Oceans

old as it is
the ocean does not fear the sun
knowing as it does
every lost drop carries
the path of return
we are no puddles either
you and I
older than the sun
we are oceans without shores

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Neelkantha

holding my sorrows

in blue agony of his throat
covering his nakedness
with ashes of my delusion
he dances in abandon
that unborn mystic
my deathless lover
Neelkantha

~ Rwits
* One of Shiva's names is Neelkantha (the blue throated one) as to protect the world, he swallowed all its poison and holds it in his throat.

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Love Demolishes

love demolishes;
over the stillness of ruins
watered by pain
grows the mystical forest
roots draw
from the molten core
branches touch
the abode of gods

322

Eruption

molten fire of heart
trapped in hardness of stone
awaits 
that one opportune moment
of glorious eruption

321

Their Love

dazzled by the brightness 
that lived between them
shaken by the vastness
of that love
they turned their faces
shut their eyes
but smallness could
no longer contain them

320

Broken Bars

the bars are broken
yet I stand
trembling in fearful incredulity
imprisonment is a habit
hard to break

319

Love Letter

I am nothing but 
a love letter
consciousness
writes to itself
and reading it

dances in ecstasy!

318

Rains Came

it so happened today
some clouds lost their way
in a desolate
dusty corner of my heart
the rains came pouring down !

317

Prison

my lovelessness
hurts no one more than me
living in a constricted heart
dark windowless prison cell
is no fun at all

315

Borrowed

my body borrowed
from the earth
follows terms of use
conditions of return
my heart comes
from I know not where
obeys no rules
listens to none

314

Silence

silence between us
clamorous
with flutter and cries
of culled words

313

Inseparable

warp and weft
souls woven
in mortal flesh
inseparable we are
lest we forget

312

pain

pain comes without knocking
and the choice is mine
to carve of it
a dagger
that cuts me sharp
or a cold, hard gem
glittering on my brow

311

Solitude

my solitude opens doors to you
in this sacred grove
there is no other
be with me
fingers entwined
our words drowning
in fathomlessness of being

310

Dying To Live

I will open doors
I will walk free
I will wait no more
for her whim and fancy
I will die before
death comes for me
I will live and earth
will be heaven for me 

309

Your Eyes Are Sad

no, don't smile
not just yet
your eyes are sad
let's sit 
in falling shadows
let's hear
silences unburden
let's share
darkness between us
let's wait 
for the dawn

308

Fallen Sky

those muddy puddles
in seasons of rain
fallen pieces of sky
stepped over in disdain 

Being Me

the seed of oak
falls to earth
and becomes an oak
no matter
what grows around it
and so I must be
me 
in this world

306

Two Tiny Poems

boats 
are love notes
between long separated shores 

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my beauty fades
your eyes dim
see me now
in light within 

305

Separations

let's not believe in separations
let's not be fooled
by the stories of our bodies
their meetings give nothing 
but the faux satiation
of desert rain

see how
in desperation of unmet thirst
the desert grows thorns

know that
there is togetherness
beyond bodies
we are together and always will be
in spaces beyond
the reaches of flesh and its destiny

Earth's Love

even in the hardest
of droughts
earth never doubts
the sky's love
deep within cracks
seeds lie hidden
she waits to go green
with the first touch of rain

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Empty Boats

empty boats

on still waters

tethered for the night

at rest

from long day

of mating distant shores

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