One Life To Live

Monday, September 12, 2022

Rhythm of Destiny

The raised eyebrows

With that mystery of a look

In the depth of those eyes

The smile and the laughter

Half veiled sometimes

By a slight touch of hands

That adorable expression

While trying to

Make sense of something

And then the witty remark

Adorned with

The tint of nonchalance

Is it the cosmos humming

Or just the heart beating

To the rhythm of Destiny

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Preserved

Few unspoken words

veiled by the demure lips..

Some unexpressed emotions

peeping through the silent smiles..

And a hint of unprofessed feelings

waiting behind those stolen glances....

Old out-of-context photos

probably express a lot more than

they were supposed to.

Would it have been different,

if we were more aware?

Or was it always meant to be the way it has?

Friday, September 2, 2022

Seasons: 60-Word story

"Has autumn arrived in your city?" he asked.

"My seasons are heart-bound," she replied with a hint of smile.

"And isn't home the abode where heart resides?" he quizzed looking at her with a mysterious gaze.

"Yes! But my 'home' is not a place... ," she said as she glanced at him.

And she witnessed a mystical smile in his eyes.

Thursday, September 1, 2022

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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Thursday, August 18, 2022

What Clouds Say

Sometimes it feels...

As if the clouds have a lot to say...

As if they are trying to transmit

unsent messages...

As if they are relaying

unspoken words...

As if they are conveying

unavowed feelings...

And hinting on the existence of bonds

that are beyond boundaries

In words of their own

written across the glorious sky.

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Smile

I never knew

I have a

gleam in my eyes

when I smile

Until...

someone told me so.

I would probably have

just brushed it off

but I closed my eyes

And thought

for a while.

I sensed

an identical gleam

in someone's eyes too.

And I realized

who it was

who reflected

in my every smile.

Thursday, August 4, 2022

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

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Enough?

Will words ever be enough!?

To express everything

That the starry night

The velvety wind, and

Your presence evoke!

Will anything be ever enough!

Friday, June 17, 2022

Hopes

It's you

And your alluring smile

That made it what it was

That moment

And every other moment

Every day

Every second

Meaning of it

I still wonder about

After writing a few verses

Feelings still sprout

"Why do so many lines you carve?"

They ask

But the world hasn't seen

your smile the way I have

The universes may change

And the worlds within it may too

But that glimmering smile

Is beyond eternal

Brightness of a zillion lumens

And of hopes anew

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