WHISPERS: Love, Dreams and Imposter Hope

Hope is just an imposter

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I dream of her

She dreams of togetherness

I hope its me

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Om Namah Shivaya

Unconditional Love
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I love you
Not because of you
But because of me
Not because of your beauty
But because I am beautiful

I love you
Not because you need my love
but because I need my loving you

I love you
Not because yesterday or day before yesterday
But from ages
From many life times
Your soul and mine
Loved not you or me
But each other's togetherness in the heart

We have

Lived and died
On the banks of eternal river of various lives
On the clouds of moon lights
Among stars and its sunshine
Among the sea and its high tides
In each other's heart.
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Om Namah Shivaya

Shiva in My Dreams

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I have seen serpents
Running over your skin

Playing in your hair locks

Bathing from the rivulets of holy river ganges

That run down from your head

And then some one told me

That its me

Now I find them leaving you

and running across my blood

Slithering in and out of my blood vessels

Touching my senses

In cold touch

I have them making me feel

Gripped in coils

While my mind writhes

In shudders

Of coiled tightness

Of my life

Day in and day out 

Love

I find you

Probing my senses

with your flickering tongue

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Om Namah Shivaya

Die another Death

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Inside you

I die thousand deaths

Every time I don’t find you in my thoughts.

My love,

I spread myself in whole of the sky

Stake me with tall deodar trees

And I die thousand deaths

Inside me, there is a person

Willing to lie

To let you know that I am what I am

But not what I can be

And cry.

And you know my love

That person is not me

But I suspect its you

In my heart who is willing to die

To let me live

A thousand lives

Alone and hurt

Bleeding and blunt

No emotions and no feelings

Just a stone statue,

Where we loved

That we loved

That first day

And that we hugged

  

Why?

Why it has to be spread so thin

Thick in our love

That it has become so transparent

It hides nothing

It holds nothing

It does not even promise an eternity

But just our hurt feeling

And missed chances to be one

Why my love

You are so far away

To be loved

Even when you are just sleeping next to me

Why….?

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Om Namah Shivaya

Today is the birthday of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (July 18,1931- ), who was Russia's most popular poet in 1960's, often attracting thousands to his readings and has written more than forty books of poetry. His poetry was some of the first to overtly criticize Stalin. He has been politically active through his life, even serving in the first freely elected parliament of the USSR from 1988 to 1991. I was touched by this poetry from him so thought of reproducing it here.

You are great in love

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You are great in love

                                        You are bold

My every step is timid.

I will do nothing bad to you,

but can hardly do you any good.

It seems you are

                                     leading me

Off the beaten path through a forest

Now we're up to our waist in wildflowers

I don't even know

                                                       what flowers they are

Past experience is of no help here.

I dont know

                                                  what to do or how.

You are tired.

                                                                    You ask to be carried in my arms

Already you are in my arms.

"Do you see

                                                how blue the sky is?

Do you hear

                                                     what birds in the forest?

Well, what are you waiting for? 

                                                     well?

                                                                                     Carry me then!"

And where shall I carry you?...

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko (July 18,1931- )

Translated by Albert C Todd

Submitted to One Shot Wednesday Week 14

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