Madhu SriwastavTime’s a whirlpool
Past present future
All coalesce
Memories flit
Moments of love, joy
arrive and retract
Like the rolling waves
to be filled in by memories of pain, misery
eternally
Emotions are cyclical
Like birth of a day
at dawn
When love blossoms
reaches its height
Like scorching noon
when fiery lust burns
hot
With eve, passion mellows down
to smear its soft orange hues across the sky
When love matures
partaking of cravings
Till the heart closes
and dusk shuts its eyes
When love absolves all
the night awakens to lost dreams.
2
Sun and moon
We started as two fire balls
Two heated suns
Each burning and adding to the heat
Your heat and heated words
Words that cooled my steam
As metal lid that holds the
vapour bubbles
Drop following drop
I cooled as the sea
Arising in the eve as the moon
Now we dance and move
Sharing the same sky
From afar, completing
And complimenting
Beauty of the sky
Separately!
3
Constant Love
Woeful mind, heart in dregs
I looked up to the skies
Clouds drifted across an airy sky
slowly the moon showed its face
which was hidden from the world
Its cool beams soothed my heart
I felt your love flash forth
from circumstantial clouds
Constant and resplendent
in its elemental glow
as the distant stars
fiery balls of light
appear miniscule
when viewed from far
Socially distant love seems faint
glowing inside the heart
Clouds, rains, darkness, eclipse
may hide the celestial bodies
but like my love it’s always there
deep inside me as life!
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పెద్దన్న
కృష్ణుడు
శ్రీనివాస్ గౌడ్
కృపాకర్ పోతుల
తిలక్ బొమ్మరాజు
కవనమాలి
స్వాతి కుమారి
Filled with innumerable beauty.