You, me and ...... maybe you

Your hands trace the contours

I smile

You softly let your fingers scroll

on my warm skin

I smell green apples

what is it?

Your perfume or incense?

In the quiet

I can hear your heartbeat

and you can touch mine.

Each scar, each mark,

has a tale to tell!

you gently brush

a stray strand of hair

from my face

tuck it behind my ear

and trace

a gushing stream of cold water

down my neck,

I release my stiff shoulders

my breast bone loosens

the binoculars of my heart

read every line in your palm!

In a small salon

two women

share their stories

without a word

and give each other

the gift of empathy.

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SUICIDE PREVENTION #MentalHealth #MyFriendAlexa

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A closed window
a nailed pane
or pain?

No sunshine
been a week
have been weak?

life an ongoing scene
seen/unseen

word/world
herd/heard
what could have been!



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DEPRESSION #MentalHealth #MyFriendAlexa

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It has sharp claws

invisible

deep, dark eyes

invisible

fangs fatal

invisible

I smile often

cry-invisible

I walk often

stumble-invisible

I look happy

sadness-invisible

It is real

it has name

it stays with me

rides on my soul

Depression

Invisible!

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ANXIETY #MentalHealth #MyFriendAlexa

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Holding onto the last straw 

as they say

with my sweaty shaking hands

trying to calm the pacing breath

the shivering in my spine

I step out 

with a rebel body and mind

mine yet not mine

I am not your "normal"

but equal

if the scale to measure

is not blind to mental health

and we are all partly functional !

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To Him

Somewhere there

I have told him

I shall no longer

seek his company

I shall not ever now

pick roses for him

sit looking at him

with longing-full eyes

write passionate verses

 for his hands

I will not touch

the cold domains of his heart

with my burning pain

Until next lifetime

it is a break up 

O mehboob-e-illahi !

Drowning with Swadesh Deepak

fingertips tingle

not in anticipation

but in fear

of touch

that means pain



attempts at writing

reading, gone awry

words make no sense





Drowning

as I close my eyes

I see the missing writer

and his schizophrenia

laughing at me

from the palace of Mandu





I am in a nightmare

with open eyes

a salty wetness

trickling down my lips




clothes, books, pages

closing in on me

typhoons of the mind

drowning my notions of mine




I am on a crucifix

bleeding ink

it is now just

a matter of time.

Tea Musings

She gazes into

the fawn haze

of her tea cup

He gazes into

the amber pools

of her eyes

Life strangulates love

using the leash of time

At the bottom

of a cold cup

A dream remains

Undissolved

Untasted !

I am a Banzai skydiver poet

I am a Banzai skydiver poet

I have thrown out the parachute first

and now in a free fall

towards

myself

poem by poem

I dismantle wisdom

I remove all the safety gear

tradition,culture hierarchy

one by one

And I dive

into the free unknown

unprotected, alone

Nude.

in a sand clock......

trapped in a sand clock

called love

they filled each other

turn by turn

only one could be full

at one time

the other effortlessly

emptying soul

to measure life

when time died

she took him along

like a corpse in a coffin

and let him go like last breath

Z - Zbigniew Herbert (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“I could write a treatise

on the sudden transformation

of life into archaeology” 

― Zbigniew Herbert

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Wars that devour homes

and replace

 happy memories

with nightmares

also become poetry

- poems of pain.

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Y - Yann Martel ( Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?” 

― Yann Martel

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All of us

alone on this sea

with monsters

others won't see.

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W - William Carlos Williams (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.” 

― William Carlos Williams

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Kissing life

with few words

you live again

and again

in all the poets

in love.

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V - Virginia Woolf (Inspirational writers) #AtoZChallenge

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.” 

― Virginia Woolf

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So many anonymous

women

looking for

A room of one's own

Mrs. Dalloway

is all women

not wanting to

sign anon.

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S - Sylvia Plath ( Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“I write only because

There is a voice within me

That will not be still” 

― Sylvia Plath

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A mad's girl's love song

a heartbeat 

caged in The Bell Jar

finally freed

in death

and poetry.

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R - Rumi ( Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” 

( Jo dard tum mehsus karte ho, woh paigamat hain. Unhe gaur se suno.)

― Jalaluddin Rumi

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Whirl in 

words 

and silences

let it go.

N - Neruda Pablo (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“so I wait for you like a lonely house

till you will see me again and live in me.

Till then my windows ache.” 

― Pablo Neruda

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Love 

has a secret

synonym

- loss

but it's 

deceptive

comes dressed

as forever

for most.

L - Lewis Carroll (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“Curiouser and curiouser!” 

― Lewis Carroll

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Down the

rabbit hole

alone

reworking reality

Dear Alice

truth is

a myth.

J - James Joyce (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.” 

― James Joyce

To see the faces

faded inside the masks

to seek epiphanies

in ordinary tasks

this life a voyage

for Ulysses at large.