Anupama: Letter

Parthasarthy Jena

parthnewdelhi@gmail.com
New Delhi

Thousands scents/ Thousands whispers

Come up--- From this unwrapped envelope

Thousand dreams run through/get hitched

I walk along with the smudged parallels/ Evening flowers

And the verdant sky

I walk along the boulevard

In drizzle

Walk along the moonlit sky

Walk into the canoe

The boatman sings castles and the princes/

Butterflies play up

Along the shore/ 

The waves come up

Lonely rain/ and the rainbows

Come closer

Undeterred/

The island celebrates

Get

Aged/ with its rumble strip

Anupama gets inundated/ intrigued

Me and my consequences

Snuggle around her/in the island 

Atoned---

Sometime the chase continues/

Sometime get chased

Thousands scents/

Thousand whispers

Come up--

From this unwrapped envelope

Thousand dreams run through/get hitched

I walk along the smudged parallels/ evening flowers

And the verdant sky.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

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Dancing With Kalia Dhana

Silke Liria Blumbach

Berlin, Germany

Photo © & courtesy- Rajika Puri

Who was your dancer, I am asked.

You were the most radiant 

dancing couple of the night!

two records spinning on the turntable

drew me in like big big eyes 

I found myself whirling at the speed of light

through all-colours, no-colours and edge 

embracing the beat of a wooden heart 

with whom have I been dancing 

the light that breaks forth from beyond my fingers

emanates from lines shaping a lucent shell 

etched into the ground of my palms. 

How did the shell-handed dark ocean of light remember 

that I had risen from the furthest sea 

there I was dancing for him, with him, dancing him 

eons and eons ago 

for all my life... 

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer

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A Round Pair

Dr Kumarendra Mallick

Hyderabad

You played the usual trick, 

Under the pretest of beauty

You gave men and women

Almond and fish-shaped eyes

With a narrow corner

To hold smiles and tear

Love and anger

Joys and fear, And designed for self

A lovely round pair

With no beginning

no end, always so wide

no secret corners

emotions known to us to hide.

You have a pan-view,

you see the whole and real

And not like us just a few,

More often virtual and untrue.

In your wheel of eyes,

pray, make us spokes of time

To forget "I, my and mine",

To echo your name with each stride

To measure that lie beyond all measures, 

beyond the peripheries of the three worlds

The Moon, the Sun, the dawns and dusks

To step unto the sands and grass

Of a terrain- vast and ever new,

On the other side of human imagination,

Where peace and virtue appear as dew.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Unknown

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On my way

Manish Kumar Rout

I stopped and pondered,

as he marred a valid point,

but before I could answer,

the other on the left replied..

"I was with you always,

encouraging your every move,

and it was I for whom,

you have to reach your goal.

You have to move one,

for the others are doing so,

if you wait for the others,

you will have nowhere to go."

"You have to make compromises,

for that's the way of life,

you have to compete,

give your all in this fight.

The fruits of your effort,

is waiting on the other side.

So, don't stop and keep ignoring,

whatever being said by the right!!"

Saying this the quarrel resumes,

as each one forcing there point,

I waited and saw both,

projections of my inner conscience.

I had to make peace,

as both were right,

and I told them my view,

on the whole fight.....

"Yes, its true that I neglected,

made a destination of mine,

and walked in a hurry,

to reach it on time.

I know I missed things around,

but had my part of it too..

to reach my goal is not all...

but the journey is desired."

"You both are my voice,

still you are in extremes,

and I will move on....

for my experience is on my side!!"

I quieted

as they both disappeared,

looking ahead, I continued,

On my way........

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins

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