Half agony, half hope

This is a page from my journal. The title of the poem is inspired by a quote from Jane Austen's, Persuasion. I know something of what the young soldier feels in the midst of battle;know something too, of the kind of hope a fortune teller can provide.In the grand chaos, I meditate before the silent…

TAJ MAHAL

Who says you celebrate love when you behold this one of the seven wonders of the worldWho says it has left a mark of hope for loversand concluded that love indeed is immortalTake off your rose hued glasses, look closeIt weeps for lost love and mourns lost hopeIt warns all lovers 'gainst attachment's woes"Till death…

Winter

Come now,Embrace the windBrave it, you know howShed your leaves, you have beforeHave let me down like your very boughs Let me curl up like brown, crushed leavesLet me lay down my burdens and die too.Promise me a fresh start, when the season's doneWhen bells begin to ring and Spring's dawnalights upon the hallowed groundMy…

Rain

Image from Pinterest They say when it rains, it pours. If that's true, and it is - I know, though I'd love nothing more than to deny it, invoking all my hopelessly romantic/delusionally optimistic core beliefs- I hope to God it's true of happiness too. I hope the law of karma balances the scales with…

The house of the dead

I packed a bag and went to the house of the dead to waitThere were ailing men and womenand people on their death bedssome were being put to restIt was all naturalin the house of the dead.I was the youngest in the house of the deadEveryone thought it curious, and some saidthere's much to live…