रमेश तेंडुलकरांची एक अप्रतिम कविता

नाही विसरलो तुला....सारे सारे आठवतेय

अदृशयाशी जडले तुझे माझे नाते........

 शाप घेतलेले उरी सारे सहीन प्राक्तनाला

माझ्या प्राजक्ताची ओंजळ वाहीन..........


माझ्या मुक्या आसवांचे सर डोळा लपवीन

तुझासाठी ठेवीन मी इंद्रधनूची कमान...........


- रमेश तेंडूलकर

Remainder of a busy day!

These are words that hijacked my mind while reading  Sea of Poppies a novel by Amitav Ghosh yesterday night!


In the closed room marked by silence,

the stark lights fail to pierce footloose imagination

and my thoughts continue to float on the Sea of Poppies.

Distant yet magnificent is the lure of possibilities,

cunningly hoodwinking another day into another night

without slipping in the monotony imposed by time.........


...By me!

Dancing in the Moonlight.............

You beat in my heart,
And rolled in the tears on my skin
You hid in my unsung prayers
You claimed to be a victim of my undone sins
In my dreams you have slipped several times
Accusing me for all the futility of my love
But all this will breathe its end now

For
I will do myself a favor today
I will liberate myself of all your thoughts
And with a carefree demeanor
I will go dancing in the moon light



You pulled me behind, every time
Bound me with my limitations galore
I will unwind from your cursing ties
Look at you like you never were
You can’t scare me anymore
You can’t make me feel inferior about myself
And a life without you will be all that I want

For
I will do myself a favor today
I will liberate myself of all your thoughts
And with a carefree demeanor
I will go dancing in the moon light



I don’t dream any more
Neither of you, nor of happiness
I won’t make your memories
An eternal punishment for my life
I will not thrive on false hope
I will not care for your existence at all
I deserve to be in the realm of my internal- peace

For
I will do myself a favor today
I will liberate myself of all your thoughts
And with a carefree demeanor
I will go dancing in the moon light



You have to go from every place
That your thoughts invade now
From my heart, from my mind
But above all from my tarnished soul, that you left to die
Surmounted your pain, I am done with your loss
Walk away to your bliss and let me walk to mine
Now I will survive and I will decide how

For
I will do myself a favor today
I will liberate myself of all your thoughts
And with a carefree demeanor
I will go dancing in the moon light


……..By Me

Time does not bring relief

This is one of my favourite poems of all time!


Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go - so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, 'There is no memory of him here!'
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892 -1950)

Emotional Nibblets 3!

Nostalgia!

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
When I go to all the places that we have been, my eyes get moist
And I choke on words

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
When I walk beneath your window late at night,
And wonder what you might be reading in the lamp light

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
When I am eating something you like, something that you really devoured
I brace my heart tight!

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
When I am doing something you wanted me to indulge in
I think of you every time

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
When festivities call in, I wonder what you are dressed in
I wonder how you celebrate it

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
When I am down in the shackles, when everything seems dark
I remember your smile to illuminate my past

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
When I get hic-cups, I know it might be a rarest of possibility
That you are thinking of me

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
When I imagine you working late, tirelessly
And wonder if you’re eating on time

Does this happen to you love or is it just me,
It has to be me love, coz it cannot happen to thee!
How easy it was for you love, you deleted me in a day
I still cannot erase you from my memory
But don’t worry, today or tomorrow I will find a way!