10 September 2008

Sensual

















A burning passion

Shapes my spirit

Setting my throat on fire,

I feel liquid contour and bend from within me

Forming an outline to my heart,

The place where my life is sustained

I feel the earth shake around me

Trembling, I touch your face

06 September 2008

Silent Minds Give Way to Loud Hearts











You are silent

With those wide set eyes, you move me

How did it happen,

That my heart is loud, but my mind is silent

Your legs move, you run past me

And yet it turns out that in reality you are only walking


How did the silence of the atmosphere around us turn SO silent all of a sudden?

As if we are trapped in a moment that can never leave us,


Where is the loudness that consumes an ordinary day?

Traffic moving and people hastily crossing the streets…

The Babbling of languages in giving everyday directions…

The news that comes on CNN…


China has won 17 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 5 bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics!

01 September 2008

4 Chambers of the Mind


















Thump…Thump

The heart beats


Memories echo

Within the walls of the room

They seem,

To utter a single most theme


A silence, An insanity

25 August 2008

The Smiling Box

















She touched the small box in her pocket and smiled. It was what she wanted for a long time, as she always made a point of passing the "Nature and Outdoor recreation" store, thoughts of this fluttering in her playroom always consumed her mind. Spring time, a time for remembering one's own longing and a loved one's sacrifice, was the holiday in which she finally received the Box of Wonder. She untied the pastoral green and pink ribbon box, and seeing this Gift of God inside this square wooden box filled her with delight!

She, a young girl of ten, had to live life to the fullest. Her playroom at home was a small container that had stuffed animals, Barbie Dolls, and counting blocks from her past childhood years. She had a wide range of Barbie Dolls, from a doll who was a lifeguard to a Barbie who was a dentist. Dogs and cats were her favorite animals, so she had a wide array of tigers to beagles in her storage bin. Besides her playroom which didn't have a window to let in light, her whole house was dark, for they lived in a metropolis. Each day she was found to be indoors, for she had no other desire to explore the vast city she lived in. The neighboring kids were impossible to befriend, as they threw numerous amounts of eggs at her as she was walking on the sidewalk and even at her window when she was in the car with her parents. She therefore stayed inside all day and either studied her school materials, read for pleasure, or played with her toys. She was at least advanced for her age academically, even reading a novel on her own—an ability that no other child her age could do. The counting blocks, once used to aid her in everyday counting, was now hindering her ability to remain young forever.

Like the beautiful sight of a rainbow that comes after a rainfall, so to did a Ulysses Butterfly fly out from the wooden box and fly into the blue sky one spring morning. Morning was approaching quickly, and somehow this morning was different from other mornings. Light was permeating itself through every crack of the house, shining on the stuffed cats and dogs. It was light that suddenly made her little boxed playroom into a jungle, and everything in it so alive and exotic. As soon as the light filtered in, a Barbie well equipped to go exploring was found springing out from beneath the play bin, anxiously awaiting this budding adventure!

Joy, or the little girl who was sad, ran from surveying her room after breakfast, and into the day. She was, after all, chasing after her runaway gift!

19 August 2008

Back to School











I go back to school today

Textbooks, papers, and pens are packed

In that big thing we call a backpack,

As it anxiously waits to break our backs

Or to go on a piggy back ride.


The hill is steep,

The bus rolls down,

We go to school

Bullies wait,

The health office opens



Jack sees Jill

Jill breaks up with Jack

The soap opera of life bangs its fist from inside a locker


Hopes set

The heart pounding

As Tommy becomes the class president

A mixture has exploded within the lab in chemistry class.


The principal makes his announcement on the intercom


Jill is pregnant

With Jack's baby, they end their relationship

As Jack then comes out of the closet, broadcasting that he is gay

The bus, dependant on gasoline, has stopped moving

For it has run out, the bus driver's pockets having been empty from the night before

As he spent that money on lottery tickets


The chemistry experiment,

As it was laid out in steps on the internet,

Was to build an atomic bomb—

By those same bullies, for their senior prank

The bomb squad comes


The light is at the end of the tunnel

11 August 2008

Bliss











I went on vacation

To some remote island,

The sea gulls call

As the waves tumble on the shore

Filling its white sand of past memories

02 August 2008

Toronto Travels
















O Canada!

How I find you so pretty

From New York, I marveled at your “1000 Islands”,

As the beauty blinded me on top of a sky deck

I saw you border with the red apple

The customs, in the middle of all the nostalgia

Was waiting for all passports from incoming visitors

Into your realm

23 July 2008

Time's Property

I need You, with you
You need me, with me
We are “vacation”.


The hour glass is gone
The vessel that holds
Time has floated from shore


Breathtaking landscape
Surrounds us with Love
As we journey here

03 July 2008

Minutemen Mirth











The summer breeze finds me

As the sun also shines on my face

The rain concludes the joy!



Bright flowers are here

As the bee pollinates them

One by one, they bloom!



The ocean breeze rolls

Onto the land filled with sand

Filling its shells with salt.

17 June 2008

Lasting Forever














The trees fill with leaves

In winter, the leaves lose leaves

An establishment!

12 June 2008

Attracting Opposites



Celebrate!
I am humanity
I establish peace
While I make war
Hooray!

03 June 2008

20 May 2008

MOTHER

As she cradles her newborn

This life that has waited nine months to breathe the outside air

She reminiscences her girlhood years, remembering her girlhood filled with dreams and hopes

Enveloped into the time it took to deliver, Mother now seeks a happy life for this child-- struggling

With the maintenance of his foundation, his home, and his belongings—Mother as a mortal filled with happiness and sorrow—battles for child.

She strives for perfection, imitating the sacrifice her own mother had done for her. Relinquishing stamina and sleep, Mother will narrate her child’s history.

10 February 2008

जय हिंद

























Rolling along the bright shore of Bombay

The waters of the Arabian Sea calls me

There have I spent my time

Amidst the monsoon rains

Caught up in the heat of the day

I collect rocks and pebbles

During Bombay’s continued summer

Walking along the vicinity of a park

I see people exercising...

Practicing Karate, walking, and playing sports

I was playing a sport once as a child here

Running fast with a smile on my face, I

Savor those times.

As I dream of returning to Bombay, India

The Paradise of the world

God Bless America































A Soldier

Fighting to protect his homeland and self

Materializes before my eyes



A red heart, a white birth, and a blue sky

Forms his existence

As he would continue to serve the elders

The ones who dictate the good and dictate the bad

Fighting in Iraq and coming back home alive



Opening the door to my life,

Literally, as I either entered or left a room,

A total stranger happened per chance to be at my service!



Traveling to Europe and Asia,

This international soldier of mine,

He has persevered among his peers

Acknowledging the many ideas that people across continents share and value



Like the military, teamwork is his foundation as an individual

With the will to change, he has the true spirit of an eagle.

He doesn’t stray from those that may be in harm’s way.

Treating everyone as they were all the same.



With a future that is as bright as it is promising, I would want peace and happiness to shine for him

From the four corners of the earth, I would want belonging and unity to always serve him

And to emphasize

We all

Are equal under the sky

Darkness

Darkness
Like a leaf in winter,
Tarnishes my character
As a single light by my window attempts to fill me with hope
As I start my tale


Of

Sorrow of being alone
Grief at the loss of a

All on the edge of my pen
As I write
This tale


I

Shudder at the things I have come to
Mock existence at its truest form


The single light of hope all at once burns out

09 February 2008

Utopia


When April showers shower

And May flowers flower

I shall go home

To the hills of Eglomè

Its Green Hills, the Paradise of man

Rolling lazily with Green

Of Glories past

Deck the picturesque landscape

As it Rolls into the clear blue sea

A blue abode of life

Schools of fish

Dart playfully among corals

Its thin, glossy fins sweeping the plants

Gracefully, one can see

The dolphins,

Happily gliding through waters

Of turquoise, here is Eglomè

My home, where the sun

Paints the sky of blue

05 February 2008

Language










As summer turns to autumn,

The leaves cascade down to the earth



Two figures rise from these falling leaves

A Dancer in black and a Dancer in white

Finding their way to the center of the woods,

These dancers inscribe their identities into the cold, barren earth

Stepping through the fallen red, yellow, and green leaves



Reaching the center of the woods, they feel a sudden warmth

Vibrant with life, this earth is the opposite of its desolate outskirts

Inviting the dancers to make eye contact,

The ground begins to babble.



As the dancers stamp the ground, their creators become one

As the dancers twirl, their cultures become one



Stretching out their hands to another,

The dancers embrace

As One.