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169 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
He had a great desire to say the unsayable, and he used poetry to not only fulfill that desire but also to make it appear palatable.
169 · Apr 2021
Earth Day
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
She gripped my feet firmly
so that my dream of
soaring into the sky become
a reality.
169 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
Except for you, everything I have is yours.
168 · Aug 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2022
To avoid a dismemberment of friendship, strike nails on the words simmering with rage about to tumble off your tongue.
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Thank you. Please come again.
168 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
The majority of us have arrived with our baggage containing happiness sent to another location.
168 · Jun 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2023
I'm sorry, but the life you're looking for doesn't exist.
168 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
When friendship becomes a yearning for everything else, the yarn of friendship will fray.
168 · Mar 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2021
Why should I tell lies when my truthful utterances are also taken as lies.
168 · Jun 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2023
One who is patient does not lose.
168 · Aug 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2023
Are we living or leaving life?
167 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
When you don't acknowledge others' role in your life, you're denying your own existence.
167 · Jan 2024
Nature pours...
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2024
The wind is blowing hard today.
The straggling clouds have come together to cover the sky, leaving an imposing gloom in their wake. Fear shakes people's lives. They are unaware that nature simply pours—it doesn't wail.
167 · Feb 2023
Luck and Fate
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
When luck and fate sing the same melody in celebration of our hard work, our dreams become a reality.
167 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
You become the undying spirit of nature and humanity when you stand alone, fully grounded in your principles and free of societal acceptance.
167 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
You've slammed the door to my heart so many times that it's finally come loose. Strangers are now entering my heart in droves.
167 · Feb 2023
Failure
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
An emotional brew of rage and depression..
Isolation, but karma is after you.
Reconciliation with destiny, but Life is unwilling to go along.
Faced with foes and left to one's own devices.
The verdict is still out: failure.
167 · Mar 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2022
There is no fight for life.
It was a no-strings-attached deal.
Devious eyes jolt a slumbering mind
Myth engulfed existence as emotions plummeted out of sync.
167 · Oct 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Oct 2022
A writer, I am. Every time I pick up a pen to write something, I get the munchies.
167 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
He received less endorsements from the people because his physical traits did not complement the art he was pursuing.
167 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
I accomplished nothing.
It is an accomplishment to accept that.
167 · Jan 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2022
When the bitter unripened fruit inside the dark cavity was filled with love that drifted in the blood, it ripened and became delicious.
167 · Feb 2021
Incredible humans!
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2021
Though human's are mortal, the most incredible thing is that everyone goes about his life as if he or she is  going to be alive forever.
167 · Mar 2024
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
Seeds planted in dark
Seeking light but cannot find
Know not their own self.
167 · May 2022
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Eshwara Prasad May 2022
All of our traits leave us before we die, just as birds abandon a tree before it falls.
167 · May 2022
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Eshwara Prasad May 2022
I din't know why you smiled.
But I lived extremely happily for sometime thinking that you smiled at me.
166 · Apr 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2023
The world of noise is no longer mine.
In the silence, I am lost.
166 · Sep 2021
Betrayal
Eshwara Prasad Sep 2021
When beauty fails to ******.
166 · Oct 2023
Silence
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2023
Silence is the  hymn of the soul.
It embraces the cosmos, dissolving time and space within its womb to unveil our true nature.
166 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
My heart's lamp of hope has 
been extinguished. 

The storm of pa­in is still 
raging inside it.
166 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
When you agreed to help me,
I doubt, it was a decision you took without any hesitation.
166 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
Life on the boil

Turn it off.
166 · Dec 2022
Ego, A Stilted Mirror
Eshwara Prasad Dec 2022
Ego , To myself, am I visible?
166 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Become a poet when your prayers
fail to stir the heart of God.
166 · May 2022
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Eshwara Prasad May 2022
The sweet memories you gave me for preservation have turned bitter because you flavoured them with anguish.
166 · Mar 2023
Digging Mind
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
A digging mind never experiences peace
166 · Apr 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
When you told me that you are leaving me for the good, I cried for no reason.
165 · Mar 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
How is it that the ears can hear the mind speak?
165 · Mar 2024
Patient Wait
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
Waited for a good day,
endlessly, and I became ripe
and sweet like a fruit.

Now, the ants are biting me
for dessert, a stinging end
to my patient wait.
165 · Nov 2023
Gift of memories
Eshwara Prasad Nov 2023
You bestowed the gift of memory upon me, and they now proudly adorn my soul as a timeless treasure. If you have any more such gifts, don't keep them to yourself; I'd love to wrap them around my soul and illuminate you as well.
165 · Feb 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2021
I got the sobriquet
"Poet of the fall"
after my poems
fell to the ground
without life in them.
165 · May 2022
Gloomy Heart
Eshwara Prasad May 2022
My heart is dark since you did not light the lamp in it while lighting others.
165 · Dec 2021
Human
Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
God miniaturised.
165 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
Polyglots must have a strong epiglottis.
165 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
If you had put the same effort into your poetic endeavors as you did in making me your own, it would have been more worthwhile.
164 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Agreed.
All mistakes are mine
But you remain the cause.
164 · Oct 2021
A butcher's knife
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2021
A butcher's knife isn't a serial killer.
164 · Apr 2021
Give but never take back
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
The Sun never takes back the rays he sends out.
164 · Feb 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2021
Your sudden burst of affection for me, resembles a volcanic erruption, won't last long.
164 · Mar 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2021
Just because you are happy, days won't double, nights won't triple.
Everything will remain the same.
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