In Wait (Inspired by Gaza)

As the air whooshes and the breath comes to a still with my entire being in presence, in wait, in watch a decade, a while, an eternity as the ink runs dry and the sparks flicker out A scream rises past gnawing through the throat A bare wisp escapes far from the embers A shadow...

White Facades

A landscape of white and toppling greys, A fall nearby, And a mournful sigh. A broken canvas etched in red, Erasing air and persistent breaths. Tiny beings, Hearts and orbs, A shard of ice And frosted grass. Pictures surround, Nature in mind Reality just another haze. Fickle stares, Of helpless souls Of lives gone, midst...

Canvas

Cubes, triangles and asterisks Amidst black watered chandeliers. Roses, dandelion and tulips With blood frosted roulette. Graffiti, chaos and sense In dance with the unknown. Brushes, juries and a paring, And duels met by the stroke. A pause, a query and the stars And meteors hit by the sun. Canvases all for a scene. Daring...

Of Rusting Manacles

To windows that gaze, And scenes that change. To horizons unmerged, And crowds untamed. To birds that fly, And chains that seize To those fettered apprehensions And stoic resolves, To those flutters and stutters And suave tethers. To limits and dedications And rambled letters, To senses and wise And awareness unbridled. Of rusting manacles, Cages...

Synapse.

Of bags that weigh a ton, And trinkets that hold a smile. Of muddied poignancies, And grins that are worth a dime Of parched turmoils, And caustic nights, balmy when on mute. Of mercurial words, And sombre steps Of silences unbroken, And hamartias errant Of pauses too deep, And thoughts, synaptic. Of journeys that start,...

I Write.

Today, I am writing because that's what I always do, the one thing that my heart still believes in. Words. The ink and the paper, creating magic capable of healing many and wounding many. Words and their catharsis. A life-force that help souls live another day, breathe and survive another routine of mundane existence. Today,...

Ballad of the Forest

Daily Prompt: ForestCanopies that hide songs,Carpets that pervade miles,Barks that crunch footsteps,And roars that split asunder,Cracks in the prism,Flame-quenched oceans,Parched nomads,And withered terrains.Forests of the wild,A Schrodinger's cat,Alive yet dead.Miles across,With glittering ensemble,And swirling smoke,Tiles that crunch footsteps,And breaths that steal life.Cracks in the prism,Icy gusts that seep in cold,Parched throats,And wrinkled souls.Forests of cement,A...

Meandering Lines

Daily prompt:Observe Rhythm of the ink, With thoughts whizzing past Words left unsaid, And bemused reveries, In a melange of melodies, Surrendering to the bliss. Quaint observations, And contemporary notions, In a juxtaposition of ideas, Fuelling the gliding ink. Yet, the pen stops every minute, The stoic resolve undone. Wandering to those closed doors, That...

Polar penchants

Notable"> Notable Courage and fear, Inexistent without the other. Elaborations of eminence, Watering down the profound sense. Indenting failures and learnt triumph, Faltering one's step yet nuturing Progress. Abstractions of notability, Thesis and anti-thesis, Contradictions yet predilections. Fuel that life breathes on.

Silence.

The past's tepid waters, Testing today's resolve. Echoes of tomorrow, Haunting the existence of present. Muffled shouts, That never survive sound. Souls born today, That seldom see tomorrow's light. Years of scars, That paint a smile. Eyes that tell a story, Of despair that morphed hope. The mind that has learnt, To remember and not...