Epitaph & Chasing Illusions | Poems by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Epitaph & Chasing Illusions Epitaph & Chasing Illusions Read Epitaph Read Chasing Illusions Read Both Epitaph An epitaph, an obituary that’s what we reach in the end. But what’s the end? What’s the journey? We never come to know not when we … Read more
A Narrow Road and Life’s Voyage – Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar A Narrow Road and Life’s Voyage A narrow road I walked each day Has widened into a highway. The distance hasn’t changed, Yet it feels less These days. Perhaps life too Is a voyage, Where broad highways run far faster Than the shorter mountain … Read more
Someone Waiting Someone Waiting Life is beautiful when someone waits for you to come home and you yourself, too, can’t wait to see them. They may be your sibling, your child, your spouse, your parents, or even your pet. Coming home becomes an event, something you may not think about while submerged in the suffocating … Read more
Lines written like a tale, following no specific format, telling a tale that needs to be told. Old Man Tales Days pass by Sunrise sunsets months and years On autopilot Sometimes something breaks down Or defeated and dejected We lie down Slipping into a dark place Where shadows crawl Some whimper some cry Others scream … Read more
In the world we live in, it’s difficult to understand what’s real. Many a times reality bites. Almost compelling us to ask questions. To the world and more so to oneself. Though we tend to ignore it. Living, enjoying and suffering in the make believe world is relatively easy. For the urge to belong is … Read more
My Glass I keep talking a lot Almost everyday With my half empty And the half full glass Don’t want to offend both Optimist and pessimist The rest in between have somehow Become my friends And they don’t care My glass is never empty though Never has been Ice soda and a spirit I can … Read more
My observations about unpredictability of life, individual efforts, rewards, failures and future. From my experience of working in a big organisation as medical doctor and observing closely, life of my patients. Expecting your comments and opinions. Contrary or otherwise. Past as everyone says, is irreversible. One only has the present in their hands. To experience, … Read more
All is well eventually Sometimes one emerges From the process of living Enlightened And having gained something Sometimes with cracks That will fill up with time Sometimes wounds so deep That they hurt for a long time And may never heal Even with care and time Some of the times piece by piece One is … Read more
Life is one huge jigsaw puzzle and we spend our lives in completing it. Some try to complete it knowingly some unknowingly. Then there are daily, monthly, yearly or hourly jigsaw puzzles to complete. In the form of assignments, projects, participations, responsibilities, organisation work, relationships, families, society, etc., Even executing one’s duties as a normal … Read more
Smoke In The Air It’s all a waste Realised it late All dreams and desires Losses and gains All that posturing Claiming higher ground Flogging that tired Body and mind To arrive anywhere At pride’s dictates To find there’s nothing Waiting at the end Just glasses empty And full ash trays Dead stubs heaped up … Read more