Coming back: post 11/9/2001
Deafening was the sound
when the spires fell to the ground
leaving innocents dead
cold hearth, empty bed!
But we endure and go ahead
relight the fire, remake the bed
never yield, never resign
back to life after 11/9!
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Shaping Destiny
The here the now
You don't know how
Where they sink
Before a wink!
It's too fast
Too brief they last
A moment's incense
Denied permanence!
But have no remorse
Now is on its course
Creating what will be
Shaping destiny!
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Finding Nectar
The scent of pollen
Draws it nigh
The butterfly
Needn't fly high!
It needn't go far
Nor mind the briar
To draw nectar
From the yearning flower!
I learned it from butterfly
All I ought to find lie
So near me
I only have to see!
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Cosmic Theater
The sky winked with stars
Fragrance of moonlight wafted through air
Passionately crooned a nightjar…
It was all in vain
They couldn’t penetrate my pain
Begot by a life not taking me far…
Slowly fell mute the cosmic theater.
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End Of A Search
I am coming back to you.
I have strayed for too long,
Gone too faraway from you
Looking for treasures in the swamp
For wealth of the world
In search of an ever elusive find.
I should have known
All the time I carried you in my mind!
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The Going Back
The shell hides the churning within,
Composed till breaks forth
A new bunch of feelings
With no shell
No holds barred
All ready to take on the world.
A transitory battle is waged
Till the soil envelops.
The shell is back underground!
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Once
Once you have touched a rose petal
it's the smell that's eternal
Once you have seen sunrise
it's hope forever in disguise
Once you have bathed in moonlight
it's dreamy eyes and blurred sight
Once love is born
it's forgetting the thorn!
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Reality Is Aloof
Through the stillness around
Fragments of sound
Say the alien stars
Existence is farce
Mocks the Jupiter
Life is a dying theater!
Days follow
Into endless hollow
Only nights are real
Her dreams eternal!
On dark roof
Reality is aloof!
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Because I got you easy
I haven’t ever known you, truly -
I got you easily, without a price.
It’s like the closeness of the birds
To the silvery clouds,
The treetops’ brush with the sky,
Too known is your face.
How could I ever know you were priceless!
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Autumn and I
Into my debt-ridden life
The autumn comes uninvited.
The white cottons on the azure
are painted with rainbow,
the remains of the last rain
Glow in silvery temptation -
But my thoughts are elsewhere.
I couldn't welcome autumn into my life!
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