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290 · Sep 2023
A drab world
Eshwara Prasad Sep 2023
drab world.
Life's wheels are moving backwards.
Dreams are buried in graveyards.
Conflict and war enslave freedom.
A raging sea and a reckless fire consume the hate-filled land.  
Remorseless, greedy humans are hunting for heaven in the ruins of their own civilisation.
289 · Jul 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2022
Even poison mixed in sweet kills.
289 · Nov 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Nov 2023
Because it enslaves you, peace finds no takers.
288 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
The Scriptures declare the truth.
But the learned Scholar doesn't.
287 · Mar 2024
Mind, a Netflix screen!
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
Mind a Netflix screen
Playing life's drama each day
Draws me in, captives.
287 · Jul 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2021
A lover wins the heart.
A poet steals it!
284 · Nov 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Nov 2022
Poetry, a synchronised outburst of the mind
283 · Jan 2023
Balding Emotions
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
Without the enduring drips of your pouring desires, every leaf on the tree of my emotions has fallen.
283 · Jul 2020
Dream
Eshwara Prasad Jul 2020
You might be multilingual

Yet, your dreams always appear

in your mother tongue!
283 · Sep 2023
Just be
Eshwara Prasad Sep 2023
be gentle.
be sweet.
be kind.
be grateful.
282 · Nov 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Nov 2022
You visit me once in a while.
Difficulties, on the other hand, are coming thick and fast.
I'm not sure what good it does to share my woes with you.
I suppose that you don't want to break your heart over my difficulties.
281 · Aug 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2022
I'm not sure if that specific look on your face is one of anger or comfort, but it lingered for a while.
281 · Jul 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2021
He only believed something was true when he had personally experienced it.
281 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
Don't take life too seriously.
Do you know that life has taken you seriously?
280 · Nov 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Nov 2021
Life, like dreams, is provisional.
280 · Mar 2024
The final sigh of poetry
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
Life beyond the poetic realm.
Sinking into silence, an emotional free fall.
Ebbing away the final sigh of poetry.
280 · Feb 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2022
I'm not sure why only your memories grew heavier with each passing day.
280 · Aug 2023
I don't understand, really.
Eshwara Prasad Aug 2023
I want to theorise life in concrete terms, but I'm not sure where to begin. The beginning appears to have never happened, yet the end seems tantalisingly close. I don't understand, really.
279 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
Regurgitating minds never relax.
279 · May 2022
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Eshwara Prasad May 2022
When the calmness returns, the words spoken in fury cannot be recalled.
279 · Mar 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2021
You wanted transparency in love.
So, I wore my heart
outside my chest.
279 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
In your writings, you extol the virtues of human friendship, while avoiding all types of human interactions in real life as a barrier to your literary success.
278 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
You walked into my life uninvited, and I left you feeling completely free.
277 · Mar 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2021
Do you want to know why our friendship came to an end?

You began to read personal meanings into my vague statements about today's youth.
276 · Jul 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2023
We are all tiny bits of a single, ever-expanding melody.
276 · Dec 2022
Silent Beats
Eshwara Prasad Dec 2022
The craving for silence is nowhere more loud than in the noisy heart!
276 · Aug 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2023
Life is a poetic song with a common finale.
276 · Feb 2023
Resolve Life
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Life is a process of resolution, not reaction.
275 · Apr 2023
An abyss of misfortune
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2023
Walls of bad luck obstructing progress.
An expanding gulf of hopelessness leads to an abyss of misfortune. Into a place from where there is no turning back, the soul dives.
275 · Sep 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Sep 2022
How to pray for peace.
Eshwara Prasad Sep 2023
Could I be the unopened package holding the dreams of others? Is it mine now, or will someone later come and claim it?
275 · Apr 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
Most of us do not reach the intended destination in life because our boats are steered  by pirates.
275 · Sep 2021
Deadly Yell!
Eshwara Prasad Sep 2021
The yell "It's mine!" was the first call to war!
275 · Jul 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2023
Being blind to fate, we stumble onto it.
Eshwara Prasad May 2022
I have no friends because everyone is turned off by my constant expression that screams, "I have no responses to what you're going to ask me."
273 · Jan 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2022
The whisper you blew at me is still ringing in my ears. Since then, I haven't been able to hear anything else.
273 · Dec 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2022
The same opinions were repeatedly expressed by everyone.
Nothing changed in life.
Only time had caused a perceptional shift.
273 · Aug 2023
Long lost...
Eshwara Prasad Aug 2023
My ego is weeping for you,
While my soul is praying for you.
273 · Nov 2023
Sonnet Boom
Eshwara Prasad Nov 2023
Oh, dear poet, the poetry you wrote
have stirred a sonnet boom in my heart and it's tearing me apart.
272 · Feb 2023
A Monochrome
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Be a rainbow in the midst of people who are drawn to earthly shades. When you're by yourself, be a monochrome.
272 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Universe is a symphony of
star strings not heard by
the deaf souls.
272 · Jul 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2021
The clamor about minor irritations in life is far louder than the uproar over major issues.
272 · Apr 2023
Does it matter?
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2023
Does it matter whether the log is burned from the front or the back?

Life is a log with two burning ends.
272 · Mar 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2022
I could hear your intents in the air you blew at me.
272 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
We are God's portraits.
271 · Apr 2022
A Double Whammy!
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
What is left of me is your memories.
What is left with me is your memories.
270 · Feb 2024
Which is true?
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2024
Why sleep, why wake up?
Two is like a dream, unsure
Which is true, I ponder...
270 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
What's eating your mind?
Tell your mind to eat it.
269 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
I haven't said anything from my heart to you yet since you don't understand the language of the heart.
269 · Feb 2023
Regret
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
We need a heart that is bigger than average if every decision we make leads to eventual regret.
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