Words

I shall not measure my day

Chart it's course, Or

Analyse whether it's better

Than my yesterday

I choose instead to drown

In my sorrows, 

slowly skin the pain -

Experience its horrors!

Or delight in elation

Of free flight

Over rainbows bright

Unhindered - 

No horizon in sight.

To Be, to breathe - ALive, 

this moment's my ultimate High,

I Leave books and charts to scholars,

And follow the lute of wise.

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Bereft, without a

hand to hold -

I reached to skies,

Light streamed, wrapping 

My fingers.

I reached into water

She laughed, with a cooling hold.

I reached to winds

Who played, caressing 

with a lover's touch.

Loved thus,

I resumed my journey -

Ahead.

Living

I know this - surely -

As the drumming of my heart

And the dancing of my breath

That I live - and am Alive, 

in waves that run to lick my feet,

soft grass which beckons me to lie by its side,

Winds that croon with ticklish breath their multitudinal melodies,

Inky nights that yearn and reach out for me.

I live in

grains of sands that were once roaming mountains, 

Rains brimming life from blazing volcanoes, 

Alive Light that shines from Sun and equally from eyes of dragonflies. 

I am Alive in All of this

As it's All Alive in me.

a little haiku

Sea breeze & Sumi nights

Sitar strains on dancing palms 

My ancient-young heart.

आज की बात

अरुणालय का रंगीन गगन 

और सुबह मे ये ठंडी तपन, 

पारिजात बिछाए श्वेत चादर

उड़ गए सब गम के बादर 

लहरों की कुछ दबी बात

धुल गई सब अश्रु रात

नीलांबर की चंदन सांस

पूर्ण बनी सब अंगीन आस

चित्त उड़े बने पखेऊ 

दृष्टि बिंदु _ पर्वत मेरु।

Devouring Light

Be still, invisible - watch.

It's a Feast day of creation 

Giant cauldrons cook up

Light 

flooding empty aeons with sight.

Earth suckles with greedy gulps

Dancing cells in verdant green reaching up

Oceans devour light, rising to sky 

Nights leave star crumbs behind.

And I, a Light-child, grow luminous wings and soar,

Sitting still circle Cosmos million times or more

Green Star

If the Sun were not green

Would Earth be blanketed in verdant shades and sheen?

If Sun were not green

Would our sky be blue

And stain the Oceans in similar hue?

This miracle of malachite and jades,

cobalts, indigo and ultramarine shades,

pirouettes in Sama* at a dizzying pace**

In zikr on an Eternal course,

A tiny green Star - its Supreme Source.

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*Sama = Sama is a Sufi ceremony performed as part of the meditation and prayer practice dhikr/zikr. Sama means "listening", while dhikr means "remembrance". 

**30 km/s earth around sun