MIND MAZES

Supple are the thoughts

on the shores of mind,

rippling on the soul's lake,

caressing the threshold of emotions.

Sweet like the smell of pine trees,

sour like the last shred of sweetness left;

hopeful, joyful, throbbing with life,

yet dead like a breathless pebble beneath a rock.

Tiny wishes, simple joys-

earnestly seeking an armful of them;

A sparrow chirps through the ears' tunnels

awakening a dream and lulling reality to sleep.

Safe and secret it is hard to keep

the thoughts that fly around like aimless arrows;

Swift like a voice getting lost in the distance,

sparkling like a smile bridging two forlorn tears;

Oceans can cry and death can dance

stones can sing and

the world can burst into a million universes!!!

A MOTHER IS BORN

Like flamboyant orange melting into the dotted blue,
you melted into my heart in a gorgeous golden hue.

A crescent smile with a mischievous glimmer,
A soft touch which only my soul could feel;
I am caught unaware in fragile emotions,
so pure that tears dance as they make my smiles sing.

Prancing like a cloud, laughing like the sun;
Like an unstoppable wave you washed across my mind;
and as you left you innocently snatched,
the soft sands of my unassuming soul;
and my hapless heart was left behind,
burning, pricking, with yearning motherhood....

To cradle you in my arms and lull you to sleep'
To hold your tiny fingers and walk in wonderlands deep;
Maybe these wishes ll never find light,
and stay hidden in my silent smiles,
While you joyfully watch the beautiful dreams
unfolding for you in some other eyes.

My love for you might be a speck,
amidst the abundance your life s waiting to receive;
Yet to me they mean the universe,
'coz as I write for you these bouquets of verse,
I smile at the newborn mother in me.....
:)