Inspired by Solitude

This is the voice of the needy, the destitute, the commoners, the subordinates against the powerful, the rich and the superiors. The voice of each struggling soul to the people who hurt them and make them suffer. Now is the time - if you do not respond to the authority, you will be taken for granted! Allow not the rule over you if you are right. Let not others affect you in a way that you become helpless - speak back, retaliate, fight and bring out their true colours!! Be a rebel! You are the reason for my cries today You have the power, so I have to obey Your tantrums are making me strong, no doubt But you will soon face the crowd’s shouts Your sadist mind has the pleasure You enjoy seeing me in pressure You are a hypocrite and I shall reveal your truth And this is not mere rage of the youth You may have this time for your leisure Your reality will be portrayed for sure You will not be spared for your deeds This too shall pass, you too shall bleed ...

Tanka for "Seven days before Christmas" at CDHK # 2 Silent night Stars sing lullaby to the sleepless earth below - Festive season - Moon dances, celebrating alone in the silent sky

Tanka for CDHK's "seven days before Christmas" #1 a new dawn Old crops harvested. New seeds dug deep into soil- finds new beginning. Nourishment for better growth- like good thoughts for fresh new start...

This one's specially for the hostess Sanaa, as she celebrates her Birthday week!! The prompt at "A dash of sunny" this week is "Round hour of dawning blush, come blow me a wish- Birthday Special" The roads and gates; and the two-lands fate more are things that keep us far; but when we gaze high; at the vast sky both of us - see the same stars! The flowing wind sees no course -  could have touched past me and come to you! So here my friend, who is miles away I send you wishes that will sway to you through mild, caressing whispers; in the evening sky, lit by the winking stars - When you feel a special touch, that’s my friend, all the luck, the love and warmth I have sent -  With the nature’s messengers

Haiku # 30 on "find the silence" theme for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK the moon amidst starts finding silence; stays apart so does disturbed heart

Haiku # 29 on "find the silence" theme for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK the gushing white falls too has the colour of peace; silent feel of joy

Haiku # 28 on "find the silence" theme for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK a path uncertain - moving steadily on it; fear, confronted

Haiku # 27 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat at CDHK Photo credit: Vinaykrishnan ©, Haiku by Vijita thick white hazy mist is silently unveiled  so is masked future

Haiku # 26 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Invisible touch Inaudible songs of love Caressing by wind

Haiku # 25 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Sobbing like a child tears trickling down her wrinkles; I am the reason

Haiku #24 on "find the silence" in Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK the broken tree branch and stillness of rocking chair - both; lost life

Haiku # 23 on  "find the silence" theme for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Earthly smell; Rain seeping through mud, Memories through mind

Haiku # 22 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK I love to sit alone by the window side and enjoy rains, while sipping hot coffee...There's a sense of calmness that sets in and a feeling of freshness Haiku and photo -  Vijita Hot and sweet whirlpool rejuvenation in rains Taste of happiness

Haiku # 21 on the theme "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Haiku and painting - Vijita ©2016 Imagination is ambiguity of thoughts fiery, fear and cool

Haiku # 20 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 and also for Jane#8 gathering clouds - at CDHK Haiku and photography- Vijita ©2016 canopy of clouds covering the sun and hills in frozen calmness

Haiku #19 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK This one's a li'l fun, doesn't relate to nature or seasons, so would not be excatly a haiku. I am not even sure if it's a Senryu. But this definitely is "finding pin-drop silence"  PC: google loitered stuffs and kids  rapidly get organized when teacher enters

Haiku # 18 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK PC: www.icytales.com Ornamented dark - white pearl with sprinkled diamonds invading desires

Haiku # 17 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Spider web - Vijita© Shelter woven strong missing strings of happiness without visitors

Haiku # 16 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK At Konark Sun temple, India - Vijita © flowing wind carries enchanted ancient stories of serenity

Haiku #15 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Silent are the rocks  on which the calm water flows Relaxing stream song

Haiku #14 on "find the silence" for Winter Retreat at CDHK Haiku and Photography Vijita 2016  © Place: Mount Everest from Tiger Hills, Darjeeling

Haiku #13 on "find the silence" theme for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Also linking to Carpe diem # 1082 Raindrops Haiku and Photography Vijita  ©

Haiku# 12 on "find the silence" theme for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Haiku and Photography Vijita ©  2016 Nature makes no sound, it's beauty- self inviting -  beyond words and voice

Haiku #11 on the theme "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK

Carol Law Conklin's Batik Work The dark hills set a perfect contrast -  for the sun to rise and rays be cast. Trees wake up in envy of hills - for sun caresses it before the green frills. Wind carries silence of dawn, flowing blue hums a country song. Slowly the sky steal colors of sun, lends it to river like they are just one! Naughty water tickles grasses on its way, that fall a drenched sleep as they shy away. Elements of nature have started the day, Let’s too wake up and join to say – Happy to have received yet another one, Forces be with us to have good deeds done! My submission for   Artistic Interpretations with Margaret - Carol Law Conklin Batik Artist   at Imaginary garden with real toads     Margaret wants us to write an original poem or greatly re-vise an old poem for this prompt tagging the wonderful work of Carol Law Conklin, a batik artist. Her beautiful art pieces have been sh...

Haiku # 10 on the theme "find the silence" for Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Picture: Gangtok, India At high altitude -   white blanket carries silence over crowded greens

Haiku # 9 on the theme "find the silence" in Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK Also linking this to the Tuesday platform at IGWRT. I have tried my best and ......hope to have done complete justice to the tranquility of the lake at Lamahatta.  So for those of my friends who do not know about this place - It is a small village in India on the way from Darjeeling to Gangtok, two famous hill stations and tourist spots! In the heart of the village is a garden, much like a dense forest I would say - which starts with a low lying plain with garden of beautifully arranged vibrant flowers, followed by a steep hill covered densely with tall dark (and at places scary) trees and shrubs. The tiresome trek is nearly an hour or two long, but really worth the pain! When you reach the top of the hill, there... where sky and land is one... all you find is thick fog and somewhere in between as you walk more on the surface is a place where only beauty and silence speaks... a still beautiful ...

Haiku #8 for "find the silence" at CDHK's Winter Retreat 2016 Haiku and photography © Vijita Pillai Picture: Sunrise at the Tiger hills, Darjeeling, India Silent rising sun Over the noiseless mountains Golden beginning

Haiku and photography© Vijita Pillai For Carpe diem special Japanese poetry in the lowland#4

Haiku#7 for "find the silence" Winter Retreat 2016 at CDHK PC: google  inhale and exhale the rhythm of existence in meditation

Haiku#6 for "find the silence" CDHK Winter retreat 2016 PC: pixabay.com H eard others in noise chased silence to hear own self Mystic solitude

This week at IGWRT, we are presenting micro poetries on the topic "the cross-roads" in 10 lines or less. So, here is a small poetry form called cinquain from me.. Basically cinquain is a 5-line stanza which follows the following pattern: 1.    Title 2.    Two words to describe title 3.        Three words to express action 4.         Four words to express a feeling 5.        One word that restates  the title PC:google PC: google Amidst all the emotions that one feel when it comes to decision making and choosing a path further, the bitter truth is that there is no one correct path! All ways however lead to a better future or prepare one for a better future :) Crossroads offer choice pick a way there’s no right path steppingstone

Haiku# 5 on "find the silence" theme for Carpe diem Haiku kai's Winter retreat 2016.  For my non-Indian friends to understand the haiku better, I would like to explain that here, in India, not all bodies are preserved after death. Most of the hindus dispose body through cremation. The belief is that the soul, which is the true representation of a person is detached from the physical form, on death and the body no more has any significance. Cremation is done by laying the body on a pile of wood and burning them to ashes. PC: https://www.saffron-dreams.com/blog/how-to-experience-life-and-death-in-varanasi/ Wood and man; ashes - fumes rise high up in the sky Minute of silence

PC:www.lookwithinyou.com wandered long like air for words to express myself ‘til I found silence Haiku#4 for Carpe diem Haiku kai winter retreat 2016 on the theme "find the silence"

PC: Picture found on pinterest droplet from a leaf - trickled slowly into sea Nature’s soulful beat That's my third haiku for Carpe diem first Winter retreat with the theme "find the silence", where we have been prompted to write a haiku everyday, for 30 days  :)

PC: google you stand next to me hearts distances apart a lonely silence Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off - find the silence: Haiku # 2

PC: http://coukie24.unblog.fr/ Blindfold me and take me along to a beautiful garden and sing me a song... Hold my hands and shower your charm Take me to the wooden bridge where the breeze is calm - And when the magical bond is labelled with a word, I wish not water, nor flowers nor air; none have it heard. When you unfold blind and my eyes meet yours, I wish to have the glow gorgeous than theirs- Eyes shinier than marigold, jasmine, iris Much brighter than lillies and coreopsis! The pink cheeks like timid allium and poppy The lush of red from zinnia and peony! The anthurium glaze on my smiling lips, You be the bee for the nectar sips. A garden of love you nurtured for eons, The long wait no less hurting than thorns, I promise to stay with you by the vows, Let no prickles; only beautiful rose J

picture found on pinterest If eschatology were to be believed, Life were to end by now, certainly ; but here; I live and so do you, something says we’ve eons to spend. Restlessness steals peace of solitude, drenched in memories; good and odd; pushing the seams of wrapped , lost thoughts; like turning pages of an old read book. Adversities that bedraggled bonds, sudden flash of a well-kept secret, debris of broken hearts from deceived love; conducts that awarded unfair epithets - tears flow down of joy and sorrow, as glimpses from this movie are caught, I wish some edits could be made, only if some time could be borrowed! The air of grief then slowly hummed, the songs of happiness we sang then; reminding that the bad whiles spent, are indeed that keeps other times content. For Wordle#127 at Mindlovemisery's Menagerie and tuesday platform at Imaginary garden with real toads

Haiku for Carpe diem 4th anniversary special in Kala Ramesh's 5th "with all the stars" PC: www.thegiftsguy.com the glowing bright stars captured in transparent jars make lively lanterns

This week at Imaginary garden with real toads, poets frame queries in "Fashion me a poem", using not more than 100 words, in the style of Emily Dickinson's 'Answer July' Here's one on the dilemma on which is the best phase of life - past, present or future:  PC: www.google.co.in Answer tomorrow -  What do you hold - Where lies my smile - Which way to memory? Sighed tomorrow - Are you bold - Can you laugh every while - Yester is remembrance already! I am gone - said yesterday - What did I teach - Where is the dream - Do you wish to deem - What is it today? Frowns today – Is past the leisure I had – Is future good or bad – How many more of me(s) to add? Exclaimed – life explained – Beautiful was yester – Upcoming not to pester – Today a daily fad! Live everyday – taught experience PC: www.google.co.in

It was the last rains..as it poured down wetting the leaves, the raindrops find this beautiful young leaf among others.. but it's time to say goodbye! :(  The leaf waits eagerly to meet her beloved when cycle of season brings him back, this time she is just not as young! ;) PC: http://darin69.deviantart.com/art/Leaf-Eye-108509732 last mystical rain fondly pecking the young leaves romance slowly buds clouds descend mountain silent valley with hush leaves air carries monk s’ chants like the pale river waits to glow with summer breeze she yearned for his kiss when its snow , she’s grown, hear the sparrows’ sing love songs she gazes at blue sky The task was to use the highlighted words, without breaking the order, each in a line and writing haiku (s). 

birds in concert one sings above all others I don't know its name taken from: Haiku, by Herman van Rompuy In Carpe diem special (3rd guest - Herman van Rompuy), the topic to write any of the Japanese poetry form is "birds in concert". PC: www.google.co.in Birds sing, leaves sway, Bliss of caressing cold breeze -  living the moment

This week's prompt from d'Verse poets pub, a challenge put by Lillian- "Homophone me" urges us to write a poem using homophones. The words I have chosen for this one are air/heir, fair/fair/fare(d), flair/flare, stair(s)/stare(d), few/phew 2016  ©  Vijita Pillai  Praises in the air, she was no  big-shot's  heir - For the fair young lady with flair to paint flames flare; to have fared well, was only so fair! As she climbed stairs of success, few eyes glared and stared, Phew! now she doesn’t really care!

For  Carpe Diem  Universal Jane #3 riversong Kristjaan Panneman at CDHK challenges us to write a Tan Renga or Soliloquy continuing with Jane Reichhold's autumn haiku- riversong: Riversong Wind blowing from autumn tree A stream of gold Submitting Tan Renga: riversong wind blowing from autumn tree A stream of gold   (JR) sun gleaming from canopy kisses earth through orange veil