Breathe..
Listen to your inner vibes
The cadences of your breath
You sense a beat?
Serene and sole
That sings to your soul
The moment you sense
Broken are the shackles
A melody springs
And make thy feet swing
Your neurons join hands
And hitch to the rhythm
Your thoughts rhyme
And verses chime
Love ebbs out of your soul
Thy soul twinkle in thy eyes
Thy vision dances to the beat
Thy every breath resonates
Listen to it…
Breathe…
Sketch your image
The inner you
Grace with some colors
Some rhythm and some flowers
How about a hat and a feather
And do stop for some breather
To admire the dawn
The glory of your conception
Now breathe in
Your love and passion
Spring to life, the new you!
Your state of the art
The new you would rather see your stride, the art
The art of living!
I wanna dance…
the dance that set me free
To jump and flee with glee
and transcend what I see
There I leap and prance
free to choose my stance
I mime, jive and whiz
drenched in the boundless bliss
I wanna dance…
the dance that limn the free will
Causality coops my realm still
Winter is right at my doors!
Yet my heart sings red and yellow
And oblige to this unfathomable call of fall
May be it’s just the impulse to resonate my feeds
Overrun with maple leaves and pumpkin patches
May be my fancy for peaches or lust for tawny branches
Perhaps my bubbling urge to praise the cession of the trees
That toss their blushing leaves
To wash our way with hue
Could just be a whim**sigh**
May be a hunch..
To let fall our fallacies…
To shed off the duff and pep up, anew as dew!
To efface the haze and spring ablaze !
Some say ‘know thyself’, some say ‘annihilate the I factor’. Some say ‘just live your life’, some talk of abnegation. We get advices for setting and realizing our materialistic goals, while the so- called wise say ‘seek thy spiritual self’. Knowledge is wealth or freedom from the known? Why we are always at the crossroads, we know not where it ends and whichever we pick, why there is always miles to go? Why we cry at both the movies and in reality? What is that we are covering us with, why that we always run from the truth? Or worse..there is no truth at all!
The paradisiac nature has blessed us with all wondrous beauties – the sun-kissed clouds, the breath-taking view of mountains and the sun rising slowly above them, vibrant rivers and the scenic beauty of its confluence with the sea, serenity of the lakes, wind whispering to the trees and birds chirping around them, lush greeneries , ethereal blossoms and it’s heavenly fragrance, so enchanting, spectacular, picture-perfect, sometimes we even get the feel, the whole world is made for us, all for us, just for us! Then, suddenly, all upside down, it just takes a moment…all gone with an earth quake or a Tsunami. What seemed motherly and altruistic, all of a sudden seems self -serving, inconsiderate, uncaring, disastrous!. One may say it’s the repercussions we deemed to face for disturbing her balance, be it! still, nature doesn’t mind killing us to maintain her balance? We do see the same behavior among us, among all living beings, don’t we? a primal instinct to fortify thyself, we have seen even the most caring and tolerant people, acting otherwise at times of crises. Does that depict inheritance ? Nature’s paradigm? We always think nature as transcendent, but then did we discern nature is also immanent? We realize not, we are an embodiment of nature as well . This is important, this very realization , as it ought to bring a sense of responsibility to maintain the balance and harmony, not just with the outer world , within us as well, thus bringing in the much -wanted peace!
SHREELAKSHMI SETHURAMAN 