Some recent free form Haiku
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At the altar of love
My verses have no other meaning
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How did I ever found you?
I never believed
In Cosmic Designs
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Life is wasted
In Living
Death is more precise
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Winter Dew
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Scent of senses
Linger long after
My thoughts
Memories, yearning
Have died in living
Within the emptiness
Of you
You float
In your own desert spaces
Finding you
And I run after every mirage
Sands of time
Creates
In your foot prints
I thirst for meaning
In every word
That lingers
From your lips
Just like
Winter dew
Cold winter dew
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ॐ नमः शिवाय
Submitted for One Shot Wednesday WK 35
Fragility of Eternal love
Enjoyed your Haiku. I liked "my verses have no other meaning" - very nice. I also like the line "death is more precise" - made me chuckle. Indeed it is!
ReplyDeleteliving in the emptiness of you...yet living off every word from their lips...nice...i really like the first haiku as well...great stuff...
ReplyDeletewinter dew photo is awesome! that drop is mesmerizing! makes me want to gaze deep into it. Just like your poetry, Shashi
ReplyDeleteamazing thoughts placed craftily into words that reach the heart.
thank you
Great material here. I was also enthralled with the idea of death being more precise.
ReplyDeleteShashi,
ReplyDeleteyour short poems/ each one a redolent flower/ exactly placed/ in a hand blown vase.
OneLove--Tiger Windwalker
Excellent haiku. Enjoyed them.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed the free form haiku :-)
ReplyDeletebeautiful haiku...the first one captured my heart immediately Shashi...and then I couldn't stop following your flow. Well done.
ReplyDeleteExcellent haiku, in particular i really enjoyed the first one. Winter Dew expresses so much pain and longing. "Have died in living / Within the emptiness" makes me think the speaker is caught in purgatorial longing. Great title too.
ReplyDelete@lori
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, life in living has many ways, destinations and doubts but death has none of these kind of confusions or options...
Thanks for enjoying my verses ...
@Brian Miller
Thanks, I always look forward to your comment. thanks for enjoying these..
@Hope
The image I have had taken in a village near Varanasi, in the early morning of this winter. I was mesmerized too and spent almost an hour early morning waiting for the sun to be up, living with the nature as it was waking up... It was an immense pleasurable moment.
Thanks for appreciation for my verses too.
@stillfugue
Thanks and death has that immortal quality of being precise and finality.
Thanks for enjoying my verses.
@Big Sur Blogisphere
I am thrilled to recieve such beautiful image about my verses in such a beautiful way. thank you.
@anthonynorth
Thanks for enjoying them
@Lucy Fur Leaps
Thank you very much, appreciate your visit to my blog and reading these...
@LauraX
The first one is also very close to my heart and in essence gives the source of my creativity... Thanks for enjoying my flow..
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
@dustus
ReplyDeleteThanks for enjoying my Haiku and then the verse 'Winter Dew.' As I said in the first Haiku that my Verse actually have no other meaning to be, than to create bouquet of words at the altar of love. I am perpetually drunk with longing, pain and suffering... come to think of it, life is made like that, to reduce karmic burden of past lives in suffering or in love or in being better human... and in all this, words become therapeutic... ;-)
Thanks for enjoying my words...
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
You are so good at this Shashi! I love the first haiku -- I love transparently with no second guessing needed.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love the third!
ReplyDeletelovely haikus! Especially the third one.
ReplyDeleteYou can find my most recent haiku here:
http://katheworsley.blogspot.com
Love your Winter dew piece...the sands of time...the mirage...all those wonderful images you presented here....thank you Sashi....blessings..bkm
ReplyDeleteWoowwww.... We do have this habit of running behind things trying to look the meaning... But more often than not, that meaning lies somewhere inside of us!! It's only a matter of time before we realize that..
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful words here, Shashi... what a lovely flow of words!!
And that repetition towards the very end of the poem (cold winter dew)... that DEFINITELY made quite a lasting impression on me!! Very well written indeed!
Very nice, Shashi. All the pieces paint such vivid pictures. This one packed the biggest wallop for me:
ReplyDeleteLife is wasted
In Living
Death is more precise
As always, when I think you have written so well in the haiku form, you write a longer poem that I like even more. I especially like the image of chasing the mirage, following the real footprints after an illusion Time has made of the departed. That is a subtle and very effective image. Beautiful work.
ReplyDeletei loved these lines a lot...I thirst for meaning
ReplyDeleteIn every word
That lingers
From your lips...that's so exactly how it feels when we are in love..
Lovely gems - I enjoyed reading these very much. Thank you for sharing
ReplyDeleteSome very intense words in the 2nd verse! It shows you live in emptiness but she makes you feel contented- well done.. very well expressed!!
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the Haiku too :)
P.S.- This has to be telepathy! I was just thinking about you- and you left a comment at the same time. This has happened a few times already with you and a couple of more bloggers!
You too encounter such?
Wishing you a nice weekend
Love xoxox
Dear Shashi!
ReplyDeleteHow did I miss this? These haiku, and the longer poem are divine. They have such meaning and depth. The complexity is in there without convolution. They speak with a universal voice, and that to me makes all the difference in the world in the sphere of poetry.
Resonance, within our common delights, condition...makes poetry go deep into hearts.
You are a master of haiku, Shashi. Each piece sends me into profound thought and it feeds the soul.
This is what poetry should do!
Hugs,
Lady Nyo
Enjoyed that first haiku and the photo very much.
ReplyDeleteGreat poems- thanks for sharing! I especially like
ReplyDelete'Life is wasted
In Living
Death is more precise'
Brilliant. :)
Beautiful verses.. I especially loved that last verse, Shashi...!
ReplyDeleteLeo.
http://leonnyes.wordpress.com
"Winter Dew" is so pretty, Shashi.
ReplyDeletePamela
You poetry expresses such a sense of longs that borders on spiritual. Well done, Sashi.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed these. Excellent.
ReplyDeleteYou have such a sensitive way of expression--I love these offerings of yours, Shashi.
ReplyDeleteLove the last - excellent - poem, the first two were good, also.
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