Transcending Loveliness…

When you lean over my heart, as a blossom

While it rains, the nectar is dripping into my soul

And I forget even my existence in the inebriation

Filling up with delicious subtlety, swaddling me

And whisking me away, into the unknown realms of love.

Like the sweetest potion filling up a goblet;

Like a bud sprouting in a parched arid wilderness…


The tiny breeze has just brushed your locks

Idly fondling with its delicate fingers and

In an instant you transformed into a dazzling spring;

A blossoming Magnolia, presenting a rare fragrance.

I sense the sweet scent of Sandalwood percolating

From the moonlight revered by the doe eyed clouds

Rollicking in its bosom and fondling its velvety limbs.

Suddenly you become a sonnet in the harp of my heart,

And a melody erupts in the flute of my heartbeats….



`~Kunjubi

MY EMPTY CAGE

You were the one who soothed

My scorched feet

Walking on the embers on

The rugged path of life.


The giant tree spreading

Its branches of ceaseless love

Giving shelter and shade

In the arid summer ;

That very tree has now uprooted

In the twister, and the branches

Burned out to ashes ,

And has lost to the world.


Helpless I go on my

Lonely wandering

Through the dark tunnels

Of my unknown future.


My beloved skylark,

You have flown away, breaking

The bars of the cage, which was my love .

The music of your fluttering wings


Also have melted into the firmament.

You will never comeback to this

Nest of my love- into this empty cage!


This cursed life…..


I saved only one thing!

The plumes of splendor, you have

Shed in the empty cage you have left.........

Tranquility…

“Rise and shine” she said.

The smell of fresh coffee conquered the nostrils.

She stood there simpering.

A silhouette against the window.

The scent of aromatic hair oil diffusing;

Fragrance of imprisoned jasmines,

Emanated from her braids.

A dulcet ditty! A ripple of prettiness!

She opened the window panes and cast

The curtains to one side, allowing the morning

Breeze, to caress our body, with a sweet chill.

Morning mist swallowed the perfume of the soil,

Lurked over the vista, like smoke, as the

Green meadows exhaled vapor.

Sodden earth, trying to grin, in the early light.

A forlorn tree cast its long shadow,

Over the placid waters of the pond.

Silvery clouds rubbed shoulders amid the blue sky,

While wandering over the hills and dales.

Somewhere, in the ground floor, a baby

Was crying, for the mother’s breast.

A lonely row-boat slithered over the calm

Water of the lake, dodging the water hyacinths

Floating, in full glory with its purple flowers;

Some one trying to catch a stray fish with a rod.

Birds chirping in the air; in the distance, echo

The melodious whistle, of a stranded train.

The nature in philharmony!

I am in euphoria, a trance, a stupor…

I am a part of this wonderful universe!

“Drink that coffee, before it gets cold”.

I thought I heard a far away voice,

Rippling in the air, telling me...

It broke my reverie; she was there near me.

I pulled her hand and drew her to my side.

A prologue, to the sweetest moments of matrimony!

A lullaby for the soul….

WORDS

WORDS!

When it becomes incessant agonies

And even your simper in my memory

Is identified as a thousand lumps

In the throat with sighs;

When life separates us as humdrum

Strangers in quick moves in a jiffy;

Just save for our destiny and prospect

A long silence…

A drop of tear…

A handful of affectionate words,

Besides a sanguine expectation

Extending from you to me…