Beyond the foliage

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A poem a day, Anything that does to mind, Autumn, Day 3, Dream, Fall, Hope, Leaves, Memories, NaPoWriMo, pleasant thoughts, Reality

Image credits – Kavita

Hidden from the
blank stares of common eyes

Camouflaged
in the autumnal rustle
of percussive willows

I hear footfalls
curtaining everything
that walked
before or after

The raised hair
at the nape of my neck
– just like when you rolled over
to whisper my name in my ear –
scream to me it’s you

Maybe it’s a dream
– or maybe not –

But I don’t want to find out
I like the standing hair
I like my name whispered in my ear
I like the sound of your name in the leaves

**Written for day 3 of NaPoWriMo… And now it’s just 27 days to go 🙂 **

Combustible glory…

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Analogy, Aspects of lack of success, Candle, Candle light, Comparison, Desire, Dream, Every aspect of a candle, Faint inspiration, Flame, Fuel, Glory, Hopelessness, Life, Musings, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry

Image credits: qazinahin@DeviantArt

Your dancing flicker
is like some shrill laugh
Echoing
in the pitted caverns within my mind

Your faint glow
is like a moaning ghost
Mocking
me at my accomplishments now dead

Your intoxicating aroma
is a buttermilk dream
Cascading
down unexplored gorges of my heart

Your seared wick
is that unreachable goal
Taunting
me to feel it while it’s red-hot

Your waxen smoothness
is my warm desire
Evaporating
slowly into a grey nothingness

Your annealed remnants
are my silenced dreams
Struggling
desperately for another vain life

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday (Golden Jubilee week… yaaayyy)!! Seriously, if you are craving for some terrific poetry form the heart, you GOTTA check this place out! You are destined to love it! **

Winged Trail

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Butterfly, Chasing a butterfly, Dream, Dream catcher, Following a dream, Following freedom, For love, Freedom, In search of love, Love, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Wild, Wilderness

Image credits: maine18-d2ze229@DeviantArt

They had told me
I would find you in the woods
Under a moonlit sky
Making love to nature

They had told me
I would see you in person
Soaking in the sun
While dancing in wild ecstasy

I wanted to find you
I wanted to see you
To feel you

And when the butterfly glided by…

In its wings
I saw the color of your smile
In its pause
I heard the music of your touch
In its flight
I felt the span of your love

So I madly ran after it
While it knew nothing of me
I knew it would bring me to you
And I would catch you
…red-handed…

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday (Week 39)… Check it out, and indulge in some amazing Poetry! **

***CONGRATULATIONS, One Stop Poetry Team on winning the Shorty Award (Art)… You guys TOTALLY DESERVE IT!! Yaaaaayyyy!!! Hope y’all had an awesome time in NYC!! I wish I could meet y’all… ***

****Just wanted to let you know that I am in Bombay, and trying to “absorb” the change in tempertaure…it’s 90F here… LOLZ!! Will be putting up some pictures soooonnn… ****

Solemn Plea

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Calvin & Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes, Cartoon, CnH, Conquer, Dream, Fun, Imagination, Monkey Man, Poetry Potluck, Sci-fi, Sunday 160, Tweety, Wish

My favorite!!!

And my fave!

If Calvin can be
Spaceman Spiff
And dodge aliens rough
Then I wish to fight
My aqua fiends
By being Ms. SeaBuff

If Tweety tan be
In a little tage
Yet have the big tat twapped
Then I wish to be
A butterfly
With skies and wind unwrapped

Wanna be my Hobbes today?
Or my colored wings, if you may?

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**Posted for Poetry Potluck (week 24).. Check it out, link in yours…and ENJOY!!!! :)**

Clarity in blur

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Clear, Crystal, Dream, Friday Flash 55, Fuzzy, G-Man, Reverie, Time capsule

Image Credits - DeviantArt.com (and some digital rework by me)

Frozen and suspended
Gingerly in midair

Soft and breezy
Caught between hair

Waiting and ready
To burst into motion

Winged and nimble
In fluid emotion

Colorful and vibrant
As buds that unfurl

Tasted and savored
In a honeyed swirl

Vivid and animated
As an expressed wish

Compressed and evaporated
From slumber’s shallow dish

Are dreams…

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**Posted for G-Man’s Friday Flash 55… For more stories/poems in exactly 55 words, please do visit his page…**

That state of oblivion…

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Assurance, Certainty, Dream, Eyes speak, Forever, Knowing, Love, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Past Present and Future, Reality, Surety

Image Credits: Pulchra @ DeviantArt.com

I dream of days gone by
When moments would just fly
Its charm I won’t deny
And gravity I can’t defy
From the corner of your eye
You’d watch me touch the sky
I’d raise a hue and cry
But you wouldn’t breathe a sigh
There was no need to lie
We were so young and shy
You loved me… My oh my!
And on this, I was high…

In chill airs, you I smell
And all my fears I quell
From quandaries, I rebel
Cuz in my hopes you dwell
Soft chimes of a doorbell
I break out of my shell
In your arms, I revel
Clinging to you like gel
Enchanted by your spell
I hear my insides yell
You love me now as well
From your eyes, I can tell

My mind runs wild and free
And swims about in glee
While buzzing like a bee
And hugging an odd tree
There’s no reason to flee
For in love’s the way to be
I’m on this frenzied spree
And it doesn’t cost a fee
Sweet you are to me
Like candy or honey
In your deep eyes I see
You’ll still keep loving me

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**Posted for this week’s One Shot Wednesday hosted by Claudia… Please do check out the lovely poetic offerings made here… It’s a certain delight! **

Gateway to Freedom

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Butterfly, Deep desire, Doors, Dream, Flight, Freedom, Haiku, Question, Wish

Lovely butterfly
Soaring freely ‘neath the sky
Can you make me fly?

Manifestation – Yes? No? Maybe?

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Dream, Fear, Imagination, Inhibition, Manifestation, Nightmare, Shadows, Terrible, Thought, Threat

I see a bird
An enormous, frightening bird of prey
Perched on the sharp edge of a rock
Its focused, beady eyes looking down
The large talons clutching something…
Something trembling
I see a hand

The bird swiftly dips its head
Digs a pointed beak
Into the skin on the hand
Blood gushes from this new wound
There are many such wounds
The hand’s now pale
It belongs to a body still alive…

The bird is looking for more
The hand suddenly moves
Blood dripping from fingertips
Like water off a rag wrung hard
The hand attempts to reach someplace
To the face…

I can almost see the face now…
Yes, I see it
It’s mine!
But how can I be there, dying,
When I am here, alive?
Or am I?

Is it only a mirror?
But it’s all in rusty sepia
Is it an image?
Is it a movie with my face in it?
Maybe it’s a nightmare I’ll snap out of soon…
Or is it?

I still see the bird…
Its eyes, its beak, its bloody talons
Only, it’s not a bird anymore
It’s a person
A gaunt wretch
My hand is no longer bleeding
But trembling nevertheless

Then I vanish
Where did I go?
The man begins to laugh…
A shrill, satanic laugh
He walks to his pet, the bird
Strokes it gently with his wiry hands
He lets out another horrific laugh

I still don’t see me
Where am I?
Am I lost?
Or in the shadows?
Am I hiding behind the skeleton of the tree?
Or beneath that threadbare rag?
Maybe it was a dream after all…

Or… was it??

More than just a dream

Tags

Be so much, Do so much, Dream, Mean so much, Meaning, Poetry

It is a halo…

With not a whisper lost in the wind
Or a shadow bidding goodbye
Like the glowing aura of sunlight
Greeting a dreamy eye

It is a star…

Gazing at me with floods of light
That has to it no par
I wish ‘pon it that we be
As one, though near or far

It is a sculpture…

Nesting itself within my soul
My life its ivory
I pose before my mind that sculpts
Figurines for me to see

It is a cloud…

Soft as if made of feathers
To cushion my weary head
With a smile dancing o’er my lips
I rise with no tear shed

It is a monk…

Seated in silence on my palm
Me under his scrutiny
He guides me through paths unknown
That’ll make my destiny

It is an ocean…

With waves of chance and depths of hope
She lures me to her side
Lashes at me, and yet she seems
Tranquil at either tide

It is a bud…

Nourished with this yen for life
And a face without a scar
It blossoms when I want it to
Into the prettiest flower

It is an angel…

That like a moon on mid-summer’s night
Is a bride hid in a veil
Who reigns the heart as emperor
And tells to me a tale

The Universal Truth

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Dream, Love, Poetry, Reality, Senses, Surprise, This and that

It is an untamed lioness; so fierce and so wild
It can tease innocence; like candy to a child
It is a fantasy; a figment of your reverie
It lives on; longer than reality
It melts like wax; it is sweeter than honey
It can be a gourd; as bitter as it can be
It makes you do things; arouses your desire
It ain’t no myth; no dragon that spits fire
It is a weakness; makes you cry out in despair
It is a pleasant surprise; catching you unaware
It becomes an obsession; it makes you resent
It induces fear; of treason and commitment
It can be so mystic; surreal in its flow
It has but one name; it’s LOVE just as we know