When the Sun Dances

A dawn chorus serenades the day to be

With koels, robins, and sparrows' song in glee

Crepuscular rays coyly wake up the sky

With pearl-scented purple clouds smiling shy

Scintillating rays of calmness seek the trees

Wisdom of liquid gold weaving with ease

Ripples of gold and gray linger and dissolve

Ensouls komorebi with rooted resolve

A day's worth of prayers, moments of gifted grace

The sun glides by, leaving Venus' rosy trace

Night in binds, it glissades in waves of greens and reds

With an airy ballon, charm of aurora spreads

Power of grace and calm of depth intertwine,

Life breathes when the sun dances divine.

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Some 3000 miles

I never knew

The breeze that blows

Some 3000 miles away

Could irk me... 

I never knew

The rays of sun reaching a land

Some 3000 miles away

Could irk me...

I never knew

The fragrance of the flowers growing in gardens

Some 3000 miles away

Could irk me... 

But they do...

When they are closer 

And I am some 3000 miles

Away from you.

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A Little Something:

Written within under a minute, this piece is a result of a prompt that I came across. The prompt was: "Write 'I am jealous' without writing 'I am jealous'. "

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Forelsket

The night brightened, the lightning smiled,

The thunder cooed, the sky was beguiled,
With the ambrosia from clouds, the earth was styled,
The air was perfumed and the Sunflower bud shined.

The bud bloomed, as the summer sang,
Far from the east, the ray of Sun sprang,
With a unique charm, embraced the Sunflower,
And adore of all the worlds he did shower.

Enamoured as one could be, the Sunflower has been...
Vowed her Love for eternities,
More than forever could have ever seen...
For theirs is a story, that Time has destined.

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Ek Baar Aur

वह सिर्फ एक तस्वीर थी

या तसव्वुर की कोई परछाई,

मालूम न था मुझे ठीक से,

फिर भी ...

एक बार और मुड़ के देखने की इच्छा हुई  ।

है वही आसमान सी खुशबू

आंखों में कशिश...जैसे सागर की गहराई,

शायद हजारों बार देखा,

फिर भी...

एक बार और मुड़ के देखने की इच्छा हुई ।

लबों पे वह दिलकश हंसी

जिससे नवंबर की धूप भी थी शरमाई,

भला भूले वह कैसे कोई,

फिर भी...

एक बार और मुड़ के देखने की इच्छा हुई ।

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English Translation:

Was it just a picture

Or a figment of my imagination 

I was not too sure

Still..

I wished to see it once more.

I could smell the fragrance of the sky in there

Those alluring eyes...feels like the depths of the ocean

Have witnessed it a thousand times maybe

Still...

I wished to see it once more.

The lips adorned that charming smile

Which makes even the November sunshine to shy away (or feel less confident)

Who would ever forget that

Still...

I wished to see it once more.

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The Morning Spell

I woke up to the fragrance 

Of a nautical twilight 

And witnessed the smiling cuckoo's voice

Streaming through the room's skylight

A moment, and some more, passed by

As I waited there 

Awaiting nothing

But I let the dreams fly

The tingling bells of my window chime

Chimed and clinked and twinkled

To the touch of the first rays of the sun

They sprinkled

Tales of the journey and moments of yore

That the sun listened

From far across the shore

They entailed the stories of the smiles

That jingled my heart strings

From three thousand and some miles

And I almost hear the voice

That melts my soul

And lets my heart rejoice

Upon the caress of the breeze

The wind chime calls again

And sings the song's bridge

That runs through its vein

With a smile in my heart

And dewy glimmer in my eyes

I go on with the day

As I glance towards the skies 

The skies seemed fine

But were still under a spell

Possibly of that smile

And of the tingling bell

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Unwritten

I kept on saving words that started

With the alphabets in your name

With a hope and desire

To make them the titles of

The tales and poems

That I would someday write...

Those would define

Of the moments spent

In the soft gaze of adore

Of the sunrays of a november dawn

And of the blushing glances

Wrapped in the silk of spring...

Until I realized

I am gradually falling

Short of words to use

For each word

Invokes thoughts of You

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Elixir

Soft breeze on a sunlight soaked day

As the reflections of your essence play

In the turquoise hues of the ocean

In a gentle laced motion

Aroma of the tulips

Festooned with moments adored

And the elixir of soul

With hearts sworn in accord

With hopes of Forever and Beyond

Dance of divine

The aura performed

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Autumn Skies

There is sunshine in your smile

And sparkling stars in your eyes

Across miles.....

Yet every while

I unfold memories of you

Looking at the autumn skies.

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Thoughts that led to the poem:

Have you seen the sky recently?

It is so beautiful! Isn't it?

Every moment spent looking up at the sky

somehow feels... surreal! Does it not?

As if you have stardust in your eyes...

As if you can feel someone's essence

In your Heartbeat...

As if you are mesmerized by the

Dance of Destiny..

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Cosmos Rays

Once upon a moon, I wandered

Deep in the tall grey forest

It was never a journey

I wished to take

Yet I never wondered

Why I was there

It was calm everywhere

Enough of it to hear

The rustle of the leaves

Yet I never listened

My thoughts,

if there were any,

Hovered around

In a brownian motion

As they meandered in the

Flickering light of the glow worms

Then on a morning like any other

You shined on me, like the

First rays from the brilliant sun

From far across the mountains

With your smile

Sweeter than ambrosia

And your snuggling grasp

Softer than the breeze

You showed me the path

I had long forgotten

And as we walked through

The field of the Cosmos flowers

I could feel my heart beat again

To the melody of your breath

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Rays And Viola

In the sky

Fluffs of cloud

Covered the day

In a gloomy shroud

The heavy air

In tufts of missing flair

Lazed in the shade

As the leaves swayed

With bated breath

The viola kept waiting

Eagerly for the rays

Her heart beating

Moments came and passed

The gray was still cast

The viola wondered

"How long is long enough?"

She pondered

Finally through a chink

The rays darted in a wink

"I kept waiting too

Just to get a glimpse of you,"

The sun thought

In a murmuring whisper

As she blushed and smiled

When he kissed her

Awhile long was the wait

But when they met

All was perfect and great

We will wait once more

With cherished smiles

And our memories of adore

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Moments of Dew

The balm of the silvery night
As the zephyr wafted it right
Ambled through my window
With the mountain view
To welcome the ambrosial dew

It lingered with a slight smile
And waited for quite a while
Dancing through the gentle breeze
The dew arrived
Gliding through the velvet crease

Perfumed the dew
With a slight embrace
The dew beamed
With a sweet grace
It bade the dew goodbye
As the golden rays
Shined upon the dew
Through the sunkissed sky

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The Peeking Sunrays

Looking at the horizon

Among the many things I think

Is the thought of you

Glimmering through the chink

The peeking sunrays

Through the trees

From beyond the mountains

And in the voices of the breeze

I wonder

What does the rays desire

What is it here now

That they require

The one desired 

May cherish the rays

Yet withold, till eternity

And beyond the days

Seeks through days, the rays of sun

And desired, for just the one.

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Fragrance across the mile

Deep in the woods somewhere

A flower bloom

Bright as day

With a charming perfume

The trees around never heeded it

Unaware of such magnificence

Few dreaded it

Days later it withered

Yet it smiled a weak smile

And traces of fragrance

Breathed the air across a mile

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The Mesmerizing Sunset

For here the sun might be setting
But the promise of a new day
Must also be fulfilled
The other side waited eagerly
As the sun was making the transition
From a mesmerizing sunset here
To a glorious morning somewhere else.

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The Fragrance

Breathe the fragrance in the zephyr
And feel the kiss of sunshine
The silkiness and warmth
For eternity, cherish and enshrine.

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Magnum Opus

Nothing could have been more real, still it sounded like an illusion. I knew I was there but I could not feel my existence. Everything seemed so ephemeral yet so enduring; it became difficult to classify which really was and which really was not. It was no less than a sonata. It was eternal bliss.

The place spelled mesmerizing bounty for nature’s quintessence. It had those vivid hues of a rainbow albeit in pastel shades. It was all so different, still so united. The sound of water splashing against the rocks was pristine melody. The breeze’s elegance was spellbinding. Had it not been for the breeze touching my skin, I, perhaps, would have forgotten the mortal truth of my existence. There was a tinge of sun’s orange hue which claimed the grandiose arrival of the dawn. As moments kept passing, the imperialism of sun’s ascent augmented the serenity of the vista. That was just not a scenic sunrise; it was a symphony, a symphony of nature, a symphony of life.

The chirping of birds with the rhythmic unveiling of the horizon was innate. The glistening rays upon the foamy waters were worth a zillion diamonds. The fragrance of the water hauled the warmth of the infant rays along with the mizzle of the earthy trance. That was a trance so ethereal and so plausible. That was a trance too hard to escape. There was a melodious humdrum that the nature was humming on to my ears. I did not quite understand it and I had no intentions of doing that either. I just wanted to be in that moment as much as I can; to feel and experience everything that was transpiring. How beautiful and mystic can nature be? That was ephemeral and eternal and the ether spelled every word of its existence. The duality existing in such a symbiosis is perhaps the most conflicting of marvels.

Anything this mystical can never cease to surprise. I wondered if it is remotely possible to hold time and freeze this moment, forever. But, if that would have been possible, even vaguely, that would have meant the doom of the opus and the bliss. The sun paved paths brighter as it progressed ahead on its journey through the cerulean sky. Fleecy clouds formed and deformed as if indicating the moods of the zenith with each passing moment. There was so much of every activity, it was becoming a bit arduous to encompass every minutiae. With so much going-on, what amused me was the rhythm at which each was ensuing and the melody of the transitions. With the ascent of descend, the sun regained its magical hue. It spelled a promise of the potentials of the next day as it started descending onto the lap of the horizon. The tinkling of the small stones, as the bystanders of this daily phenomenon, seemed to ratify the assertion. All aspects were so in harmony!

It was time to call it a day as everybody tended to return to their respective abodes with some attaining their natural states of tranquility; but how to break the allure of the elixir of the symphony of the vista and the harmony with which it exist and coexist. The bountiful favors of the nature was spreading its wings onto the twilight and merging itself with the purpleness. It was nothingness pronouncing the eternity of nature’s quintessence. It was elation amalgamating with pristinity. It was Life!

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Treasured Time

A morning so new

Bright and beautiful in its hue

Charismatic clairvoyance purview

Dreamy debonair as a cue

Eagerly it heads for euphoric events

Fabulous and majestic in its ascent

Gifted with glory and galored with quaint

Harmoniously hinting wise-full prudent

Inspiring for deeds incredible

Jubilating moments happy and joyful

Keen fully motivating actions kind-full

Live life full and be lovable

Magical morning in its musical motion

Nice ‘n’ noted and novel in notion

Open and perfect with opulent options

Pleasant with poise and poetic in action

Quintessence reverence as a quality

Reflecting radiance and reliability

Splendid glory with sparkling sincerity

Treasured time epitomizes equity

Uniquely poised at ultimate tryst

Vibrant aurora in its approaching feat

Worthy and warm in instinctive wit

Xylophonic music plays to the beat

Young and youthful for the approaching quest

Zeal fully dawn moves with shine and zest

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Achihnaa Swapna

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Thinking Of It!!

Life! It’s really a miracle by itself. Life…It’s for living. I hope, you all people living out there did not forget this. Right!? So, Live. Whatever your heart says, just do it. Whatever brings you happiness now, do it now. Don’t store it for the future. If you want to save something that may confer you happiness in the future, say some 10 or 15 years later and for that you have to forfeit yourself and may be some diminutive tit-bit happy moments that the present has in store for you, then just remember….the time is NOW!! Who knows what it’s going to unfurl the next moment. That is the sweetness and quintessence of living and that is what I love the most about life…..its capriciousness and its unpredictability.

But what makes it more interesting is the predictability of unpredictability! Confused? I will explain it. We all know that we don’t know what’s going to happen the very next moment. But still we try to predict the unpredictable. Ok. Let me explain by giving a simple example. Suppose you want to have an ice-cream. You decide upon the flavor and ask the vendor for the flavor. “I want butterscotch!” When you order, you imagine yourself eating the ice-cream and here is the point where you predict the unpredictable. It might so happen that even after buying the ice-cream, you could never taste it. (I mean, who knows! May be the apocalypse just hits the earth!!) But, life is all about predicting the unpredictable. It is called hope. That is what makes life so beautiful and phenomenal. Just you need to know the right kind of thoughts.

Thoughts! The most essential and phenomenal thing life can have. They can change the structure of the universe if controlled properly. (At least, I believe so….And I accept being called a “fourth dimensional” for this!! )

Often I see people worrying a lot about problems that are yet to come. I have seen my friends worrying about issues that are sometimes trivial and sometimes not so trivial. I agree that I also worry about some trivial issues but I never think over them continuously. Some of my friends call me “over-optimistic” for what I think about such issues but yes I believe that thinking about a problem only increases it more. Because, everything depends on our thought procedure. You think that you are sad and you actually are. You think you are happy and so you are. It happens with me always.

The day I think I am going to be happy, everything goes good. In fact, the day goes brilliant. Just for example, I see a sunny day or listen to my favorite song, I think, “Oh! What a lovely day!” And this positive thought in turn brightens my whole day. On the other hand, if my morning starts on a bad note and that bad mood gives rise to chain of bad thoughts, my whole day goes bad. It’s not because all bad things happen to me, it’s because whatever happens I make them appear bad and I make them happen to me. I don’t understand those events that day but when I sit down and analyze those actions some other day, I can sense it. So, what I want to say is, it’s you who is the creator of your own destiny. I am saying this all out of experience and because I believe in it. You become what you think about most. So embrace your thoughts and witness how vibrant and beautiful life seems. Be a dreamer. Hold on to dreams!

Dreams! The most quintessential thing in a lifetime! Yes, indeed it is. I am not saying to day dream or dream about absurd things. But, yes it’s true that dreams do come true. I believe, what we dream is what we think about. That is, our dreams are manifestations of our strongest of thoughts; thoughts which were a part of our subconscious but we never accepted it openly; we just dreamt of it. Dreams are the most powerful wishes that we want to come true. 

All of us have dreams. But, if we have a strong dream and we pursue that dream and want it to come true and work towards it, it’s guaranteed to come true. The universe works on this notion. It’s again a part of my belief. I believe, when we want something truly and want it really to happen; the aura that surrounds us sends the vibes in the universe. Whatever events happen is a universal phenomenon and is just a physical manipulation of the energies that surround us. That is whatever happens, everybody in this universe has some contribution towards that event or to say the thoughts of every creature has a contribution towards that event. So, if you want something to happen truly, think about it. Have a strong feeling about it and definitely the force will be stronger and it will happen. That’s the power of dream. Experience it. Attract it towards yourself and it surely will manifest itself.

Life, Thoughts and Dreams…Thinking of it…They Coexist!! I can never think life without dreams and dreams without thoughts or thoughts without dream or… The point is living a life with all its glory with the right thoughts and the right dreams. I know, it’s always not possible to live a life that will never have a gloomy moment. But the point is how to overcome that moment. I am writing this article doesn’t mean that I don’t have appalling days or sad days. I do have but I know exactly how to brighten up my day again. It should be simple things like just watch your favorite movie or just eat a dark chocolate pastry or may be even just look at the sun!! Now, come on people, we just have one life. We can’t just let go of it on more of bad days than good ones…..right? So, feel the sunshine! Feel as if the earth rotates just for you! Feel as if the sun shines just for you! The zephyr is there just for you! The stars twinkle just for you! You are Just You!! So Thinking of It…Just Live!! After all…It’s …One Life To Live!!

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