An upended story

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City on water, Coming to terms, Conversation with a reflection, d'Verse Poets Pub, Denials, NYC, OpenLinkNight, Pondering, Reflection, Ripples, Truths

Reflections through my lens vis-a-vis Reflections in word

Alone among myriads
When words become scattered droplets
and reality, some sheer film of mist,
A singular reflected ray of light
grabs me by the ankle
and before vanishing, it says,
“look for me when you need me most…
If you find me, I am yours to hold
If you don’t, you’ll seek me
till you choose to forget”
And among the shivering shimmers on the surface,
Where truths ripple and lies fold over,
Where smiling masks float yet eyes plead guilty,
A lone image befriends…

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**This poem marks the end of my hiatus from blogging and versing (thankfully!)… 🙂 And I am posting it for Week 40 of OpenLinkNight @ d’VersePoets – where awesomeness happens! **

(K)not with love…

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(un)true love, d'Verse Poets Pub, Dark love, Effect, Flash, Fleeting glimpse of love, In a moment, Influence, Love, Lust, Open Link Night, Overlap, Sudden realization, Superficial, Too good to be true, Two hearts

Image made by me using iPad's ArtStudio

Somewhere in the space of time
our hearts crossed paths
Mine was red with passion
Yours, dark with desire
And it only took us
a few moments to realize
that while I reddened yours,
you had blackened mine…

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**Posted for Open Link Night‘s 30th week here at d’VersePoets – one of my favorite Tuesday afternoon hangouts! **

In a spot!

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Clueless, Colorful dilemma, Confused, d'Verse Poets Pub, Directionless, Endless search, Futile, Hazy picture, Looking for a way, Lost, Maze, Open Link Night, Puzzle, Unclear

Image credits: kavisionz

In this universe
drizzled with black and white
My mind twirls unsteadily
– lost–
Looking for something
– someone –
A tap on the shoulder perhaps…

But all I see
is a maze before me
spiraling inwards

Dotted with mixed emotion
I continue to fumble
– watery eyed –
Hoping for a green patch
A straighter path perhaps…

But all I keep finding
is point after red point
like stains of my wasted blood…

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**Posted for Week 29 of Open Link Night @ d’VersePoets Pub – the ultimate hangout for poets!! **

In a grey bubble

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A wish, d'Verse Poets Pub, Dilemma, Eclipsed, Fading, Hopeful, Lying in wait, Magpie Tales, Open Link Night, Oscillate, Pendulum, Reassembled dreams, Rekindled hope, Return of lost love, Sighs of hope, True love, Undying love, Waiting

Image credits: Tess@Magpie Tales (with some editing by me)

I heard your voice
fade into a lingering shadow
of a hoarse whisper

I felt your presence
melt into a stagnant puddle
of diluted memories

I watched you
slip into the recesses
of a pale obscurity

Wells have run dry
Trails have gone cold
Your teacup lay untouched
Your chair by the window rocked…
– empty –

And yet today,
when every sign of you
is ready to evaporate,
There awakens a sleeping candle
in a guarded corner of my heart
And I see your name
dancing in the flame
Teasing me
Nudging me
Telling me you aren’t
too far from my staccato thoughts
Telling me you are
wherever I choose you to be

I’m vacillating hopelessly between
an eclipse of the forgotten
and a penumbra of potent tomorrows…

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*** Posted for Week HUNDRED of Magpie Tales at the Willow Manor, and for this week’s Open Link Night at d’Verse Poets Pub! These are 2 of my favorite haunts, and they ought to be yours too!! ***

** Oh, and heartiest CONGRATULATIONS to Tess on a CLASSIC CENTURY of Magpies!!! YOU ROCK!!!! Wooohoooo…**

Atlas meets Eos

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Atlas, Burden, Burden of the world, Caught in memories, d'Verse Poets Pub, Eos, Feeling heavy, Freeing oneself of old thoughts, Haunting thoughts, Letting go, Letting your hair down, Memories, Open Link Night, Unburden, Undying memories

Image credits - Google images

For a long time now
I have been lugging
your dead weight around
It lies there
crippling my mind
rending my gut
cramping my style
weighing me down

And yet
I cannot leave it behind
Although
I cannot move ahead

I wish you’d just
Disintegrate
Incinerate
Evaporate
over the mountains
into grey dust
beneath the riverbed

I wish you’d just
bid me a tearless adieu
show me a weightless ray
and let me be

‘Coz for a long time now
I have been lugging
your dead weight around…

**Posting this poem for Week 13 of Open Link Night at d’Verse Poets Pub – the favorite hangout for poets and artists! Check it out… NOW… for now is the best time! 🙂 **
***Also wanted to let you know that is a poem which Vayavya has kindly featured on their wonderful blog… A huge thanks from me to the Vayavya team for featuring this poem… Luv y’all!! ***

Pixelated memory

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Anger, Angry words, Cannot be taken back, d'Verse Poets Pub, Dropping an axe!, Emotional, Faint memory, Full stop, Helpness, Loss, Moods, Only a memory now, OpenLinkNight, Past tense, Relationship, The River Journal, Walking away

I had recently clicked this in Key West... ofcourse I Gimp'd it a bit so it "suited" this poem 🙂

Gestures flashed
like ominous streaks
of steely lightning

Words rolled
like metal beads
off a snapped nylon cord

Emotions flowed
like molten lava
from a furious volcano

Sparks flew
like limpid feathers
on a still Autumn eve

Silence pervaded
like an eerie calm
after a brutal raging storm

…. Then you were gone….
With the stars in my eyes
silently exploding
into a monotony
of nothingness
And all I could do
was stand there
looking at you
ashen faced
while you
blurred
into an
urn of
dots
:::
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**Posted for Week 9 of OpenLinkNight @ d’VersePoets Pub… this is ONE place you ought to check out! You are bound to love it! **

***This poem has been featured in The River – an ever so artistic journal, you are bound to simply LOVE it! ***

World at odds

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Aggression v/s calm, Contradictory, d'Verse Poets Pub, Do these means justify the end?, OpenLinkNight, Opposites attract, Ridiculous world, Strange ways, Utopia, War and Peace, War towards Peace

Image credits: VanthMithra @ DeviantArt

Abort violence
Nip the weed
at its very root
so it never grows
into a symbol of vile

Decapitate terrorism
with a heavy axe
so it doesn’t dare
to raise its ugly head
against humanity

Make a promise
to honor the martyrs
with a handmade wreath
of bone and deceit
interlaced with perfection

Rally for peace
by tossing a grenade
and razing all
that obstruct the march
towards a bloody calm…

Guard with spears
Flood with tears
Barricade with fears
this winding path
 ~ to  that dreamed of Utopia ~

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**Posted for Week 7 of OpenLinkNight @ d’VersePoets Pub… It’s my fave poetic hangout!! So you might (should) wanna check it out yourself! 🙂 **