Like my Birthdays

https://youtu.be/mudo_ApRReI

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A lonely crow

Behind a lonelier crow

Behind yet another equally lonely crow ;

Dark shadows

Darting across a grey sky

Heavy,

With a monsoon’s sorrow,

Like thoughts escaping

Across a mind’s

Even vaster

Expanse ,

Quite like the pages of

My child’s book

That get lost even before

The words have taken shape ,

Or

Like my birthdays.

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Hindi Transliteration ( dt  28  Sept  2019  ) at :

https://poemshn.blogspot.com/2019/09/blog-post_28.html

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Only Questions

https://youtu.be/xamm5OXcaGQ

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There are no answers ,

No easy answers anyway.

Only questions

Baffling questions

Endlessly confusing questions ;

Who has the answers ?

I don’t.

I do not even know

Who knows the answers

If he does.

There was once

A burning of heart

Now I am left with ,

A mere acidity of the stomach ;

Perhaps that is the answer !

Of all the rhetoric

There is none to surpass

That of the “ Age “,

Of growing old,

Wah ! Wah !

To talk of “ grow “,

When death

Does near draw !

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Hindi translation at :

https://poemshn.blogspot.com/2019/09/blog-post_91.html  

dt  21  Sept  2019

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Image is in Love

https://youtu.be/SIh7KlhfZP8

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I love your image

Not you,

Because image is my creation,

Not you :

Chiseled with my thoughts

To near perfection

( I left out the “ mind “ on purpose ! ),

From primordial beauty ;

And for all my flaws,

The image is in love with me,

Not you.
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Hindi translation at :

https://poemshn.blogspot.com/2019/09/blog-post_20.html
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A Shadow has no Memory

https://youtu.be/nPlAd3_ksE4

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We made some promises :

Now these are hazy

As the morning mist.

So do not look back

Nor try to understand me.

Do not search

Beyond the misty veil

My restless self,

( the fierce sun will drive away,

  The peaceful , soothing mist )

Just close your eyes
And hold on to my shadow –

A shadow has no memory.

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01  May  1972

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Hindi transliteration at : 

https://poemshn.blogspot.com/2019/09/blog-post_19.html ______________________________________________________

With Nowhere to Go

https://youtu.be/ZsiPncEtEtw

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Moon is shining

Over the midnight clouds,

Velvet soft.

How do I know ?

No , I don’t.

I merely guess

A wishful dream

And I am wide awake,

A prisoner

Within the glass walls,

A fugitive

Of reality

Of the here-world,

With nowhere to go

Except inward :

If only I could be left alone

To die

And to be reborn

Every midnight .

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Hindi translation at :

मुझे अकेला छोड़ शकते हो ?

https://poemshn.blogspot.com/2019/09/blog-post_21.html

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