Bina Gupta Poetry and Short Stories » General http://binaguptapoetry.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:48:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Feelings http://binaguptapoetry.com/feelings-1597.htm http://binaguptapoetry.com/feelings-1597.htm#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:42:03 +0000 Bina Gupta http://binaguptapoetry.com/?p=1597

Feelings

Wavelike feelings
Surreal undulating
Fronds in ocean depths
Of my eely mind

A few spiky alarms
Some dreamy ferns
Curlicue creepers
Wandering coleus

Wafting aroma
Fragrance of cherished
Rose in yellowing
Thumbed book of mind

Cozy lap’s lilting lullaby
Cascading gentle streams
Love shower a mere dream
Cresting waves frothy cream

Drenching self in sprays
Diving to revive
Plumbing depths
In fathomless seas of mind

 

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(picture by suja sukumaran)

Passages

 

Of history’s

mysteries

Conniving

Chicanery 

 

cupid for some

enemy for another

bridge for one

chasm of another 

 

Musical notes

Bell’s tolls

mom’s cajoles

dad’s scolds

  

aroma of feasts

bobbing heads

smell of fear

ashen cowardice 

 

holy chants

escaping incense

runaway senses

reminiscing 

 

passages of time

traversed eternally

ever spanning

countless lifetimes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Beckoning warmed cup
Quality tea leaves
Saucer with dash of
Cinnamon, cardamom, clove
Boiling water on spiced leaves
Drip drip drip slowwww
Aroma rising
In tandem
With
Spirit
Sip sip sip
Lethargy
Slip slip slip
Spirit
lifts lifts lifts
nirvana
I do not hate
Any
one
Any
more

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Boiling water

On burner

Steaming cup

Scalded cheek

Tongue bitten

Stiff fingers

Wistful eyeful

Grey locks

Nature’s graffiti

Hair confetti

Relentless march

Time unforgiving

Spirit unwilling

Body bowing

Jerking upright

Vainly walking

In tandem

wayward

Spirit-eternal

Sunshine

Inside out

Spilling

thoughtfully

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An obscure landscape

Nondescript place

Extraordinary sight

Flightless bird in flight

Icarus on the waterway

Fish flying on airway

Piranha regurgitating bits

Bits coming together

Forming joey rabbits

Stars stretching arms

Gently touching petals

Petals pecking starry cheeks

Sun, moon gliding hand in hand

Day and night getting out of hand

Topsy turvy world sleeping waking

Seated on a dinosaur back

Magic wand my hand waving

When a 3D reptile converged

Recoiling I jumped, fell

Thud woke me, pell mell

A fanciful dream, I could tell

Painful back

Out of shape gait

Was my fate

(picture courtsey burningwell.org)

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Response came in earthy aroma, sprouts

 

Scrambling snails huddled scattered shells

Worms, gorging mini juggernauts, slithered

 

Muted chirrups retracted to refuges feathered

Overhead pearl drops shimmered in strung wires

 

Mopped dusty air, puffs of rejuvenating breath

Replete trees stand tall arms branched out

 

Leaves shaking shivers in euphoric frission, ecstatic

Life is dynamic ever changing moods, never static

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in driblets

uncoupled singlets

 

In yesterday’s sky

Stars twinkled like her eyes

She is alone today

 

 

Birds soared along with

Jaunty colorful kites

Arid earth seared

 

 

Overhead sun glowed

Perky flowers lifted heads

Frogs did not rivet

 

 

Prowling tomcat jumped

Landing in neighbor’s yard

To meet mistress

 

 

Silent monks sat on mats

In prayer hall to meditate

Voice left the temple bell

 

 

The moon shimmered

In the lake waters

She sat reflecting

 

 

In teeming forest

Orchid basked in glory

In solitary splendor

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Face skin
Screaming pores
Cringe within

Reddened eyes
Smart smote
Recalling tote
Bearing ice

Winter blues
Summer haze
Over largesse
Sets ablaze

Heat fireballs singe
Hail stones, jolt
Pouring rains and
Startling thunderbolts

Weather changeable
Prima Donna moody
Best be calm, not wilt
Let season do what it will!

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nose on glass window
houses impressed

faces faces
inside door more
eyebrows peaked

My squatter with
complete sway
rhymes all day

colors of skirts
color squirts
on hair, bodies

a tattoo here
an anklet there
a jacket shabby

an old geezer
an ugly bulldog
fat babyl

my squatter
hands these feeds
to Muse as weeds

realty reality
co-habit in mist
I multi-task to exist!

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The Messenger

Chastened wiser
Word miser
Adviser

Womb curled
Tomb unfurled
Combing ties gold

Sun baked sense
Gentle suggestion
Life lessons extend

Tightly curled spring
Ready for upward spring
Backwards forwards spin

Edge of ledge cliff
Fresh oxygen whiff
Messaging in wind

Carriers’ eternal true
Bearers of tidings
Ancient new

At limitless beach
Finger in water reached
Lessons to teach

A poke in the clouds
Message etched loud
Lightening thunder snort

Journey done, on to new
Orbiting and spiraling
Within without

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