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.

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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Q - Qabbani Nizar (Inspirational writers) #AtoZChallenge

“The female doesn’t want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.” 

― Nizar Qabbani

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Hearts are

the worst

disputed territories

the war

never ends.

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.

I - Isaac Asimov (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” 

― Isaac Asimov

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Of galaxies

supernovas

and stardust

a world beyond

our own 

in the universe

yet largely 

unknown.

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F - Fernando Pessoa (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge 2017

“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.” 

― Fernando Pessoa

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We are too many souls

trapped in

one identity

In a world

scared of single voices

we have

one too many.

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D - Dickinson Emily (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZChallenge2017

"This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me" 

— Emily Dickinson

We write about nobodies

in a world obsessed

with wannabes

they call it

mad rambling

We call it poetry.

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C - Cohen Leonard (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZBloggingChallenge2017

“Ah, grief makes us precise!” 

― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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A book of longing
would have been perfect
with a book of losing

I am that
crack in everything
waiting for light.



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A - Atwood Margaret (Inspirational Writers) #AtoZBloggingChallenge2017

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.” 

- Margaret Atwood 

Margaret Atwood
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A handmaid's tale 
surfacing
in an 
eco-feminist trance
The writer, 
the woman,
the nuance !

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Short Poems for Inspirational Writers - A To Z Challenge 2017 (Theme Reveal)

HAT-TRICK CHANCE as they say in cricketing terminology.This is my third consecutive year at the A to Z Challenge.

A to Z Challenge 2015 my maiden challenge was dedicated to the memory of my late father, who had passed away a few days before the challenge. All the posts their , very special to me personally and found an overwhelming connect with readers far and wide, still do.

A to Z Challenge 2016 happened when I was struggling with mental health issues and a really difficult personal time, so I chose the theme life lessons , to share what I had learned and find new insights.

2017 has started with laurels for me as a blogger. This blog has received the ORANGE FLOWER AWARDS for POETRY and my other blog for HINDI WRITING.

So this year I dedicate my A to Z Challenge 2017 to all those who have inspired me with their writings and hence I will write

SHORT POEMS FOR INSPIRATIONAL WRITERS

I will be picking one writer every day and try to write an ode kind of poem about how their work has inspired or influenced me.

Fellow A to Z people, looking forward to loads of co-learning and fun.

Good Luck !

Love Song of a Broken Woman

Muses are not always

Greek goddesses

Stories often lack

mythical significance

The chaotic noises

in a troubled mind

And the hole in the chest

Carved where once

blood pumped feelings

Are a broken soul's tavern

Tired is the only

Universal feeling

Of making up, making out

Breaking in ,breaking out

Breakdown

Fallen in love

Icarus or Lucifer

Just a woman

In an eternal fall

Shards of careless words

Peel the remains of love

From a carcass called body

And then the master stroke

Silence - to drive the knife home

And twist it to the last.

To Ginsberg

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ” 
―     Allen Ginsberg 

The destitute old man's
mumbo-jumbo
follows me around
his eyes
have some of my questions
Across cities, centuries , continents
loneliness has the same texture
I listen to Ginsberg
and following my inner moonlight
I show my madness
the world turns away
like dubbed cartoons
who speak a foreign language
merely mouths move
conversations are long dead
heads buried in smartphones
hearts buried even deeper
all of us
are yellow sunflowers inside
looking for a sun
the soul howls
at lighted cities
and the fountain of darkness
spilling over
threading colored beads
on a string
I think of Ginsberg, Kerouac
and Rumi
we the damned
unclassifiables !

To Ghalib

drowning
a lifetime into
this city's sunsets
and decades
of despair
to be a legend
I breathe
your angst

dead souls
masquerading
with fake smiles
lust wearing
love's cloak

words die
a silent death.

referendums
and regrets
life is worst
when it is
a pending decision.




 

Conversation

The blank page
blankly stares back
makes a face
mocks
- "so writer
no words any more
no more wisdom
sprouting
no more flames
burning."

the cursor blinks
the fan whirrs
I smile
and murmur
"Liar ,liar
dying for the
black touch of words
on your bland soul
I shall leave you
longing tonight."
 

This isn't a poem

Labels everywhere
on minds, souls and thoughts
and there is Eliot
on the shelf

today I can take
walk with him
on the streets of London
or anywhere

no longer afraid
of the asylum
that's where
the questioning ones end

the rest just comply
or shut down

the million-handed
octopi of thoughts
snatch words
from each other

and then
when the noise
reaches an unbearable crescendo

the words run helter-skelter
to meditate

you cringe or smile
there is no evidence
of any feeling ever

I look up
to find a face
to put up
for the other faces
I have to meet today.

 

Blogoversary week special- TWO

Today I know for sure that Robert Frost,one of my favourite poets was wrong when he said,"Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty."
Yes I am sure about this because today I am no longer 30 ,I am 31.
The 30th birthday was sure a milestone of sorts.There was a new awareness of the meaning of time,as it was my first as a mom.
I started looking at the world differently but it was not as different as it seems today.I had just stepped into the thirties and so it took a while to sink in.Now that I am 31,it has set in with an indelible impression.
Some important things I have learnt in last one year:
LET IT GO !
LIFE IS LIKE A RIVER : A RIVER NEVER PASSES THE SAME PLACE TWICE.
SOME PAGES TURNED,SOME BRIDGES BURNED,BUT ALL ARE LESSONS LEARNED.
LIFE IS DIVINE CHAOS.

this was originally posted as @31

Happy Birthday Jagjit Ji !!

CURRENCY

Sentiment or language

or a bit of both

meaning or ambiguity

or a tug of both

conclusion versus confusions

the line is often blurred

This is who I am

This is what I do

my currency is poetry

what is yours?

Word Crutches

The chicken and egg riddle it is
I guess of the literary world

did word follow meaning
or meaning followed word

a thought without
the words to express
is it a valid thought

or a word without
a valid intention
is it really a word

this tough terrain of poetry
baffles my soul so much

there are no fixed directions
and words my only crutch !