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Onlooker

ONLOOKER

Fingers crossed in hopes
Stillness and patience produce
Beauty and magic

Impatience

IMPATIENCE

Are we not arrived here
To be learning patience?

Our soul’s sole choice
How steep the gradient

Given past performance
Forgiveness is in there too

My experience with “Dharma”

Sushmita Das

Art of Lord Krishna made by my friend Nikita Samantaray

Dharma/Righteousness …this word has always perplexed me. I had a perception that righteousness means “doing right to others. Being Just and fair with everyone”.

My father always says “walk on the path of Dharma” I was unable to perceive his words, what exactly does he mean by “dharma”! Although, I have grown up seeing him doing the Just things no matter who did what wrong to him be it in terms of words or action, he always stood up for the Right and taught me to take a stand for the RIGHT! Yet I had a vague definition of “Dharma”. I wanted to know the meaning of righteousness beyond being just Right and doing Right!

Lately, after the onset of lockdown due the arrival of this dreadful pandemic at the doorstep of every nation, made me move towards watching the…

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Good Mourning: Shadorma

GOOD MOURNING

Deep sadness
A moment later
Peace returns
Let it be
Everything falls into place
As if it was meant

The Dear Departed

THE DEAR DEPARTED

His mother one day
Handed in her jewellery
At the manager’s office
And stopped eating
Unspoken words
Were presumably
Enough is enough

All’s Well

ALL’S WELL

All is one
If not won
Not as yet
Patience
Patience

We are our
Own doctor
Patience
Patience
All in good time

Next On The Agenda

NEXT ON THE AGENDA

Perhaps sometimes it’s not
About you trying to connect
With another but about you
Waiting patiently for them
To try to connect with you

A Work In Progress: Four By Six

A WORK IN PROGRESS

Nothing wrong with people
Genocide wouldn’t cure
Just need to be patient
They are working on it

Unfinished Love Poem

UNFINISHED LOVE POEM

Lay it aside for a while
Maybe days or weeks
Sometimes even years

Till all falls into place
A significant poem will
Always find its moment

And in that moment
Their writer will also
Find a completeness

Those not significant
Reveal themselves as such
And are easily thrown away

Sound Advice: Four By Six

SOUND ADVICE

My adviser tells me
We can do anything
Though the impossible
Takes a little longer

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