

Jul 2020 · 150

Masked

Sarita Aditya Verma Jul 2020

Masked

A mask for all, to live
A means of livelihood for some

Smiling eyes behind the mask
Unrecognised face, keeping distance

Parks in the neighbourhood closed
Odd hours for a walk in the neighbourhood, unmasked

Work from home, not for all
Economy at risk, lives eclipsed

The sacred fire stands witness to the 7 vows taken, a marriage solemnised
Designer masks unveiled

Paranoia may ****
Purity still protects, wins
Here’s to mask an unprecedented year

Unmasking realism
Nature’s green, truthful and clean
Heals every being

#masked