WHISPERS : Sighs

Some of my HAIKU on suffering and then a long verse about life “Sighs...?” I believe that sometimes we cherish pain and selfishly hold on to it till it becomes intrinsic part of our soul... Love has that effect in leaving... in emptying...

A lonely tree in a village near Varanasi

Suffering is you

Left to die alone, in the desert spaces

Of memories - in past

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Suffering is not

The actuality of pain

It’s just an image of memories

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From seeds of suffering

That universal feeling of love

Flowers forth

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Common Man by Cartoonist R K Laxman at Worli Sea Face Mumbai - India

SIGHS

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As emptiness seeped

Into my being

A sweet selfishness of living

Flowered

And it took roots

Dig deeper into my soul

A red earth tempered by

- Dark blood of dying memories

- Fallen leaves of decaying past

One by one, withered branches

Of love crashed

On this emptiness of now

Trees, wind and the sky

All immersed in me

Pain flows; rivered in earth of living

Sounds of silence reach out from the last kiss

Echoes of your name

Sighs of dying breath


If you want to flower love

Then you need to sow

Seeds of pain

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Shashi @ Nov 2011

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Where Will You Go...?

WHISPERS: Lost In Emptiness...

Some of my latest Haiku first and then a verse about emptiness....

(Haiku is Japanese iconic style of poetry. Basho - acknowledged as the supreme master of Haiku, said to his Zen Teacher “Haiku are description of what is happening at a particular ‘haiku moment’. Creating vivid images, each haiku paints a unique and dramatic scene that expresses emotions and some times, a philosophical thought to be contemplated upon, from the natural or social world. Basho also emphasized sincerity and seriousness – the poetic truth of words, pointing to higher reality... to read more about Haiku please click here... )

I saw you

Night of ocean; rising

And then falling apart; at dawn

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I was searching for

Deathless living; not knowing

It’s through doors of death

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The path, snaked away

From me

I realised the futility of my dreams

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'Go, wash your Bowl'

Live, moment to moment in living

Stop the life passing by

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LOST IN EMPTINESS

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Entangled, entwined and merged

In the crashing waves, ocean scent

Sea waves

Thinking, playing, sifting sun and sand

Like the back of my hand

Against the darkness

That was a sunset

I sieve the destiny off my inner self

Trying to find, where I am going

In which part of cosmic design

And reality dawns; the whole life

Is nothing but just a preparation for dying

Extricating my self

From the foams, that froth at the listless beach

I got up and walked, leaving footprints

To fend for themselves; all along the sea

Looking for the emptiness

Wondering if it was also looking for me

Life in living is more of driftwood

Than a flowering tree;

Knowing no roots;

Belonging no one;

Anywhere

Just me

Lost in the empty space

As memories lose their meaning

In becoming words, that turns

My pain into poetic shell

A darkness to hide within

Where windows do open

To another darkness

Of knowing nothing else.

Don't ask

Have nothing to say

Know nothing

Said nothing

Where you come from?

Where you are going?

Stay - Live - and be the Dead

I know, strand by strand,

Peeled my soul off memories

Just flying naked in unknown winds of time

With broken wings

Pain slowly flowered into

A screaming need

Of knowing myself;

Less, what’s full of your emptiness

My words – too inadequate

To express the reality

Of souls

Tearing apart

Your eyes said

What my heart

Did not want to hear

Before it heard; the footsteps

Of going away

“Loving you

Has been an enlightenment

In making

Losing you

Is

The enlightenment,

I was dying for”

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ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Buddha and life 

Whispers: Feelings and loss...

Below are some of my Haiku for you to read...

Some hurts

Dig in too deep

To take hold of your soul

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Time affects all

I remain changed

All the time

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Trying to find myself

By words

Buddha smiles with feelings

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LOSS

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I carry the burden

Of wasted dreams

Within my open eyes

That are dying to sleep

Eternally

In the wakefulness of

Being

Loss, too powerful

To put to sleep; by words

So scratched them out of existence

The smudged up darkness

Of white paper

Is more like it

Time can be ruthless

In cutting present into

Pieces of past

But the loss

Is more like a soul

Undying, un-living, uncut

A throbbing lump

Stuck in my heart

Living, into my being

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ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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