Where/Why did the flower bloom

In the earth,

in the air 

or in the sky

or opening endlessly

like a smile 

or drowning forever 

like a sigh

Unfolding or encapturing

Flooding or emptying

what is this fragrance

thrown ?

A secret 

perhaps unsaid 

and perhaps

always known..

Mine or yours

or about me and you

Simple and shining

bright and wordless..

..secretly you smile

you know it so well

you know my secret

and you wouldn't tell!

Jai Bhairavi!

In your land of the strange and wonderful

not for the clever and the careful

where death is not known

and even the dead are not grim

where even the smallest blade of grass 

sways under your whim!

With a beating heart

and through the kumkum that flies

One sight of your eyes

And with a flood of an ecstatic pain.. 

               ..i realize

the eternal joke of joys and sorrow.

Wherever this strange rhythm takes

now i can only sway

How to set out for your abode

My legs give away!

Slipping out of reality

or waking up from a dream

This enchanting stillness

is also a scream..

of Jai Bhairavi!

कुछ बात ही ऐसी ..

शायद हो भी बेमतलब की 

पर कुछ बात है जरूर 

कहते कहते न पहले यु रुके थे 

बहते बहते अचानक न यु डूबे थे 

न मालूम था की सूखे फूलो से भी  खुशबु आती है 

बादलो के बिना भी बारिश होती है 

इस अधूरेपन में भी पूर्णता जन्म लेती है 

सूरज दिखा भी कहाँ  अभी... 

                    की आकाश में रंग भर आये 

रंग बिखरे भी कहाँ अभी .. 

                  की मन में उतर  आये 

आखो ने देखा भी कहाँ अभी..  

                   की दिल ने पहचान लिया 

मन को जो भाया था
सदियों से जो चाहा था
                वो कुछ भी तो नहीं यहाँ

फिर ये उमंग जो उठी है
दिल पे  जो सवार है बेवजह
ये याद जो भुला दे रही है
आखिर है किसकी

समझने और कहने की न भी हो 

पर कुछ बात है जरूर 

Full moon to full moon!

I promised I won't come back
For my heart was sore and broken
But here I am and there my heart
Smashed at your feet lies!
Now I am free and I won't go back
Until I have drunk and stolen
The growing rapture
 of your eyes!

Now from full moon to full moon
An uninterrupted dance
One continuous night
A crazy romance!

Trapped in your gaze
I can barely walk
I know only
to sing and dance!

Dancing away
I go nowhere
But from full moon to full moon
What do I care!

Who

Who is it that,
As I go prancing about the day,
Stares unblinking
into the night.

Moved when I was still
Hummed when I looked
Sang when I loved
And danced as I cried

And when in the deepest of pain
I mourned
At a distance continued
to smile

As I slept one night
Who is it that woke up once in a dream 

Footsteps

The evening pours and drags
At your feet
Settling!

Not knowing where to turn
Winds unscrupulous stand
Gasping!

Skies forget their vastness
Drip through colours and colourless
Unasking!

Oceans rousing with an unknown thirst
This empty space opens,
Bursting..

Leaving the birds who do not know
whether it's night or day,
Clamouring ...

Rest all the relentless play
stilled..
.. my Master..
is coming!

Untimely rain

An old forgotten song
Like a friend lost for long..
Rouses the heart to dance
To an unknown beat

As the breath begins to cease
 to the touch of a floating breeze
As an uninvited blithe flutter
Fills up an empty branch

Waiting to be surprised
Reeling to have realized
That it's you once again
Pouring down

like an untimely rain!

आज न जाने क्या मर्जी है..

आज न जाने क्या मर्जी है..

सुबह के रंग खिलते खिलते शाम में खो गए ,
शाम में ढलते ढलते सुबह हो गए
पंछियो के जो फूटे गीत,
उठते उठते आसमान बन गए !

आज बस खाली खाली बैठे बैठे ,
भीतर से भर गए
कुछ न कहे,
बस आसु बह गए

बहते बहते, दिल के साथ
न जाने और क्या क्या ले गए

अब कैसे कहे की क्या मर्जी है।

ये फूल अभी नए है
खिलने से भी डरते है
ये शब्द अभी नए है
होटो से शरमाते है

तो कैसे बताये क्या मर्जी है।

हैरान,
बस हैरान इस बेहोशी से
और हैरानी से बेहोश

अब होश ना आये तो ही बेहतर
क्यों की न जाने किसकी मर्जी है