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