Star

A star you are

I, a sky watcher

Every second of watching

lifts and bedazzles me

with moments of pure unalloyed mirth!

A star you are

I enjoy your presence

through my telescope

A long journey my eyes make

for the bliss of twinkling afar

A star you are

I know you are not mine

You belong to the universe

But when you shine and sing

You make my world happy!

A star you are

You have your orbit

Engrossed with your responsibilities

I, a sky watcher, waiting for twilight

searching for my star

A star you are

I wait on cloudy nights with teary eyes

Disappointments surge on a full moon night

Clouds and moon

May hide you from my eyes

Nights worn with silence

and stressed with search

are washed away with a

Twinkle from my star

A star you are

As the purple blanket spills

Sweet dazzling stars

a million secrets

unravel with each twinkle!

Gazing at you

Make my nights a fairy tale!!

World of Dreams

With every dusk

When the breeze kisses fondly

I try hard to retain

its dim light and husky whispers

Knowing fully well its transient span….

Heart aches to leave sephia portraits of distant heaths

and blurred silhouettes of trees…

With every night,

When the magical blanket with its

Enchantress Moon appears…

Blowing mind in every direction

Bestowing wings of imagination

to fly across the sky

and fins of fancy

to swim in the pools of reverie,

Intoxicated mind dwells in the world of dreams….

Chasing stars and hugging winds!!!

 

 

 

 

Secrets of silence

Lost in the woods of dreamland

When your memories came

Binding my thoughts,

When the secrets of silence

Speak aloud,

When,

in the darkness of purple sky

Moon with its host of stars

Fill the space

Serenity of solitude taught

Counting the stars to keep your mind off from me…

You won’t bewitch, I know!

But I’m spellbound

You won’t chase,

But I’m haunted…

 

 

 

A Plea for Forgiveness

Tall and hefty

Broad and kind you grew

When the Autumn devours you – every day

I watered twice

In full bloom you rise

How sweetly you nod – when I whisper my secrets!!!

How blissfully I ruminate in your shade!!

It’s painful and cruel

When you are amputated

Dumb as a stone I see you

“Pruned” as they say….

When the branch fell with a thud – and

You posed like an arm less giant…

Out of nowhere nervously chirped a birdie

Lost her thorny nest

Not for the first time….

She cries aloud

Counting the cracked eggs

Just as before..

She knows not the future

Will she have chicks to teach them fly??

Or she should build mobile nests in the sky???

You weep quietly …

I,

the rightful owner with no rights

to stop the sharp blows of EB wiremen,

Stand helplessly.

Part of me rots with your severed limb

Where I once swung and climbed

With merry cherry-red ants…

With cracked heart

I planted another

Miniature Giant….

Jane Rajesh

You Are…

You are the maestro

who writes the rhythm

of my heart…

In your presence, my words

never take a natural course!

It’s your eyes that force

my thoughts out of my mind!

And divine my words out of my heart

When you are near – my

heart beats aloud

When you are far, – my

heart weeps in silence…

My thoughts obsessed in your absence – but my

Lips go dry in your proximity!

I measured my words for

you are softer than petal

Milder than dew!!!

Like a

much treasured jewel in the safe – for the

fear of losing

I keep a safe distance…

Jane Rajesh

25. 11. 18

Cry of Fate

Dark pits of mind
with darkened motives
through mazy ways find
devastating plots
Employed
to hit and harm and hurt
the captives of Time …
I’m blamed!

When trails of words unleashed
And every gloomy deed
targeted to shatter
the peace of victims of Time…
I’m reviled!!

When the proposed acts of stumbling blocks
targeted at the
Prisoners of Time…
I’m cursed!

When I’m naive and passive,
When the course of my passage
is silent and waveless
Morons threw stones and garbage
Defiling my august presence in the
unending maze of life
as
ill – fated….

Jane Rajesh

Memories Sweet

Stuffed with emptiness inside
the memories swiftly gush
with every event to fill
Empty heart till
It bursts…

©janerajesh

Cry of Woods

Million shades of green
Painted along the silvery stream,
With lofty leaves,
Scaly barks and mighty trunks
together we stand ; the Woods –
‘lovely, dark and deep’
Tall beauty beasts
Garbed in morning mists…
The dancing boughs decked with diamond dews
Flickering bits of light pattern the damp soil…
Sun strives to fondle its darling Earth!!

Winding, slithering, snaky roads
Crept into Kingdom of Green!!!
Lush green giants felled!!!
Our nights interrupted with lights!
Leaves coated with soot
Owls fear to hoot – with
Honkings of bus
Bees forget to buzz…
Amputated giants feel grateful
For they are spared…
Clicking selfies,
Many a strangers stopped by.
Only to add a coke tin or other!!
While I get choked in your filthy smoke…
You wheeze in my serene mist…

Jane Rajesh
31.05.2018

Speak

Words are inadequate
But your words are limited
Words are confined
But without your words
days are meaningless
Words out weigh the thoughts of heart
Words fill the space
And overflow
Words maybe superfluous, enticing,
contradictory, piercing, soothing….
But when the wind is empty of words
It has no connotations!!
Void is airless and noise less!
But voice gives structure to words…
It is the chant that keeps the soul singing
Eyes, music, art speak their own language
Words give meanings to their toil
If your words are silent,
Our communication fails!!!
Inbox awaits your mails,
And my heart recollects our tales!!
Words make a mighty world!
Where, everything I behold is golden
Without our conversation
Every minute is a burden…

Jane Rajesh

May 2018

I know there’s a heart
That will respond to every word of mine
eyes can deceive
Face holds a mask
Wearing a sweet smile
Words never let the truth known…
But I know
There’s your heart
Which awaits my words
Reacts to my vibes
All the emotions recorded
With utmost sincerity
Every thought and action
Finds anchored…
Vignettes of dreams crystalize
A forum for my artistic nuances to blossom
Wide Bay where I dive to
Find coral reeves of love and oysters with pearls of warmth
Every moment I divine
Your founts of love anew.

June 2018

Jane Rajesh