tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58654151796657846602024-03-14T01:27:12.260-07:00A lesser known PoetIsmita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.comBlogger558125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-10110605049272574522014-06-03T04:18:00.001-07:002015-01-08T10:43:59.872-08:00Where The Road Never Begins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Where the road never begins, never ends.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Where there's no distance, only nearness.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Where the Mind loses itself to the sky,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">And the body is but a young tree swaying with the wind.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Where feet like pebbeles roll their way home,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Lips like petals unfurl.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The contours of the face are filled with your grace,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Where once was disillusion etched in every line,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">There, now run rivulets of pristine bliss.</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-56936356041047320402014-05-29T20:39:00.000-07:002014-05-29T20:39:33.554-07:00Silence And Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Sometimes I'm blinded by your beauty.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Sometimes, I'm blind to your play.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The blindness comes and goes,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Yet, when the sight returns it rejoices, dances like a fish,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">In the clear water of the almond shaped pond.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /><br />A falling leaf seems like the flutter of a butterfly.<br />The light from the sky becomes the quilt of warmth.<br />The air all around, seeped in your mercy, fills the hunger of the soul.<br />And all that the eyes see, is both muted and bold, silence and song...</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-23480572457116702332014-05-25T19:59:00.002-07:002014-05-25T19:59:37.685-07:00Shackle-less<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Immersed in your beauty,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">In the glory of your formless form,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Time slows to a trickle...endless, infinite, shackle-less.</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-83675433110200116502014-05-24T20:09:00.002-07:002014-05-24T20:12:54.212-07:00The Old World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where once was the candle of love, flickering, day and night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only a gentle light remains burning from the inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old world drifts away like a boulder loosened from a rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And sometimes when it gets too quiet, too melodious, too full,</span></div>
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-80116467079627898622014-05-22T08:36:00.003-07:002014-05-22T08:37:52.072-07:00ONE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Pain and pleasure are one.</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-44133858945414531652014-05-18T20:09:00.000-07:002014-05-18T20:09:53.835-07:00Beyond Words<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In goodness the inner world is found,</div>
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Brick by brick, beam by beam.</div>
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When the subtle breeze of silence blows,</div>
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And clouds of quietude storm the skies,</div>
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There sprouts in the heart of man,</div>
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A seed of pure, unbounded joy…</div>
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Beyond words, lies their inherent nature,</div>
Waiting to be tasted, salted, by a devout mind.<br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-47391425546053839592014-05-15T20:11:00.004-07:002014-05-15T20:27:12.559-07:00An Occurrence <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Between those who fall and fail,</div>
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See, how Mother Nature disciplines her children,</div>
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The golden orb rises and sets.</div>
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The psychic moon waxes and wanes.</div>
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Rain saunters in, stays a while, evaporates.</div>
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Wind blows, shrieks, and is still again.</div>
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Yet, the human-mind like unruly hair has never been combed,</div>
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Disciplined or taken to task.</div>
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The most brilliant minds, </div>
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With the sharpest intellect, have been laid to waste,</div>
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For wisdom is not a faculty of the intellect.</div>
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It’s pure, unadulterated knowledge; <i>a knowing, an occurrence,
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-18476593630593429732014-05-11T07:41:00.002-07:002014-05-11T07:41:22.812-07:00Go Deeper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">You have to go deeper than the words,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Deeper than their actions,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Deeper than what you see and know to be true,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Deeper than the scent of nostalgia that keeps pulling you,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">For, there are many beautiful faces, no less beautiful their spirit,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">B</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">ut their depth like a pond that overflows in the rain and dries in the heat,<br />Have little control over what's to come, to be,<br />And at that depth, you can neither dive nor drown,<br />And drown you must, for, it's the only way to swim your way up...<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-84648268680481758922014-05-07T20:50:00.005-07:002014-05-07T20:50:47.769-07:00Krishna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-21751219078353010972014-05-07T11:28:00.003-07:002014-05-07T11:28:48.346-07:00 Bare And Quiet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The allure of the night,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The soft morning light cant explain away.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Her enticing body draped in a sheath of blue.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Those beguiling eyes; kohl lined eyes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">That velvet smile</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The half moon rising from its belly.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A quiet, stilling beauty, no sparkle, no stars.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Bare, despite the darkness that surrounds her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Bare, the heart that rests in her, curls in her,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Smiles at her nudity, and its own.</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-35093341542542857502014-05-03T23:35:00.004-07:002014-05-03T23:42:38.812-07:00Without You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Without you,</div>
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I’m the aimless wind sailing through a flute,</div>
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A mere sound, a gust of air, </div>
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A grating noise,</div>
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A noise among many other noises.</div>
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But sometimes, when you quietly come and surround me,</div>
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Gather me, like folds in a cloth, like crinkly skin drawn around
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The breath that floats through the open holes of the flute,</div>
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Is sweeter than the promise of love.</div>
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Its enchantment of another world.</div>
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All is lost.</div>
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I only know the song I've become.</div>
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-20811683503445544592014-05-02T21:29:00.002-07:002014-05-02T21:32:06.758-07:00Be<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Let life be an open stream flowing as it flows,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Let not the hands of deeds or the toes of intent,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wading in the cold, meandering stream, eloquent as the sky...</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-67464099898894853682014-04-30T20:55:00.001-07:002014-04-30T20:55:15.831-07:00He Is<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Let me lose myself to the heart.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">To the Master of my heart,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I pledge all of me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In light as in darkness,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">He’s the doorway to my soul,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">That quiet, compelling voice pulling me indoors…</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-73102000396699358442014-04-27T20:27:00.001-07:002014-04-27T20:27:34.915-07:00Twin Windows To The Soul<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">If you can still the eye,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">And yet, fill it with the colour of the sky,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The flight of a bird, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The greenery of grass,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The silence of trees,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The flutter of a butterfly,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />The coolness of the breeze as it dries the sweat off your brows,<br />if seeing what you see makes the eyes brim with goodness,<br />And a strange, unshakable, calm descends,<br />Descends of its own accord,<br />Then these twin windows to the soul,<br />Have in this momentary stillness found their true home</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-10745324404884166742014-04-25T20:29:00.003-07:002014-04-25T20:29:50.527-07:00Eternal Romance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Though, the heart of the earth is parched, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It lives for the Sky to rain on it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Rivers, lakes and oceans may fill her,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">But rain alone can seal the cracks.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Life is an eternal romance.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />Now that I've tasted it,<br />I want to run to the corners of this earth,<br />And sing of the quiet beauty of love,<br />For it oozes out of me, as blood gushes out of a bleeding wound, ceaselessly...</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-62805416958440089292014-04-21T20:55:00.000-07:002014-04-21T20:55:27.702-07:00That Alone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There's much we pour into this world,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In bonds of friendship and love.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Glittering like a sea of stars,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A flower bed of winter flowers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So pleasing, beautiful, to the eye.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />In their beauty lies a falseness,<br />A reciprocal arrangement,<br />Chunks of momentary happiness, madness.<br />And yet, we keep on pouring.<br />Hoping.<br />Hankering.<br />Only a fool can hope to fill his cup,<br />From the emptiness that saturates this world.<br /><br />Each day as we grow,<br />Evolve into something more than we started with,<br />We learn to hold, to pour ourselves unto the highest cause,<br />To lose the noise,<br />To know that alone which is worthy of us.</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-68174241925737682722014-04-20T20:56:00.000-07:002014-04-20T20:56:00.385-07:00The Things I Like<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The things that I liked,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I do not like anymore,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">And the things that meant little to me,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have come to be a way of life.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">What’s changing then, in little, little ways?</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />Neither time is still, nor the events surrounding it.<br />What was precious yesterday is happily given away.<br />Small pockets of prized trinkets, dreams,<br />Memories, people,<br />Once, crowding away,<br />Have been cast out like water in a drain.<br /><br />Now, I like simple things; beautiful in their simplicity,<br />Not stories, not lies, not even the truth interests me,<br />For, when I bow near the temple door,<br />With a light hand touch the marble floor,<br />Smear its divinity on the forehead and walk in like an ordinary servant,<br />Love and love alone I know,<br />Like fire it springs in His eyes,<br />Like tears it glistens in mine.</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-61831663966595352662014-04-18T00:46:00.004-07:002014-04-18T05:47:04.356-07:00Be A Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">What is it like to be a song,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the many notes that rise and fall?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It's like walking with the wind, cheek to cheek, skin to skin.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">And when the proud trees gently swoop down,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As if bowing to an invisible force,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A slow haunting music begins to r</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ise from the very depths of my neglected Soul.<br />At the very point where I stand,<br />I'm complete, I am.<br /><br />If this isn't love, then what is?<br />For everything I see, I hear it first,<br />I feel its pulsating rhythm softly calling out to me.<br /><br />Touched,<br />Stroked,<br />As if by a light hand ruffling my hair.<br />It is but Nature's way of proclaiming its love,<br />Like a newborn calf slides out into the world,<br />Gently licked dry by her mother's touch.</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-48221530378712674522014-04-15T09:52:00.002-07:002014-04-15T09:54:14.655-07:00Sting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Words
are worth little; little more than pebbles.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Once
flowers would've been enough,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But
they too lose their eloquence.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And
tears,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Tears are
merely cries of a joyous heart.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Prayer
that moistens my lips,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Though
soulful, does little for you or for me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">In
this vast ocean you've manifested,</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">I can
neither swim nor drown,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The
seawater of your love is</span> f<span style="background: white;">ast filling my
eyes, my lungs,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">It
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-89108295274022919622014-04-12T22:01:00.000-07:002014-04-12T22:01:18.460-07:00The Inside<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The inside of the inside is bleak as the inside, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Stark as coagulated blood,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Intense as the predawn sky, swallowing all noise,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Quiet as a deserted street raided by the troops.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Encapsulated in this fearful inside,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />Is yet, another inside; the other side.<br />This is where the Gods live,<br />This is where the trembling stops.<br />Soft as the morning light, seeds of pomegranate fall from the eyes,<br />Ears buzz with a love so deep, music alone can sum its depth,<br />And many a song is born.<br />From the inside to the inside, He wills…</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-71727725960963096662014-04-12T21:59:00.002-07:002014-04-12T21:59:38.458-07:00In Its Wake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Now the heart is flowing like the many springs,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Run through the mountains in the monsoon of love.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Lush with the greenness of countless blades of grass,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The austere mountains lose their austerity.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Like the flowing water, the solid mass becom</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">es fluid,<br />As if an ocean is moving from the earth to the sky,<br />Leaving in its wake a beautiful frothy pattern of waves,<br />Pure, clear, as the white in a child's expectant eyes.<br />Such joy resonates from the being,<br />That the whole world is reduced to a mere view from the top of a mountain peak...</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-90571414361616496532014-04-04T09:33:00.003-07:002014-04-04T09:33:41.023-07:00A Darkening Summer Sky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The beauty of words, flowers, birds,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Trees, saplings, reservoirs, rivers, all have merged,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As if the sky has bared its heart,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Dark and blue, light and true,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Still, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Silent,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />Tranquil.<br /><br />The eyes lose their greed to the snowy mountains of clouds,<br />Pails of innocence they draw from the quickly darkening summer sky...<br />And as the breeze picks up,<br />To raise a tiny storm,<br />The heart is already nestled in the crook of his arm.</span><br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-11242986430002776212014-04-01T20:01:00.000-07:002014-04-04T09:31:17.421-07:00The Circus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I began to die a little everyday,</div>
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It was a different kind of death,</div>
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Much like a circus, noisy, full of characters, </div>
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Garish colours that oddly felt right,</div>
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Their bright mannerism like a door to door salesman,</div>
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Selling useless ware.</div>
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An invisible force, I often found myself tied to,</div>
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Baffling too, for I could never make any sense of it.</div>
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The circus ran on its own,</div>
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If there was a Master, he stayed behind the curtain,</div>
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Watching, but never revealing himself.</div>
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Days and years of dying to sleep, to waking with sunrise,</div>
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And the circus that came alive with it, </div>
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I forgot what death was really like,</div>
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Before the womb, before the seed.</div>
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A quiet, unerring darkness, an unknown cloak of drowsiness,</div>
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Like a boat gently slipping away from the shore,</div>
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Without the oarsman or his oars...<br />
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-87931193945184312992014-03-27T06:45:00.003-07:002014-03-27T06:45:43.810-07:00Your Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gently stealing the heat from my body,</div>
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Like an invisible hand fanning dreamy eyes,</div>
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Pouring lemonade down the constricted by-lanes of my heart, </div>
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With sprigs of mint sailing to sullen corners,</div>
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fragrant and zestful, quiet and pleasing... </div>
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Ismita Tandon http://www.blogger.com/profile/13418830425036864982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865415179665784660.post-84976116542156137412014-03-23T20:36:00.000-07:002014-03-23T20:57:33.208-07:00Come Like A Poem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Come like the promise of rain,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">On a sultry summer night,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Seamless like the countless threads,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Woven into a beautiful bed-spread of blue and white.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Mirthful like a wild elephant,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Tramping through an endless trek.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Swift as the morning sun,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Rising over my balcony, blinding me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Certain like the dewdrops,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Laying face down on moist leaves.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Blow in like the unexpected draft that,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Gently tugs at the hall curtains.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Come like a poem, sweet and urgent,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Fall from that higher realm of consciousness.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Come, come like you'd want me to come,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">If, in some lifetime, </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">You were the one waiting for me...</span><br />
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