The name of my blog randomandsuperficialthoughts.wordpress.com has been changed to https://shashisverse.com https://shashisverse.com Have done this so that the title of the website, reflects the contents of my blog Hoping that this change doesn’t disturb the past posts and old content and importantly the friends I have gained over here. Feel free to comment on this … Read more
From every wall Faces stare From every mirror Viciously gaze Taunt and tease Gloat and jeer Sometimes shed Crocodile tears Open your eyes Or turn your head A vilest face will Always be there You can only Inwardly rage Or close your eyes In deep despair ©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
Everything is baffling in the world nowadays. Looks like a confusing mixture of the movies Inception and Matrix. From the negativity on the digital media and social media, level of politics and social divisions. What is real and What is unreal. Fountains are spouting Beautiful pearls Are these pearls Real or fake Or everything around … Read more
No one is truly Alone in life Lonely ones are also Followed by strife Following are always Hurts and pains Memories of people Their words profane Unhealed wound And ugly scars And failures fiddle With bleeding hearts Loved ones depart With hate in heart And arrive in solitude To tear you apart And even if … Read more
Lost somewhereOn the waySmiles nowadays haveTheir feelingsNow they doVery easily comeAnd disappearEven faster.©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
When you are lostAs you walk down the path And try to rememberWhere you were walking toAnd why are you evenWalking alongYou want to pauseFor a moments fewAnd try to find Your bearings anewBut you go on walkingWithout a pauseAfraid of the looksYou’ll get if you stopAnd you keep on walkingTo lose your wayNever to … Read more
The dying embersFlicker and flutterIn final gaspsOf freedom and truth.The wind is silentAfraid to move.In the bushes hide,Watchful eyes.Afraid to fly,In the open skies.Birds are hidingIn shrinking cages.Distrust in the airSuspicious minds Mobs on a rampageBlind in hate. The silence of the fewWatching in fearRegretting the deathOf their soothing voiceLeaders are stoogesAnd artists are mimes.Cult … Read more
May be not, in a single lifeI may know, what living isIs it a role, in a school playOr am I, in a live showRoles I play, many at timesTired I feel, keeping the countWhere one ends and other beginsLines are thin and faintly definedBeginning is fuzzy, end not in sightThe middle is where, all … Read more
Eat a littleRead a littleThen lie downAnd try to doze offLoosen your faceSmile a littleThen little moreWider than wideWipe off the frownFrom your browLet them droopOver the eyesBreathe a littleDeeper breathsFeel the airMoving outClose your eyesWelcome the darkAnd gently slideIn a peaceful trance©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
Troubled days andtroubled mindLife can be a messMany a timesI wish for calmIn a chaotic worldMoments of peaceIs all I crave.But anger and rageTakes over meAnd I lose all senseOf everythingI Close my eyesLook for a streamI played as childIn far off woodsAnd as I getLost in those woodsI find the peaceI was searching for©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar