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May 2021 · 109
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
When we are woefully underprepared to meet nature's next response with a cavalier attitude, it humbles us.
May 2021 · 42
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
My misplaced confidence in your wisdom and judgment, rather than my own follies, caused my heartbreaking moments.
May 2021 · 531
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
When science and religion collide, bloodshed ensues.
May 2021 · 44
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
When sacrifices are made in the midst of riches, they gain a new sparkle and profound meaning.
May 2021 · 106
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
In my inner universe you are visible to me as a bright star. Do I visible in your inner universe?
May 2021 · 97
Innate Desires
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Although you have often advertised yourself as an occasional stock trader, your everyday mood was linked to the stock market's fortune's, implying an innate desire for money.
May 2021 · 90
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
A heart that isn't in the right place cannot love another.
May 2021 · 278
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
In your writings, you extol the virtues of human friendship, while avoiding all types of human interactions in real life as a barrier to your literary success.
May 2021 · 75
Double Whammy
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
You avoided success for fear of losing your freedom. But resented the arrival of another talented individual with hunger for success as a potential stumbling to your success.
May 2021 · 49
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
When you built a bigger one in another person's heart, I took down the Effel tower of love you planted in mine.
May 2021 · 72
Cupid heart attack
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
When you pasted the image of cupid on my  heart in monkish solitude, it stopped beating.
May 2021 · 59
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Feelings are like glass artefacts.
Once broken cannot be fixed.
May 2021 · 169
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
You are sitting in an unseen place.
Everyone's story has been written by you.
Drama that never ends.
You see, God, you're just having fun.
May 2021 · 208
Be careful with the present
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Actions performed in the present are transformed into future experiences.
May 2021 · 75
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
The urge to live;
possessed by the powerful and the poor, the wise and the stupid, the cursed and the blessed;
braving enemies, elements, stalking death, powers visible and invisible;
is unrivaled by any other impulses, forces, tendencies, pulls, or triggers seen in the universe of creation.
The urge to live is the fundamental principle of creation.
May 2021 · 57
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
When readers became bored by your philosophical musings, your poetic career stumbled and eventually collapsed.
May 2021 · 69
Troubling Questions
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I'm having trouble picturing this;
what was it like before the universe began?
What was there back then?
Was there nothing at all?

Why is it that something exists right now?
This is a reasonable question to ask.
May 2021 · 56
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Why does life just exist only on the tiny tensey doll egg and nowhere else in the universe?

Oh, that's because life is such a jumbled mess.
May 2021 · 40
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
If progress is not made quickly enough, an opportunity to move into the future at the right moment is missed.
May 2021 · 59
Warm Thoughts
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Even though it's -46°C outside, your sweat-soaked thoughts keep me warm.
May 2021 · 108
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
The distress of an elephant is heard and attended to, but that of an ant is brushed aside.
May 2021 · 167
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
You've slammed the door to my heart so many times that it's finally come loose. Strangers are now entering my heart in droves.
May 2021 · 80
Fate of Destiny
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Great destiny beacons every living thing at the start of life's journey.

The majority, though, are draged backwards by a rope tied to a tree called fate.
May 2021 · 70
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Why do you throw stones at ripe fruits?
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Eye Bolts
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
You nearly killed me with the lightning bolts you fired from your eyes.
May 2021 · 196
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I had no idea your heart was a lover's grave yard.
May 2021 · 70
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
A mind that is like a shattered mirror can never provide a complete picture of a situation.
May 2021 · 135
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I used a time machine to travel to the edge of the universe in order to escape any trace of life or matter, but I smelled your body odor there!
May 2021 · 113
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Your haunting memories strangled my future, leaving me in the same state as I was when you left.
May 2021 · 119
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Do you know how much I suffered as a wife as a result of your frequent forays into the mystic world to compose your mystical poetry, which gave me little physical or emotional comfort?
May 2021 · 88
Beauty vs Poverty
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Her exquisite beauty, which was always the focus of attention, drew all human gazes. The rampant poverty in her neighborhood was dismissed as an eyesore.
May 2021 · 114
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The stench of guilt you left behind lingers like a poisonous fog in the air.
May 2021 · 87
Is Life-a lost cause?
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Your narrative of life often treaded the familiar path of joy, despair, death etc
But your exclusion of self discovery as the real objective of life was a deliberate attempt on your part to portray life as an end in itself, and a lost cause at that.
May 2021 · 42
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You'll stay in my heart as long as the waves of passion you sparked in my love-lorn heart are still active.
May 2021 · 57
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Whenever humanity slides into a deep intellectual slumber, disasters occur with regularity. It will fade away only when human intellectual returns to its natural state of awakening.
May 2021 · 300
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Beauty is a lie perpetrated by the eyes of the beholder.
May 2021 · 301
Jackfruit Marriage
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Marriage can be compared to a jackfruit.
Before eating, there's an irresistible smell.
After eating , there's a terrible smell.
May 2021 · 64
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I live without death.

I live without birth.

I live ad infinitum

I live as the spirit of
creation in my
poetry.
May 2021 · 89
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Even though you had two working ears, you were deaf because you didn't believe what you heard.
May 2021 · 190
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
There are hundreds of reasons to live but just one reason to die. Remove that vexing one reason and live.
May 2021 · 61
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
You ended up in hell as a result of your habit of shouting "to hell with it" to break up serious conversations and make them appear ineffective.
May 2021 · 51
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I assumed you were purposely putting
yourself in danger because you had 
given up hope of reclaiming y­our well-lived life.


But I had no idea that you had 
recently a­cquired a taste for
 life-threatening adventure in 
order to gain­ popularity.
May 2021 · 47
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I am the first victim of my ego.

Alas, others are standing in queue, poised to strike me with daggers forged from ego and twisted into bizarre geometrical shapes, visible to my fear filled eyes.
May 2021 · 42
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Prayers didn't purify me.
Actions did.
May 2021 · 42
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Any desire that seeks frequent replenishments is undesirable.
May 2021 · 114
Dreaming the dream
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
A beautiful dream is still hours away.
Your return  to my life is still years away.

A beautiful dream is still hours away.
I yearn for your glimpses in my dream
still hours away.

A beautiful dream is still hours away.
I might not see you in my dream still hours away.
May 2021 · 122
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I was ****** into your finely woven poetic web of seduction, unable to resist the allure of the danger ahead.
May 2021 · 153
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Commend me for not living long,
but for living with a lacklustre mind.
May 2021 · 400
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
A single spark ignited the passion.
A single flaw extenquished it.
May 2021 · 70
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
The Tree and the King met their shadows  on the same day.

The former lived as a log for hundreds of years more.
The latter lay in state for only 3 days.
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