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190 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
The sirens of ambulances carrying bombing victims lulled children to sleep. Mothers, many of whom were widows, were torn between mourning or thanking the deceased.
190 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
I told you exactly what I wanted to say.
Leave it to me to deal with it if you don't like it.
190 · Dec 2023
Life is a quagmire..
Eshwara Prasad Dec 2023
Life is a quagmire within the grasp of a conundrum, but amidst contradictions.
190 · May 2022
The burden of expectation
Eshwara Prasad May 2022
Help given with the expectation of something in return becomes a burden for both the donor and the receiver.
190 · Mar 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2022
Bees swindle the flower.
Violence robs peace.
190 · Oct 2021
Weightless Dreams!
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2021
It's easy to keep moving when the mind is filled with dreams since dreams have no weight.
189 · Jan 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
I never take a position on anything since the earth is always spinning.
189 · Dec 2023
Poetry
Eshwara Prasad Dec 2023
Imagination's offspring.
189 · Oct 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Oct 2021
All hail the eyes!

no strife has occured on account of misunderstanding caused by the feelings conveyed through the eyes.

Still more, Buddha's closed eyes radiate peace, even now.

Once more, all hail the eyes!
189 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
Everyone had congregated.
Some performed.
Others were rewarded.
189 · Apr 2023
Self Worth
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2023
Those who cling to others to live have sold their self-worth short.
189 · Feb 2023
Fill the empty spaces
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Let my words fill the empty spaces, fill the eyes that perceive light in the darkness, even if they don't shine or inspire.
189 · Jun 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2023
Who are you still waiting for?
Everybody came and left.
They abandoned you here.
189 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
A constellation of stars wilted under your lone gaze.
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
Our love was doomed to fail because your silent mechanical heart could never produce the kind of emotions necessary for love to blossom between us.
188 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
Those who leave us for no reason are also born without reason.
188 · Mar 2024
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
In silence, we write. 
Without feedback, words fall flat. 
Poetry is extinct.
188 · May 2022
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Eshwara Prasad May 2022
The silver bolt etched nature's signature in the cloud by streaking a random course through it.
188 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
When your peaceful glow made them look like ordinary lamps, stars came down and began walking down the streets.
187 · Dec 2020
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2020
I thus
refute
my existence.
187 · Mar 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2022
When humanity fail to govern themselves, their ruins will sit on top of them.
187 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I would fain believe that;
I am a two eyed observatory for the ever swelling web of creation.
187 · Jan 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
Writing a poem is not challenging, but writing something you appreciate is challenging.
187 · Mar 2023
Uncertain future
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
Uncertainty about the future is everyone's biggest concern.
186 · Aug 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2021
My heart is overflowing with grief since the dark clouds that arrived from your heart have poured torrents of sorrow into my heart.
186 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
Keep a glimmer of hope for tomorrow's snowfall.
186 · Feb 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2022
While I wait for your smile to blossom into a flower so I can pluck it from your face and place it on mine, it has remained a bud.
186 · Jul 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2021
My brief friendship with you is akin to cooking my favorite dish; the flavor lingers long after it has been cooked.
186 · Apr 2022
Glass Sky
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
The universe became a diamond speckled ocean of light when the sky turned into glass.
186 · Dec 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2023
Let not the praise of others sway your pure heart's might

Lest your sleep suffers a snag at midnight.
186 · May 2023
Ghouls like thoughts
Eshwara Prasad May 2023
When thoughts invade your mind like ghouls on a dark night, how can you trust it?
186 · Jun 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2023
Belief is wealth.
185 · Apr 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
Your heart, though weak,
beats regularly arrythimacallly,
Not out of love for me,
but out of fear of its death.
185 · May 2023
Kind Thoughts
Eshwara Prasad May 2023
Let our thoughts at least be kind to us.
185 · Apr 2021
Unflinching Love
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
A pet dog, abandoned
in a desolate place,
searches for its
heartless owner.
185 · Feb 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2021
There is a vacancy of intellect in me.
Can you fill it?
185 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
A thousand hugs are worth a single glance from you.
A thousand prayers are worth a single word from you.
184 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
You came into my life as a cool breeze, but quickly turned into a headwind, halting my progress. I've now turned into a tailwind for you.
184 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
My finest hour was when you called me to wish me on my birthday that I didn't mind celebrating.
184 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
That one word you spoke in front of people I care about still stings.
184 · Jul 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2023
An honour received after pleading is equivalent to slander received without pleading.
Eshwara Prasad Nov 2022
The times we are in right now seem to be unusual in certain ways.
You seem to always feel as though something you really needed in life has been lost forever, no matter what you have in life.
184 · Jul 2023
"I"
Eshwara Prasad Jul 2023
"I"
The emptiness that we don't feel.
184 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Every human is just a pile of memories of broken love, shattered dreams, unattained desires, ego, missed opportunities......
184 · Aug 2023
Furious Spirits
Eshwara Prasad Aug 2023
The time since taking in the breath of life has passed considerably.

To keep ourselves afloat in the abyss of dead experiences has been a difficult battle.

It's time to inject some life and jolts of action into our flagging spirits.

Shall we plunge into a brew of furious spirits that are waiting to devour us?
184 · Oct 2021
Time
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2021
Time melts pain
184 · Jul 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2022
A big exhalation.
Time turned on.
Life awoke.
184 · Jun 2021
Wailing Walls
Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
The shattered walls of that desolate and desecrated city wept, silent witnesses to the ****** of countless innocent children and adults in the war.
184 · Mar 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2021
Last benchers are more likely to become poets, because they dream big about their future while the present is surreptitously slipping away from them!
184 · Oct 2023
Free my soul
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2023
You stole my heart when I was in a daze.
Don't return it;  let it die in your tender arms.
Allow my soul to dwell in realms beyond reality.
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