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Oct 2013 · 1.1k
Love
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
O’ Hera with your nine lives
Give me one without question
I seek but the music of your tongue
And the wisdom of its knives.
Oct 2013 · 766
Words Of Clay
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
I have woken in many a land
Many a shores that changed many a sand
But where does this all lead?
Moments pass and moments plead

Why be we the most wretched kind
A thousand years we inevitably unwind
The same history, its repetition present portray
But rain dampens those words of clay

Every day
Yes, everyday
How rain dampens those words of clay

The mirrors of our culture newspapers project
While some lonely poet these projections correct
Still we become our cruelest dream
As society merges into an ugly stream

Again poets write in tired words
Those suicidal lines for forgetful herds
Yet their emotions fail to achieve again
Because rain dampens those words of clay

Every day
Yes, everyday
How rain dampens those words of clay.
Oct 2013 · 1.3k
Last Trick In The Book
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Give me back my soul
For the last trick in the book
After which I’m done
I’ll hang it on the hook

I don’t want your blood
Not even your round tears
Just keep away your smiles
And beneath hidden their fears

There is nothing you have done
That you apparently can
I sometimes wonder what you are
For it’s surely not a man

Just give me back my soul
For the last trick in the book
After which I’m done
I’ll hang it on the hook

Magic the unseen doorway
To the truth behind the lie
Your life’s about to crumble
And you about to cry

Let me put a soft spell
Upon your sleeping eyes
And preserve all your feelings
Before this night dies

Just give me back my soul
For the last quest in the book
After which I’ll be tired
And will hang it on the hook

What became of you Gulliver?
In your scarlet state of mind
To satisfy you pleasure
The poor torturously must die

All your travels have failed you
With all the world that you have seen
You haven’t changed one bit
From the monster you have been

Just give me back my soul
For the last trick in the book
After which I’m done
I’ll hang it on the hook

The high chaired men are fantasizing
Gold studded angels on their chest
After all their bullets have pierced
All those misguided young *******

The judge with his arrogance
Does seem to be unsure
He keeps wondering always
Is he a man or a *****?

Give me back my soul
To play the last trick in the book
After which I’m done
I’ll gladly hang it on the hook

I thought we wouldn’t crumble
Forever be at peace
But man over man does stumble
Like shadow over shadow in deep trees

The hour of knowledge shall not return
Never shall magic sway my heart
The promises of forever have burnt
Another animal must make man’s start

Just give me back my soul
For the last trick in the book
After which I’m done
I’ll hang it on the hook

I don’t want your money
And I don’t want your change
Just give me all your troubles
Before you go insane

Once stop on your footsteps
And look back on the footprints
Is that the path you wished for?
To misery when it hints

Give me back my soul
To play the last trick in the book
After which I’m done
I’ll hang it on the hook

I see the wind still blowing
In the direction whistling before
Our hearts shall never change
Or change the tune of the lore

Will decisions mark our graves?
Or graves decide our fate?
Let magic play its tricks
And love conquer hate

Just give me back my soul once
I’ll play the last trick in the book
And once that I’m satisfied
I’ll never turn and look

Reason escapes my senses
As reasons cry in blood
Must man forever **** man?
Or love instead he should?

Where is the book of knowledge?
Where is the hidden tree?
I don’t want all the answers
Just want answers to find me

So just give me back my soul
For its magic plays the trick
And once after it has played
It shall stand like a stick

Wish your palms weren’t slippery
Your heart would stick too
Though between the sea and devil
You’ll take your pick too

There is just one life
And none shall ever return
Here lies all our laughter
And after, just silence stern

So make all your choices
And be sure of what you choose
For the misery might just **** you
If not your heart left loose

Give me back my soul
I want it one last time
And then you can keep it
Until you get tired

Nothing has changed since man
It’s still the same old joke
As boring as it could ever be
The first trick in the book

No whiskey helps any more
No beer can play the trick
Nothing can replace the feeling
When eyes have changed to bricks

I beg you give my soul back
And I’ll show you a surprise
There is in it nothing
Except your hushed round eyes

Just give me back my soul once
And I’ll kiss you with my tricks
And whisper the magic answer
Into your swollen lips

Just give me back my soul
And I’ll teach you the last trick
For once I’m gone forever
You’ll need it with your stick

Just give me back my soul
For the last trick in the book
And once I’m done with it
I’ll surely hang it on the hook.
Oct 2013 · 737
Winds at Dawn
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
At the hour of the dawn
When the sailors have gone
And the ship is standing
To be taken

And the cold singing breeze
Sings its changes to the seas
And the song will never
Be forsaken

But the change that has come
Will never stay here at home
And the sailors will leave
In the morning

And the girls will just cry
When the songs have passed them by
And the breeze’ll cease to try
To be pleasing

And the curvy horns of time
Will surely always deny
That there were branches to
The girls’ soft feelings

And the trees will just swing
Every morning again
Waiting for the change
To be coming

But the old men will rot
And young be forgot
And nothing will change
In the end

The same hour shall strike
Everyday every night
And nature’ll be whimpering
And moaning

Calling to proceed
To pay some more heed
To the pain of the innocent
That’re falling

The swift sea has changed
And the feeling disarranged
And songs no more mean
The same meanings

Like a hound that moves
As it looks at the moon
And the moon pretty
Just keeps smiling

And the hound then howls
Its deep lamenting growls
To night and its forgotten
Promises

And at the side of the dawn
When the pirates are alone
With their smiles and their scars
And their singing

And their cheer shall be heard
To the wind and the birds
And the air in celebration
Cheering

For nothing is lost
When happiness the cost
And happiness the prize
In winning.

The girls will dance again
To the tune of the rain
And their dresses shall flow
Like silver

With soft shining eyes
And their innocent surprise
And their bodies moving
And swaying

Like gods they shall rush
Away from the hush
And remember the dawn
With laughter

Once that the hound
And the pirates have calmed
And the girls have ceased
Their chatter

And tired they shall sleep
On their beds in a heap
Free from all thoughts
Of slumber

And the wind and the dawn
Shall pass on and on
And wait again for the
Cheering

When the pirates shall return
And surprise everyone
With their smiles and their scars
And their singing
[That’s it!]
Oct 2013 · 626
My Eyes Do See
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Poor Jack, his eyes were cruel
They would pop when saw a duel
They would talk with words cruel
To themselves and to Jack

The left was grey, and the right green
Without them he couldn’t have seen
All the useless times been
All the politics of liquid crack

When they saw the fat, suited
The left would smile, the right hooted
As the fat with lies mooted
While Jack just sat and drank

When his thoughts with grapes mixed
They would sow their seeds, fixed
Upon the fat their words affixed
While intoxication did Jack grab

The fat would quote from books old
From his notes that he’d unfold
Every time he spoke, he sold
Another idea that Jack drank

But the eyes were smarter still
They saw the words of lying Bill
Their only wish, with a knife to ****
To stab the fat in the heart

No last revolution did they see
Coming out of the vocal spree
Just a decadent political decree
That they didn’t want Jack to buy

So they plotted a scarlet ******
When Jack would be all asunder
As whiskey make him smile and stutter
They would play their wretched trick

With a thought they would send
Make the staggering drunk pretend
As in reverence Jack extend
His hand to greet fat Bill

So it came that Jack did stand
Drunk and swaying as a man
Smiling as a stupid fan
Beside the wooden podium

Jack didn’t know what he did
But he felt that he was hit
And while falling his tongue bit
With blood spurting from his mouth

They chained him and took him out
Made him stand in front of Sprout
Who smiled as he his gun pulled out
And shot Jack in the head

The grey eye closed before the green
Because nothing alas! Come between
The eye’s sparkling murderous glean
Not even whiskey did the trick

And so Jack on the street buried
As the revolution in rage scurried
As later children in books studied
Theories on assassination attempts.
Oct 2013 · 2.1k
Pen
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Pen
I’d stop to indulge in my cursed writer’s rut,
And cease to perch beneath the spiky pine,
Like the winter snow my thoughts doth jut,
Beside a flame, on delicious dreams dine,
No forest bequeath or mountain’s soul call,
Just the spring of my writer’s pen approach,
As doth many a story on these blank pages fall,
The chilly snow, nigh the singing wind encroach,
Perhaps my mind in another universe doth roam,
Witness to more then what the eyes here fathom,
Like a child’s delight in summer’s soft moan,
Stories of Mermaids dwelling in nature’s *****,
Star by star and sun by sun, stories here themselves doth tell,
Of beautiful Queens and Kings of valor, my pen doth here compel.
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Lord wind helped the butterfly,
Dazed, enroute, protected under th' sky.
Ancient sun entangled in coloring,
On the yellow and white of its wing.


Gentle nature helped it over the hill,
Now it sat beside the queen on her sill,
The symbol of future on it stirred,
Fortune for the queen it brought; lingered.


Only for the appropriate eye to read,
Of coming days swathed in wicked greed,
For only the goddess, queen of light,
Such was the symbol on the butterfly.


She opened her eyes, glowing;
Butterfly held in her eyes, flowing;
She read the symbol with rabid calm
Hurriedly rose on her arm.


She deciphered no meaning useless,
Calculated the measure of the mess,
Anger bellowing under her breath,
But she only whispered at length.


"Come now black flags, riding;
Come on the cold wicked wind, hiding;
But cross not this land today
Greedy amoral as you stray.


You bringer of miseries
Crowding faceless thieves
I alone will shake your glory
Translate it into a forgotten story".


Thus putting her promise in her heart
She lands her feet, to start
This day; mother earth puts across a smile
She feels the feet for a little while.


Something is spoken between,
No words can define what they mean,
The glorious queen has understood
What mother earth said to her foot.


Thus began the ancient war,
This morning as the forests roared,
The queen gallant, picked her staff,
And called the angels at day's half.


Soft swollen lips, whispered;
The names of the angels, spurred
With the wind, the message flew,
To all the horizons it blew.


Mother earth saw all this power,
From her eyes drew gentle shower,
She alone could foretell,
The future of gods as well.


She alone understood,
How these winged words stood,
The fortune they would bring,
All black flags, soon be crumbling.


The queen of light, Aphrodite;
Gazed around outside;
From her lovely drapes today,
No black flags yet sway.


The chariots of the illuminant sun,
Swift across the horizon,
Rode to match and scale the hour,
Scaled along time's tower.


Labored to take time away,
Memories mounting as they sway,
The present being churned;
Past; all churned glories earned.


Gentle queen, wore white crystal dress,
Magnificently flowing, touched the floor,
Calm and serene, her face bore no stress,
As messenger wind opened her door.


"My lady! I arrive this hour,
I swept aloud, all, too far,
I summoned all to this place,
All shall arrive in much haste.


Angels wowed through all the spheres,
All made allegiance, and so their heirs;
Even now their horses trod this way,
They shall arrive at the half of day".


Soft pink lids dropped over her eyes,
She pictured her words in sublime skies,
Resounding and echoing, away and afar,
Its meaning trailing; a shooting star.


Followed secretly the silence of wait,
The coming of the seven angelic troops,
Sun’s chariot trod at stupendous gait,
Lord Wind and Queen await the sound of hoofs.
Oct 2013 · 1.1k
Whispers of the Night
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Upon the whispers of those first days and nights,
Hushed sounds of the tales the mighty moon recites,
Each night, as if, singing through its misty silent voice,
Its lore, like a newborn stream, with our ear toys.


You and I, I know, have heard this hymn once and more,
For oft have we wondered who in blue sings, and what for,
I know, because a tear I have seen in your eyes and you in mine,
While for hours in embrace, you and I have lovingly reclined.


O' hear my words. You; my wonder, my reason, my fate,
You, with your deer eyes, who have casually opened up a gate,
Shut so tight, that within me it was, I forgot it lay,
O' hear my words. You; my heart, my mind; hear today.


Once was there a garden in the center of all space,
It was tended by Adam while its scent Eve trace,
Each dawn unto dusk in delight they would snuggle and play,
Every fruit and tree in love, each light a glorious day.


Such then the lore extends; that it moistens and weakens my heart,
But, alas, if you witness, you hear some hope lingering in part.
A dewy dark night, an angel, through the center of the garden snuck,
And pawned and played upon innocent Eve and her lost luck.


The serpent with his guile approached the fair maiden to destroy,
With a slithering ravaging tongue to plot her fall was his wretched ploy.
He won. His vow complete. He shattered the garden to its feet,
And all things sighed and sank, as Eve fell from nature's seat.


With white lips the moon has sung this lore of eons, through,
While waiting ever so patiently for the two he once knew,
For their return he has with empty fingers awaited in the sky,
While in his silent heart, singing, the hymn he has cried.


"O' my love, my surprise, hear the tale of this undivided heart,
for in our eternal curse we shall never thus part,
Even if you fall from the garden, or me, the serpent beguile,
With your soul I fall, and you, forever with mine."


Thus spake Adam and plunged afore-with into the abysmal void,
His action, his reason; his alone, not one by serpent soiled,
Alas! He knew; not even a garden filled with eternal space,
could ever have changed his heart or taken her place.


Fearlessly to be punished with the same abhorring decree,
Their souls to be eternally tortured, but their hearts to be free.
Did Adam thus accept without question a most dark destiny,
For an affection that was hers, for a love that was again never to be.


It was this song from the moon that surged through my being,
Once that you and I had lain; in one night the world we had seen,
The lore like a thousand mountains from a cloud did reveal,
Undid my lonesome heart and like a Titan made me feel.


O' how now do I define how playful chance can play its tricks,
Sometimes in zest, yet sometimes in anger; spits.
I pray, you, first flower of the garden of all space; you recognize,
That once that we have fallen, mortality is our prize.


When, to plunge with you into the abyss, I would never deny,
A chance to embrace you through eternity, I would never defy.
You, O' gentle one, O' Eve of the my hearts eternal space,
My wish is to hold your hand and walk, through, all eternal trace.


"O' true wisdom, O' illuminating surprise,
I here surrender to you in absolute reverence."
Oct 2013 · 727
Two Tall Feet
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Magic with your two tall feet
Whistling with your stormy eyes
Do you ever remember me?
Does your ear ever hear my cries?

Long gone and far, far away
Swimming upon the highest tide
Does you heart still beat for me?
Do your eyes still seek my eyes?

Magic with your slender fingers
Singing with your luscious lips
Do you ever remember me?
Does your ear even hear my cries?
Oct 2013 · 313
Divide
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Where is the promised place to hide?
Between his two part soul
Is the great divide.
Oct 2013 · 397
Colors of Flowers
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
What if;
Colors were flowers
And flowers were men
And men could swim to the sun?


Would it
Then be
Any different, would we
Still have,
Bombs and guns?


What if;
We were
The winds and waters
That cover this illuminant earth?


Would it
Then be
That we
Would fall
To berths that haven’t taken birth?


What if;
Tears
Had meanings and wisdom
And lips that spoke the truth absolute?


Would it
Then happen
That wars
And darkness
We spread for glory, we would mute?


What if;
The stars were hungry
And extraterrestrials
Our friends, and met us one day?


Would it
Then matter
What race
Or creed,
Or random colors our shadows went astray?
Oct 2013 · 924
Lust
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
She stabs him in his ribs
And lightly licks his lips.
Oh! wild lust,
Your venom is my blood.
Oct 2013 · 482
Desperation
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
He is scared of the ocean
Thoughts out of place and reason
Harder he beats his arms
Slower his mind in desperation.
Oct 2013 · 972
Ace of Spades
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Lonely Mister Ace of Spades, don’t deny it
You have tried so hard to fail
You know you’ve tried it


Perhaps you should have taken a different color
What with a heart that’s black
Now you just want to hide it


But no one told you where you were headed
No one cared to ask what you wanted
So now you just helplessly fight it


They set the rules without your knowing
Spread the deck on the table glowing
And among cheer and laughter sliced it


You wish every time so hard you wouldn’t win
Your hand so evil the game it always wouldn’t spin
But you just fail every time you try it


In this deck of falling cards, where nothing remains
You wish a hand to hold you had, but it pains
And every night you just mop and cry it


You dream the Red Queen, her smile on you would clean
It never will work, there is a King
It’s just a dream no matter how you apply it


Think about it lonely Mister Ace of Spades, think about it
When winning is not the prize itself
Just an excuse to pack cards and hide it


Perhaps you should tell yourself that it’s just a game
No one ever won a hand, it’s just all the same
But it won’t work because you’ll never find it


Lonely Mister Ace of Spades, don’t deny it
You have tried so hard to fail
You know you’ve tried it


Perhaps you should have taken a different color
What with a heart that’s black
Now you just want to hide it
Oct 2013 · 505
Goddess of Delight
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Goddess of delight
Hold on to this night
We need your arrow
To mark our dreams.
Oct 2013 · 1.4k
Apology
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
He was a scrawny little boy, holding his heart up close
With his blurry eyes, his hand was holding a red rose
His heart apologized, his tongue to commit he chose
But she wasn't there to accept his apology.


Its changed, its not the same, its different, she said
The sun, the fire, the flames drifted; have burned the bed
Ashes remain where a city of unquenchable dreams stood
The wind and the ashes blurred his crying apology.


One moment its there, the palace of dreams and bone
Then the fire burns, and burns right out of control
The silence clouds the embers that flicker and stroll
And in the silence no one hears his kneeling apology.


What does he say to make amends?
What does he do so the feeling suspend?
Turn back the time, or from ashes build the city once more
Would only happen when nature roar his undying apology.
Oct 2013 · 597
Fear
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Flood of thought and fear
Within a dream
Other dreams disappear.
Oct 2013 · 750
Magic
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Magic with your two tall feet
Whistling with your stormy eyes
Do you ever remember me?
Does your ear ever hear my cries?

Long gone and far, far away
Swimming upon the highest tide
Does you heart still beat for me?
Do your eyes still seek my eyes?

Magic with your slender fingers
Singing with your luscious lips
Do you ever remember me?
Does your ear even hear my cries?
Oct 2013 · 411
Never
Yuvraj Jha Oct 2013
Such memories as we gathered,
Travelling thin from age and age,
Tunnel by tunnel to travel further,
And tread our lives trace by trace.
Such trees as them that weep softly,
Still and frozen in their branches past,
Within a mirror with no reflection,
Never to find themselves, alas!
Change within, but not without,
No change can never be complete,
Not you and me, we'll never stand still,
Not you and me, with our tireless feet.
This hunger, yes, you and I know well,
Our lives to learn, to know and be free,
Our hearts and mind a colored illusion  
To walk beyond our eternities.
Ever will we stand, o' still
Never;
Not you and me.

— The End —