A TRYST WITH NOSTALGIA

Drifting down the skies,

Like a gift from the gods-

Lost by cherubs playing on the clouds,

Or a remnant of the past

To wake my memeories once more?

To gently lead me

Through cloistered lanes of yore;

To an explosion of colours,

An expanse of bright dreams,

Great hopes, and no fears.

Ah! This kite to fly once more,

With the wind in my hair;

To follow its journey

With unblinking eyes,

And laugh once again,

With glee untinged by tears.

Could I be so frozen-

Gay abandon- in time?

Dearest twin,

My hearty congrats on this splendid milestone of 150 posts that u have reached! And that too in such a short time! U know how infrequent a blogger i am, and i think urs is a mind-boggling achievement...seriously! May ur blog keep soaring in blogosphere! Keep writing...u know this awesome blog is your very own space and it has a place not only in ur heart but of ur many readers too.... And yes, thanx for the guest post invite on ur special occasion yet again... Hope i will get to do the 1500th post here :) Congratz n god bless...

Lotz n lotza love n prayers,

Jinju

...Twilight...

The sun has long set

Upon my life;

It’s twilight-

Dark, still, silent,

With shadows rife.

Dusk creeps up from behind,

And pounces on the daylight-

Mauls it in the fatal fight,

Leaves it bleeding in the sky.

A silent predator,

Slow and steady,

Sure and sly,

Unseeing and unerring;

Though drunk with youth’s wine,

Hardly did I realise

That just behind the sunshine,

Lurked the murky foe,

Biding his time.

Sombre hues have invaded

My palette that once

Was a riot of colours;

Withered have my flowers,

And the fragrance faded.

The songs have stopped,

I only hear the sands

Fast trickling down

My life’s hourglass.

Oh! It strikes me hard

That my spring is past,

And my winter come;

My thoughts harp

On the night that

Looms ahead sharp,

And the nightmare beyond....

But wait, I suddenly hear

A voice cry out

From deep within:

Despair not so fast!

A night awaits, it’s true,

But lies a morn too

Beyond the gloom.

The darkest hour of midnight past,

Arrives the bright dawn;

And wake up I shall

In that morn, in the

Land of Sleepless Sunshine

That will forever last.

Dearest Shravan,

Do I have to say the words? I know you know.... :)

Tons of love, congrats, best wishes and prayers,
Your twin

EPHEMERAL ETERNITY

EPHEMERAL ETERNITY
-the author Jinju S is a budding, but not frequent blogger. I love her poems, and she is blessed with the craft. read her blog here.

Forever was meant
To flow on infinitely,
Like a million stars that sigh
On a lonely night,
Like the blue of a summer sky.

Forever was to be endless
As the serene splendour
Of a calm ocean-
Aeons lapping against
The shores of Eternity.

Forever was to go on and on
For miles and miles,
As far as the eye can see,
Like the golden sands of a blazing desert,
A never-ending expanse.

Forever was to fill up
Galaxies, histories, centuries-
And also our entire lives;
In short, forever was forever,
Or so I thought.

“Wrong!” Life cried in mocking glee,
Shaking his wizened locks,
“Forever is but a broken view
From round a corner,
An illusive stretch that lasts
Until the next corner.”

With bated breath, I neared
The approaching bend in the road,
And indeed, beyond it I saw-
A DEAD END.