New place, new feelings

My eyes jerk open
I'm in Mysore.

Deep draughts of air
I breathe in.

The cool air wraps me up
Like a familiar and welcome blanket.

So different are the trees and the birds
And the people and the energy,

That I feel transformation
Growing within and around me.

My energy changes colour and intensity
Feelings are born afresh, revived, anew.

Excitement and anticipation rise,
As new ideas conceive themselves in my mind

And wait in the threshold of my mind
To be moulded into action

And everything in me
Want to be out there

In the real world...

Of Opportunities that Come by

Many an opportunity'll come by

Many will go, after being kindled with and played around,

Of them will a few tease me to take them

Many yet, will be eagerly explored

Will the others threaten to leave without word

And try to leave behind distress...

But no form of disappointment shall reach

The shores of my mind

Than, in all its bubbling excitement

Radiates a positive and mollifying peace, soothing all other forces....

August 2014

~The Faith Girl

Of Excitement and Faith

Things're in motion,
Turning points around the corner
The ball, now, is in my court,
And the prospects look really good.

Having done away with doubt and fear
Putting more faith in Faith instead of Fate,
Excitement and Hope bubble within,
And bring with it an unwonted ease of mind...

This, I know, will I take
With me to dust,
That ease and comfort
That springs from having pure faith!

August 2014

~The Faith Girl

Of Travelling

These compositions were composed while journeying from Hyderabad to Delhi with my parents; a dragging 24-hour journey, it was!!

We speed past cozy little towns,
huts with brick-tiled roofs,
not more than fifteen of them huddled together...

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Our eyes cling on to that lone hut,
nestled in the farms,
as they speed past us to horizon..

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We feel the wind in our hair
and the rain in our face,
 as we watch the trees dance and sway merrily...

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The river flows from beneath us
and we cling on to the door of the railway carriage,
 dauntlessly looking down the depths, at the hasty waters...

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The air outside does not compare
To the forced air made by man,
Especially if the air outside carries with it,
The scent and the anticipation of rain,
The music of the wind
And a panorama of imagination-kindling clouds...

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The train rocks us back and forth
And like in a cradle,
A likeness of sleep takes over again..

We've spent the better part of our journey
Travelling the realms of our dreams
And yet again, are we drawn under...

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The sun, shy after having just woken up

Peaks at us; clouds break apart:

Allowing him to go over his morning stretches...

Yet again do the clouds cover him

As if screening him for his ablutions

And then does he reveal himself whole,

Cascaded by the scattered clouds,

Lining each of them, silver!

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Miles after miles of fields pass by

Well bordered and well watered

The sunlight glints off the water,

Breaking off into sparkle where it touches the surface.

Leaving the water there,

Looking stunning as diamonds...

19-07-2014

~N

Children of the Earth...

This place has magic.
Children run after each other.
Chasing each other,

The straps of their bags over their heads;
Their peals of laughter cutting into the air,
High above the sounds of blaring vehicle horns....

Their joy is so abundant, it reaches their eyes
And spreads their faces into
The most uncorrupted and widest grins I've ever seen!

They wave back at us, random strangers,
Looking happier, if that were even possible,
Unconsciously and innocently inflicting on us,

Their childish spirit and mood!

-Dharmavaram-
26-06-2014

~The Faith Girl

Of wisdom and looks

My cheeks, my complexion, my "looks" are but,
The superficial things that usually come into my purview
As I see the reflection of my face

Time hath made me deeper and wiser
As I now try to discern
The expression borne by my eyes,

The degree of inner peace that's reflected outside...

29-06-2014

~The Faith Girl

Of doubt and determination

When high decisions are at stake
Doubt tries to creep into the mind
To prevent us going down the road
To prevent us from listening to our calling

It'd bring me down
Make me give up
Hope I'd stay in that comfort zone
Which has and shall never see growth

But now are things different
Now I'm different!
And Doubt knows that
And it knows well...

It hesitates at the gates, to enter
My mind that is fortified by determination
Guarded by faith
And fired up by passion!

It's wise in that it fears
The loud and intimidating fortress
And is wise in that it knows
That I have no room to spare for it!

That I will have nothing to do with it
Now and henceforth!

August 2014
~The Faith Girl