EVERYWOMAN

Tread softly through my soul 
With gentle caring ways 
Footsteps soft as summer breeze 
Words gentle as floral sprays. 

Touch my heart with tenderness 
And warmth of a golden blaze 
Caress it with beautiful feelings 
And charming affectionate displays. 

Be my winter sun and summer rain 
And I'll be your fairy tale 
The fragrant flowing dainty breeze 
To your strong and gutsy gale.

My love is mountains strong and oceans deep

I'm all woman, don't you ever forget 

I give my heart to you selflessly

But my soul I zealously protect.

I'm the rose that pours my fragrance 
To the cherishing hand that toucheth 
But my thorns are sharp, unforgivingly 
Wound mortally the hand that plucketh. 

MS

DIVINE LIGHT

Among the whisperings and the stars 
I wander looking for felicity 
The blue white haloes of gossamer love 
Veil me in exquisite infinity. 

The glowing strands of intimate webs 
Hold my heart in their vapory weaves 
As timeless raptures play their hands 
Sighing in contented euphoric heaves. 

Through the maze of tangled musical notes 
I hear, pieces of ornate rhapsody 
The dreams I lived in moments ephemeral 
Become everlasting empyrean melodies. 

In that faraway kingdom, all hurt ceases to exist. 

MS

DECEPTIVE STRAITS

I walk through my dream 
Or is that a nightmare..... 
I've walked long on tired feet 
Fighting pain, fighting despair 
The edges begin to blur, 
The ends unclear. 

My friend, he says, ask the sky 
But the sky doesn't reason why 
The hearts, they're wells of duplicity 
The closest, they're spouting hypocrisy 
But even if it makes my heart sing 
Falsity, it’s certainly not my thing. 

I am the arrow, out on its straight 
Unstoppable, till the goal is reached 
It matters not if friends become foes 
It matters not if my crimson bleeds. 

I live for the moondrops to decorate my soul 
For the dews of enchantment to write my scroll 
But I won't sell my conscience, my integrity, 
For a few drops of your fickle felicity.

Touch me not with your cheat sheet 
None walks through my life with muddy feet.

MS

DISCRETE COALESCENCE

I am Me

I live in my simplicity

True to my effervescent spirit

In my candour lies my integrity.

Why should I be complete

With another's identity?

I stand alone, a mountain

In isolated serenity.

I need no hands

To support my spine

The world's spit and grime

Will not cut my shine.

I am no extension

To another man's twine

Nor to any woman's notions

Will my conscience align.

It's to the grandeur of love

I give up my singularity

To merge in the oneness

Of two souls in parity.

I give up my essence

To the songs of consonance

True soul mates dancing

The same cosmic resonance.

To be the quintessence

Of celestial radiance

An enhancement of Me

In the likeness of variance.

MS

RUPTURED ECSTASY

The big round orb of amber
Slides down into neverland
I watch another day fade away
Crumbling to dust in my hands. 

Wrapped in my chaotic thoughts

I look at the deepening dark

Memories crowding the horizons

Of skies that mirror my heart.

The canopy shimmers with stars

And my eyes begin to stream

For all I see are glowing embers

Of my broken forbidden dream.

So sing me some songs of sadness

Release my tears to flow

Let my numb heart feel the pain

Of passion in anguished throes.

Make my insides shatter fiercely

Explode them on celestial blues

Let their ink draw taboo fantasies

On my skin in indelible tattoos.

Do sing me your songs of sadness

Let their plaintive rhymes swell

To drown the illicit illusions

In notes of a tortured farewell.

MS

ACQUIESCENCE

If tears are all I have of you

Through their mist I'll watch your flows,

I'll give you all the laughter in me

And quench my thirst on your woes.

There never was a day my heart didn't love

Just days when I didn't know,

There won't be days when my love will wane

Just a day when I care enough to let go.

I wish I could ride the waves with you

Be pulled along with your tides,

But my anchor holds me fast to shore

Just loose enough to stare with a wet smile....

And when it's time to bid farewell

I'll melt away with the fickle snows,

With the last of my dying broken breaths

In peace, I'll carry my love home.

MS

ECSTASY

Come, let's fly, just you, just me
Away to the land of eternity
In a cosmic dance of playful sprites
Let's bathe in drops of felicity
Quench wistful longings among the stars
Climb zeniths of unclaimed sublimity
Transcend restricting time and space
Live our rapturous serendipity
Come let's drench, just you, just me,
In the nebulous love of perpetuity
-Just you, Just me.....till infinity.....

MS

FLASHBACK

I lay awake

Deep into the night

Trying to hide my slithering thoughts

From myself

In the dark shelter of afterlight.

Thoughts dark and deep

Thoughts that make me weep

Thoughts that make me sing

Thoughts that are my everything.

My deepest secrets I veil

From the ogling, spying moon

Lest it ferrets out my suffering

And tattles to you my rune.

I don’t intend you to know

How I agonize so

In your memories I hope you’ll see

Always, a laughing playing me.

MS

MANNA FROM HEAVEN

Look up, see the sky so bright

The Sun shining just for you

Molten drops of golden joys

Laughter in every hue

Reach out your hand for felicity

Caged in rainbow prisms of dew

Pluck love-beams out of thin air

To paint passion’s indelible tattoo

Take life, its little treasures

With serene blessings showered upon

From the bottomless basket of bounty

Embrace destiny with open arms

Weave the starlight and moon glow

With threads of gossamer chiffon

Into dreams that overflow your heart

With everlasting gaiety and charm.

MS

CELESTIAL CROWNED

Rise from the dust
Reach for the sky
That's the spread
Your dreams occupy
That's the sweep
Of your rainbow ebony
Where you write in crimson
Your glorious destiny.....

MS

SOPHISTRY

You make a liar out of me.

I was honest as could be.

But the empty horizon

That stares at me

Makes my claims

A mockery.

Each day that goes by,

When the stars

Of the darkened sky

Look at me in askance,

Their questions I defy.

I tenderly contemplate

Your favourite stance,

As you lean your weight

Nonchalantly, tantalizingly,

Against the wall, I hyperventilate.

My heart-beats fluctuate.

Prisoner of your magnetic blues

My glazed eyes agitate

As I see your beckoning smile

Into the heavens dissipate.

Yes. I lie. I lie.

Your absence hurts me.

I cry.

Yours presence kills me.

I vitrify.

I’m frozen in time.

My poetry bled out

Now I’m just a rhyme.

Still I deceive.

I smile. I say I don’t care.

You believe.

Wishing you’d shake me into truth,

I wave you towards new joys. You leave.

MS

OF ANGELS

Every toilsome step I take
I feel a loving presence close by
That holds my hand in His, and says
Just another step .... I comply.

Tiny prints I mark, in faith
Through forests and the plains
Enduring storms and scorching days
He makes laughter from my pain.

Over hills and down the vales
On paved roads and muddy trails

I trudge to places far and near 

He gives me courage in my fear. 

Passage through the salty seas
In times of strife, and times of peace
Abiding losses, celebrating gains
My flagging spirits He sustains.

I tread desert sands, I’m bleeding sore
Now I can't walk another step more
When tender hands beneath my feet
Make my journey light and sweet
And whispers in my ear, they say
I'll walk you, every step of the way. 

MS

THE ETERNAL WALTZ

I feel the agony of you

Surround me in your breeze
Visions of me and you, printed

On crystalline dews that freeze.

I look skywards to the galaxies,

And give up my yearning to them

In askance, a chance to escape

The frosts, to warm days ahead.

I see the milky way wink,

And look the other way

As I understand the omens

My heart lurches and sways.

A hopping between tenses I go

Back and forth in a trance
Reality of time, suspended
Soon, dreams begin to dance. 

As moments turn to hours
And stars begin to fade
My feet dance on blisters
Not daring to pause, or wait. 

They glide between their destiny
And their truth that's aeons old
For to stop would mean the end
The darkness would enfold.

As the last shreds of music
Fall away into dawning light
I hold on to your misting wisps 

In a swirling cloud we ignite.

Together, the nebulae inhale us
In a thundering cosmic storm

Fires  roar, sparks abandonly fly
Still clasped tightly, we dance on. 

Our ageless cosmic rhythms 

Blaze trails in the Prussian sky

As a blue star we are reborn 

Disparate identities transmogrify.

The ice of cerulean lights

Cools passions of rebirth divined
We’re together still, moving softly
To the heartbeats we left behind. 

Secure in the deathless embrace

Of  cosmic mists that roam

Our mingled breaths cocoon us

Our spirits finally come home….

MS

OF STOLEN MOMENTS

I lie frozen, staring at the dark 
Trying to decipher my broken dreams, 
My gaze captured by the hypnotic dance 
Of fingers moving in endless streams.
Picking out infinite cruel shards 

Of countless precious memories,
Embedded in my heart, it bleeds 

Even as it rejoices, in tender reveries.

A relentless procession of moments

Pass through my pensive tonality

And I ponder my delusive thoughts

That threaten to drown my sanity.

Emerge from the depths of my fantasy

Come, let’s step together into the sky,

Free falling, at the speed of sound

Hearts alive, as wind whizzes by.

If we have only moments to share

Let’s live them with passion and joy

When they become shards in my heart

Their bittersweet pain I will enjoy.

MS

QUESTING- IN SEARCH OF ME

I look for myself 
In the depth of the seas, 
In the eddies of the winds 
In the seams of the reeds, 
In the struggling rays of light 
Battling the dark holes within, 
In the labyrinth of chaos 
In the peace of His being, 
In the chants of Om 
Permeating the skies, 

In the wordless whispers

That from the stillness arise.

I look for myself 

In the conflicts so serene,

My image I find, permeating
Into your ubeity, beyond me. 

Not in my body, nor soul

Not in my life obverse,
I find myself in the love 
Binding the universe. 

In the infinite field 
of raw cosmic energy, 
I am the thought and senses

In supreme synergy.
The presence that looks in

The consciousness that sees, 
The love, the heartbreak 
The fears and the dreams.

The empyrean life-force

The eternal devotee
The atoms that make up 
Both you and me 

I am nothing more

Than a crisp of the breeze
That carries me for eternity 

In its hold, and in its release
And finds me within you 
And you within me 
Let me look some more 
Let me forever see 

Oh grace heavenly…

Let me travel faithfully,

Let me absorb your radiance

On my journey endlessly.

Then maybe I'll find myself 

Thawed from the frozen seas,
Strewn on the sunbeams 
Growing in the leaves,

Maybe I’ll find myself, salvaged

From the spiritual debris,

When I finally give up to the sk

The need, the thirst, to find me. 

MS