Stirring

.....  and matters had flown beyond

just you and me

I had dug too deep

beneath the layers

you were not just a woman

not just my love

not just my partner

not just my kind

not just a human

and not even just a soul

The forms of recognition

were only for the eye

through which i choose to see

and as I dug

deeper I found

only a Spiritual Priniciple

.......  a Love Divine

which proliferated into 

a form each casting a 

shadow onto another

to etch you out O beloved!

So let us meet

form to form 

soul to soul!

principle to principle

man and woman.

Were it you who cast the stirring?

~ A.

Space Within

The lake did not even know
I had stolen an unfathomable plunge
Into its deepest crest & quenched
my soul within its bosom.

Neither did the condor know
I mustered a flight in the clear sky
With a wingless gaiety to a flight
Only to formless pinions known

Neither did she know I stole
The scent of her hair as they flew
Unleashed to her regime of chores
silly daily chores of the day.

The clan of dreamers and poets
Is so nurtured and bred that life is
More real in images, thoughts and visions.
Well lived, fulfilling and responsive.

The victory of the space within
Is better realized to legions
Of time and space that lie
In the connect of the ethereal world.

~ A.

Colour Palette

Tactile blinded warmth

of the colour palette

I heave to an array of forms, 

fluids, tints and hope

streaks of shades impressed

by the blade of your strokes.

Brushing my formlessness

with the ebbs and troughs 

of body and soul-unite

carving images-shapes

meaningless to the world

but to passions known.

Fiery red of your saree

staining the canvas though

dexterity of the craft reveled

moist at the corner of your eyes

floating passions delight and drop 

a dash of silver from your anklets chime.

With the emptiness anointed

to a fervent evanescent joy.

on your brow is a bindi smear

a taint from the instinct poured

in my soul and a reminder of the 

rapture dyed in coloured trance.

~A

evanescent - vanishing; dexterity -  mastery ; revel - rejoiced ; rapture - euphoria, ecstasy.