Category: Fiction
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The moment…
I was going along Humming my own song Smiling at the smiles Avoiding voids When I saw… She did not smile React or notice Her blank eyes stayed Vaguely on a distant horizon Her long silken hair Bounced in rhythm With her sure steps As the distance melted I lost focus and fumbled But I […]
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Message for the heart
She was much in a hurry Going straight ahead Without looking right or left Zooming through trees Clipping and dropping leafs That plummeted down with a brief grief She was too fast for me too But I caught up with her somehow “Why such a hurry? I have a genuine inquiry Tell me what is […]
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Words fail me
I sat down to write… As her memories And my anxieties Had started choking me I placed on the desk a blank sheet of paper Picked the pen up and guided it over Even before I could write a word My heart jumped out and sat on the paper But now I was thinking hard […]
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Not me..
I know.. I lost you eons ago Or we lost each other We took our own paths No, in fact it was me.. just me Who decided to go alone On my own It was because.. I had a path I just left And vanished without even looking back I left as though I was […]
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In Love With Imagination
You are the one In my thoughts My vision Perhaps, surely You are a stranger certainly But have always stayed inside me Inside my mindscape On my thought’s page You may be something unsaid But you are the poetry of my life Silent movements of your lips Are symphonies in my life With my face […]
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Future Steps in Present
I have been noticing that my present Seems to be reducing its presence As though a process of fading out Of life in the present has started Though an impossible situation Fading out present!? People, situations, conversations Seem to be gradually getting distant If not distant, exactly Hazy and unclear; certainly The things that were, […]
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