Welkin Siskin<\/strong>
\nWashington, America<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) To Net A Bigger Picture<\/strong><\/p>\n

I pulled the feathers <\/em>
\nOf a shadow\u2014the darker part\u2014 ignorance\u2014<\/em>
\nthe joyless life\u2014<\/em>
\nZeroing in on at nothing,<\/em>
\nLoitering, stranded and lost\u2014<\/em>
\nTo net a bigger picture of mine,<\/em>
\nFor one who has undergone<\/em>
\nWith shadows as company<\/em>
\nIs well-versed with life.<\/em><\/p>\n

2) Let Good Smear Us<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let the known and the unknown,<\/em>
\nFallen crest of a night,<\/em>
\nLet the Star passing<\/em>
\nthrough the clouds,<\/em>
\nLet fire of passion, <\/em>
\nStirred up love<\/em>
\nSpread over the boards <\/em>
\nOf our life.<\/em><\/p>\n

3) Stranded Seekers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breaking the avalanche <\/em>
\nOf life, the time passes by<\/em>
\nAnd under the creepers <\/em>
\nThose avalanches make murmur<\/em>
\nLike the murmur of nightly time<\/em>
\nMade by the being inside of us.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let those nightly times, sprightly,<\/em>
\nnightly<\/em>
\nCatch sights of the seekers <\/em>
\nStranded, lost and distracted, dreaming.<\/em><\/p>\n

4) All Beauties Dwindle<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s a blossom\u2019s beauty fades<\/em>
\nWhen yet watered, manured and tended,<\/em>
\nAnd it then is lost to the confluence of water <\/em>
\nLike the life\u2019s end-phase.<\/em>
\nAnd at the end phase of life<\/em>
\nWe are lost to the unending whispers of water<\/em>
\nAnd left to the limbs of eternity,<\/em>
\nAnd in eternity we dwindle<\/em>
\nBecoming a faint hope.<\/em><\/p>\n

5) Torment of Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thoughts go astray<\/em>
\nLike a bolt from the heavens,<\/em>
\nAnd they curl in the cerebrum <\/em>
\nLike the arc of briny deep surge.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is the substratum,<\/em>
\nAnd where is the rest for a thought? <\/em>
\nWhere peace and felicity grow purely<\/em>
\nIn the frame of minds.<\/em><\/p>\n

6) Soliloquies<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a tiny bit of delight<\/em>
\nAnd a tiny bit of light<\/em>
\nNonetheless these words<\/em>
\nDance to the crescendo of tongue.<\/em>
\nImagine these words are dead,<\/em>
\nMouthful vowels fizzled out,<\/em>
\nAlphabets poured with no choice<\/em>
\nTo distinguish between wrong and right,<\/em>
\nFind the purposefulness, wholeness and fulfillment.<\/em>
\nShared with others not,<\/em>
\nthese soliloquies\u2014nothing but the sacred <\/em>
\npsalms of life\u2014 <\/em>
\nwould yet find refuse <\/em>
\nin the universe as universal love.<\/em><\/p>\n

7) A Journey of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sweet dream to frequent<\/em>
\nin the night tide,<\/em>
\nA potion of memories<\/em>
\nto take hold of mind,<\/em>
\nOne must go a long way, a long journey. <\/em>
\nAnd cross multiple alleys.<\/em><\/p>\n

8) Let Love Be Real like Everyday Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pledge thy love to foment us <\/em>
\nWith sprinkles and drizzle for eternity to come,<\/em>
\nAnd pledge to shun foibles and blunders<\/em>
\nAnd pledge to take to the eternal home.<\/em>
\nMake the love we share evermore real,<\/em>
\nReal like the everyday reality,<\/em>
\nAnd let it not falter and fail<\/em>
\nWhatever the situations come to be.<\/em>
\nFor love is pleasant and savory,<\/em>
\nAnd lenient like the Fall,<\/em>
\nAnd evermore beautiful like the ivory,<\/em>
\nLet us connect soul to soul.<\/em>
\nFor love is anything but failure <\/em>
\nWhen two hearts twine to lure.<\/em><\/p>\n

9) Let Limbos Not Take Hold of You<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sing not those songs of lamentations,<\/em>
\nSing not those songs of limbos,<\/em>
\nThose moments that unraveled <\/em>
\nIn the rod of not-knowing,<\/em>
\nFor life is more of wheeze:\u2014<\/em>
\nCreate a beauty that dwells in your heart<\/em>
\nCreate joy out of the order<\/em>
\nOf societies\u2014the cultural and social music, mosaic etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

10) Let Love Be a Balm of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Given are these words\u2014take it<\/em>
\nAs souvenirs as the tryst love,<\/em>
\nAnd let us evermore sow a seed<\/em>
\nTo emerge down blues, and be like dove.<\/em>
\nLet us then pledge soul to soul, spirit to spirit<\/em>
\nAnd create a starlight in the wilderness we dwell,<\/em>
\nAnd a night space-blessed, heavens-kissed and moonlit.<\/em>
\nOblige by virtue of love, sharing and tending<\/em>
\nAnd pass through the dense of life caring.<\/em>
\nFor love is mundane, dull and earthly<\/em>
\nShared without hearts\u2019 psalm,<\/em>
\nAnd uncaring those moments be<\/em>
\nEven in sharing. Let love be a balm.<\/em><\/p>\n

11) Fading Beauty lies in Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lowdown and dirty voice, a dirty teeth<\/em>
\nVoraciously tearing apart a giant,<\/em>
\nAnd lying through the lips,<\/em>
\nA blossom so softly grown<\/em>
\nSymbolizes \u201c faded beauty\u201d.<\/em>
\nWhere could we then beauty find<\/em>
\nIf the sense is not sown<\/em>
\nAnd many startling pathways never discovered,<\/em>
\nMany unsettling pathways the senses never uncover.<\/em><\/p>\n

Copyright: Welkin Siskin<\/em><\/p>\n