DETOXIFY
Yeah, you goofed up a lot
A lot more than you recall
Beam with your smile
Glow! Show! Give a try!
But now you
Detoxify
Mistakes take long to set up
Not that you have given up
Rise with your arms open
wrap!!scrap !! Rectify!
But now you
Detoxify
Only you know whats your craft
The world is needy of that draft
So with your skill
Kindle!! Follow!! Magnify
but now you
DETOXIFY
...
Saturday 9th September 2017 8:56 am
Deccan's Daughter
Wrap-a-round the waist
Of brown dried leaves
empty nests and lakes
gusts eroded soil
closed ones left her
Summer-of-turmoil
Singed yet yearning
defies upheavals
Sun tries the hope
; had locked clouds
in a deep dungeon
beneath blue shrouds
“Bleak sprouts bliss
, I shall stand tall”
Quips the Queen
one dawn in June
receives a reward
from the monsoon
Brocade black blouse
dren...
Tuesday 18th July 2017 3:10 am
I then chant your name
"Ungodly hour"; calling it a day
half well spent , rest in dismay
now wide awake, partly insane
Lost!! I then chant your name
For the silver ball, the gleaming one
Sole-dark-walk is not much fun
Stars to love, clouds to blame
Thoughtful!! I then chant your name
Hovered by those past images
Have dared to march the mazes
Breaking old-rigid, fussy-frame
Mo...
Tuesday 16th May 2017 8:15 am
Be you!!
Mom, sister, wife & daughter
Have portrayed as a role
Chased the calm charisma
Will they love you as a soul?
Appeased with offerings
Caged as a muse to woo
Chiseled stone into “goddess”
Do they see the one in you?
Butchered daring dreams
Blindfolded you with norms
Dreaded by the resurgence
Would they trigger the storm?
Praises are a vicious t...
Wednesday 8th March 2017 1:32 am
Proclivity
Proclivity in twin souls
Flames frenziedly
Melts in closeness
Freezes when friend-zoned
It exists; it persists
Never dies!!
© Juhi Gupte
Thursday 2nd March 2017 4:58 pm
farewell
A fathomable february day
first & the fair, leaves the bay
sweet reveries cherishable
welled-eyes, departing ceremonial
bidding him farewell
© juhi gupte
Friday 17th February 2017 2:10 pm
And be Eumoirous!!
When it rains in the run
Your dream dampens
Shout it loud, to those clouds…
It’s time for your neo-sun
And be Eumoirous
Fleeting are the charms
Don’t walk the norms
Empty the fear-filled casks
“Today”, your era embarks
And be Eumoirous
Self-doubts are brutally canny,
Defiantly, end their tyranny
Question the answers, now
Tell them you won’t bow
A...
Tuesday 14th February 2017 4:52 am
Pondy Diaries
ardent waves,stoical rocks
radiant moon,soaked in sunkiss
sands of serenity,beaches of bliss
mesmerizing memoirs
Pondy diaries
© Juhi Gupte
Monday 9th January 2017 6:27 am
Tulsi and the Christmas Tree
One was restive at the battlefield
HE pulled the chariot for the entirety
Leafy garland draped, couplets were sung
HE beamed at the love of the devout
Nails were hammered in his limbs
HE cleansed the sins of humanity
A bush decked and carols hummed
HE smiled at the love of the devout
Call him a cowherd or a shepherd
Imbibes the shape given by devotee
Praise ...
Monday 9th January 2017 6:21 am
Season's gift
A zealous bird back to nest
Battles of skies fought
Some scores sought
Throughout the day
A wrinkled hand opens the door
I sneak in her shawl
Best season's gift
© Juhi Gupte
Monday 9th January 2017 6:20 am
New Year
Arranged all pictures
Of few compelled adieus
Some permanent reveries
Cherishing both
Welcome me new year!!
Monday 9th January 2017 6:16 am
Moonless Night
Draped a studded saree
Sprayed scented winter breezes
Night now becomes icy
awaiting him to show up
Darkest is the new moon
© Juhi Gupte
Monday 9th January 2017 6:03 am
Love me this way, if you love me too
Often have seen you stuck
Amid being smart and schmuck
Here’s my answer to how should you?
Love me this way, if you love me too
Wake up with me at the dawn-break
Yawn, smile and kiss my forehead
Wish a good morning before I do
Love me this way, if you love me too
Avoiding me is a gross mistake
In a quick second, respond me back
At least twice a day, say “I miss you”
Love me this way...
Sunday 25th December 2016 6:29 am
Micropoetry
Screen of sky
Scroll up, scroll down
Light breaks, night-wreaks
Memories breathe, feelings sigh
Amongst his status updates
© Juhi Gupte
Sunday 27th November 2016 9:24 am
Micropoetry
Doing bad to right one
Doing good to wrong one
Pain becomes a comfort
Suffocation is by choice
Freedom is an inconvenience
© Juhi Gupte
Sunday 27th November 2016 9:23 am
Have been a mother, will I be a mom?
Whilst the squalls, ‘have been standing tall
Concerned for others, kind of mum-to-all
Once I want to kiss your divine arm
Have been a mother, will I be a mom?
‘Glistening’, I think, how would that be?
Feeling about you growing inside me
I often roll my fingers over my womb
Have been a mother, will I be a mom?
To hold and touch, to chase and clutch
To stroll an...
Sunday 27th November 2016 9:20 am
A little bit of her own
Yes he has hurt her
Silence will confess mutely
Whining within, it will moan
For its, little bit of her own
“Unchecked and not-replied texts”
She educated them on his habits
Wiped briny drops; wouldn’t be shown
Restive is little bit of her own
Deafened soul recalls the flashes
Of their frolicking oneness
Zipped them; faking smiles put on
Fidgeting with l...
Sunday 9th October 2016 6:44 pm
Time Zones
I am in east of future
He is in west of past
Far across the distance
Something still connects us
Time zones changed
© Juhi Gupte
Wednesday 13th July 2016 4:37 pm
The boy I met , the man I love
Friday 17th June 2016 10:40 am
But not for you
Awake at an ungodly hour
Set to confront
Surreal and factual
Ways yet inept
There’s too much on plate
To be taken care of
Yeah! I am at odds
But not for you
Drained in the drizzles
Of first rains of the season
Peacock blue kurta is drenched
For a reason
Not that those wounds are gone
Breezes be the beacon
Yeah! I am sun-dried
But dew-soaked w...
Wednesday 8th June 2016 5:59 am
A vintage story
Well, it’s been a sorted mess
At times in the limelight;
In dark at the backstage
Bound to happen I guess
In a relationship so vintage
Quest started by following
Stars on a cloudless night
Someone made a dreary device
Traced rains on one fine evening
Then observed next day’s bright
Finicky and Frantic, wasn’t he?
Sleepless night owl so deadly
I be...
Wednesday 25th May 2016 6:26 pm
Flute and the Cross
Descends amidst the catastrophe
Prefers the straw over thrones
Tends the grazing cattle
Frolics that “dark-skinned”
With the street urchins
Aiming stones at the earthen pots
“Trades of milk”; he aptly defies
First feed kids in the countryside
Heals the wounds with peacock feather
Melts over pounded rice of the poor
Colours all in tunes of oneness
Of his s...
Friday 25th March 2016 8:14 am
Unceremoniously
Worldly rules are rude
Ah! Here, ends my role
Let someone tell the sea
I am leaving her shore
Wounded waves are withering
Though can’t change the course
Devout depth is abyss,
She won't stop me anymore
I adored embracing
Her shades of alluring azure
Drench in briny breezes, now
Swayed by amber to endure
More edgy of promises made
She wasn’t afraid of lies
Beneath wreckage of st...
Thursday 17th March 2016 6:29 pm
In Limbo
Thought of texting you
And share entirety
Even and odd
Stored in self-shelf
To soothe its wounds and cuts
Asking your commitment
And its validity
Handful “ifs” and worried “buts”
Fueling my anxiety
Abbreviated connotations
Of “goodnight” and “take care”
Emoticons against
Clenched flare
Cheery “whats up”
was answered in snubbed “nothing”
Seems ...
Friday 26th February 2016 7:05 pm
Genese Within
Diving in deep
Escaping the estuary
She leaned
On the littoral
Wiping off persona
with the towel of horizon
In the sacred sands
Reflection of her
Pulsating in
Salinity of the Sea
Entangled raven hair-locks
Murmuring moist lips
Bosom hooked in shells
And scaled turquoise tail
Words of wisdom
Learned in the
Kingdom of Marines
Safe from sharks
Familiar fins and gills
Shall not ...
Tuesday 9th February 2016 3:06 pm
When without you
When without you;
Scrolling; I kiss your display pictures
Seems it has become a ritual
Browsing through the reveries
Once you gave me that key-holder
I caress it as if an amulet
Just sipped-in something bitter
Navigating you inside somewhere
Can sense those flashes
Of amorousness
Arms holding me from behind
Every part of me getting unwind
Fingers flickering...
Monday 21st December 2015 4:53 pm
What I am not
on blues
Friday 25th September 2015 9:20 am
I write for HIM
Half awake
Slid the window
A fresh face
Sprayed by
Bracing breeze
Leaving on my cheeks
Sanguine Smile
Text popped up,
“This one is ‘Amazing’;
That one was awesome”
My phone laughed back
He didn’t get it
Ornamental and Obtuse
Angle of love
Must have scrolled
My poet...
Sunday 13th September 2015 3:02 pm
Thoughtless
Pupils oscillated
I scrolled my phone
Pseudo smiles
Decamping to escape
From the fears unknown
Checklisted In ‘Yes’
Dotted ‘to-do’
Some not- done’s
By ‘today’, that smudged
with my Kajal
Caravan of memoirs
Quilt noticed
Tossing and turning
Along with me
Mending Mind
Grasped the pillow
Onto my bosom
Clasped & Caressed
Thinking it’...
Sunday 6th September 2015 4:18 am
Traffic Semaphore
Coded in red, yellow, green
Mounted on a pillar so high
Re-painting the urban scene
Directions, displays and drivers
Gentle lights shimmered,
enough to stop rushing mob
Equating the chances;
for everyone to throb
Speed -bumpers couldn't intervene
Mind was intra-vocal and dominant
Criss-crossing the passersby
Yet my speech was silent
Crimson halte...
Saturday 22nd August 2015 5:26 am
TRAP!!
Given the senses
to see, smell, hear
taste and feel
One grows up
Embryo once;
learns to crawl
and to fall
Traits gets boned
Along with the flesh,
To cringe the eyes;
Seal the real
Terrain of the paranoid
Ears deafened to
Overlook and avoid
Odour goes foul;
In robes of pleasing egos
Ignoring the emanations
Of humanity
Touch becomes
a hidden desire
to suffice depraved ...
Friday 10th July 2015 3:28 am
Just-in-time
Blues don’t complain
For clouds are dense
Untold desires will rain
Dousing all in consequence
For they trust the Big Star
Will rise just-in- time
Seed when soiled
Smothered in darkness
Left out to be buried
is set to shed its brown
Believing the water splash
Will life it just-in –time
Rodents lair
Insects crawl
Micro-beings breathe
Free to sur...
Tuesday 7th July 2015 6:52 pm
Fate’s handwriting
Found a crushed paper
Beneath a lovely old book
Like one dropped by blues
Had an enigmatic look
Against questions unfathomable;
Thousand answers it opined
Penned was my name
‘Twas stamped as “DESTINED”!!
I felt a connect,
And flipped a corner,
Bold chevron lines read,
“Seed and then garner”
Ink fluttered to allude
Loud and clear message;
...Thursday 4th June 2015 4:56 pm
Entwined
"Today”, introduced us
She greeted in zealous voice
I shook hands too;
Keeping at my poise
Innate was her halo
I unzipped my rucksack
Hers’ was unexplored story
Mine was a setback
Grief is beyond abyss
I can’t prune in verve
She shuddered me & said
“Ah!! You never had the nerve”
Novice and yet-to-come
She had sheath of my wisdom
While I s...
Monday 25th May 2015 4:52 pm
He too had a dark side
Knocked at my window
He mumbled; drove me out
Gleaming that evening was;
No one ever knew about
Quiet for a while, we stared
His “warmth” asked my plight
‘Dragged those stubborn rays; or
Faced some restless light?’
Blamed him for his betrayal
I sighed, nodded & replied;
“mine isn’t luminous like yours,
life is dull and deprived”
Ah! Borrowed is my...
Tuesday 12th May 2015 7:28 am
Unsaid you, Unheard Me
Look its cloudy, its rain!!
Wish this drops could see
Our footsie on that bench
Sea-shore is waiting for....
The unsaid you, the unheard me
Ice were that hugs
Or u embraced me really?
Togetherness in the crowd
From that space, erased are we??
Lonely road is searching for...
The unsaid you, the unheard me
U moved on so early
Or Too much!! I held on?
Guess, Love left us!!
Life is...
Wednesday 29th April 2015 4:47 pm
Silhouette
Her eyes were stern
For each wrong I did
Whenever my wants hiked
Her wish-list got buried
Eternal place was her womb
Out I am in a far-off land
That lap is a "Silhouette"
Abided by values; he taught
What life ought to earn
Those spectacles scolded me
For "habits" had to learn
Desk is clean; though silent
Newspaper is lying unfolded
Chair re...
Monday 27th April 2015 5:45 pm
Ever since I met him
I dreamt of a place to wander
A far off isle in the south
Days & nights naively ponder
Ever since I met him...
Soul drenched in reveries
Though sands were never mine
He walked some other hands
Ever since I met him…
I should have known his love
It was of time being kind
Gulping venom of a dove
Ever since I met him...
Neither did anyone glean
...Saturday 25th April 2015 11:37 am
Equinox
Greet, share and care
One and all coming your way
Be it the dimmest night
Hence in the normal ray
Often, billows will hunt
through the cunning woods
Invite 'unmoved" to confront
Heavens test in swinging moods
Then spring will come in vanity
Rambling your perseverance
Spectral its shades of sanctity
In whiff of your fragrance
Bloom may betray,its evanescent
Hay will s...
Friday 24th April 2015 4:15 pm
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