QUILL QUEST

Saturday, April 22, 2017

The Soulmate

After a quest for food,

to my nest I return...

"12:30!!...

You are late tonight sweetheart, my wait was long.

Come on, slide into the blanket,

we'll dream...rest you forget"

As I close my lashes

and try to captive sleep within,

the jealous soul mate kisses on my eyes

and wakes me up again.

"Let not just the Day see you,

I long to be with you more;

open your eyes for me dear,

the sun any time shall encroach".

"See with your open eyes

the road ahead and one behind,

you will find me fight for you

with the Day robbing your peace of mind".

"I give you my dark blood,

soak it with your thoughts

as you dream more to frame your future."

"I am your only mate...till death,

Your Soul Mate,

I am your Night."

Being Introspective

The greatest success is,

you learn to remain silent

when you want to shout aloud and say.

The apparent calmness may create tempest within.

Once the weathered feelings settle feathers,

you realize that storms come and go;

all that remains is a learning - The survival of the fittest.

Then you fit yourself within your own self.

As I Define It

Optimism: Glass is half full

Pessimism: Glass is half empty

Spiritualism: Glass is half filled with water and half with air... Eternally satisfied

Strategic Opportunism: Keep on fighting... I shall drink the water and you will be left with a glass full of air.

Seeing Through Thoughts

Nature Nurtures

Remembering an Old Friend

How easily I got busy

to forget small things that were dear to me

when the mind & heart were innocent!!!

I slipped my hands off

from those who held us together as a ring of roses...

those days we sang ringa ringa roses.

I became indifferent to the sound of rain

dripping from the window pane,

which used to turn me euphoric at nights.

I stopped gazing at the clouds

which gave me my creativity

of forming everything from nothing.

I became deaf to the hawker who sold cotton candy,

I used to appease my taste buds free of cost...

later in the day, getting sweet scolding from dad for buying them on credit.

I no more walk down the street in a cold new year's dawn,

face covered with mother's hand woven muffler,

to drop a hand-painted greeting card at a friend's door.

I no more wait for anybody to drop one at my door either...

I see now, an old friend

still waiting at my door,

giving a hope that "There is time, Come Back"...

It seems my friend waited quite long,

with rusted hands wide open

gone too weak and now hanging at the mercy of wind...

My Mail Box

Saturday, March 19, 2016

A Perpetual Life

It never started, it never ended...

It shall never start, it shall never end...

It is a big circle within even bigger circles of parallel time-zones

I stand at one point on each circumference...

Happenings just meet me and pass by

again and again on one,

But they seem so new to the other I on the other circles.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The Kid in ME..Plays Still...

As I do it for ME

Triumphing over all odds,

Making the way clear,

I am the Warrior Lady..

I gallop miles

With the sword of determination and the shield of wisdom,

I conquer the moments and

Treasure them to memories for millennium.

And then comes my way a countryside so serene.

I pull the leash hard on time and

Get down often

To feel the dew on grass barefoot.

As I walk by the river and look into,

I see ME as someone stranger

She

Nostalgic

As I walked on the pavement...View fog-laden,

I could see a glimpse of the future.

As the glass doors spread arms to hug,

I stumbled and fell to set the pride low

and found humility there below.

As the day marked the start of a journey

I remember it with each of its moments as

blessed, enriched, and glorious.

On the completion of 3 successful years in my Company.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

A Matter of Few Minutes in Days in Millennium...

Short-lived as life,

the inert Wishes of frenzy mind...

The Chances in life,

as the fireflies enlivening the stage for a Wish to play...

The Faith on those flirty chances,

making the Plot twisted to length and endlessly stretched...

And You just realize...

You lived a Millennium which was a matter of few Minutes.