I was once asked, for a price of a golden grain of rice by a man, whom I consider wise That took me a long time to cognize. My response might not have been wise. On the value of a golden grain of rice Reflecting on the thoughts that […]
Poetry
Poetry
A Love Quest
I know Like me, You are rooted In your terrain You can never Be mine Yet For you I pine I wish to be Transplanted Aspire to feel Wanted In reality I am grounded In spirit I keep wandering Haunted ~Sudha Dixit Bangalore, India
Upon Departure
Feelings overwhelming and sensory Mind fills with soothing memory Joy is not joyful if it lacks presence Flowers bloom, wane without fragrance Like a bug chews a tender leaf Sight of a damsel would deceive Pinching thigh skin comes to sense Flashback-clouds and fog so dense Heart would […]
To The Psyche
There is a man hiding behind the man you see whose ego is burnt carbon and is unique And darkened by the lord of death himself, prone to the flicker of eyes that would tell There in the offing is a maddened hour of wee when in the beginning cuckoo […]
Blind With Strange
Swimming with wings of night Passing through my shore of scar Landing in my screaming world Immerse in lasting glow Hover through my jives of life Falling for my collide of soul Where I sit and stand with unknown shade Walking in my cosmic night Where we deep […]
Ghosts in Me
A ghost in me – there resides a ghost in me It comes out when I swim in lakes at evenfalls So when a man sees my spine with evil eyes – and bites his tongue with his cowardly teeth – and lives in his head a dream of me […]
Environment of a Forest Life
A boy who lives in hostel went to a forest which was located behind his village. He could see few birds had settled in the branches of trees inside the forest. While loitering, he could see few deers, squirrels, several mynahs and foxes. When he walked further inside on that […]
True Existence
Everyone loves a rose and that’s the fact no one can deny. We embrace the joy of its beauty but we simply ignore the thorns which is an integral part of that beautiful rose. How unwise it would be to love the rose and hate the thorns that is integrated […]
The Burning Ship
The sky was clear blue but it was shaded down to unhealthy darkness around the sea beach. On that atmosphere, a tourist was practicing his violin while sitting on the edge of the vast sea. He, who was a violinist, was so engrossed in music that he could see nothing […]
Prince and His Moon
He waited for her, Called her his moon. He cried for her, Plead for her to meet soon. He prayed to find, Someone like his imaginary moon. He kneeled down, To find someone like her soon. When the moon will come into his life, All darkness will vanish. […]