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

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

Appeal

Fate has gravity binding us

Since I keep falling towards You

Others tugging me to resist the fall

But somehow this union seems True

This is coming together of minds

There are issues, I am not blind

I know they won't be gone with time

Though what we have is so sublime

And then you get so confused 

Can't breathe with passion suffused

Continue to push me away from you

Why the ties don't break,I have no clue

Sending me away at reason slightest

Facing the stormy seas at best

My heart though churns at your behest

Draining my soul of all it's zest

Though I must share with you this feel

My emotions are beginning to congeal

Disconnection is trying to set itself in

This may be, my very last appeal

Don't set my sail for far away

For once I am gone, I may not sway

My beating heart wants it's say

Whether you agree with me or nay

You may try to find me now and then

Thinking may be 'am waiting at bay

There may be beckoning spring near you

My absence will be there, forever to stay

Manjari

Amaranthine Bonds

Yes, I waited for you probably all my life,
N' when we finally met, fate joined hands aflight

Fly we did, through colorful skies,
and barren deserts, that breathed dry.
And there were days with showers scant,
you saved my soul, ever so gallant.

All ups and downs of life and death,
Seemed part of life, since we met

You know,I have been told by men so wise,
keep your ties open, and not so tight,
People come and go in life,
Never let it bring you strife

I listen to it and I listen to All
Why is it so that my heart falls
Every time I think of you not near
All is foggy only you are clear

I know, I know, this yearning is bad
but I also know the feeling of dread
The feeling that swells so, in my heart
when I find you being so far apart

These amaranthine bonds follow no rules
whether written is small or majuscule
I will live and breathe as I may
my heart and soul will never astray
                                             
                                                  Manjari