a blob of lovesquiggly lightin its weightand in sightdropped itselfin the plightof the overthinkingmind. suddenly all turbulencesettled down.oh! what a sight! ~ vani murarka
Category: poetry
Quiet Day
It was quiet whole day longI didn’t listen It is quiet now, and I’m listening The room is quietA night shade lights the roomFiles download quietly, over there Yes there’s noisefrom these wordsas I speak them in my mindwhile I write —to tell you of the quiet. Make it in your place somedayListen.
Of Writers Who Talk Too Much, and A Writer Who Brings The Wide World Into Hindi
As he critiqued the book, this speaker complained that in too many prose writings these days, the writer is talking too much!
Let your heart grieve
Let your heart grieve. Your age is the same, my love. Still the same innocent child. You were born, who knows when. You seek what you seek. For that which you will not get — Let your heart grieve. * Then, you shall receive.
threesome
One night You had encircled me.
No, that night You sandwiched me.
From one side You came as You
From one side You came as Him.
Then I remained just as a mite
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Waterfall
I want to feel this body
rub against Your body.
I want to feel this breast
pressed against Your mouth
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The Gift Of The Night
Now that the day is done
There is only You and me.
The night is precious
For it brings
You and You and only You
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The Place and The Moment
You are the place
and the moment
where
everything comes
to a pause
for a moment.
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Touch The Bark of A Tree
Does the tree cry inside, as it grows, pushing aside the very earth that nourished it? “You are so calm!” she said. Touch the bark of a tree. You will know many unknowns. “Oh how you flower, tree!” Work happens not in summer. Work happens not in spring, or in August. That is just delivery… Continue reading Touch The Bark of A Tree
I Shall Go The Way I’d Gone
I shall go the way I’d gone as a child, to the sky. I shall let it blow my mind To smithereens. Then I shall be only me Nothing more. As the sky is Just the sky Nothing more. As the bird is Just the bird. “But you’re so intelligent!” they say… This I do… Continue reading I Shall Go The Way I’d Gone