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632 · Feb 2018
Scaled Right
Soaring altitudes unfair
In thinner air
The lie now lays to rest

The truth all fair
Needs no air
Beats right in the chest
Old thoughts
632 · Aug 2019
Shikara Dreams
Confetti and streamers
The music played by the universe
Oh so free
Never heard, deeply felt
Slow on the breeze in a second to freeze
Distant temple sounds of conches
Sacred Chants
Little bells jingle mid air
No strings simply free
Of mossy trails
Snow stilled lakes
Vast expanse
Not one soul to dance
Free untouched
No trails to follow
Nor to leave
Magically written
And erased on the glassy slate
Never seen yet closely known
The trees of ancient world
The bark thick and strong
A house to dream
Ten storied tall, lasts long
A place so cool, full of warmth
Of the cashmere shawl
Paisley embroidered wrap around
In colours of the valley flowers
Shikara dreams
Written 10th of August,
2:45 am
Unedited thoughts
631 · Aug 2017
The BhramaKamal Blooms
Years Ago ,
A leaf
Presented by my Niece ,
Nurtured and Nourished
Weeded and Pruned
The Plant ,
Vivacious and Green
This time of the year
Gloriously blooms

Bhrama Kamal
'Queen of the Night'
A beauty Rare
Mystic and Divine

Twilight ,
Your beauty Unveils
Milky white Petals Slowly Unfurl
A translucent Sheen
Makes my Spirit Gleam

By Midnight,
Your beauty Shimmers
The gentle breeze of the night
Wafts
The  fragrance of the Exotic Blooms
Into the Rooms

The scintillating Blooms
In Harmony with The beauteous Moon
Cast  a Spell
For me
And
The Starlit Sky to Revel

Your beauty all Divine and Pure
Wilts Away
Shying
The Dawn
The Sun enchanted
By The Magical Dream
Lost in The Mystical Allure
This year on 9thAugust , two flowers bloomed .
Had one more bloom on 14 th September:)
627 · 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
624 · Nov 2020
Twilight begins

At sunset
The sky turns in liquid gold
The trees with forgotten leaves
Promised, new to grow
Orange pinwheel, rolls down the hills
The shadows of the bark, evenly spill
on the grey grained roads
Shining bright and dark
The twilight begins


✨✨
623 · Sep 2017
Human
A woman that I Am
Boundless
I Know not Confines

Self Respect
Dignity And  Peace
Define my Core

Nevertheless
My Diamonds I Adore

Self Assured
Born Free
In Spirit And Mind

My Quiet
Quite a Solitude
Keeps me Company
Notwithstanding the Crowd

Don't get me Wrong
Oh ,well you got it Right
That's
Perfectly Imperfect
Me

A Woman that I Am
To Live and Love All
Is What I Believe
Isn't that Human
After All
623 · Dec 2020
The timeless flow

Uncertainty
Is having its time
The chance of a lifetime
Leaving all, timelessly uncertain

The only chance it got
Before being
Outclassed
By certainty

The essence of life
To be and not
And the timeless flow


🌿🌿
616 · Jun 2019
Mystery
Different people
Characteristics same
The similarities distinctly evident
To the eyes
Evidently hidden
The mind agrees
Challenge
Hidden to be revealed
What’s the deal
615 · Feb 2019
Feeling Right
To write,
What you feel
And to feel
What you write
Is the feeling
When you feel truly right
Inspired
:) yes, it’s right
614 · Jul 2018
Double limerick
Counting syllables for a limerick
All of this to me is Greek
Without rhyme or reason
I wrote one, no , No Pun
Challenged , My silly mind fell for the trick

To write a limerick was not in the syllabus
Lost the route , I missed my school bus
I was asked to wait for help
Like a puppy I started to yelp
Help did arrive in time , but I was all nuts
Done with it :)) No more :))
Recently met a Techie , also a poet and a published author of children’s book and many more . He challenged me to write a limerick
611 · Apr 2017
Equipped
I better take cover
before the storm takes me by surprise
Lest  I am  marooned

Contemplating fight back
Or
Witness  sheer loss.

None the winner.
Prevention is better than cure
609 · Sep 2019
Nothing New
Perfection is being content in ones own world

Perfection is perceiving the cracks in the wall as a piece of art
Withered autumnal branches
Dreaming of blooms in spring

Perfection sought, to please the world
Leaves one imperfect and discontented
In this, perception oriented perfect world
609 · Jun 2018
Moments Of Reflection
Lost in the now
Present somewhere
Reading words
Essence vaporised
Lost to time
Moments afore

Happy is my world
Love my people
Yet ,
When Words on the wheel
Redundant
Elusive, they feel
I feel alienated with self

Life’s busy
Too Many chores
Listen to my music
Remembering loved ones
Barely making calls
A Recluse
Have I become one
All good , just some thoughts.
608 · Sep 2020
Stance
Shoulders slouch

The limbs attached to the strings
In hands of the puppeteer

Do the dance, or do not bend

There is a chance
You dance

Or learn to ignore

The hands of the puppeteer


✨✨
605 · Sep 2023
Inert
I speak in syllables
I have known words
My vocabulary inert
604 · Feb 2019
A Fine Morning

The weather is fine
The trees have got a nice Soldier cut
The sun shines through the mesh of leafless branches
The balmy breeze and the sunshine
allure me for a walk


601 · Jun 2017
Funny Take
Looking for inspiration
For Empty Thoughts
Befitting Words to Fill

Empty Mind
Nothing to Fill

Don't have  apple trees
No , I am not Newton either :))

Do have a few Coconut
Trees with
Fruit in abundance

No No No.....No
Don't want
Such inspirations ;)

Have a loving husband and
Two naughty boys to tend to :))
Had a lovely time in my hometown ,didn't
write much.
Although have data which is unstructured, will share when
Convinced of the same .
601 · Aug 2024
Fleeting
Yesterday’s words, discarded as chaff
Not much to imbibe, like news once read
Nothing to reflect, left

Flooding thoughts
Survived many a droughts
Lost to the mundane, caught

Like the lamppost
Which lit through the night
Lost its light to the sunshine, fraught
600 · Feb 2019
Fertile truth
Expectations erodes fertile soil
Fertile is the land of acceptance
Just a thought!!
599 · Oct 2020
Always November
The sun has miles to go
As it smiles in the wispy sky

The rains have paved way for winters
Morning mists, dewy flowers and leaves

My heart set
in the month of November

Lights up with the lit lamps and sky lanterns

Brings in the Festival of Lights
Special occasions and blessings
Pleasant evenings and celebrations


✨✨
590 · Feb 2018
Up-Dated
Love and compassion needs to be remodelled
From time to time
As hatred is not yet dated
Just a thought that came across
589 · Oct 2020
Old dusty path

The old dusty path
Weather beaten roads

Lead to the farm
With an old barn

The sun shines 
with a light afternoon
breeze

Orange cosmos flowers,
grow wild in the
green hills

Silvery white, slender fragrant flowers,
bloom on the Indian cork trees

The full moon glows through the night
On the old dusty path


🌿🌿
589 · Aug 2020
Life smiles

My friend shared this in a group

जरा धीमे से मुस्कुराया कर
ऐ जिन्दगी....
यहाँ नज़र लगाने वाले
हजा़र हैं.....
( Behold, dear life, do not smile so
I am afraid someone would cast an evil eye )

My response

Muskurati hai zindagi
Nazaraandaaz naa karna

Hawa ka rukh badal jaye
Toh tum naa badal jana

Kuch mausam ki hai sifarish
Aur Zindagi ki guzarish

Muskura rahi hai zindagi
Tum nazaraandaz naa karna


(Life smiles at you
Be not ignorant

The winds may change course
Hope you don’t

The weather recommends
And this life requests too

Life smiles
Be not ignorant)
Was inspired to write in Hindi today
589 · Feb 2018
No Despair
You fill my Heart
With leaky sodden secrets , First
And Then
Question my Trust
Oh it does Hurt
The Mistrust

Yet
Without Hesitation
Will always help you Fix
Your runny overwhelming Emotions

Your presence in my Life
Time and Again
Will always be There
No Despair
But a place for You
In my Heart
Rare
588 · Jun 2019
Reason
Would I have ever written
If always surrounded by the people I grew up with, my folks
They are a reason for my happiness and strength
Being with family and forgetting the rest
Life is great, in my Happy nest
But, it brings you reasons and its own tests
So I write, forgetting the rest
Thoughts to myself
Don’t feel like writing
Can’t write
Bridging the gap
A fight
587 · 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


🌟
587 · Dec 2017
Sometimes...
Lost in my thoughts
Found in my mind
Sometimes in words
If The Mind opines
Some old thoughts
587 · Feb 2022
Pond stork
Shallow waters still

Pond stork meditates upon

The pink lotus blooms
582 · Mar 2019
Love and blessings
The world of strangers
Strangely we connect through words
The heart knows it all
I am so happy and blessed to be part of HP.
Thank you all!!

Have made so many friends here, your presence in my life through words means a lot, wishing the best today and always, love and blessings
581 · Sep 2021
By the sea

Footprints evanesce

Ocean spirits undulate

***** sidle amok
578 · Feb 2022
Almost midnight

It was late
Almost midnight

The owl was up
And going about his routine

The house dog tried to get some sleep
He was up all day, chasing the strays

Dreams, awake
Await the dawn
Random thoughts
Asha - Ray of Sunshine, hope is her name, she loves to dance, forever young and has a beautiful heart

Pallavi- A beautiful flower, lovely smile, deep thoughts, brownies and chocolates, her recipe to melt hearts, dance her passion, master at her craft

Neeta-  Naive and lovely, with an innocent smile, positivity her armour, she is quite a charmer

Sapna - Bakes most lovely cakes, red lipstick, vermillion dot on her forehead, a trademark, wears her heart on her sleeve, full of love, she extends it to every soul, Punjabi her style, Patiala heart(big heart)

Pradnya- Sweet as saccharine, she knows a lot, sure a woman of substance, wisdom her charm, dances to the tune of her heart

Sajeeda- Versatile personality, a multitasker, holds her goals clear and achieve she does, has keen eyes for quality and performs her best, quite an angel when it comes to taking broken ones under her wings. She has the will power which keeps her going, when the going gets rough. A brave heart, and a wandering soul, searching for heights and higher self. A go getter, with a never say never attitude. Has weathered a few storms. A wonderful person with a tough outer shell and a warm heart beneath

Bijal-  Happy go lucky, warm and affectionate, friend of friends. Ever smiling, never a frown on her brows
Breezes in with a jovial chime

Neelakshi-  Creative and wonderful, she knows the law, cool as ice, her heart warm, dances her heart out, even when a bit down
Goes with the flow and knows what she does, crystal clear in her views.
Jovial and throws caution to the wind
Wrote this for  my friends from the dance academy that I have joined, have known them for about six months. Couple of them asked, if I could write something about them. Knowing that I write :)
574 · Dec 2018
Misplaced Comma
I dislike the comma
Whips words while walking

Placed between two words
Whips the former and warns latter to behave and keep space

The comma is a pain
I love it
When words walk without whips
And breathe Free
573 · Dec 2017
To Live
Life is full of lessons
Forever a student one shall be
Be firm and learn one ,too many

Believe in self
The Sun goes down
With a promise to rise again
There are many doorways and pathways
Sure, you will see the light

You live once
Listen to the inner voice
It's already spoken thrice
Double the joy and spice
571 · Aug 2021
Buoyant
River rowers sail
Rafters raft in the rapids
Still waters stay calm
570 · Aug 2018
R-Evolve
Revolutionary the heart
Evolves to change
Lost
The old charm
568 · Dec 2020
The dew remembers

Sometimes, in the early hours of December
It drizzles, just a little bit
The dew remembers
And does not complain
As it knows how moody is the rain
The dew quietly goes down the green grass
Into the soft brown mud, its resting place
Early next morning
It glistens and gives out a smile
As it loves the sunshine
567 · Aug 2019
Complex thoughts
To know
Is to believe
What’s understood

That
What’s known
Not understood
Does one Believe....
566 · Oct 2023
I respect
I respect myself
So do you

Age is just a number
We all know that

But still we respect
That’s how it is done

Better late than never
We learn
We have to that’s the norm

There are ways to win a war

No more fencing with you
I have crossed the fence

I lay my armour down
I respect the domain

In our heart of hearts
We knew
The boundaries were meant to be

I respect mine
My sanity I reclaim
564 · May 2020
Smooth sounds
In the distance
On the highways
I hear the trucks
Silently unmask
Everyday challenges

Socially distant
Carrier of loads
For smooth
Functionality
Silent
Driving force
Early morning observations
563 · Oct 2017
Beautiful Poems
Profundity In Verses
Perfect Tenses

Pretty Indent
Pulsating In Content
Thankful to be a part of HP , get to read so many beautiful poems here . :)
561 · Feb 2022
Blue Bird
The blue bird flies
Colours of its feathers
Merges with the sky

Golden ribbons shimmered
Through the trees
Blue bird, mid air whirs, catches a fly

The blue bird sings
Verditer Flycatcher, the name
That’s my name, my name, my name
560 · Jul 2019
A little fun in the rain
Upturned umbrellas
Wind and rain
Missing raincoats
Take shelter and walk again

Scooting off through puddles
Splashing water on fellow motorists
Why should little kids have all the fun

Slippery mossy tiles
Earthworms, friends of the farmer
Not mine, touched them once
Never again, yikes

Heading back home
Yes it’s fun getting wet in the rain
Being a child again
560 · 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
560 · Sep 2023
My Mind
Blue and white
Black and white
Monochromatic
Or rainbow like

Cold and numb
Warm to fuzzy
Systematic
Cognitive overdrive

Day and night
At will
Unflinching
Rhythmic
Serpentine
559 · Sep 2017
The Essence
A Thought
Is
Moment in Time
Lost
If not Captured
557 · Oct 2019
Drive Past
The trailing traffic
Too loud
Jumping signals in my mind

The music divine
Freedom is mine
Jumping signals in my mind

Darkness thins out
In broad Daylight
Jumping signals in my mind

Lost, never around
To be found
Jumping signals in my mind
Just for fun
556 · Apr 2021
Paper flowers
In their paper skin
Under the burning sun
Smile the paper flowers
In bracts, pink and white
purple or orange
Colourful red,
never fade or bleed
Evergreen in their woody homes
They fly with the wind
In their paper skin
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