Sunday, July 29, 2012

A Card Up Destiny's Sleeve..

Written for



Prompt: Lump

A Card Up Destiny's Sleeve..

I looked at the 
tall dark lines of the buldings
through my hopeful eyes
and the straight stretch
of road passing through
with dim lights pouring
out of old lamp posts
I could see millions of
my footprints there
some laughing , some sad
some jumping with joy
some crying hidden
behind their own shadows..
the stretch won't
be able to have any more
of my foot-prints
as the destiny had played
a card up her sleeve
which I always thought
was in my hands
But that's how we, the mortal
humans play at her hands
often wondering...
A lump in my throat
suddenly made my eyes wet
No, there was none to see
and I wondered did
the stones around
had any feelings...
did they too have lumps
in throats whenever
they witnessed dreams 
turned into smoke
going up a chimney
which wasn't coughing
anymore for years now
and a question flashed
in my untiring mind
where thoughts often
danced in different
attires to myriad notes
of soulful music -
did the invisible
smoke of dreams
ever turn into clouds
keen to rain somewhere
making the soil fertile
to grow newer dreams..
I know the answer
Yes, they do...


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An attempt in Haiku Format too..

Invisible Footprints..

My happy footprints
are ready to fade away;
None will really know

None will really know,
visible only to me;
a lump in my throat..


RS:)

9 comments:

  1. Lovely poem ... the optimistic ending is so beautiful :-)

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  2. So many happy images. I hope the lump in your throat was joyful.

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  3. I think that the repetition of the last line in this haiku is the best you've done.

    You are a cauldron of creativity Ramesh!

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  4. I love the imagery you've woven here Ramesh. Beautifully written.

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  5. Excellent. Dreams raining somewhere else....

    And Haiku hit at right place. Short and precise.

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  6. wow those invisible footprints. full of meaning in two haikus

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  7. so beautiful- both of them. I was sure the first one was going to end sadly and am glad it did not!

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