Showing posts with label english poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label english poetry. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 04, 2015

An ode to Lt. Cdr. Abhilash Tomy

Restless in the legs
I love the everyday's challenges
For what they bring up in life;
i embrace the survivor's strife.

 Why me, when there were so many?
Creator brought me up here so tiny
Here I am! To fulfill what holds the destiny.
I have set sail - a journey called life.

In the stillness of time,
Neither do I think of the future
Nor do I brood over the past.
The process of discovering what I am not
What has been told and sold
I challenge everything I tightly hold.

 Every notion and belief,
I have pushed it against a watery wall
A pack of cards, apart it fell
Notion or the wall?
It is your call.

 Tossed by the mighty fury of the ocean
The mind swept away by the rhythm of the waves -
Kindling, caressing and relentlessly pounding.
The boat that was my life -
In the hugeness of the ocean – is it a speck? A shard?

 Soaked in the elements of Nature;
Submerged in the bliss of the Self
The oceans have rewarded its treasure
To the Explorer -who sacrificed all the petty pleasures.

I set sail, in a boat in high seas
I returned, with the oceans within me.
My experience, for you I sum up

Raise the sails
Catch the winds
Ride the waves
Go explore yourself!

For you are the oceans
You are the winds
You are the Creator
Of your own Universe.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Wings cant fly

my lil teen daughter
bubbly and a non-stop chatter

an angel - she is a darling
now cuddled up and cryin

Keeps me away and shy
Why Whisper Wings cant fly?

Sunday, March 28, 2010

நினைவுகளாய் காலம்..

நினைவுகளாய் காலம்..
வலியில் விழிக்கிறேன்
கண்ணீர் கழுவிச் செல்கிறது
கலந்த காலம்
கடந்த காலம்.

கனவு பட்டங்களில் பறக்கிறேன் -
நூலேணி நினைவுகள் நீளத்திற்கு.
கண்கள் பழகாத உயரத்திற்கு

விரையும் மேகங்கள்
சொல்லிச் செல்லும்
வருவது சுழல்காற்றுடன்
அடைமழை.

நூலேணி நினைவுகள்
நீள நீள
கனவு பட்டம்
தொட விழையும்
கருவானில்
ஒரு வானவில்.
-- விஷ்வேஷ்வரன்

Monday, January 11, 2010

Poetry ::: January 1

ஜனவரி ஒன்னு
அதிகாலை
பாதி ஊரு
ஆடி அடங்குகையில்
மீதி ஊரு
விழித்து எழுது.

உறை பிரித்து
தரை பதித்து
துவங்குது ஒரு தீர்மானம்.

"தினம் காலையில் 4km வாக்கிங் போவேன்"

புத்தம் புது வெண்ணிற jogging shoe
லேபில் கிழிக்காத ரீபோக்
ipod wrist band சகிதம்
இள நிரை
சிறு தொந்தி வாலிபரும்
சில நிரை xxl அம்மையாரும்
வியர்வை மினு மினுக்க
அகிலம் அதிர அதிர
வேண்டிப் பெற்ற வசதியில் வளர்த்த
வேண்டாத எக்ஸ்ட்ரா கிலோக்கள்
கரைக்கிறார், கரைக்கிறார்.
நடையாய் நடந்து.

கரைந்ததோ
வைராக்கியம்
ஜனவரி பத்தில்
பாதி கூட்டம் காணோம்!

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Life is a circus (feb 7, 2009)

Kids were open-mouthed excited n thrilled
very Up close @ the ring.

Enough to
see n smell
horses and elephants,
parrots and people..

I smelt
the sweat and suffering
In 40 somethings
aging clowns
@50 what security they own?

Under 18 performers
dazzling in patched attire..
Half full arena
- a satire.

Bolly wood comes nowhere close
Stars and sirens we pay in crores.

Circus takes no retakes
Shows that are breathtaking
Any mistake? breath taking.

Practice a million times,
acts in synchrony
performance the only crony..

This takeaway is mine
Life is a circus perpetual
No retirement - thatz actual
Recession or sunshine
My life is mine.
Claps n Cheers
don't distract
The pain and sweat
all for my bread

Up and down I sway
Its all roles I play.

The show is coming to an end
Life is a circus - never pretend.

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Digging deeper...

Questions...

So close?
Yet so far ...

So far?
Yet too close..

My senses are addicted :(
Always judgemental
Evaluations as cold metal.
My mind is afflicted :(
Its full of questions
No answers as renditions.

The sensory world is a charging bull
Impulses pour in full
I gasp for a break,
Nights I stay awake.

Out of a dream
Woke up after a scream

Nowhere to run,
nowhere to hide
In a packed stadium
Where all the faces are mine
me alone stand there naked
What am I?

Questions fill the mind
Like dust arising in wind
Answers dont come
Where is home?

Love struck in my heart
Suddenly like a wart
I know sick is this example
I lost words to her dimple

When love dawns in heart
questions became wonder
my changes I ponder
seeking answers I never bother
tolerance gone bottomless
Botherations I care for less.

At least can I say?
Enlightenment came into me.
Or did I go to it??

Again Questions :)