The Moon Reaches Out

The moon reaches out
Caressing your face
Her soothing touch

The wind blows on you
Ruffling sliken strands
His boyish charm

The forests speak to you
A tongue intuitive,unlearnt
Of eternal truths

The birds sing for you
Flowers yearn for your touch
The grass waits to feel you

Rivulets to wash your pain
To make you whole again

Feel the ancient bond
Connecting you and her

In the womb of Nature
Rest awhile,rejuvenate
Find yourself.


P.S: Im not very happy with this one. Something which I cant lay my finger upon makes this incomplete.

What are we really after?

The three meal eater with no appetite
The child who starving twice each day

The agnostic pretending to believe
The bloody, ignorant fanatic

The uncaring indifferent sweetheart
The introvert forced to socialise

The teetotaller who yearns to get high
The alcoholic thinking it will work out

The fitness freak hoping to prolong life
The mystic who hopes for afterlife

The nine-to-fiver in it for the dough
The coding freak, computer addict

The family man desperate for a divorce
The woman who stays on for the kids

The kid who wants to grow up
The midlifer who yearns to be young again

Contradictions, pretensions, delusions
What are we really after?
What makes a content life?

Earth Hour Poem

Many gaze at the oceans
Admire lush forests
The majesty of tigers
And the glory of nature

They lament
The sad plight of dolphins
The massacre of whales
The destruction of coral reefs

Many wax eloquent
On the folly of Man
On his indifference
On his passive cruelty

Hold on! stop.

Are you not Man too?
Does not this responsibility
Lie equally on your shoulders?

Is it not time that we stopped vain chatter
And the lament of widows?

Stand up. Be a Man.
And being such
Take what comes with it.

We don’t need hollow voices
Enough has been said already
True work lies in the doing

Start with the Man in the Mirror
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and make a change.

I wrote this for the poetry slam at Atmos today for earth hour. Couldn't make it there. Thanks to Madhu and her cousin Ram for getting it read!

Carpe Diem

Laugh all you want. I am gonna take a resolution. One resolution. No, its not "Im gonna be good to mommy this year" or "Im gonna work out this year". Its something much simpler, something more.Two words. Latin. You know it .Carpe Diem. Yeah CARPE DIEM BABY!

A sudden connection over facebook, a sudden high, a new zeal for life. Poetry to usher in the year.

Carpe Diem

Inching closer to a new beginning,
A new dawn,
Feel the change
Palpable in the air.

High hopes,aims, dreams and aspirations,
Of promises kept and words broken,
Success and yet failure too

Every moment,every breath drawn
Carpe Diem pounding true.

Carpe Diem.Latin
"seize the day"
Take it by the throat
Capture it
Make it yours

Squeeze what what you can
Demand and get what you want
Go for it!

Yes CARPE DIEM!
For the whole damn year!
No matter who, what, when or why.

Life king size
For what you hold true
Life the way life
One given to few

You exist for yourself
You are your own proof
You are the witness to you life
The judge,jury and Holder of the Scale

Go sqeeze and suck each day
Wear out your shoes
Tread new paths
Do something, anything
Be true to you.

Yes.I mean it. Anyone sees me backing out on it, kick me in the butt and remind me.

Age of Poetry

Toddler poetry
Beautiful word shapes,
Simple joys,
Of poetic license

The Power
To spurn grammar
To ignore punctuations

Awkward adolescence
Gangly growth
Big words
Here and there
Mauling rhyme

And slaughtering scheme
Exposed to masters;
Inadequacy seen

Teenage poetry
Hope flourishes
And Ideals sown
saga's spawned
And skills honed

"The world will change
Love will prevail"
says the hoping soul .

Ageing is seldom graceful
Dead weight of expectations
Faded Realms of fantasy
Reality crushing you

Grand vocabulary
Enchanting imagery
But nothing left to say
Inferi of literature

"The Pen can but pen
Nothing ever changes "
Despair and helplessness
Pound you to submission

The Pen falls
Through the air
And the Mind,
It Fades to black 

Within

Declare me a lunatic
Straitjacket my cloth
Bury me deep
Within bowels of thought.

Llock me in
Free from sin
Never do I cease
Relentless beast within

Emotions are pawns
Free the king bound
Rethrone the kingdom of the mind
Throw open dungeons of the heart

How ever you deny
Im the reality within
For what is man
But beast beneath skin

I will occupy
Ii will help you die
I will run through you
Now i rule you too
Sad but true [:D]

The last stanza is Metallica I admit.Suited perfectly though.[:D]

Still Marching On

this one is about how people live life as though in a trance,blindly going through everyday motions like zombies.this is their march
STILL MARCHING ON
there is nothing epic
in this puppets march
no saga to live
no legend to tell

despair in poverty
and emptiness in wealth
boredom in life
and a void in death

this we try to fill
but time never stands still

from one void to another
nothing left to live for

create your fantasy
choose your ecstasy

the void shall never fill
for time never stands still

squeezing the essence your soul
you go beyond control

what remains now is shadow and air
a phantom with a hollow stare

thus does another fall
but they do not care
they go marching on
to the gates of hell

WHY EXACTLY??

why??the essential question?
a multitude of answers
but the answer i seek is one
for in the answer is the One

why do we have a fluttering mind
thoughts flowing into one another?

why do we have conflict and discord?
barriers ,dividers separating one another

why do we feel insecure,unsure?
in presence of one "superior"?

why dont we stick to our convictions?
moving with the crowd ,hither and thither

why dont we bother to comprehend ,to learn?
thinking i have better work in life??

why do we procrastinate ,postpone??
that tomorrow tends to forever??

why do we get distracted
when we think on lines like these??


each question has answers separate
but the answer i seek is one
For the answer is the One

the answer lies in realizing we are one
life matter and everything in between

the answer lies in realising the One
the supreme existence ,form whence we came

the answer lies in being the One
for where there is no duality ,there cannot enter strife

the answer is One
filled with ananda
the very nature of the One

questions infinite but answer one

realising this we realise the One
merge with the One
become one

for
where are divides in unity?
can a single existence conflict with itself?
can there be a question of death?
can there be hate or sorrow?
when your very nature is verily
existence knowledge bliss

find the One
merge with the One
become One
for the answer is One

A TRAIN TRAVELOGUE

a train journey from coimbatore to chennai.was smsing to pass time.and suddenly a message turns out to be this poem.so here it is:
A TRAIN TRAVELOGUE:
staring at the tracks
hearing the whistle of the train
the rustling of wheel on track
the chattering of the inmates

landscapes whizz by
one fading into another
dark silhouettes lit
by moon and streetlamps

passing a station now
not a soul to be seen
thought of hauntings,
and michael jackson's "thriller"

rail follows river now
vilage road on the bank
empty fields to the eye's gaze
a bike breaking the scene

train crosses train now
a roar
a rush
a flash of light
the whole thing gone

all alone on a berth,
you wonder;

the urge to break fee
to rid oneself of shackles
grows
stronger and stronger

like a second Che,
exploring the land of the tamils
i feel boundless freedom
nothing to care about

a journey of discovery
a journey inside
truckloads of questions
not an answer in sight
my mind is a mess now
thoughts flitting in and out
they go like:
" whats inside me ?
who/what am i?
where do i belong ?
what is my time for ?
the stations to be crossed
where im gonna reach
what should i carry with me"

the train has come to a halt now,
and so must this meandering mind of mine

unbelievable

here i am thinking about what im gonna do with ma blog ..thinking that people have lost interest in this and how im gonna take it forward and bam!i get my own poem in a message from my friend..i ask this lady who sent this to her and she says it is an sms forward from her friend...so yeah my poem is doing the rounds as an sms forward...but i do wish they put my name on it though....and by the way the poem is "dance of destruction"...so yeah that made my day...

this one is about the moment of the big bang or creation if you please...about how a single consciousness realizes its split into many....slight religious undertones to it

THE SPLENDOR OF A THOUSAND SUNS
Vast immeasurable oceans of space
Dark and empty to the farthest gaze

There is neither Light nor Dark
Night nor Day
the clock does not tick
the bell does not toll

Time has no meaning here
Nor does Space
All that exists here is Consciousness
An awareness ,with neither form nor face

Emotions are yet to be born
Creation yet to occur

A small minute speck of light
A golden Orb of the whitest white
Neither within nor outside
Pulsating , glowing;

Throbbing with power unfathomable
The splendour of a thousand suns!!!oh Hiranyagarbha!!!

The Sphere begins to grow
Swallowing and engulfing Nothingness

Then Division is Willed
Galaxies and stars are born
Numbers too vast to count

I becomes WE
ONE torn to many
The same yet unique

Still the Orb remains
Its aura undiminished
Its nature unchanged


What is Whole is Whole
What is Whole will forever be Whole
Any pert from the Whole is the Whole
And does in no way diminish the Whole

tThe Ethereal enters the Gross
Self regulating self sustained by a set of laws
Thus is the mighty stage set
To feature the Play of plays

Where truth is hidden beneath the veil
And each one's a stringed puppet

Twisted one way then the other
By whims of faceless Fate
Striving and yearning
Yearning to gleam
The reality behind the facade

DANCE OF DESTRUCTION
Tears in her eyes
a needle in her hand
she prepares to take flight
to realms unseen

the world glows bright
then fades to darkness
suddenly,images of light
hallucinations shining forth

locked in her own world
realms out of our sight
washed away in a river of ecstasy
pleasure overflowing restraint

thus she remains
moaning with passion
fantasies running amok
with no room for reason

slowly the stupor subsides
and guilt gains ground
with sadness she realises
yet again she gave in

when she sees him there
tears flow from eyes
bitterness sears through her
a reflection of his plight

not a word is spoken
looks convey what words dont
of succumbing and addiction
of promise betrayed

the father is numb beyond despair
he had seen her lively witty and full of life
full of sun and rainbows,brightness and hope
before she destroyed herself in his sight

now circles of darkness adorn her eyes
which just stare ahead ;blank,bloodshot.
nerves protrude from tender hands
telling the tale of a soul's decay and rot

she is less than human now
no more than animal
fighting tooth and nail
to get her "fix " everyday

she sold her soul
to rid her pain
there is no life left now
only poison coursing through her veins

the Time has passed now
it is too late
yet another hope betrayed
by cruel twist of fate

sometimes i sit and wonder
how a moment of desperation changes lives
how trying to escape reality
destroys countless lives

im back people....
EDGE OF REASON=ENLIGHTENMENT
When you drove me to desperation
I was forced to see reason

when pushed me to the brink of hell
i felt the light of heaven

when you almost made me lose myself
i realised who i truly was

when i lost everything i ever loved
i could understand what love truly was

when i had not a penny in my pocket
i knew then who my real friends were

when my greatest dream was shattered
i found the courage to pick myself up and move on

when pessimism and shyness drove me to a halt
i could see how my vision had to expand

thank you god for all the suffering
the tears and turmoil
yes they burnt like fire
but they also helped me forge myself

now i believe, that "whatever life hurls at you
only breaks your limitations
when you lose you always gain
that is the price tag for finding yourself.

WALKING IN THE RAIN

under a cold starry sky
hand in hand they walked by
she thought of him to be her one true friend
and he thought of her as his one true love

they had been together for many years
through ups and downs ,smiles and tears
with both unsure of the other's feelings
and unsure for whom their heart was beating

neither had the courage to own up
neither had the courage to ask
and now and errie silence stood between them
a wall through which neither could pass

thus they walked turmoil raging in their hearts
and anguish dancing in his soul
when they both felt they couldn't take anymore
Nature took control

A gentle breeze
a caressing drizzle
the cloudy sky
yet the full moon shining high

this brought Smile to their faces
thoughts of exotic days and far away places

the Smiles blossomed into Laughter
and Laughter brought Her friend Joy
and there they stood the wall now broken
and they spoke thoughts unspoken

and finally,he told her of the love in his heart
and of his desire to be together and never part

he let his emotions ride
and made his feeling known
he spoke eloquently of the love in his heart
and ask her to join him in wedlock

she hesitated still unsure
her heart raced with emotions unseen
then a sudden moment of clarity
and only He could be seen

the frown ceased and the brows widened
the pursed lips flowered into a smile
blood rushed to her cheeks and made her flush
and her eyes exuded a starry glow

"yes "she said face alight
"marry me"she said voice full of life
in the church they stood faces bright
thereby pronounced man and wife

AFFIRMATIONS OF A GENERATION
We are tired of treading the trodden path
we wish to believe,to achieve;
We wish to be different,to be dynamic;
we will not accept things, but change.

We wish to revolutionise the world,to uplift mankind;
we wish to change perceptions alter conceptions;
we wish to charter a new path discover new lands;
we wish to be icons with footprints in Time's sand.

we believe that a change shall sweep the world
crushing all opposition stamping all criticism

a change where we believe in achieving
a change where we stand up and be counted
a change by which one shall feel proud to be different,unique
a change where we shall collectively affirm "yes we can"

THE DARKNESS DAWNS

So speaks the Devil who's power continues to grow
So much so that He Boasts with eyes aglow

"Oh mortals fear my wrath!!!!
For i do not answer to the cross
They call Me the Master of Evil,
the Lord of Darkness,
the Doomer of souls

I am known by many such names
But accounts of Me are verily the same.
Holy men fear my wrath
And none dare cross My path

The pious shall not stop my march
For I posses all tainted hearts.
Men don't see My hand at work
And its with Damnation they flirt.

For I work my work in myriad ways
And make Man faithless in his own faith.
Seduction is my passion,and fear my friend
And My temptations will make Man's will bend


Men slave for my slave Desire
And slowly inch closer to Hell Fire
Men lust for my ally lust
And My Temptresses they trust.

The sovereignty of the Father wanes
An age of darkness dawns
My time shall come
It wont be long !!"

This is one of my earlier works but i thought i will post it anyway.So here goes:

A SLEEPLESS NIGHT

Here i wake up in the middle of the night
With an emptiness no company can assuage;
A void no music can fill;
A depression no drug can cure;
A joy no one can shatter;
A yearning no travel can end;
A feeling no words can describe;

Agony and ecstasy;
Pain and pleasure;
Noise and music;
Tears and a smile;
Joy unbounded ;
Emotions uncontrolled;
A thirst insatiable;

I try to reason out,to find,
The cause of all this.
Why a mere visit to my heart
Would cause it to swell
To burst forth and engulf the very soul

But deep down,
I know who you are :
How can i forget?


No matter how much i wish to,
You always find a way
To make me reminiscence
To wake up sleepless
With a pen in hand
And a pain in my heart
Writing things i cannot speak


I wish i could forget you
Alas!!!My love is too strong, too deep;
It would kill me to hate you;
So all i wish for now is
Someday you will read this and understand,
Comprehend how much i love you
waiting for that day.