Monday Morning — Shashikant Dudhgaonkar | Shashi’s Verse Home › Poems › Monday Morning Monday Morning By Shashikant Dudhgaonkar — September 23, 2025 Most Mondays When legs may refuse to walk One is lifted gently Prodded along the path By hope Hope energises, it inspires Though there’s something else Fear of death. That intense dread … Read more
Tiny Cloud Hiding in plain sight In our mind’s sky Clouds are our dreams Though we rarely look above Skies don’t remain our skies for long Taken over by clouds One can hardly recognise For people keep on pushing their own Unto our open skies They don’t want to stop us from dreaming Rather want … Read more
Blight Lost in the unfathomable depths of your eyes Evening dragged on endlessly Your luminous eyes kept alive The day Though sun had gone down the hill Night eager to carry me To hallucinating lands of broken sleep Had to wait It’s been years Rather don’t remember being submerged Ever in a restful sleep Demons … Read more
In the Scheme of Things Life is a well a spring a river A stream in a dream Muddy If seen with open eyes For half open and half closed eyes That can see far beyond Than dreams and actuality It’s an ocean far and wide That falls off towering cliffs With a deafening thunder … Read more
On Waking Up Woke up from sleep With a start Those beautiful dreams Faded away In an instant Looked around In the sheets on the pillow On the walls For a trace of them Even a tiny one Everything was lost In the closed eyes Of soulless night Except the world as it was With … Read more
Restraint We wait for moments rare to arrive Fancy a long and thrilling ride Yet when it arrives don’t know why We hide from the shower of falling stars ©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
That was life As everything turns, into a haze In those last, few breaths left But your face stays clear Can see your grief And those lovely eyes Now filled tears Drifting into the dark To never come back Moments with you Keep shining like a spark As everything else fades away Crisp and clear … Read more
Tree of poetry I long to sit Under the tree Of beautiful prose And poetry Lie on grass Of trillion words Look at emotions Float in winds Of wistful thoughts And misty dreams As they gently Land on grass Words like flowers Start to bloom Red and pink Yellow and green Small and dainty Large … Read more
Dream weaver Night grows slowly dark and deep Life takes a pause goes in a freeze Wind moves along weaving dreams In oblivious minds sleeping still Released from the day’s tyranny ©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
Feel lost in dreams Caught in a loop Can’t do anything I’d like to do As I twist the knob Taps run dry Reaching for food It starts to fly On jumping high I barely rise Trying to run Legs just freeze Can hear everyone Feel every taunt Feel every knife Twist in my back … Read more