Shakuntala Sharma

The Phoenix in me got tired of collecting its own
ashes to become a body once again.
So I allowed my ashes to fly.
Scattered ashes got carried further and further in space.
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Ever since my mind opened up for thoughts
I started trying to define God
Definitions I found aplenty
But evidence still eludes.
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Panini cheated me
He said, ' heart is neuter'
So I let it wander.
Lost to a woman it refusedto return
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You and I started
On a treasure - hunt

Very soon I discovered
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I am past sixty, yet my life
has not been
Convincingly accounted for
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Two never-ending parallel lines
You and I are.
They never meet, never separate either.
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Most ordinary was he
As a student in a college
No one had any idea
What he would be
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Hu is an ancient love song to God
So says the living ECK master Harold

Sing Hu softly a few minutes daily
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Poems happen to me
The way dreams come
Sans a scheme sans a theme
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When the child is small
Mother's love is
Cuddling, kissing and feeling
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As soon as she came home from
Office and announced ' it '
There was an uproar in the house
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It was a long winter evening
Father was out of town on tour

We four children two boys and two girls
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Denied all nature's beauties
Deprived of all simple joys

Condemned to hear cell phone beeps
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Pouring out from the heart
Purges the mind

Purifying the emotion
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She hasn't changed a whit
From what she was
A decade ago
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I was my first Guru: I am my first Disciple
When all the roads were blocked
When all the traffic lights turned red
It's I who invented this bylane
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You are the river that drags along an ocean behind
You are the mountain that brings clouds down to rain
You re the wind that carries with it the fragrance of all flowers
You are the luminous Self that has come to wake up the sleeping souls
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I have got my life all wrong
Even the way I was born
Feet first and head last.
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An unattached soul
With utter abandon
Dived into the deep seas
In search of the Nature's mysteries
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Age has not withered his sprightliness
Nor the weight of his wisdom
Slumped his square shoulders
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