The search is the answer & the seeking is the goal....

Jan 30, 2016

ದುಗುಡ ಕಡಲು

PC: Myself!!

ಕರಗಿ ಹರಿಯದ ದುಗುಡ ಕಡಲಿದು
ಹಾಡಿ ಕುಣಿದರೂ ನೋವು ಸಾಯದು!

ಆಸೆ ತೀರಲು ಬಯಕೆ ಮೂಡ್ವುದು
ಎಷ್ಟು ಸಿಕ್ಕರೂ ಮನಸು ನೀಗದು!

ಎಷ್ಟು ಚೆಂದವೋ ಕನಸು ಅರಳಲು
ಸತ್ಯ ತಿಳಿಯಲು ಕುಮಲು ಕುಂದದು!

ಸೊಕ್ಕು ಸೊರಗಲು ಸಮಯ ಕಾಯದು
ಕಾಣೋ ಸಬೂಬ ಕುರುಡು ಒಪ್ಪದು!

ಕರಗಿ ಹರಿಯದ ದುಗುಡ ಕಡಲಿದು

ಹಾಡಿ ಕುಣಿದರೂ ನೋವು ಸಾಯದು!

(It is the frozen ocean of sorrow that refuses to melt and flow;
Though I do sing and dance, pain refuses to wilt and die!

Once desires get fulfilled, there do arise more fancies;
How much so ever is got, the heart is never contented!

How soothingly beautiful it is when dreams do blossom within;
But as and when reality starts biting heartache diminishes not a bit!

Time neither pauses nor waits for the ego to be tamed down;
Though glaringly visible are proofs blindness never sees any of them!

It is the frozen ocean of sorrow that refuses to melt and flow;
Though I do sing and dance, pain refuses to wilt and die!)

Jan 18, 2016

A view of the room....

PC: Myself!!

The half smoken cigarette buds

The unfinished bookmarked books

The cloth strewn bed of mine

The unwashed colored glass of wine

The forgotten fruits that rot and stink

The worn out shirts with stains of ink

The damp socks too old, plenty of mold

The dusty boots waiting for the cold

The laptop running short of power

The mobile that got wet in shower

The speaker booming in loop since long

The router overused, hence gone wrong

The camera lens washed only by rain

The gift I got for her, that waits in vain...

Nov 3, 2015

दोस्त है मेरे

PC: http://www.harleydavidsonoceancounty.com

लगता होगा तन्हा हूँ मै, लेकिन बहुत दोस्त है मेरे;

अब धूप निकल आया है, बहार में साथ ही तो थे।

(It might seem that I am alone;

But, I do have a lot of friends.

It is just that the Sun has come out,

They were all here in the spring.)

Nov 1, 2015

Reality vs Morality

PC: http://www.doodlerblog.com/

At times the angel and the devil discover their spirit of questioning and it was another of such instance on a breezy moonlit night.

"How is it that at times one among us is the angel and the other devil?"

"Is it because we at times succumb to the raw fervour of reality and at times manage to stand up to the high echelons of ethics and morality?"

"Then how is God always God and Satan always Satan?"

"Have we ever seen them together?"

Oct 30, 2015

Thin line?


Tears and Laughters (PC: Myself)

"This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

("Brother's Karamazov")

The devil and the angel were in moods at extreme ends of the spectrum. One was overwhelmed with joy, while the other seemed deep in sorrow.
"You look sad, What happened?"
"I am not very sure. But maybe it is because I got all that I wished for."
"Oh, but that is precisely the reason I am so happy. I too got all that I wished for."
"Happy for you!"
"But how does it make you sad?"
"The way it makes you happy."
"Is it a very thin line?"
"Maybe. I don't know."

Oct 28, 2015

Remains of the other

Pic Credit: favim.com

ये इल्म का सौदा, ये रिसाले, ये किताबें

इक शख्स की यादों को भुलाने के लिए हैं।

- Jaan Nisar Akhtar

(This frenzy for knowledge, these magazines, these books,

All are to help me get rid of the memory of one person)

I loved the moon, I loved the night.

I loved silence, I loved darkness.

I loved mountains, I loved oceans.

I loved the woods, I loved solitude.

I was not sure you loved any of these, And

I was afraid we disagree on a lot of things.

Our tastes seemed more than a world apart.

While you were willing to take a leap of faith,

I chose not to walk along, but to walk out.

Now that I had shared all that I love with you,
I am not able to love them the way I did then.
The moon and the night remind me of the light,
The silence and the darkness of your breeziness,
The mountains and oceans of my lack of patience,
The woods and the solitude of life's thin rectitude.
Neither am I what I was, nor do I think you are.

Perhaps after crossing paths once, the old streams

Are never the same; In one are remains of the other.