Rain Drops

Sky opens his cloudy gates

And rain drops slip 

Like a little child running to

Seek the world of thrill

As soon as mother slides

The back yard door wide.

Little water bubbles 

Float in small puddles

Scattered raindrops

Jump on concrete floor

A show of dancing manikins

Cheering their birth and demise

In a moment of flowing time.

Soothing is rain 

For a heart laden with pain

Water streaming in a rhythm 

At par with theatrical manikins

subdues my chattering mind

In a calm silence.

Rain stops and clouds move out

Leaving the earth wet and fresh

Sun shines on ivory rose petals

A tiny rain drop flinches

Fights a loosing battle

It's blissful existence

Vanishes in front of my eyes

To become a nebula in amber sky.

Southern breeze shakes the rose bush

The little rain drops slip and slide

Playing the last game of their lives

I put my palm under a leaf 

To catch one shivering petrified drop

My love lick becomes a kiss of death

The icy form disappears on my lips.     

The cool touch stays with me 

Sensitizing my inner being

Some day the little rain drop

Will return to float in my eye

As a warm tear drop to cure my blight.

Written on 

1.26.2014

Random Verses

Care

We have to care enough to be our best

We have to dare enough to be that now

Today’s work decides tomorrow's outcome

strength

Trees striped bare naked

Of fruits, flowers and leaves

To face the frigid winter

Intense loss gives renewed strength 

To start over in life again

Caution

Highway is no ocean

Yet many lives are lost

In reckless motion

Drive your four wheels

With caution.

Fate

Fate can bless you

By default or curse you

By default if it chooses so.

Your Ship

You are the captain of your ship

Steer the wheel with caution

Understand the power and limits

Of what your ship can do

Bear in mind the effects of wind 

Current, swell and momentum

To My Anonymous Lover

Note: The poem below is written by Valsa George, a renowned poet from India. I enjoyed it a great deal and with her permission putting it on for my blog readers. For more of her poetry visit her page at the poetry site of PoemHunter.com
Savita Tyagi

To My anonymous Lover

Some where in a strange land
An unknown heart throbs for me
Etching an amorous graffiti
On the blank walls of my mind
Where ever I am, I feel a pair of eyes
Fondly surveying and scanning me,
Speaking to me in silence
And keeps me awake in the night
I feel it all, all hear it all
Filling me with a sweet ache!

When night birds croon in the woods
And their mates answer the serenade,
When the moon begins her somnambulistic walk
And light beams percolate through pine needles,
And the hundred eyes open in the blue heights
To watch over the sleeping earth,
When the whistles of train is heard far away
And its music wanes into a monotonous drone,
When the rooster makes the first clarion call
Breaking the serene silence of the night,
When glowworms float in darkness
Like cruise ships over the sea,
When night gales shake the slender coniferous trees
And wind whistles among their leaves,
When sailing clouds blind the stars
And the night turns into an ebony shade,
When the opening Jasmine secretly exults
In her own exotic scent,

Sitting in my dimly lighted room
I draft this message of love
Pouring all my warmth into it
Thus emptying my love laden heart
That blazes with fire of love
And encode it in cryptic script
To be mailed to you my love!

Oh, it might take much time
Better it be a whispered endearment
Sent through this perfumed night breeze
That shall carry it from this end to that end

So kindly leave your window open!

Wish you all PoemHunter members A Happy Valentine's Day !!

Valsa George
Thursday, February 13, 2014
                                                   

A Frightening Dream

A huge python crawls in dream again

Massive shadowy figure of long grey serpent,

Moves with tremendous force in cold obscurity.

From my mythological memory I recall of Vasuki *

Shiva's faithful companion,

A garland of grace and beauty

Wrapped around his blue neck so gingerly.

Tonight he wasn't there

As an accomplice of ocean churning

For seekers of immortality

Tonight he was an ordained employee of death

In cold blooded merciless cruelty

Destroying and devouring all

What was built with love and care.

Walls and bricks fall all around

Dust and smoke blind the vision

Choking me out of my breath

I stood there in darkness

Shaking and trembling

Oh! How I wished to save just a little nook.

A silent prayer, a wishful thinking

Echoed in fearful heart

Hope of a tiny dwelling to be spared

Amid the fallen debris of rocks and iron

His coils and fangs will have mercy

For a little room where the most delicate  

The most helpless of all

A little innocent life lies

Blissfully unaware of lurking danger.

Just then I break away from sleep

All apprehension of that fateful event stops

A sense of relief takes over

Akin to when an earthquake shakes every thing

But in a next moment of afferent sensation

When the earth becomes still

One feels oneself alive again.

Fear grips my heart

A wakeful consciousness

Still disoriented,

Entwined with truth and illusion

Haunted by the vivid memory

Of a terrifying, wretched moment,

Struggles to regain and recompose.

For now all is calm in dark night

In quiet submission, whatever was spared

Stirs back to life again

Cobra wraps in his coils whoever

Or what so ever it wishes to wring

And leaves the rest unscathed.

Based loosely upon a dream.

Savita Tyagi

* Vasuki is the name of a snake in ancient Indian literature.

Snow

Snow all around

I dwell sojourn 

In its vastness

Emptying my blankness

Upon powdery landscape

The tiny gloom particle

like a handful of coarse sand

gets vanished in mountain of snow 

A stretched out grandiosity

spreads serene against my trivial discord.