30th May, 2017

It rained today, and oh boy! How it rained today! There is always something pretty immersive about torrential rain as it comes down in sheets. The word immersive may be tossed about both ways. Apart from literally doing what it implies, it severs all visual connection one has with the surroundings. With sheets of water shimmering which ever way one looks, the sense of isolation f...

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A moment in time did happen once.

                It was there and then it was no more!

Like a fickle wind that took a chance,

                To raise a head, but was gone before!

I would mull often in vacant times.

                If such a moment did occur awhile!

Or was it something without rhymes,

                As in the whimsies of a juvenile!

As ephemeral...

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It grew in the wilds, a sentinel growing tall,

A mighty yogi in presence, embracing it all!

Branches reaching out, to the skies in a plea,

Seeking for the strength - to live it's destiny!

Its ancient bark, a wrinkled, weathered hide,

Tells a tale of the time's, swiftly flowing tide.

Inexorably which has grabbed, life in a churn,

On and onwards to - the lands of no return!

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A life had my thoughts, ephemeral and bright!

Coursing thru’ the skies, in a shimmering light.

                    And time reached out, in a glorious embrace;

                    Rushing me breathless, through empty space.

When the memories came, unbidden but true;

From the nether mind the feelings broke thru’.

                    Some moments to rejoice, some sharp agony.

  ...

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All those voices yet in my mind,

From the years I had left behind.

            Casting echoes in that room -

            Pulsing through the dusty gloom.

The floating dust catching the light,

Shivered with unknown disquiet!

            The echoes gathered to surround.

            They animated the space around.

People I loved, now lost with time,

Speaking thru' the years...

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The coin leapt up high above them.

And in it’s flight

The bright sunlight,

Made it glitter like a precious gem.

A lazy crawl to it’s apogee,

Then a shivering pause.

Which could be because,

The journey down has ‘gravity’!

Plummeting down from up so high,

It struck the loam.

Lost momentum

And opened a face to the sky.

The consequences are in the win...

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The cup that broke housed a thought.

                     A nascent bud, not blooming yet!

But the hand of chance with the pot,

                  Filled the cup with a different fate!

Smiling lips drank up the infusion.

                  Tho' the process of a nascent mind,

Failed to make that thought sustain!

                      A shattered cup was left behind!

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When your times become tough,

and your road ahead is rough.

And all your brilliant thoughts,

Have come out to noughts.

And then uncertainties begin -

Just find the time to look within.

When you're searching for the track -

You had missed somewhere back.

And leaden of foot, tired and sore -

You feel lost and venture no more.

Then, to start moving afresh again;

...

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The only thing that is left,

                        After people die.

Is an essence all bereft,

                        Of every earthly lie.

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He thought in prose everyday.

And in prose he made his way.

His head held the heart in check.

The heart had no choice to make.

Often it would in a silent mourn -

Stifle a sigh and a silent groan!

His head preferred nothing less.

The heart kept trying nevertheless.

Then deep inside he heard it's voice.

One day thus he made the choice.

And to hi...

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Some fragments of time.

Some moments sublime.

          Some lingering thoughts.

          Some yeses and noughts.

Some presence so dear.

Some laughter to share.

           Some instants of grief.

           Some feelings too deep.

Some tasks to be done,

Till there are none.

Suvendra C Dasgupta

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From the subconscious mind,

Came a memory lost behind.

It reminded me of, gently then,

A music pure and fresh as rain.

I felt the tunes play in my soul.

The familiar melody to enthrall.

So long lost in the layers of time,

Heard it again - just as pristine!

Then back it went to nethermind.

A caressing whisper it left behind.

I felt it then - with some surpris...

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Walking in the rain all alone.

Tripping thru' nature's home.

On the stage of the field ahead,

the water drops perform.

The trees murmur, sing and rejoice.

With the rains they found their voice.

No keening wail in tempests wry,

but a happy voice in joyous cry,

of nature reborn.

Walking in the rain all alone.

I need no friend, for company.

I want no body to come...

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Oh! How fast the times did really fly!

Those days of yore no more near by.

The distant days under a distant sun,

And distant thoughts only half begun.

Thinking over and over what I should,

In those distant moments of solitude.

And distant words - faint echoes now.

Some distant dreams had died somehow!

Those faded prints from a distant spell,

Just memo...

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