Friday, October 31, 2014

आत्मसात्



मैं उसे कैसे आत्मसात् करूँ 
जो रौशनी बिन पाताल में जड़े जमाए है
पत्तों के झुरमुट में क़हक़हे छुपाए है
जब भी अनकहे लब्जों से
जीभ थरथरती है
ना जाने कितने फानूस फ़ना हो जातें हैं
किस व्याधि से मैं उसे कल्पना में उतारू
टटोलता हूँ तो सिर्फ़ अपने आप को
जब पत्ते टूट कर जमी पर बिखरने लगते हैं
जब भी कभी आँखों से बुझती है शमा
लोग भी ना जाने कैसी कैसी
हवा बाँधते हैं

NOW AND THEN

Even now and even then
The truth, remained the same
and only difference
Hazed my preview, which
When I judged you by reason
You lured me by your dreams
Stretching time-fabric gaps
Distance by distance
One galaxy to the next

FOOTHOLD



Knowing the bearing
Of intrusive shrill
Departing strength
Cudgel my beat

In what ecstasy
You cry thy grant
Daily I soak
Warm tears
Pacing my heart

Not only You, know
To ebb my flow.
I also could
Cast a run
To your search

Holding breath
To know me not
I discard daily
The attachment
Bouldering my footholds

PLUCK A NOTE

Pluck a note
To my eternal string
Inevitability, here
it perforce my bleating heart
Craving thy image

All has gone
Undoing consolation
Crediting me respite.
But, 'I' only remains
Grazing thy look

Humble to pulpy heart
I let thy nectar flow.
Escaping all verbose
In body and mind
I plunge thy depth
Freeing my 'self' from myself

Monday, October 27, 2014

FIRE WITHIN



The cause simmer
An eternal glow
Reposing delight
In rapture,
The fire within

Thrill erupts
Flaming mountains;
No less of me
Crystallize, blazing
The rhapsody within

He of fire
Rests in tranquility;
A faithful companion
To pyre burn, the dawn
An eternal abode!

EARTH EPIC



Earth epic unfolds
Myriad throbbing forms
Pulsating eternal beat
Flapping perpetual voyage,
Basking into the void

Invoking the chasm
Pompous stillness
Rhyme celestial rhythm
Loitering blissfully
Earthy womb takes to birth

Celestial bound ‘Garuda’
Brings nectar to Earth
An elixir of life
Awakening all conscious
To  yogic ‘vayus’ within

LIGHT AND DELIGHT



Tuneless vanity fades away
Dusting dusk of tearing nights
The marigold of your eyes
Shines, streaking the skyline

Simmering in, the lights
From the edges of Gothic architecture
Mélange the dawn in ecstasy
Round the mind’s rim

Let daring moments conjure
Shamming the acts of darkness
To unfurl all bruised smiles
In splendor of light and delight

Tuneless vanity fades away
Splashing golden crystals resolve
Ripples of massive moments
Riot the becoming of ‘splendor you’!