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251 · Oct 2020
Of pain!
Veritia Venandi Oct 2020
Pain is like a novel

One that you can't go on reading any longer

The torments, the burden of the story, the shattering of dreams...

Seems like a mirror reflecting the darkest corner of your heart

So you shut the novel down and without a bookmark hide it beneath a hundred good books

But every once in a while you feel the urge to open it

To touch the scars of its pages, to reminish the tragedies of every chapter...

And yet it only remains in your mind!

I often wonder if such books of people were gathered...

Don't you think it would have been enough to fill a library?
Reflections✨
Gratitude for reading this!
246 · Aug 2020
Prism!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
There was something unique about her...

For whenever a narrow white beam of happiness or sadness reached her...

She hurled an invisible prism out of thin air, and placed it before her path...

So that the white light split into a spectre of seven colours before reaching her...

She thus knew how to live in with every moment-
Not in bland monotony but with cheerful colours!
If we are able to treat happiness and sadness alike only then are we going to live a life to the fullest! Sending lots of smiles to everyone! Thank you for reading this! ❣
245 · Sep 2020
Liberty
Veritia Venandi Sep 2020
A hundred fireflies trapped in a glass jar...

Beautifully vulnerable...

Begging some uncommon empathy from the watching world...

Soft light faded with perpetual sadness of being exiled...

In their minds they imagined a kindred spirit releasing them...

Dissolving into the earthly air they would have made sunsets look even more beautiful...

Yet they lay... Hindered... longing liberty... and a toy of some wild spirit in search of fun...

That banished their liveliness at the stake of one's happiness!
Thank you for reading this! 💖
239 · Sep 2020
Tacenda
Veritia Venandi Sep 2020
A great gloom has crept into the home...
A dark, sinister menace roams in the air unknown!

The baby in the cradle plays unaware...
Of the time left for it to know what it were!
The world will never be the same again after this pandemic is completely over!
228 · Aug 2020
Daydream!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
When the window of the eyes gets tired in the monotony of everyday views...

The wild mind sleeps to wake in peacock dreams...

Of emerald foliage, mahogany woods, lavender fields and the mazarine sky...

To console the heart in promises of a future...

Full of rainbow colours!
Breaking the monotony!
Just something random! :)
Thanks for reading ❣
217 · Aug 2020
Fossils!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
Aren't we the same as the ancient trilobite... That no longer exists but still found in fossil memories?

For we may perish upon the face of the earth...

But our essence remains in the soil in the form of tender shapes carved in the rocks of yesterday...

We will be found in the hearts of all who loved us and still love us...
Inspite of our surrender in the ever flowing river of time!
We will live even after death in the hearts of our beloved!
Just a small reflection!
Thank you for reading this! ❤
214 · Jul 2020
Finity...
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
Infinite...
Is the cloudless sky....
Stretching above my head...

Infinite...
Is the bare ground...
That runs beneath my feet...

The only "finite" thing here is...
I and my life!
Random thoughts on the finitude of life and the infinitude of the world around me! Thanks for reading!
214 · Sep 2020
Escapade!
Veritia Venandi Sep 2020
On the wings of the wild bird... Beyond the sun and the moon...

On the carriage of fragrance... Beyond musk roses and juicy tulips...

On the decks of submerged ships... Beyond the greatest oceans...

On the back of the little speck of dust... Beyond the black holes and nebulas...

My mind longs to escape into the unknown!
Struggling to be really free...
Thank you for reading! :) ❤
212 · Jul 2020
Inferno!
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
Unaware, Unhindered...
My fallen flowers caught the great fire...!
So lovely were they when along with the butterflies they adorned my garden...
Smokey flames erupted from my castle...!
So beautiful it was when along with the starry sky... it adorned my habitat...
But one day  an eternal inferno summoned them all and they were reduced to ashes...!

Who was the mother of that inferno who gave birth to such a wrathful son?
And shockingly...I realised it was I ,who in order to keep my ego had created so...
How I long to return to the moment my mind had decided to keep itself in lieu of burning my heart!

Now even the flood of my tears could not stop the inferno from destroying every thing that I had so tenderly created with trembling hands!

Today as I stood amidst the ruins of my yesterday... I asked myself a question which I knew I had no answer...

Will I ever be able to start it all over again with a still greater trembling hand and at least in this lifetime?

~V.Venandi
Anger can destroy everything in the blink of an eye... Our relationships, our image, our hard works... It's so important that we are aware of the lasting damages that anger of a moment can cause for a lifetime! Just wanted to leave you with this thought! Thank u so much for reading! ❤
211 · Aug 2020
Oak!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
Do you know, my friend what I did today?
I picked up a fallen acorn from an ancient oak tree growing in a nearby woods....
Then I hurriedly carved upon it our names...
And utmost tenderly planted it into the smiling soil of my little garden!

Do you know, dear,why did I do so?
For if you ever forget me, my friend, I would call upon the roots of my planted tree to find you...
If you ever have to suffer the heat of bad days...
I would ask the leaves of my growing tree to flutter in the wind so that...
The cool breeze of my consolation reaches your shoulder!
And when a smile will cross your glorious face,
I would know it just by a singing cicada upon the tree on a yellow summery day!

And even if in case we cease to exist, my friend...
The tree would remain to harbour birds to weave tales of you and I...
Our tree would become a meeting point of long lost friends... Even after we are long gone by!

People will forever remember our friendship as the one that nurtured a tree to remain forever alive!
A poem on the sweetness of friendship:)
Thanks for reading! ❣
205 · Jul 2020
Primroses
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
A haven of brilliant colours lit up her eyes...
And her ears caught the faint murmur of an ancient song of the flower gods...
Her tender hands felt the papery body of her new friends...
And affectionately did she blow a kiss to their hearts...

She often wondered how her life had filled with such colours of the primroses...
That she had no chance of recalling the dungeon trapped days of her life...

Her world had become one with the blues, reds, yellows, oranges and violets of her new companions...

....

And this was how when he left her...
She never left herself!
Sometimes only nature has the ability to heal your cracking heart! Thank you for reading this! ❤
200 · Oct 2020
If you can mend your heart!
Veritia Venandi Oct 2020
At least once in a lifetime, arrives a quake beyond the measure of a seismograph...
The waves of which tremble your heart to terror...
Followed by cracks that rips apart your flesh...
The memories of old roses settles down as thorns piercing the delicacy of your heart...
Blood gushes out through arteries ruptured by the final blow...
And the agony and shattered hopes seem to burn the remaining pieces of your heart to ashes...

Doesn't it seem to be the end?

Yet still somehow anyhow with trembling hands if you are able to collect  the scattered ashes of your broken heart...
Hold to them day and night
Exposing it to the healing hands of time and your will
Your heart will be born anew and likely more resilient than the previous one...

And in doing so you, my friend would have done something amazing...

For the one who can mend his heart can mend almost anything else!
Thank you for reading! ❤
200 · Aug 2020
Fallen stars!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
Fallen stars on parched land...

Brought with them a piece of heaven...

The child in me ran to collect... in fragile hands...

To hang them in tender threads from the window...

So as to light up my heart upon a dark day!
Sometimes a sweet memory of the past is all you need to brighten up your dark day!
196 · Sep 2020
Heartbeat!
Veritia Venandi Sep 2020
Violin strings broken by a pacing mind...

Flower beds trampled by rugged feet...

Sky crashing over the head like a curse...

Sunsets but remnants of tears long rolled down the cheek...

Her world just turned to being colourless...

Trapped in that one single heartbeat  only which can sustain!
For that one moment in life when it seems just the end... Let us keep hope!
Thank you for reading this... ❣
191 · Aug 2020
Submission!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
The white luminary finally sketched itself along the lines of the dark canvas sky...

And my serene heart suddenly went out of the way...

To spill all my secrets to the watcher in the sky...in wild sobs and silent howls...

I hear ancient horses neigh and the crickets seem to be in a frenzy...

Could I have helped myself from spilling my own secrets...?

...

Somewhere deep inside the ocean... a sleeping oyster wakes to expose it's pearl bed to the same haunting shadow in the sky...

It looks up to the brooding moon in question of how it forces without force...

To come out of your hiding... Naked to the core!

The oyster too wonders aloud :Could I have concealed my mystery a little further?
Recently I came across an article that spoke of the way the moon affects all of nature. For on new and full moon nights the oysters seem to open up, planktons seem to change their positions... Horses behave differently... And even our moods are effected in a way we can never fathom!
Thus, the mystery of the moon continues...!
Thanks for reading this! ❣
183 · Jul 2020
The other half
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
And you made me bow my head down in admiration!
The wound of the sword began to heal when your eyes fell on me...
O soul, what potion did your eyes contain?
That made me feel at home...
That touched my soul even before I knew what your hands felt like!
I knew nothing about you yet I knew everything...
It was as if you plundered my universe and stripped me naked to the core...
Remember me always...
I will love you till eternity!
And one day we will meet...
The greatest day of our lives...
For our ignited souls will find solace in each other!
                  ~V.Venandi
There is that one person you meet in your life... the essence of whose is unforgettable,incomparable...And that person is verily your other half...
Your mirror self!
183 · Aug 2020
Inside and out!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
She was taught to look up at the sky...
To find love in the stars, moons and the galaxies that danced an unknown song...

But...

She taught her heart to look into her own self...
And then did she found her love...
In the universe of her cells...that had been playing  a familiar tune since she had been born to live!
The universe inside and outside of us are the same! The meaning of our lives depends only on our perspectives we have towards life! For the one who has found himself... Never needs to find anything else! Just wanted to leave you with this thought! Gratitude for reading this! ❤
179 · Jul 2020
Conspiracy!
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
The frozen glacier surrendered to the warmth of the day...
The mountain valley smoothed itself to pave the way for a happy journey...
The rocks set the momentum for the tryst to happen in time...
The playful flowers escaped in the carriages of the wind to act as witness...
The sunshine sang holy songs of reunion and the moon acted as a watcher by the night...

Thus the stage was set...
Only for but...
The river to meet the ocean!
Random thoughts on how the universe conspires to make people meet! My heartfelt gratitude for reading this... ❤
178 · Aug 2020
Imperfections!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
The beauty of nature lies in it's imperfections...

A crooked branch, a deformed leaf, an unformed bud or a wingless fly...

Why do we then strive to be perfect?
Celebrating imperfections!
Thanks for reading this! ❣
166 · Jul 2020
Breeze & Gale
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
You entered my life like a breeze...
Gentle and promising...!

But left like a gale...
Brutal and vain...!
         ~V.Venandi
155 · Aug 2020
Pixie dust
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
The little girl was asked how  she would save the world, if ever it is needed...

She just smiled and with a wink  replied: A robe, A broomstick and some pixie dust...!
We were so innocent once upon a time... Really it feels sometimes... As if it would have been so good if we forever remained young!
141 · Sep 2020
Rain kissed!
Veritia Venandi Sep 2020
When the cotton clouds hide behind them the ripe apricot sun...

To make way for some sugar drops to flow from the pan of the sky...

My craving heart runs to drench my skin in droplets of divine candy...

To heal the cracks of a soul hunger worn by the torture of the days and the nights!
Rain never fails to bring my smile back! Thank you for reading this! :) ❤❤
139 · Jul 2020
Metamorphosis!
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
Fragile and naive...
Had she entered the pupa,
With a fear of the dark in her heart...

Headstrong and wise...
Did she emerge,
With a love of lightning in her soul!
Random thoughts on the way people are forced to change with times and circumstances!
125 · Aug 2020
Deciduous
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
Her wildness started changing colour with the seasons...

Sitting upon rugged branches, wearing the colour of leaves and singing evergreen songs...

Had long turned into spirits of once upon a time!

Now she dances in the wind, paints with the sun and the rain... Changes garments... And accepts her wrinkles...

As she slowly withers and falls to the ground tired... And to be born anew...

How her stubborn heart had melted like sweetness with the changing times!

That somehow she loved herself being called deciduous...!
Changing is hard... Yet to survive and evolve we have to change ourselves for the better!
Let us celebrate our changes not as a result of chance but by a conscious decision on our part!
Thanks a lot for reading this! :) ❣
115 · Jul 2020
Frozen times
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
Their eyes had met... Their lips had quivered... Their hearts had skipped their beats a thousand times...
Yet neither the other could move their one foot in the dangerous trail of the times...
He could never let his first love fall... And the heartbroken girl could not hurt herself more...

So they stood frozen in the two opposite shores of the sea of humanity, staring at each other...
Hoping for the other to disappear in some mist...
Like some beautiful memory in the dream of LIFE!
~V.Venandi
Love is the one universal language that we are never taught yet that which we understand without doubt...
Sometimes in life the right person comes in the wrong times... What can you do then but sigh at the hurtful irony?
113 · Aug 2020
Home!
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
In a place beyond heaven and hell...

Upon a pale blue face...

Dressed in a garment of green foliage...

Wearing neckpieces of wild flora and untouched fauna...

Adorned by a crown of diamond stars and ethereal clouds...

Having the mind of mountains...veins of waterfalls and rivers... And the heart of oceans...

Cells of gravels and skin of a holy soil...

Rain kissed body  releasing the divine petrichor and gemstones filled *****...

In such a place I exist...
Cradled in a Mother's lap...
What would I call it if not my eternal home!
Feeling deeply with the earth! Gratitude for reading this! ❤
113 · Aug 2020
Born day
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
And...
On that day...
In that place...

Began the dramatic chain of events...

Which we later learnt to call "Life"...!
Sharing some random thoughts about the day we open our eyes to the light! Thank you for reading! ❤
105 · Jul 2020
Hope!
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
The only candle flickered and extinguished...
Shrouding the room in a pitch black garment.

But then... But then...
A hundred fireflies showed up outside of the window giving light!

And the inhabitants of the lonely house learnt hope!
         ~V.Venandi
May your darkness be filled with the light of hope! Thank you for reading:) ❤
96 · Aug 2020
Remnants
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
There is no real end to anything...
Every thing remains in bits and pieces...
Whether it be the remnants of fallen leaves or the ancient ruins of a castle...
The charcoal still emits a hint of amber... Even when the fire has died down...
The heart still beats the tune of the faint remembrance of a loved one...

Some things always remain in small bites thus...
Maybe in the hope of wanting to be awakened...once again!
It is a universal truth that we cannot put an end to anything... We can lessen the pain... Transport ourselves to a new world... But still the memories live on... And will forever!We just need to come in terms with them,accept them and move on...Just wanted to leave you with this thought! Thank you for reading this! ❤
84 · Jul 2020
The companion
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
What do you ponder, O moon?
Do you wonder if I too have my dark side...!
What do you smell, O moon?
Do you catch the fragrance of death that lingers my side every moment...!
What do you hear, O moon?
Do you hear the agony and screamings of an invisible broken heart...!
What do you feel, O moon?
Do you ever touch my bed at night hoping to lessen my loneliness?
O ,dear moon, you may be seven seas apart,
But you and I are one in essence and loneliness...
For every second of our lives we live to die and die to live!
              ~V.Venandi
How often it is that the moon becomes our companion during times of adversity...!Ages back on one such dark night... The moon became my lifelong companion!
76 · Jul 2020
The bond
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
Thousand miles apart...
Yet the same in essence...

For lo! On a hot summer day, when the dehydrated grasses shed tears of a chill longing...

The sky offers the same with loved tears of consolation and a candid embrace!
Just had random thoughts while looking over the garden... Thank u for reading! ❤
72 · Jul 2020
Broken
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
How often at night my soul lays awake in bed...
Reaching out to the hollow emptiness...

How my mind gets numb and the heart beats in horrible pace!

The three things broke me... Yet has kept me alive!
The ticking of the clock...
The childhood trauma...
And His return...!
            ~V.Venandi
72 · Aug 2020
Angles
Veritia Venandi Aug 2020
How easy it is to say:

"A mirror broke into a hundred pieces"

What if it was your 'heart'?

How simple it is to say:

"The hunter trapped the deer"

What if you were the 'victim'?
Putting yourself in others shoes is a hard task indeed.
Thanks for reading!❣
68 · Jul 2020
A girl in love!
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
But even before I could express myself...
He left the city without trace!

But my heart found him out, and wrote letters...
Singing ancient songs of admiration...!

And he replied with black letters of condemnation aiming to break my heart...

But what the girl inside of me did?
She *bowdlerized his sour letters...
Into letters pouring love and honey and slept with them day and night...!

Was it a budding poet's heart that did so or a lover's heart I could not fathom till this day...!
Today for the first time I decided to take BLT's word of the day challenge... It was fun... Thinking of a way to engage the word into a poem... I just thank everyone who will be reading this! Gratitude ❤
48 · Jul 2020
Scintilla!
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
In the dark gloomy sky...
The crows and the owls screeched their ugly melodies...
For the world below lay scattered in pieces of fragile humanity...
Once or twice a menacing wind blowed to keep a check on any joy that seemed to arise out of the bottomless pit...
Terrible is the word that described the drama that unfurled in the place between heaven and hell(earth)!

And yet not all was lost...
Inspite of the storm the old man has continued to walk in his limited garden...
Inspite of the gloom, men has gathered in himself the courage to sing the song of praise!

And if that is not enough...
Can't you behold the million scintillating lights that has always been a part of the dark sky... ?Like the twinkling stars!
The hopes of men continue to give light and life to a million unborn souls!

We will find the way...
We will go back to our ancient days before the sun sets forever...
For hope scintillates the sky and I decipher in it the message... that
"This too shall pass"
         ~V.Venandi
Wanted to spread a ray of hope amidst this gloom of the pandemic !
Yes, we will  soon be out of this together!
39 · Jul 2020
Phobia!
Veritia Venandi Jul 2020
Once upon a time...
I had gone down to the sea.
From ancient of times, I had heard that the sea can teach you "love"...
And thus I had gone, anticipating to learn the art of love.

But the sea was a different sight...
Dark waters swirled in phantom waves towards me...
The blissful guardian of the sea called the sun had gone to a slumber... Spreading a veil of darkness over my eyes...
Streaks of thunder flashed across the sky...
And it rained on my hopes that I had long dreamt of !

Drenched in the rain and in invisible tears,
I realized the depth of love...
For love is but the depth of the sea and I, but a shallow soul...!My heart had but no courage to approach the trench that love was...
And thus my soul began to fear the sea... N sadly, love too!
               ~V.Venandi
Random thoughts that swirled to reflect the uncertainty we sometimes have towards love.Deep water...Shallow souls...what else can be more frightening?

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