A Floating Cloud

 I am like a floating cloud in this

Vast open seemingly baron sky.

Hidden in my bosom millions of tiny vapors

Formless, colorless, faceless,

Waiting for a chance to get a face, a color, and a form

In their expression I find a bit of my identity.

But very often I float around

Carrying that mysterious world with in

That veiled mysterious world

So near yet so unknown

Every now and than a flash of light escapes from it

Like a meteor bursting on night sky

It touches me, inspires me

 Illuminates my whole being for a moment

And then every thing becomes quiet again

Like nothing has happened.

Mystics call it the world of silence

Unfathomable

There all is tranquil, all is calm.

This infinite space within

The substratum of life

It holds me, cuddles me, guides me through

Always pulling me with some magical energy

Yet always beyond my reach

Savita Tyagi

Some Time Love Doesn’t Connect

Some time love doesn’t connect

Hope is shattered when call of love doesn’t resonate in lover’s heart

Despair and dejection envelops the soul

Like the gray cloud that swallows the rich blue of sky

Life becomes like a streamed line river of muddy waters

But look past that moment!

In due time clouds meet its demise

The jubilant river carries the waters to farthest shores

The river of life flows on a bed of love

Rocky and muddy yet always there

Constant and stable

Mysteriously multilayered

One-minute love touches the heart

At other its depth is beyond reach

It is possible just to take a dip in it

Or be drowned by it

It is serene and it is violent

It is cool exhilarating sand

Or quick sand accurse

Within the heart one holds power to recuperate

Mend your broken bridge

Look beyond the shallow puddles

Yes sometime love doesn’t connect

Effort and destiny don’t connect

Opportunity and moment of action don’t connect either

But life surely has many outlets

Find the one that fits your palm

The richness of life isn’t confined to just one point

Radiate a crystal and one bright ray falls upon you

Connects you with thousand rays

Remember! Just one sun needs to shine upon a river to create millions of shimmering diamonds.

Savita Tyagi

Void

 Through the grey walls and white sheets

Void spreads out.

It moves in open circling the snow covered mountain peaks

Settles upon the shadowy darkness of cedar and pine

In quiet it moves among creatures of night and beasts of forest

With thoughts and sensations buried deep

Mind resembles like a stretch of parched land

When void takes hold of consciousness.

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 The vast blue space

So pleasant to look at

In its void hang the sun and moon

In the darkest hour of night

Stars play upon its bosom

In its emptiness it embraces thunder and lightning

And gives clouds space to float around

The void in my heart appears like a faded tapestry

In its fragile weft 

I search for your image.

  Savita Tyagi

Candle

Written by Roopa Sharma

A candle burns
By the window
In a dark corner.
The soft bright glow casts a halo on the wall.

Outside,
The wind blows...fierce wind
The candle flickers,
It sees its shadow - shaky, hesitant, unstable
determined to light up the corner,
It burns steadily...

People...lot of people
Smiling, laughing, happy faces...
They are dancing
Holding each other
The candle longs to dance - swaying softly.
They are singing,
Joyous songs
The candle melts with the sound of music
Drop by drop
Yet glows brightly.

Night falls
And people leave
A couple dances in the shadow
Then they disappear
Leaving a faint whiff of fragrance
Across the hall.
* * * *
Burning alone,
The candle looked at its bright reflection on the wall
And saw,
What it felt all along,
That,
It has been burning from both ends
All night long. 

Roopa Sharma