“Once upon a beautiful time

we were two flowers

smiling at the Sun...

Then as we grew,

we were two birds

flying through clouds..

And now we are

two Human Beings,

charged with a small portion

of this Earth's destiny.”

(.*_*.)

“So many things have happened

since the days I was pure

and I was sure.

Why did you ask me,

what I wanted to be

when I grew up?

I could have been

so much more

if you hadn't...”

(.*_*.)

“The Body in the throes of Orgasm.

The Heart gripped with Love.

The Mind filled with knowledge.

A pebble on the sands of a beach.

A moment in Eternity.

A dewdrop on a Rose petal.

A tear misting my Eye...

Watcha gonna do with me??”

(.*_*.)

“Friends

to dream together,

Fantasizing

of all that glitters

in the eye

and is gold

they haven't discovered.

Young and free,

psyche mirrors

teasing each others reflections,

Sharing silly jokes

about serious people

trying to curb us

like caging free birds.

But we were

disappointed broken pieces,

and each had to go

their own lonely way

to find that dream

we talked about one day,

which brightened our eyes

when we spoke

so long ago.”

(.*_*.)

“They teach you how to speak,

but they don't teach you how to think.

They teach how to touch,

but they don't teach you how to feel.

They tell you life is a struggle,

but they don't tell you how to cope.

They tell you about love,

but they never act with love.

They gave you a name,

but you don't seem to know

Who you really are.”

(.*_*.)

The Drop of Life

“Falling,

like a raindrop in a wind,

never knowing where

never knowing why.

An invisible but cruel destiny

tests the momentum

and gravity is the only inspiration.

Made of the same water

but separated,

The End

Is a shattering realization.”

(.*_*.)

“Well,

you are better looking

than your spectacles.

I too wear them,

a rose tinted perspective

Wherever I go…

Together we see

separated from the true,

an illusion of reality.”

(.*_*.)

“You approached me

in half steps

posing unruffled

at my sight.

Then you stopped

like a question mark

and ducked a smile,

gabbled a smidgen

of confused infatuation

and left in a hurry,

searching for an answer

to the storm in your heart

I could see in your eyes.”

(.*_*.)

“A disturbance in me

to see you

being devastated by illusions.

Those glittering colors

dancing around you,

those disappearing bubbles

floating near your eyes.

Funny, your pupils dance!

Your sweet essence

falling prey

to subconscious fuss,

Making you say

such strange things

Now, I almost believe

it isn't you

from that faraway skies

where we were shining…

Fallen on this earth

bound by space time

and a warped memory,

you are always yonder.”

(.*_*.)

“It is not your tears

that will fall

when you cry.

It is not your desire

that will rage

when you crave.

It is not your dream

that will unfold

when you surrender.

Only the fragments

of your ego

will fall in love.

Drawn into its depths,

the violent waves

will lift and drown

washing all your hopes

until it is calm.

In tranquil silence

You will contemplate,

with eyes closed

and a half smile,

One lazy afternoon.”

(.*_*.)

“It is an enigma.

One is the Dakini,

a help on the way.

The other is a Yakshi,

only meant to stray..”

(.*_*.)

“Enough!

I don't want to look

at pouting lips

and glaring eyes,

at long legs doing catwalk

with a hard rock

in their heads.

Give me eyes,

eyes that can really see

and speak -

the language of the heart.

Rags that beggars wear

are better than

the pusillanimous things

that cover our foolish women,

who GIVE consent

and WEAR a smile.

Those bewildered faces

peeking from magazine covers -

How easily they reach

dustbins and make friends

with assorted creatures

in my backyard!”

(.*_*.)

“I have been brooding

over this pain,

that giving of your heart

and taking it back again.

Love cast its magical spell

when your subtle charms

reminded the wishes

of a lonely moon.

Once again, tonight

sleep will make its way

through the pathways

of uncertain dreams,

but I am still waiting

for a trusting look

from your innocent eyes...

Though love is still a question mark

Somehow, you are the answer.”

(.*_*.)

“She has suffered

innumerable agonies

on every latitude

of the globe,

but clad in a sari

she misunderstood her powers.

Willingly killed her vanity

in the kitchen

and washed her man's passions

with her own warm blood.

Looking without seeing,

her beauty is a frown

of a contemplative struggle within -

the surface of fleeting emotions

that words fail to describe.

Her platitudes

tell of shattered loves,

a faint glimmer in her eyes reveal

hope in fragments,

disappointed by the enigma

of her lover's heart.”

(.*_*.)

“Some things hidden

inside the odd fragrances

of our hopes.

Hinting lost dreams

discarded for faithless ideas

but Love knows..

Love knows the way.”

(.*_*.)

“He fills his world

with the miserable sound

of his own chaos.

The same hackneyed response

of relentless habit,

oblivious to his clinging roots

among the mire.

Locked up in the dungeon

of his small self prison

longing to be free

Headed to reconcile the world

with no reconciliation within.”

(.*_*.)

“I was there before

the haunted paths

to your home,

like we used to walk

under tall eucalyptus trees

and an evening breeze,

looking at an endless sky

and sharing a sigh,

touching your face

with an enchanted gaze,

You are still the same...

just a different name.”

(.*_*.)

“There is a part of me

where I end

and She begins

hazy fragrance like pure love,

elusive flower like smile,

conscious in absent mindedness,

feel of a faint music in mind,

a thrill in fleeting senses

-- the throbbing She in me.

Memories like her breath

that lull me to sleep,

and once again that aura,

ambience of a wilderness,

blue skies and fresh green grass,

flowers bursting with an ecstasy of colors

swimming in a fragrant trance,

the atmosphere filled with her

A groaning pleasure disturbing the dream,

her softness teasing me to awaken,

smile of a subtle desire

my eyes open to beauty -

shades of Her beauty.”

(.*_*.)

“An opaque silence

in the eye of the storm

is a deathly calm.

Battle of a turbulent mind

unrelenting compromise of spirit

and tears, the only measure

of desperation.

We can turn our faces, our eyes

not to see,

but the hinting smile speaks

and a helplessness remind

us of the providential guilt.

Each, thrown to the lonely winds

charting a narrow trail

of confused footsteps

Who is there, to show the way

when we have closed so firmly

the silent seeing eye?”

(.*_*.)

“So much of us

beyond this moment

is a mystery.

So much of us

before this moment

is a useless memory.

Then this frantic struggle

to make things go

Our whimsical ways.

The fetters of unscrupulous ideas

instilled corny by the burdens

of a redundant society,

caging all our dreams

and stifling

the unfolding of a lotus

like the beauty of life

and realization is only

a spontaneous discovery of love.”

(.*_*.)

“One more sigh,

two more teardrops,

for a hidden heart

and disguised love.

We meet,

we differ,

we understand,

we find joy

and return to our solitude.”

(.*_*.)

“Till then, for me

the purple swaying against the green

never held appeal,

but with your sudden wistful glance

I've come to see

that flowers make me smile.

Within that was

an ocean of void

now splashes a white foamy wave

against an orange radiance;

Walking in an evening breeze

not so cold and half happy,

that is disturbing my hair

and ruffling your clothes,

filling us more and more

with the only joy

we always know.”

(.*_*.)

“A silent ripple

on the pond of yearning,

You

the warmth of the fire,

and She

the form of its flames,

always the other

in every desire.

A loneliness

that fuels

the trembling wish

behind a hesitating smile

to allow memory

linger with the pain

of coming together.

Singing not too loud

to stifle the others song,

Waiting with patience

while she is on her way,

Letting him wander

so he can return

and never let doubt to take

its ugly shape in words..”

(.*_*.)

“What is it that we spoke,

and lied to our hearts

that are now beating in solitary?

Disguised feelings

like orange peelings!

But memory lingers

of a faint color on your fingers,

the hand covering a face

that is cold and shivers

at the palpable emotions

of silently trembling dreams.

I can see them

through the soft veil of pretense,

your long ago and half forgotten

Dreams.”

(.*_*.)

“All is deathly quiet

in the deserted streets

of this city in a mess.

I, like everyone else,

huddled in a closed room,

staring at the empty moment.

Longing for a lover's embrace

a trip to the bar

would lead to a war,

Within.

And one more journalist

would write a story

as drunken as he.”

(.*_*.)

“Life serene,

placid as the calm waters

of a lake,

idle clouds

floating in a blue sky,

chilled by the lonely touch

of a sudden wind,

no ripples

of any happening.”

(.*_*.)

“On a sudden lane

down a strangely familiar road

The Osho Commune,

with trees, flowers and silence.

thronged with maroon robed women

and rough looking guys even,

whose hearts suddenly quivered

with a feeling they cannot describe.

Written on their faces

brightened with smiles,

words trying to capture

that elusive wonder

of a beautiful world.”

(.*_*.)

“How would you feel

if you could be

close to me

while I searched

for the smile

that has left your lips?

Flickering in those eyes

that I could see

something more beyond,

doorway to an untouched part

of my mind.

Wonder why, wonder where

is the memory,

lost in the emptiness

of these words,

and the elusiveness

Of this moment...”

(.*_*.)

“I live in your silences

the thoughts you don't know

so much joy springs inside of me

in moments together when

you speak and you smile

filling me with wonder how

you make me happy, then

as our laughter dies away

in the silence I remember,

the lonely roads I walked

those storms I had to face

those rainy empty days,

ignorant who I was

and what I was doing

with a worthless me,

spending all my time for

people who pretend so well

You were the lost one I found

to discover Someone so like me

Half lonely, half happy,

Half hopeful, half scared,

Half knowing, half growing,

And then all that fuss...

Looking back

at the selfish years

of a desperate life

the ways to love unknown,

A pensive quest ending

in a plunging free fall

into the waves of love,

Lost in You

and the unfolding universe

Within.”

(.*_*.)

“There is Someone you would like to Be

An unknown person you would like to Know

There is Something you would like to See

An unknown place you would like to Go

Maybe it is Here & Maybe it is Now !!!”

(.*_*.)

“The Other”

“No, not the fragrance of your perfume,

but the familiar smell of you.

No, not the beauty of your dresses, but beauty enhanced in you.

No, not the color on your fingernails,

but the exquisite pattern of your hands.

No, not the dangling things on your ears,

but the tenderness when you listen.

No, not the hinting excitement of your eyes,

but the elusive weakness when you smile.

No, not your sensuous innerwear,

but the mystic aura inside you.

No, not your wishes to go somewhere,

but dreams of the inner landscape.

No, not your memories of shattered relationships,

but the omnipresence in relations.

No, not our plans,

but the plan that we are.

No, not You, I and The Universe,

but The Universe between us.”

(.*_*.)

“A little faith,

a little compulsion

is the irony of life.

From the murky shadows,

towards a sunshine warmth...

Some quizzical emotion,

a fathomless enigma

stirs in the depths

and Somebody watches quietly

from somewhere

with the tender sadness

of an angel.

The onslaught of Time

in endless Space

inevitably returns

with renewed love,

Lost in the winds

stirring every flower

on the mountains of desire.”

(.*_*.)

“I opened up my heart today

to see if those wounds had healed

that made me long for You.

I was amazed to find

my heart's contents

scattered far and wide

and containing no more

foolish sentiment

but only the truth,

that You and I are One.”

(.*_*.)

“I have been

talking to myself

ever since I remember me

and now,

that Someone inside

I was talking to

is happily You.

They say,

Heaven is up there

and Hell is down below,

I wish I could

forcibly open their Eye

to really see,

Everything is here,

In between.”

(.*_*.)

“First thoughts

then feelings

and words

flapping our wings

we will come

again and again and again,

from the formless realm of the infinite

into the trappings of illusion

We will burn

and make the flames

of a dream

reach higher and higher.”

(.*_*.)

“A void inside

for warmth of love

so long denied.

The common thread

weaving dreams of a singular passion

behind the natural waves of life

flowing in and out

of everybody's being.

The same smile

playing on all these disappointed faces,

lingeringly sadly

on the overlooked edges of consciousness.

The feelings are mundane

that with dying faith

a paltry inspiration

cannot sustain.

Someone calls,

Someone waits,

but always in a hurry

fails to see

the inner world

so real to me.”

(.*_*.)

“Defining what we want

is an example of ignorance

who we are.

This accumulated love

threatens to blow me up

smoldering passions

burning in the recesses

like entangling fetters

in the crowded minds of people,

the last disturbing ripples

dying away

into the placid waters.

One stupendous desire

of merging with the waves

that drowns all our misery.

One universal hope

across the globe

slowly growing

like a candle flame

in the calmness

of tranquil minds.

Dreams coming true

like the silent sky

forever blue...”

(.*_*.)

“Something within,

Something fragile

It nags me,

but what is it?

A sudden longing

fills this empty room,

I look around

but where is it?

Undiscovered

and yet familiar,

stirs with your thoughts,

how is it?

Makes me smile,

when there is nothing

but sadness,

why is it?”

(.*_*.)

“Truth

echoes in every heartbeat,

yet miles and miles

we tread to find

until, weary from our search,

the Rhythm of Life reminds

Innocence -

oblivious and trusting,

untarnished by facts

made with the dirt

of selfish knowledge

that we are

simply the pieces

of a dream coming true.

Right here,

in my unfolding palms

are the colors

for living is an art.”

(.*_*.)

“Last night was a passionate one,

the embers of an ageless desire

lit up the darkness

and helpless thoughts of you

circled everywhere.

A holy feeling

so intensely preserved

surrounded by emptiness

is challenging its destiny.

The roaring waves of love -

Silence and Peace

quietly taking flight

in an endless sky.”

(.*_*.)

“Something kindled a fire within,

Was it your eyes?

Something trembled in my mind,

Was it your memory?

Something deep and lonely,

Was it my Angel Self?

Something that changed me,

Was it the raging tempest?

Something that lifted me into the sky,

Was it only a playful wind?

Someone, who softly whispered

You will not find your way

among the maze of streets

that man has made,

but keep on walking

and you will discover one day

that you are not mortal.”

(.*_*.)

“Words fail to describe

the agony of understanding

that it is all about

You and me

trying to walk together

but failing to synchronize our paces,

longing for the ecstasy

surrounded by the gloom

of wandering loneliness

in the indifferent faces

full of boredom.

It is like soaring

defying the wisdom of fools

and finding meaning

in the trembling wishes

of a crazy heart.

Following a lonely faith

abandoned by the nihilistic world

holding on to nebulous ideas

burning in flames of pain,

knowing and knowing so well

the ending of the story.”

(.*_*.)

“You and I

are a circle,

each lifetime that was

a frantic rotation

of a restless urge

for the wonderment

of perfect stillness.

To love you

first by knowing

and then by forgetting.

To love you

first from afar

and then from near.

To love you

first in separation

and then in union.

To be born

and live for love

but love is forever.”

(.*_*.)

Neighbors

“You opened the door

with a frown, scared

then helplessly invited me in

to a room with T.V.

but there were no stars

in your eyes.

I wanted a smile,

You served me tea

with biscuits...

made by the unknown hands

of a stranger,

remaining a stranger.

Only a wall of bricks

separates us,

but we stay indoors

inside our little little planets

thinking, each in our own way…

What is wrong?”

(.*_*.)

“We all say

right things in the wrong way

and understanding eludes us

for that life

beyond the shackles of time.

The serpent did not come

from nowhere suddenly,

we ignored The True One

and awareness of polarity,

painful duality

grew within and became

an obstinate habit.

Destiny is not altered

by a mere event of time

but every road and every lane

still takes us round and round

the decaying cemeteries of existence.

Sometimes, only sometimes

Joy beckons

in brief glimpses of beauty

and fleeting sensations of bliss.”

(.*_*.)

“Your love today

is like a sigh and a shadow,

I longingly want to know

hold fast and never let go...

Just to see you smile,

Just to hear you speak,

Just to share your dreams,

Just to laugh at this silly life,

Wondering, who gambled

away a treasure

and decided to play this joke

called love, or whadevah...

Only for those rules of fate

lay heavy on our hearts

even muscles of iron

could not bend.

It has become

a huge teardrop

on Somebody's cheek

because you choose your pride

refuse to give in, and then

it’s a traffic jam inside.”

(.*_*.)

“Everything is filled

with an intense longing

This wind and these pine trees

yearning to be one.

A slowly growing need

rising in me to fulfill itself,

Someone coming closer

to embrace me and melt me

with the heat of desire,

fuelled by feral hungers

and a persistent fantasy.

Wounds of my heart

that open and close

with every waxing and waning of the moon

leave me wondering

why we are given dreams

that refuse to come true?

Haunted by the stars

of bleak night skies -

an illusion of time.”

(.*_*.)

“His heart still contains

remnants of stupidity

and popular prejudice,

yet he aspires

for permanent love.

What he deserves

He doesn't get,

all those invested emotions -

miseries of attachment.

He hardly cares for others

but only when he wants,

or else his arrogant honesty

would have set him free.

The willingness to stay submerged

in an ocean of mystery,

taking nothing, giving all

ability to float in a sky

of too much freedom.

He is not the only one

in search of a Holy Grail

but too many miles

of walking,

has made his feet very sore.”

(.*_*.)

“Living in a world

that hardly knows you,

O Lord!

How could you expect

me to understand

Your smile

behind those rosy lips?

Elusive you remain,

ignoring these tearful eyes

and a hungering soul,

feeding so mercilessly

on my sorrow and loneliness.

Come and overwhelm me

with your love someday,

I am waiting,

what more can I say?”

(.*_*.)

“Drops of water

separating from the ocean

they are pained.

Enchanted in a cloud

and missing the sea

they are disillusioned.

Falling from the sky

and merging with the waves

they are enlightened.

We only stand

on the shores

and watch...

feeling the tides

between our toes.”

(.*_*.)

“Fairest girl of my dreams

and stubborn distraction of my waking hours,

you are as close to me

as my breath that feeds my lungs,

enables my heart to beat

and makes me want to live.

I can feel your presence

in the restlessness of my sleep

as the fragrance of a rose

I smelled so long ago,

in the wantonness of my sighs

that disturb my tranquil mind

when desires burst into flames

and threaten to consume me all.

The Sun's rays make me angry

for He tirelessly travels the sky

but hesitates to bring the day

Our love lingers around us

and gales of feeling bond

you and me into a single sublimity.”

(.*_*.)

“The Tao that can be described

is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be spoken

is not the eternal Name.

Look for it, and it can't be seen.

Listen for it, and it can't be heard.

Grasp for it, and it can't be caught.

Approach it and you will not see a beginning;

Follow it and there will be no end.

Only when the Tao grasps us, **

can we hope to understand all this...”

(.*_*.)

“Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Spare the word and spoil the idea.

Have you ever lifted your eyes

beyond that book

You hold so dear

to look at the world

and see,

that your fear of the Lord

has turned into love?”

(.*_*.)

“There is a word. Only one word…

misused, misunderstood, meaningless.

One single word of three letters…

Starting with S and ending with X,

That is why we search for Love

And end up with hex.”

(.*_*.)

“For a very long time

you are living in a shell,

all alone and scared

to try out the wings

you have grown

inside.

You nearly flew off

but they clipped your wings

and you decided

your life

is dreadfully mundane.

Compromise but why?

burning like a candle flame

spreading light

and sometimes

flickering in a restless wind.”

(.*_*.)

“Familiar thoughts of you

leads to a sudden memory

that each one of us

is a star, visible

in the mystery of darkness.

Each of that

shining piece of light

is a reminder

of our destiny,

bright and endless

as ecstatic

as the twinkling and beyond.”

(.*_*.)

“Memory cells of my brain

let go of the tragic life behind

and remember

the melody of my spirit!

A body and a soul

with this mind in between

and The Dream...

a dream filled with joy,

atmosphere of a thousand flowers

blooming in my heart.

Drops of longing from the eyes

crystal clear mystic world

with faint forgotten fragrances,

splashing the waves of inward reflection

and solitude revels

in the brand new rhythm.

Greet the dawn

with a bated breath

and awed suspense,

culmination of desires

fulfillment of our being

and the taking off

into Freedom.”

(.*_*.)

Touche´

“Surfaces of our being

that touch,

vibrations of our feelings

that touch,

excitement of our hearts

that touch,

ripples of our souls

that touch,

reflections of our love

that touch,

a longing to be one

that touch,

life again in dreams

transformed,

by that touch.”

(.*_*.)

“Yes, I Love You,

but where is the I

that is separate from You?”

(.*_*.)

“There you go again...

making love to me

with your eyes.

No, this chemistry

will not just be

another experiment of physics

between us...

It is simply my heart

that throbs with love

and touched very gently

by your words.

Lets take a walk someday

and find out

how far we have come?”

(.*_*.)

“Oh! How I have learned to ignore

the crying of my soul. . .

in the journey to understanding

that love is more important

than the lover. . . ”

(.*_*.)

“This I’ll speak with my eyes

and you will understand

without saying a single word.

Love is crazy

and life is like that,

so many wishes unspoken

so many desires unfulfilled

and time is running out.”

(.*_*.)

“This body, this being

that you call ‘you’

is also mine.

My power

that expresses through your beauty

is beginning to live a harmony

at different levels.”

(.*_*.)

“Why this pseudo love affair

and yet consoling

a wounded heart?

Why this elusive trace of truth

and yet digesting

a landscape of discarded garbage?

Why this sudden encounter

and yet wandering aimlessly

along empty roads?

Why this after taste

of the real thing

and yet struggling

with Something not yet born?”

(.*_*.)

“A quiet fear

lurking in the cold air

Somebody shivering

with no one to care.

It is taking me

to where you are

strolling here and there.”

(.*_*.)

“The color of your skin

is not always

a true reflection of your soul...

While the Gods

men have always believed

are smug in their heavens,

My God sees the tiniest teardrop

and cries

because the pain that caused it

is never necessary,

but such is the power

of mass belief in suffering...”

(.*_*.)

“Beauty

deserves an admirer

like me.

Restless for love was

augury of your coming

inspiration for a lifetime

from the first few moments,

a flame that knows

no dire breeze

in my mind, a temple

You are the deity.

My sorrows halved

and happiness doubled,

a tryst

with the same destination

we belong to nothing

but Love.”

(.*_*.)

“A liquid light

in an electronic universe,

fuels the lightening union

of timeless souls.

Its raining a shower of ecstasy

if you have the power to see.”

(.*_*.)

“There is no darkness,

only an absence of Light.

There is no evil,

only a fear of the unknown…”

(.*_*.)

“Everyone in this world

somehow, somewhere

is living a lie.

Homes do not shelter us,

Clothes do not cover us,

Laws do not protect us,

Death does not kill us,

But Love,

Our willingness to love

and be pained for it...

Love alone sustains Life...”

(.*_*.)

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