A Mind of One's Own

 The Sunday Muse #202

They were friends

Those soundless words

Filling lonely hours

In silent raptures.

A woman was born

Understanding the world

Through the dancing muses

A lonely war she fought

Fighting against the odds

The world stood still.

In the periphery of solitude

Phrases, verses, words, and rhymes

Merged and created

A powerhouse of daring thoughts

She molded her dreams.

Immersed in those silent friends

Life took a full circle

When she faced the gender bias

She burned the patriarchal pages 

Letting her actions

Speak louder than words.

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Give Peace a Chance

 The Sunday Muse #201

The winter,

In the heart

Wants to melt

But, the noises around

Tighten the grip 

As senseless greed

Harvests a blood thirsty few.

The image of soft earth 

Fragrant and welcoming

Takes back to a timeless space

Where free-spirited innocence

Wandered, embracing nature

Seamlessly, without care. 

Memories, those  cherished images

Humbles the existence

As a war crazy madness envelopes

The receding horizon.

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Time Phase

 

Sunday Muse #200

Molding lives

Self and the other half  of the womb

In tiny cells of conscious effort

Each day is  taken in halves 

Trying to fill them with bits and pieces

A tired body adjusting

On a blank canvas

Filling it with colors

Blue, pink, green, yellow, and many more.

The extended umbilical cord stretching

Mending all the broken passages of time

Life is a palette 

Filled with many possibilities

Either get stuck in the pain or  move ahead and

Accept the challenges with a smile.

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We Belong

 The Sunday Muse #196

                                                                  Photography by Josephine

 What can we share together?

We are visitors on a vast sphere 

Breathing in fumes of distrust and disaster 

Shortly timed lives we live

You and me

In this claustrophobic 

Whorl of self-destruction 

Who is wise and who is foolish?

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Period

 The Sunday Muse #195

                                                                     

                                                                             Photograph by Anita Sedberry at Harold Ross Fine Art Photography.

All beliefs confessed, die evenly

For grandeur harvested in

Joys keep losing momentum

Not once pride questions reasons

Seriously, to understand visions

When xeroxed youth zeroes down

Spiraling in a bottomless abyss

More or less, the smoked life

Sleeps peacefully in the shadows

Branching in the fragrant earth.

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Glazed

The Sunday Muse #194

 

An aged vision

Frosted

Chiseled

In tiny specks

Silvered layers

Tempered in rhymes

Peeps

Tempts

A forged existence

What one wants to

See

feel

Lies in a lot more

Silent echoes

Rings

Sings

Through a timeless frame.

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Let the Heart Sing!

The Sunday Muse # 193

                                          “James Dean playing the bongos, NYC, 1955. Photographed by Dennis Stock ”

A smokescreen

The cacophonic world 

Let the heart sing

In the arms of freedom.

There are layers

In the colorful world

Let us forget who we are

And sing to the winds!

The isolation

Chains the spirit in a crowd

In the wilderness 

A true self breathes!

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Following the Heart

 The Sunday Muse #192

I took the bait

And moved ahead

Without looking back

And here I am

Infront of the reality

Touching my soul.

I followed my heart

Not easy in these

Tiring times,

But, the odds

Couldn't stop me

And here I am

In the heart of my dreams

Embracing without fear

All that I missed.

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(Last month I packed my bags and baggage and moved back  to a place which I have left three decades back ago. The place is not the same. The topography and demography has undergone many changes. It is going to be a real challenge adjusting to the  new environment. I am not giving up! ) 

Trapped

The Sunday Muse # 191

Fearful, doubtful 

Through and through

An outcast.

Skin permeates 

In deep oceans

As a pariah out on a prowl.

People are objects

Detested and tested

In tiny cells of curtains.

How ugly can one become

Within the chains of closed doors.

A  catastrophe dances

 Inside and outside

Isn't that how it has been

for the past few years?

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Senses

 A short life

Timed and cursed 

Carries the debts of needs.

Shivering existence 

Wails in winters

Searching warmth 

In invisible arms.

The Voice

 The Sunday Muse #189

You feel like December, my friend

Cool, cozy, warm, and woozy

You smell of pines and woods

And long-forgotten fairy tales.

You are the wanderer of the dark forces

For me, a boon from the ancient voices

You understand the silent pleas 

And the danger of lurking fears.

We know how far we have come

From the wild ways to  a comfort zone

In this cacophonous world

It gets lonely and dangerous even for a child.

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