To love

To have love for a person

Where days start with him

Nights’ darkness fades slowly

His presence eliminates all sin

His voice rings heart’s bell

And not a moment is gone

something always reminds me 

Together like shadow, in sun

Having him in life amazing

Whether near or far it is

In heart there is craving

This yearning is only his

Nothing else but love it is

That keeps this flame alive

No one can take his place 

Not even if God arrives

Manjari

Bonds

Bonds that love create

Feelings free flowing permeate

Flows only one way through this gate

Nothing can ever take this away

No matter what my future hold

No matter what kind of is mould

Not matter what it is I am told

Love does not ever go stale

Barbs may have grown around

Fragrance is there still abound

Everytime I look your side

You look part of just my fate

Manjari

Life story

My life today is story
To some maybe soiree
But those who know me well
Feelings varied have forayed
Some are close to my heart
Memories of people dart
Gather some, some do spill
So hard to keep apart
Given chance to rise
Suddenly comes some surprise
Fabric of time and space
Moments of pure delight
I want it time and again
My soul stands to gain
Given chance to serve at times
Offering love, no disdain
Wanting to reach out more
Actual life, no folklore
Pain may be there to stay
Lighted is left my core

Manjari

Song of Heart

Reaching out to stars

Leaving behind dark

Guiding songs of meadowlark

A new journey embark

Taking your thoughts along

Like long remembered song

Each time feelings astray

Heart sifts right from wrong

No matter where I go

Thoughts taut as tightened Bow

Each breath announces name

My heart only that knows

Manjari

Not Alone

Know life is just a path

Destination get marked

Persist in love or wrath

Be it straight or arc

Continue groping in dark

Light of morrow to hark

Fall if you find pits

Forget not picture large

There will be trees with shade

Sometimes Beings, who aid

There will be turn arounds

And end of road will fade

With every beat in heart

Speeding pulse like a dart

Companied standing in light

Your Shadow be your part

Manjari

Sanguine heart

With You, you took reason to smile

Life got low, no apparent high

And all alone now here I lie

Still alive, not ready to die

Presence physical, my eyes can see

But why does not my soul believe

Charmer I knew you were my love

You did not, for a moment deceive

This pain, incessant tug I feel

Sometimes though very hard to deal

Clear remembrance of time spent

Ethereal zone, You and I meet

Manjari

Connected hearts

Feels like hearts are connected 

Relationship perfected 

Each rhythm seems melodious

Beating drums, dance enacted

Visit to Childhood

Going back to Childhood  days

No fear of any betray

Crossing those little streams

Jumping on heaps of hay

World was what’s around me

Had everything what I need

Butterflies lived forever

Beautiful each every dream

Everyday was a wonder

Rainbow followed each thunder

No rain collected water

Deep enough to drown me 

Is it  ever possible?

Or maybe slightly probable!

Go back n just touch those days

Rewrite script, redefine me. 

Heart Chalice

My need is to belong
One with me to sing song
Love to give and receive
Hold n someone to dote upon

Is it such impossible demand
That fate has to reprimand
My one little need to love
Wanting his hand in my hand

Want no riches, no palace
Just one I need without malice
Life empty without his reflection
Want filled with love Heart-Chalice

Longing for Sunlight

I have come into the light

Not knew power of my might

World revolving around me

Don’t know if pleasing for own sight

Am I complaining for standing up

Why I chose to fill the cup

Feeling it may spill sometime 

Won’t really sit with me alright 

Not know how long will I be gone

Not know if return  be anon

Been in shadows little too long

Heart is longing for sunlight

Moments Together

When you called

Voice soft as Heather 

Asked me to come by

Hold hand light as feather

And nights went by

Playing hide n seek with pain

However much tried

No time was gained 

And then you could see

Dear ones that depart

I knew then for sure

There was no keeping apart

Holding breath to play flute

Fate playing Adieu

Morning brought the tune

Words exchanged so few 

Musical dreams

Music brings my world together

It’s waves are the thoughts I gather

Tied to nature eternal I feel

Be it thing ethereal or matter

The dreams that  I see awake

Beating drums, night or day

Wind mixing notes in air

Till illusion does not shatter 

Crackling of fire in distance

Or silence of falling snow

Hushed voices of flowers dropping

Meeting grass overgrown

Be quick flight of humming bird

Or dance of butterfly

Music seems beyond expression

With every wave of river that flows

Going away

Few days of love

Few days of care

Never did I knew

In my face will they stare

Every little talk

And walks we could not walk

Birds singularly watched

Fears were all bare

Wish I could shelter

Made your life better

You’ere eager to sever tether 

Leaving all with no care

Now sometimes I just think

Look at clouds without a blink

Thoughts flowing without a kink

Life calmed after a flare

Manjari

Revelation

Today I had a revelation

Changed my focus of veneration

Attention from callous absence

Focus someone in imagination

Brought in life for certain reason

Crossing paths in different seasons

A tacit pact for no treason

A friend found loyal like a deacon

Find painful, unjust separation

Tormenting memories, no cessation

Highs and lows of emotional passion

Friendship found in new devotion

Manjari

PS: it is hard to forget the people that you come across in life. And sometimes some people seem to just serve a purpose of bringing you together. 

For Lives to Come

Redwood Burls - life begining

People so many to choose from

Customs and rituals that egg you on

Trying to live life bestowed upon

lacking the one, maybe still unborn

Then soulmate suddenly dawns upon

Life takes a fresh turn from there on

Tumultuous turns turn gentle waves

Scorching sun, hat wide brimmed donned

Fate tries to take my trusty cane

To leave me wobble , make life inane

Can’t give that right, that power to none

For a person new in me is born

Leave one, leave all, take sun and moon

My soulmate remains with me in June

In this life and in lives to come

Soul created  for me, my only One

Manjari Dutt Rana

Weeds of my dream

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*Put yourself in place of the weeds; see and feel the world through them*

I feel like weeds in meadow
Growing under and over some things
Notice no one, where I am
To them, not important being

My flowers adorn no bosom
My leaves part of no concoction
My roots lay withered when pulled
My use? No one has any notion

Pull it out! don't want it...
 Is all I ever hear
Pride and joy in hearts they feel
If my presence disappear

Deep in my heart, I feel
Must be a reason, I exist
That I grow, flower, spread wings
Lo ! my existence persists

Maybe one day when all is gone
Other ways are found mundane
And life needs, yet to be born
Will they look my way to bloom again!

Manjari

Journey

Our plan was a little different

To take you back home

Heed to request fervent

Go to soil you were borne

Is it to be God’s will

Or some twist of fate

Plans brought to nil

Snatching you from mate

Denounce God, taking you away

Or thank him for memories given

For misery’s sordid chance

Out of nowhere had risen

You are a part of me forever

No doubt in it at all

Your touch as soft as Heather

My mermaid, You I recall

** in memory of my very special connection who in a very short time of few days, impacted my life forever- in memoriam Sunaina” - Manjari

Standing Still

Growing shrouded in thoughts
Tending onto time lost
Telling me story it’s own
Blissful times and pain fraught

Eager cracks in layers peelings
Peeking past much too revealing
Shadows in all shades of brown
Hiding behind branches kneeling

Pain subside then shelter some
Showing scars and oozing gum
Am I to stand for some more time
Gaining strength from what was once

Manjari