Stand, Rise up!

Stand, Rise up!

To choose your own way

To make things right for yourself

To break free the inevitable raging war all around

To live up or die against life herself

You got to stand, you got to rise up!

This is an ugly world, cruel

Lightened up in a cage of illusions

Love and compassion peeking through

Heart caves, every now and than

Afraid of roam around they stay inside

Till we don’t come back

Unhappy, un-satisfied, back to self!

A world of apathy, and scattered tiny bubbles of sympathy

Painted all over, colors all vibrant

Hiding what lies beneath, what speaks truth

Life crumbles and crawls, desperate to breath

Devil dances, sitting atop it, and

Some dies of hunger, some of bullets

Some gets killed by killers; some gets hunted down by police

Some dies defending by, some dies avenging over

Some gets eaten away by animals, some swallowed by human greed

And, some dies living life too well, till it gives up!

One dies and world mourns, one dies an unknown death

One gets buried in golden coffin, one vanishes like never existed

Does it matter, how and where, once the fleshes deteriorates

Leaving behind a trail of truth, lie and stories

Made up to hide some, to highlight another few

And world wonders, as always!

Truth, does it ever existed

In a workers melancholic eyes

In an artist’s chocking throats

In a dying soldier’s heart, who wished to know

Who he was killing and what for;

Those trembling shadows of ghostly figures

Men, women, kids, infants dying of hunger

In some remote deserts, forests

Watching those machines flying away in the sky

In search of new lives, better, brighter!

Peace, soul yearns for, but where

Not in the womb of such raped soul

Whose dreams are shattered by the cruel reality

Not till you stand, rise up and protect

And let a life reborn itself, upon the thrones of truth!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 27/12/2012

She Surrendered!

She Surrendered!

To be touched tenderly

To be kissed slowly

To be cuddled right

To get loved all night

Shy, little afraid

She surrendered!

Like a doe, lost on the way

Alone with that shadow in darkness

Squeezing a fear in heart

Unknown, uncertain

Of the rules of play

She surrendered!

Eyes closed, ears deaf

Racing heartbeat, twitching nerves

Breathing heavily and body on fire

She felt an arm all over, that of a sire

Taking over her, desired

Or unable to resist

Losing her senses, unmoved, stilled,

In the grasp of that shadow

She surrendered!

Oh dear! Thy young soul

How would she forget?

The taste of that kiss

The warmth of that embrace

The sensation of being torn away

The pain of being loved

She will remember, remember it all

That first night of love, when

She surrendered!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 06/12/2012

What Does It Mean To Be Dead?

What Does It Mean To Be Dead?

What does it mean to be dead?

To be silent amidst the talking mouths

To be still while every feet is moving

To be deaf amidst soaring noise around

To be blind while whole world is on display in front!

What does it mean to be dead?

To not to be able to answer amidst all the question raining

To not to feel anything, when emotions are all high around

To not to be able to protest while being taken away

To not to be able to cry, even while burned, buried in the ground!

What does it mean to be dead?

To not to feel that fear, which killed one every day

To not to try to run away, while being chased away by past anymore

To not to feel sadness for the failed expectations

To no to try to hold on to something, that belonged to soul or did not

To let go knowing it all will pass through time

Like sand slips through hand, while being tried to hold on deliberately

When flesh and blood loses its entity, while being washed away by own deeds

And soul flees in silence, to infinity, to eternal peace

At the epilogue a doubt arises in soul

What does it mean to be alive?

Confused, curious, soul wonders

And a search begins, Karma follows, Life continues!

Name: Praveen Parasar

By: 09/11/2012

Love, That Night!

 Love, That Night!

An invitation flaunted

A temptation deemed

She came like a hurricane

Seen, unseen, it seemed!

A mist in her eyes, bright

Sparking with a mystery

Talking an age-old story

Heard, unheard, it seemed!

Oh how cold that touch was

Like an icy wind in the midst of desert

Breathing fire, burning desires

Close, distant, it felt!

Lips showed impatience, tongues all in

Teeth went for fleshes

Saliva diluting blood

Nails wrote stories, skin formed words

Hidden monsters indulged

In a fight to take over

To be soaked in love

To get lost in each other

Flames of love burnt the souls

Won, lost, it did not matter!

And they loved

Loved all night long!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 09/11/2012

 

A meet with thee!

A meet with thee!

When I went to meet thee

Thee! The almighty, who set the soul free

Soul waited for the moment, to get a glimpse of thy feet

Afraid, shy, found nothing suitable to greet

And there he appeared, with goddess by his side

Eternity filled the void and the soul cried

How blessing, how beautiful they seemed together

Seeking grace, feeling love, heart captured their image

O Kriashna! Radha Krishna!

What could be more eternal than your love

The moment I saw you, life felt complete.

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 03/11/2012

We and Life!

We and Life!

Life and death

Love and hate

Pleasure and sorrow

It flourishes and diminishes

The mirror it shows

Of others and self

Like a river that flows

And flows, and flows!

We await and wait

We love and wait

We fear and wait

We want and wait

We rush and wait

Wait for that moment

That never comes

Or comes and goes

Noticed, unnoticed, and we wait!

We dwell, out of sync

Random thoughts, tricked

We enter, we leave

We fix, we snooze

We choose, we loose

A constant thrive, a booze

We pay and posses

Carves for more and more, poor soul

Infinite layer of empty closets

Still empty, we wonder

We wonder and look around

For something else

For something new!

We miss, we act

We watch, we react

Hero and coward

We struggle, we fight

To find what is wrong

What is right

Things we see, eyes

Open, closed

What we hear, ears

Listening or deaf

We sense, we feel

We wound, we heal

We crumble, we rise

We show, we hide

We relate and relieve

We trust and deceive

We search, we find

Life plays and rewind

Colors float on canvas

But it remains white

Memories has no color

And we live, we die!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 26/09/2012

A Wild Dream!

A Wild Dream!

The waves rose high and higher

Raced towards me hiding

It’s growing desperation, feet

Digging away the barrage of sand

Chewing its lips in a palpable thirst

Screaming aloud my name on

The moment it saw me coming to its shore

Like a long lost lover by the dawn!

Slowly the sun went sleeping

And, came out smiling moon

Soothing along the breezes,

Caring it like a fawn

But

It was not a night of love

A night of peace, a night of blues

A night to touch, to feel, to sing

Song of love while walking along!

It was a night of bursting lust

A night to taste blood by the lips

To feed the soul those burning flesh

Drenched in saliva, and smell of sweat

As grew the thrust by

Friction of each stroke upon!

Grew the night, moments passed

Darkness spread its reign, and

Silence took over the world,

Suddenly, fell a drop of rain on

Broke one of those wild dreams

Bringing me back from a state of trance

Though, still by its shore, lying along

Watched the sea swaying with self

There came a wave towards me again

As I waited in my solitude, to get drawn!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 14/09/2012

O Moon!

O Moon!

O moon, blue moon

Why you are not close to me

My heart pleads

Please come near

Please come soon!

A fairy, a dream

To gaze upon

You and your moon light

A sleepwalk on

Feels like an old wine

In which soul wants to get drown

A story, poetry

To watch you grown

Wrapped in thin clouds

Like a lost lady, afraid

Trying to hide her beauty

While walking alone

Through the crowd

Little love, little lust

All eyes glued upon

A sudden twist, mind takes turn

Canvas changes, feelings blown

Black clouds all around, and

You turn into a demon

Like trying to seduce the soul

By face of angel and make-up on

Fear surrounds heart screams

What was real, what was con

Unable to elude the deception

Innocent soul looks within

Echoes a voice

Nothing is real, nothing is con

It’s all an illusion

That we accept and life moves on!

We were still confronting each other

And young night was slowly passing on!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 02/09/2012

MOVE ON...!

MOVE ON…!

Forget, just forget, and

Forget it all, for now,

Like nothing happened ever

Like it was always as it’s now

Accept the truth and move on!

It may hurt O poor soul that moment

But bear the pain, and walk

Walk till the seeds of it

Grows into a tree of peace

Under the branches of whose

You could put your swing

And play the little game of love

Love to soul, to pain, to life

And when tired, could rest

Beneath the shadow, dreaming of

A chapter afresh, a chapter of

All new dreams, a new Horizon!

And then there would be a moment

One evening, walking down the lane

Happy and love walking beside

Memories will reappear

And, you will remember

Those moments of melancholy

Moments of loneliness, but

They would not seem that bad then

Or you would be thankful, if, maybe

For that chance, for those moments

That brought you close to your soul

And let you rediscover

A whole new you in yourself!

Suddenly, a smile will fly in on your face

And you will just move on!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 21/08/2012

Dream!

Dream!

Tiny dream

Big dream

Happy dream

Sad dream

Good dream

Bad dream

Your dream

My dream,

Pain in dream

Joy in dream

Tear in dream

Smile in dream

Fight in dream

Love in dream

Let the emotions get drawn in dream,

Let me hold you

Let me touch you

Let me feel you

Let me love you

But, you say you can’t be mine

And I keep you

Safe in my dream,

Reality has murdered me for ages

Let me live a moment in dream!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 30/07/2012

A Traveler, We are!

A Traveler, We are!

A traveler, we are

Like clouds, we wander

Here and there

Carrying little drops of

Those moments,

Of the loneliness

Which we get drawn in,

Drenched, we let it go

Let it rain, let it wash away

Our soul, that floats then

As the breeze of consciences

Comes calling

Through the rainbow of life

And once again

To complete the assignments

Journey continues!

A traveler, we are

Like a river, we ramble

Through the hills and plains

Rocks and grasses

Caressing scars

Seen or unseen

Losing some of self

Filling the unfilled

We keep on flowing

Drawing a way

Even when there’s none

With a singular desire

To reach destination

We move forward

Roaring and dancing or

Silent and whispering

All just to lose self

In the ocean of truth!

A traveler, we are

We accept the challenge

Peaking through the bubbles of dilemmas

We walk across, those difficult roads with

Ups and downs, plains and curves

Deserts and floods, feet bleeds

We move through

A constant struggle

To make this same journey

Easier for someone else

We travel, travel far!

And, when lost and tired

We surrender to almighty

Smiling from deep within

Then he carries the soul,

On his shoulders

Making it immortal

And the journey continues…

A traveler, we are!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 14/8/2012

Try, My Love!

Try, My Love!

Try if you could escape prison of my heart

Try if you could blow it apart

Try if you could break it in pieces

Try if you could ruin it, crush it, burn it, forever!

O dear, you are now prisoner of my heart

Walls of my love all around you, goes

High and high, you cannot look beyond

You say I should not have done this

Blame it to my heart

I am prisoner of my own heart now!

Try if you could do it soon

Try before height of my love walls reaches moon

Try if you could keep my love waves calm

Try before it gets you drown!

Try, my dear, my love, try, and try your best

Do not stop, keep trying

Try, until you are tired of trying to go away

Try, until you start loving me back

Until you agree to be a part of my world of prison

And set up a world of dreams

Behind those walls of love

Away from the world, from everyone

Try, I shall wait…

BY: Praveen Parasar

Date: 25/07/2012

O Sea!

O Sea!

O sea!

When I saw you that night

Lying naked,

Below the transparent cover of moonlight,

On the bed of sand

Alone, your waves as wet hairs

Flying over the face

Your voluptuous body

Floating here and there

And you like a lady

Lost in her own thought

With no sense of shyness

Just waiting for her love

To come and embarrass her tight

Cuddle her, touch her,

Fill her and complete her

Though as grew night

Wait continued, and no one came in sight

When I saw you that night

A sense of loneliness filling the air

A desire to be touched, to be caressed

To be fulfilled, in the shape of clouds

Decked all over you

Conversing feelings of teenage rivers

Fuelling it, and desperation on your face

Silent screams, to reach him, to find him

Your tides breaking limits

Rising high and higher

Like going to bring the moon down

You breathed fire

Volcano erupting in your heart

Tears rolled through your eyes

Salty water, still…

When I saw you that night

Rainy night and storms

Like trying to hide your tears

Trying to stop fire in your body

Trying to dilute your screams

Under its noise

And world thought

O sea, you are the one

Who is filled, and complete!

I can still taste salt in your water

Are you still crying, O sea?

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 07/06/2012

Let’s Play!

Let’s Play!

Let’s play

O dear time

The game of life

In your own courtyard

Under your own shadow

On your conditions

I accept your rules

Play rough

Play soft

Play hard

Play funny

Play fair

Play dirty

Play as you wish

I promise to amuse you

Play to live

Play to kill

Play to build

Play to destroy

Play on your own terms

I would never complain

Play

Like it’s no match

Like you are already a winner

Like there is nothing to challenge you

Like you would crush my existence

For this asininely act

Under your wheels forever and ever, and my soul

Would just vanish, as it never appeared

Even then I wish to play

O dear great Time

Let’s play

I promise

I would continue

I would rise

Every time I fall

I would resurge

Again and again, and

Will continue playing

The immortal game of life…

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 24/06/2012

THIRSTY SOUL…

THIRSTY SOUL…

Thirsty soul

Walking by sea-shore

Looks through the horizon

Infinite water

With a Glimpse of hope

To quench its thirst

Dives through

Deep down

Swallows it all, but

Salt dilutes the blood

Tongue reacts

Spills it all, surprised

It looks to that

Infinite domain

Disappointed, it walks back

To the world, it left deserted,

World, of fading hopes, dead souls

Whose bloods polluted

The river, and

Water became an illusion

Alas! The moment of apocalypse

It thinks for a moment, and a sigh

Sits on the chair

Looks at the table 

That still had a paper, a pen

An ink-pot with last few drops

Lying at the bottom,

Thirsty soul

Once again

Swallows it all,

Licks every last drop, of ink

Mixes with the blood

Nerves twitches

Venom or nectar

Uncertain, it dips the pen

In own heart, and decides

To rewrite the history

Of someone

Once called

Human!

BY: PRAVEEN PARASAR

DATE: 20/06/2012

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

That we used to play

Long ago, in your backyard

Making our way through

Those plants of berries

Away from the crowd

From family, from everyone

Just you and me

Playing, hide and seek

Oh Dear! How easy was it

To catch you, to see you

Even behind those berry plants

Because my heart was always filled

With the smell

Of your jasmine body

Because we breathed same air

Dipped in love

That came from heaven, blessed by angels

Because our heartbeat

Sang same song

Even in midst

Of all the chaos around

And I knew

Where you hiding,

I used to find you, always

However hard you tried, to hide

What fun it was, and

You wondered, how could I

Did I cheat?

Did I keep my eyes open?

You used to ask

Showing a sweet frustation, smiling

I used to let you

Tighten your scarf on my eyes

And the play continued.

BY: PRAVEEN PARASAR

DATE: 10/05/2012 

THAT NIGHT…!

THAT NIGHT…!

That night
When words scribbled, magically
And poetry came alive
Floated in the air
Filled it with the euphony

That night
When you laid beside me
Your chin resting on my back
Hairs falling on my shoulder
Friction of skins keeping the warmth
Mixed smells of sweat in air
Night growing in its temptation, and still
I lost in my own thought
Searching for words that could
Decrypt the emotion, dwelling in my heart
Almost a rage, I kept denying
That I too could have my love
In my arms, burning agony
Watch ticking slowly
Sound of heartbeat in synch
Oh Dear! You felt my pain
Did not speak anything, just
Made me look into your eyes
Where love tides were waving high
Passionate to take me away
Asking me to dive through, and
Exhausted I let myself flow
Weighed under your voluptuous body
An urge to sail through those curves
Seduction took over
Lips locked, saliva flowing across
As I went deep within you
Bodies became singular
With no sense to stop, I continued, and
Your arms tightened, a joyous cry
Tears rolled through your chick
You murmured love
And I could feel
Your nails doing some scribbling
On my back, like sketching my emotion
Trying to give them shape of words
That had a sense of poetry, and we continued
To create those magical moments
To compose the lyrics, to pen down the feelings.

That night
When our heart spoke love
You became my pen, me you paper
And, we created a magic
We penned poetry
Whose echoes still floats
In the chorus, the sound of love!

I wonder if I could write anything
If you would not have been with me!!!

BY: - PRAVEEN PARASAR
DATE: - 31/05/2012

PRETEND!

Pretend

Like you are an actor

As you are doing rehearsal of it

Since your birth

Like you are unknown of

The meaning of being real

As you live in a virtual world

Like you are part of a

Mathematical problem

Where it starts with

Let’s suppose, and

Ends with hence proved!

Pretend

Like you do not feel hunger or taste

Even if you are ripping fleshes

Crushing bones,

Sucking blood out of veins

Of your own

Raising toast, inviting everyone to join

Clapping on your own brutal victory!

Pretend

Like you cannot hear anything

Even if your soul crying its heart out

Mind torn, growing vacuum inside

An unknown fear griping nerves

Of losing self, purpose

Carnage over own shadow, and

A turbulence hit, in a cascade

And you feel nothing at all

Your sense organs been paralyzed

It could do nothing, but to watch

Prohibited of showing emotion, crippled soul!

Pretend

Like you are on a world screen

Your duty is to entertain everyone

Raise the voice, lower your gaze

Broaden your lips, let smile take over

Even if they praise you with

Knives and swords of expectations

Stabs your soul, buries you in the debris of memories!

Pretend

Just do it, as it’s your karma!

*Karma- a willful action you are supposed to accomplish…

BY: PRAVEEN PARASAR

DATE: 18/05/2012

I SEE YOU STILL…

As I walked by those pathways

Down the hill, alone this time

Pathways, which were once cherished

With cold breezes, smiling flowers,

Dancing waterfalls, greenery all over, like one

In a picture of paradise, Blossomed

With all imaginative picturesque beauty

I see you still, in that vast green grassland

Sitting, under an old tree, playing

With the grass roots,

Singing a folk song, slowly

Euphony swirling in air, adding

Touches of innocence, making it look poetic

Breaking the eternal silence, in your own style

Like the god of love has come to pamper you himself

And, you unknown, careless of happenings around

Weaving a shadow of dreams for yourself

Decorating it, with those memorable moments

We spent together, holding hand in hand

With a desire of being together forever and ever

With a feeling to get drowned in each other’s eyes,

Filled with unconditional love and emotion

With an attempt to get lost in each other’s appearance

Carving to make it two bodies, one soul!!!

Oh Dear! Such was our love, and those lovely moments

Invokes me still, forces me to look back

Even the promise we made faded slowly

As the time passed by, and life moved on

That seed of love we planted, turned to a

Banyan tree, whose branches hanging out even today

Reminds us every time we passes it by

Down our memory lane, of love

That was nothing less than ideal, and though

We failed miserably, it still lives there

Asking us to spend one more evening, together

Below its branches, to recreate that magic

That hypnotized the world, one

We once were ready to die for

I see you still,

Sitting, Weaving, Singing

And the dream continues…

By:-PRAVEEN PARASAR

DATE: - 26/04/2012

Me or Her?

Was it good, was it bad

Was it white, was it black

Was it me, was it she

Breaking relationship

Things turning sad!

Was I right, was I wrong

Was she right, was she wrong

Was I fighting, or she did

Question remained

Would love survive or

Is it going to be dead!

Both were asking for

Answer, Who had

Neither me, nor her,

Though questions alike,

Goals alike, to keep love alive

And, for that one moment

Wait continued

Of that first step

Both kept guessing

Whether she would or I should!

Moment never came

Love died quietly

Time passed in night and day

Life moved on,

But still today, they have

That broken thread

Of relationship, once blossomed

In their backyard

And, still an old, half erased page

In middle of a book, read

Love you forever!

Who did write it?

Was it me, or, was it her!

BY: - PRAVEEN PARASAR

DATE: - 18/04/2012