Nirvanas in a Red light District

“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.” 

― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Somewhere in a defamed street

behind the neon lights

 De Wallen- the walls

amidst eyes and bodies

I looked for souls
the wounds of the heart
that we try to patch
with moments
of flesh

Window displays 

of bodies

and copulation
fantasy extended
beyond fanatasy

the voyeurs see mirrors

I see myself 

clearly as a woman

and suddenly know 

that the hands which

will hold me together

and the hands 

that will grope
me violently

will often be the same 

Life like a

LIVE sex show

pre-paid

no returns guaranteed
pleasure is subjective
Desire is a cigarette burning fast

Right there along with

the rosse buurt 

in the Zeedijk

a Buddhist temple

incense & prayer flags

and brief Nirvanas

I felt best

scattered in a 
red light district !

Bhagat Singh Paash

57 years apart

a rope and and a few bullets

presumed they

killed a revolution

a 23 years old

whose bride was freedom

a 37 years old

who was Anti-

everydayism

that date scattered

their free souls

in the cosmos

so that poetry thrives

and even if it is

that of a weed

ripping hard-parched land

revolution lives on !

Hindi Version HERE

May all the blog odds be in your favor ! #AtoZ #ThemeReveal

I did my first A to Z fighting one of my worst battles with depression in 2015, and continued successfully for 2016 and 2017. 

You can have a glimpse at my previous three successfully completed A to Z challenges here:

2015 - In The Memory of My Late father

2016- Life Lessons

2017- Short Poems for Inspirational Writers

This FOURTH CONSECUTIVE year stepping away from my core form of POETRY I will try to surprise my readers with 100 words long FLASH FICTION.

So I have set a sort of challenge within a challenge for myself.

I have been on social media including blogging for almost a decade now, appropriate time to look back, so the THEME is again LIFE LESSONS but this time LIFE LESSONS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA.

Looking forward to meaningful co-learning !

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Keep blogging ! May all the blog odds be in your favor !

Wound

he examines the burn

only the visible

severity of a pain

gentle dressing

is not life's choice

for me

with a scalpel

without anesthesia

life opens 

the wounds

and forgets

the sutures later on !

Candy Shop

standing outside 

life's candy shop

I count my pennies

the shiny price tags

all beyond me

peace, love, success

in their shiny jars

like nasty kids

sticking out their tongues

they silently smirk and 

say L-O-S-E-R

I can't surely afford

what I want

and would never want

what my pennies can buy

so I turn around

and throw the pennies

above my head

making a wish

that some other kid

might pick them up

and have her dream

fulfilled !

the last time...

Do you remember the last time....

• you were a child and sat in a parent's lap
• you believed in superheroes and magic
• you hid a candy to have it later
• you looked in the mirror and cried
• you put a coin in a piggy bank
• you held a deceased parent's shriveled hand
• you put your tired head on a friend's shoulder
• you felt the warmth of a loved one next to you
• you saw someone smile and it melted your heart
• you saw a sunset and it didn't make you sad
• you read an obituary and said a prayer
• you saw a couple in love and smiled
• you brushed your fingertips on a baby's cheek
• you let a cup of tea get cold waiting for someone

the beauty and cruelty 
of every last time is
that you don't know it's the last

the last time !