Swinging to the clouds

Dark clouds have gathered
A peacock dances
Spreading its rainbow plumes
As the white lightning flashes
Against the ebony clouds
Birds have huddled in their nests,
Thunder roars
Pitter patter starts
Waiting to turn into
Silver torrent pouring down.

under the flimsy veil of mango leaves
the little girl swings
her swing trying to kiss the branches
her hair wet and face glistening
her eyes are lost in the clouds
she wants to fly out to them
so she keeps swinging
ignoring the sliver cascade
ignoring her mother’s shout
“come home right now!”

Sharmishtha basu
29.08.10

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She swings

Her rope is tied
To the ebony clouds
She swings
The wind sings
A soft song
Rain drops
Call out her name
In soft symphony
Softly they kiss
Her glowing cheeks
Her flowing tresses
Her swaying dress
Trees stretch
Their green branches
Birds fly by
As she reaches
Higher and higher
To touch the clouds

Sharmishtha basu
1.09.10

Light in darkness

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Light in darkness 22.08.10
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Why be so miserly
In sparing a smile
In saying a sweet word
In holding a hand
Oh our stay is so short
Who knows when we shall part!
Why not leave a patch of warmth
In every heart that comes across.

These small sparks of light
Spread their light and heat
When the night is spreading
Its dark cloak on existence
We see them twinkling
Unfazed spec of light
Decorating the darkness
Spreading their light.

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Do you know? 26.03.2010
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Do you know?
One smile from you
Can brighten up
My darkest day?

Do you know?
One hello from you
Can bring smile to my lips
When my eyes are brimming with tear?

Do you know?
I count your friendship
As the sweetest thing
Which God has given me?

I thought you better should
For may be my feelings are hidden
And you don’t even know
How much precious you are to me.

Sharmishtha basu
22.08.10

Don’t let it go

Close your eyes and feel
Can you see them?
Those huge beasts
That roamed on her chest
Their body was heavy
But they treaded light
She survived happily
For thousands of years
Even after they merged
In the deep layers of her.

Then came her most darling child
Fairest of them all
The only one who could hear her
Talk to him or her
Whisperings of a mother
Through wind, sun, moon and rain
But that child could only hear
It forgot to feel her pain
All it did was ask
For more, more and even more.

Soon her body got tired
By his constant digging
All her other children
Perished one after the other
Her golden dusks and dawns
Hid themselves in fumes
Her rivers and oceans
Got covered with oil spill
Her lullabies and songs
Got submerged in machine roars.

Her tears started to drown them
Her sighs started to scare them
Her moans escaped in lava
Still they did not listened
Then one day they woke up
Decided to do the reverse
To mend her bleeding body
To treat their mother right.
A new voice was heard
“don’t let it go.”

“This earth is our home”, it sang
“We live on it we die on it
We cant let her suffer any more
She is our true mother
For she bears us selflessly
For every dagger we dig in her
She gives a piece of herself
We cant let her go like this.”
A new age dawned
And she waits to see them succeed.

my love

My love is rainbow
A Violet flower
Which spreads its fragrance
All around its being.

It’s the Indigo sky
Where you can fly
Without any restraint
Without any binding.

Its deep Blue ocean
With endless depth
No matter how deep you dive
You will not see the end.

It’s evergreen
Green like a meadow
Which will never go dry,
Will be forever soothing you.

Yellow like gold
Which will get purer
With test of time and pain
Will never lose its worth.

Orange like the morning sun
Sharing its light with you
Lighting up your life
Will shine forever for you.

Red like the warm blood
Which is runs through my vein
Penetrates my whole body
And every part of me is my love.

Let your love spread like another
Vibrant rainbow of different hues
We will meet in the blue sky
And mingle together forever.

Trap

In a world of predators
she was the ideal prey
a young girl full of love
that too of the best type.
Love that only hopes for love
In return of her loving
yet stuck in a situation so bad
all her friends wanted to help her.

One of them was a man of power
who wanted to help her desperately.
But she always turned down his offers
saying all she needs is love and time.
His desperation got to the extreme
and he sought out some local friends.
Who lived in the same place with her.
and asked them to help her, he will pay.

He paid dearly for his noble nature,
His so called friends encashed it.
They sucked him dry showing him a girl
telling him that its her, his unseen friend.
Who has changed all of a sudden, got wise
and now she desperately needs some help.
Who else can she turn to, but him…..
her one and only friend in this wild world.

All the while they desperately tried
to track his real friend and kill her.
But somehow fate had some other plans
and their lie did not lasted that long.
Soon their friend uncovered their mask
and realized that he has been duped.
Bitterly he repented for his choice of mates
and mistaking a false bead for true pearl.

Stolen gems

I never take what is not mine
Why? Well too many reasons
I know for sure that stolen gems
don’t last in the hands of thieves.

They sooner or later are lost
either they return to the owner
or they are stolen by someone
who is a better trickster, thief.

To all my friends

have I ever told you how much you mean to me?
Your silent presence steadies my steps
Your loving gaze helps me face the world and smile?
My hand in yours makes my path charming and dear?.

Ever since you walked into my life my life has changed
Now I look at life with hope and expectations
A feeling I never thought that I will own so firmly
only a heart as pure as yours can cast such a spell..

Did I ever told you I love the way you laugh
on my clumsy jokes, and silly pranks
the way you always take out some time
to see what I have been doing all day?

To never let go a chance to make me smile
Never let go a chance to praise and adore?
I always believed God acts through her children
after meeting you that thought has become a belief..

just wanted to know you now and here
that you all have made my world lovely and dear
who has seen tomorrow, don’t know whats there
so I want to say it to you while we all are here.

“You all created a heaven in this world for me,
there are more thirsty souls waiting out there
to be blessed by friends like you, so don’t wait
shower them with the love you showered on me.”