Photo Poetry

Before Sunrise

Jesse:


And it is the way we look into each other’s eyes
Or perhaps the way you do and then shy.
Time may not marry us,
Love may not engage us,
I may not even remember your face after sometime.
But surely I won’t be able to look that way into someone else’s eyes.
And perhaps this is our last time
Or Maybe ….there are many more to come !!!
But I still want to look at you
To feel myself complete in your eyes.


Celine:


Admiringly …
I adore the way your brows rattle
And way the way you sat stiff next to me.
The way your hands shout and go restless,
So to calm them, you let them breath around me.

After You

You left in me a different shade of me.
When I was what I used to be,
You let me hatch the way I was
The way I wanted to be …
In the secret within the vicinity of the house,
Ignored and unperturbed.
You accepted me and in turn I accepted myself
In the dark monsoons, heaving drops of water,
Freezing and incessant.


You left in me a different shade of me.
And now what I am which I never was,
A secret …
An acceptance…
A little more I imagined of your self
A more of a little than I thought I will ever have.
A farce that became force,
When I found, I kept quiet for the fear of loss.
When I understood, was too late for the doubts have overflowed.
And as pennies have grown into dollars
I cried for you as you had gone before I proved my worth.
I cried coz I never thought that I could have ever thought that.

Oh you .. Oh you …
Yes I am talking to you.
You have made me met myself after you.
And I lost myself again after you.

The act called 'proving'

And this is an adventure of the ordinary memories
You can sway them away as a complete yawn,
Laugh at it as the grim humor, or saunter through its streets guilelessly
You can convulsively play with them at your own risk
And when once when you are through with them, you bade a good bye.
They are blatant and livid, abstract and obscure
They can whet your appetite and yet have the mettle to fawn your interest.
For they are part of you and only you can dispose them.

And I here my dear
Would like to tickle your brain a little
Only you can answer me this riddle
For my mind cannot bear.

Scuttle through your memory
Go past the slings of youth
And let your forbearance take you to childhood.
Now since you’ve travelled to the faraway but known lands
Tell me do you ever see someone asking to prove who you are??

Can you prove me you’re a man, or you’re spiritual or you are alive?
Then how can you conclude sitting there that I am lying?
It’s a doubt
I am just confirming it.
You shouldn’t have grudge coz that’s the way it is.

And this is an adventure of the ordinary memories
That I will sweetly remind you
When each time you will ask me this question
That why am I giving you justification!!

Some more cigarettes

So it was there again between my fingers
That white lean figure.
The avidity of holding it -
Of visualizing myself ecstatically still momentarily,
Surrounded by mystifying smoke,
And thinking I am high already.

Standing beneath the guileless sky
Amongst the orphan trees of the road
Sitting on a leper platform
Musing over the absence of the presence
And presence of the absence in life.

All I want is to stay put to my thoughts
All I want is time to linger on

And who wants to live forever
If you are not consumed …
Like a last puff
I want to persist a while in the air
Whiffed and cherished
And then whoosh gone forever!!

Living Perpetually

We have walked into the snow once with cold feet,
The heat of our hands let us going.
We have once sat on the mountain
With knowingly an unknown fear,
But our hands held us tight.

What defines us may time will never define.

And in a blink,
The weak will go.
And with a wink,
Second will follow.

Go beyond and beyondness beckons you.
Time will travel distance and fate will follow its course.

And we will once again gaze into the morning light.
And we will once again sit under the shadows of stars.

I can hear you thinking.
I think you will hear me one day!

And who doesn’t aspire to be loved?
And who doesn’t aspire to be at home?

Don’t you know me by now?
Don’t you know me by now?

You will, like I knew you then.

Undrafted letters

The leaves had flown with the winds
And the trees stand naked.
Doodle my hair with your fingers
The season of red wines and cherries have soured.
You have skated my heart and skirted me
And still I have the desire to write to you only.

The blue mist surrounds me
And you’re into the blackness of the whole
Sketch the deep tides of your mind
For once and for once, as you sow
If not zenith then we can reach the moon…
O’ ye, o’ ye
I want to remind you I want to love you only.

Love is invaluable and struggle so sweet
Instability steals myself from me.
Stop watch of patience ticking ingloriously
And no one is cipher, and I will also not be
O’ ye o’ ye
But I will be happy how much I scorn with you only.

The wheel fortune showed me your name
Let’s dig our own wormhole, my instincts said.
I’ve grown past through all the optimism, inspiration and perspiration.
It’s been past your age to be a neutron.
And what thou shall benefit?
When time will turn dour
And thy can still forgive, if you come back to me only.

Ecstasy

And there are all sitting,
On the clouds of evolution !
Musing, delighted and gallant.
“Oh we have come so far!”
And farther we have come to lost in woods
Ivories, flesh and bones.

Not less disheartening than the guilt of the glass we broke in childhood.
Not less disheartening was parsing the tick- tock of clock.

Selfish is the winner
The one who comes first will get the most
Survival of the fittest is the ruler!
The one who is weak will loose the most

Life is a decree
Not by chance but by choice
Death skates at the feeble
Wayward lives living in abominations
What’s next …
A dawning comprehension

And excitement was ecstasy, once …
But now it all comes cheap.

The Ants

How can you even miss them?
They are like one of us.
Go anywhere, us and them are common.

Why do you ax their nature?
When being hungry for both of us is a food for survival.
Likely they don’t despair over their fate,
And unlikely we are retaliators of our destiny.
Not all but a figment we have of each other.

What you thought, we descended together?
Well commonness is common in everything
Yet lot of things don’t have anything common.
We co-exist, we are brother and sisters.
Ahh! We must have come together.
But then, we eat each other and why they never??