Relentless Predictability Lost in the woods of life One tries hard To escape the monotony The relentless predictability Of new models, new versions Of new foods, new things to wear New places to visit to revitalise Not forgetting the meanness and deceit For millenniums which has Remained the same Yet when they come across a … Read more
Otherwise Sometimes you are lying On your back in a gutter Sometimes flying High in the air And honestly Both of these times You don’t know why Though you may claim Otherwise ©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
Clarity Nothing dies And yet nothing lives There’s no happiness Nor relief For mind that’s muddled Lost its steam Clarity is rare Not everyone has Yet most feel their vision Is clearest of all Unmindful of beauty Chaos or pain That lies there Waiting to be seen ©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
Image credit Kento Hirasuo @Unsplash White Lines White lines keep, running back Along the tar road, greyish and black Blinking in beat, with broken lines Hypnotic rhythm, that calms me down Bus kept whizzing, furiously past The passing hills and scattered grass Dreams kept following, far from above White clouds flying, in deep blue sky … Read more
Wrinkles One Sunday on a lazy afternoon Was Ironing a shirt For there was nothing, else to do As I moved the press casually across Saw wrinkles disappear in a flash Nothing new, been watching the same For years, since I have learned to press Yet the way the cloth, smooth it left With a … Read more
Triple Rainbows There were two rainbows, in sky In moments a third one, just materialised A ring under two, that arched across Never in dreams, could have imagined that Hills were green, streams ran astray River that followed, had dancing waves Felt something unique, was in the air So stopped our ride, for a longer … Read more
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
Old Man in his Field There’s such a pain In the back and legs In his field and the heat When he works all day An avalanche small Has laid to waste Land to be tilled Sowed before the rains Old and frail in his eighties He sternly guides The excavators working To clear every … Read more
Journey Last Found myself on opening eyes On a tiny boat, almost adrift Standing alone, holding an oar In a faraway world, I had never seen It was mystical, yet dark and grey A strange light creeping everywhere Adding to the luminous gloom Looked behind on hearing some sound Saw a flock of vultures, homing … Read more
Missing piece We move on in life Like a river wild Cascade at times From rocky heights There’s so much to see And a lot to feel With scenery changing every mile Yet always there’s an Unsettling feel That jigsaw of life Is missing a piece So we sneak and peek Surreptitiously look For signs … Read more