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Mar 2023 · 427
Stories Retold
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
I live with your stories retold in my head over and over.
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
Nothing to believe in.
Everything appears fake.
Realism and faith are necessary for poetry writing.
Can't escape poetry, though; writing poetry is the breath of my soul.
Mar 2023 · 548
Detachment
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
Detachment is the path to salvation
Mar 2023 · 430
Life: a poetic worship
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
In poetry, there are no winners or losers. Poetry is an act of worshipping life.
Mar 2023 · 251
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
Days without poetry
              are
emotional droughts.
Mar 2023 · 218
Life
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
A botched attempt at interpretation.
Mar 2023 · 121
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
Why is heaven still untarnished?
Feb 2023 · 160
Idiomatic smile
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
To my eyes, your smile is an undiscovered idiom.
Feb 2023 · 139
No justification to leave
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Why are people looking for justifications to leave? A phoney smile was all they had done when they entered.
Feb 2023 · 99
What More....?
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
What more can be said?
What more can be written?
What more can be asked?
Everything comes to a worthless ending.
Feb 2023 · 270
A Monochrome
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Be a rainbow in the midst of people who are drawn to earthly shades. When you're by yourself, be a monochrome.
Feb 2023 · 171
One faced coin
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Despite my reservations, you have often stated that we are two sides of the same coin.
So why can't I see your face on it right now?
I strongly believe that in order to destroy anything that I perceive to be an ideal, you removed the side of the coin that bore your face.
Feb 2023 · 120
Don't own your mind
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
When you don't own your mind, you own everything else.
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Who shows the way to lightning?
It always takes its own path but illuminates it.

In the same way, we should not plan anything in life. We should forge our own path, but illuminate it as we go.
Feb 2023 · 593
I stayed out
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
They were gone.
I was left out.
They returned.
I stayed away.
Feb 2023 · 110
Virtue and Passion
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Virtue gives up to beauty where morality gives in to passion.
Feb 2023 · 268
Regret
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
We need a heart that is bigger than average if every decision we make leads to eventual regret.
Feb 2023 · 206
If i had waited ....
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
I had the feeling that things may have turned out differently if I had waited a little while longer.
But based on my personal experience, I don't think anything would have changed.
I just would have waited a little bit longer, that's all.
Feb 2023 · 160
Let humans to be human
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Our societies will be in turmoil until we allow humans to be human.
Feb 2023 · 105
Idiocy filled trek
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
We are nature on an induced
idiocy-filled trek.
Feb 2023 · 154
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Let all of our thoughts and deeds be indescribable. The source of excellence is mystifying mastery.
Feb 2023 · 373
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Does the mind have a mind of its own?
If so, whose commands are we following while we live?
Feb 2023 · 171
Luck and Fate
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
When luck and fate sing the same melody in celebration of our hard work, our dreams become a reality.
Feb 2023 · 152
Life is struggling
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Everywhere there are difficult scenes. Life is struggling to keep its meaning for its followers.
Feb 2023 · 152
Immortal
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
A mind free of regret is immortal.
Feb 2023 · 150
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Is it a sign of good fortune if you recover something you lost in life in a dream?
Feb 2023 · 110
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
If honey is poured on a harsh tongue, will sweet speech come?
Feb 2023 · 151
Beg for Salavation
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Irrational thoughts.
Throbbing aches.
Overwhelming guilt.
Mind begs for salvation.
Feb 2023 · 141
Silent Melody
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
For us to be poets, the incessantly silent melody in our hearts must continue.
Feb 2023 · 207
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Losing a dream is more agonising
than losing sleep.
Feb 2023 · 1.4k
Marooned Life
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Face crucified by time.
Mind stabbed by reality.
Life marooned by desires.
Feb 2023 · 528
Daily Atrocity
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Uninvited thoughts invade the mind like a rabid beast and tear it apart.
Feb 2023 · 145
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
I cannot embellish myself.
Am I a poet?
Feb 2023 · 127
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Hold me not.
Life has gotten heavier.
I'm sinking.
Feb 2023 · 170
Failure
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
An emotional brew of rage and depression..
Isolation, but karma is after you.
Reconciliation with destiny, but Life is unwilling to go along.
Faced with foes and left to one's own devices.
The verdict is still out: failure.
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
A person's anger, which is the product of enduring years of humiliation, finally transforms him into a source of infinite compassion.
Feb 2023 · 115
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
From now on, let's meet in dreams in order to let go of all ties to the real world, to avoid everyone's malicious gaze for all time, and to float endlessly in the sea of joyous poetry.
Feb 2023 · 165
An appeal to the Sun God
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Sun, please allow me to apply sunscreen on your scorching face so that you won't bake us to death with your hot, blistering rays.
Feb 2023 · 161
Worthwhile
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
I was able to cheer up a crying kid today.
Life seemed to be worthwhile.
Feb 2023 · 218
Fill the empty spaces
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Let my words fill the empty spaces, fill the eyes that perceive light in the darkness, even if they don't shine or inspire.
Feb 2023 · 214
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Lord, I beseech thee to grant peace to all wretched souls who wander in search of it. Lord, if you do not grant peace to these souls, they will sow seeds of doubt in every heart and cause upheavals in a society riven by unrest.
Feb 2023 · 230
A Shattered Life
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
All around disruption.
A shattered life.
No wish to re-build it.
I have chosen to rot where I am.
Feb 2023 · 200
Untitled
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
The good days may never come.
But the bad days are long gone.
It's better to think so.
Feb 2023 · 272
Resolve Life
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
Life is a process of resolution, not reaction.
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
The world becomes apparent when the unlit eyes receive the visionless light.
Jan 2023 · 612
Distressed was it always!
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
The mind that believes the past was positive is distressed now, as it was then.
Jan 2023 · 832
Warm Dreams
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
When reality made me feel cold, dreams kept me warm.
Jan 2023 · 207
Transient and Eternal
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
What grabs the eye is transient, but what grabs the heart is eternal.
Jan 2023 · 787
Speak from the heart
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
When we speak from the heart,
people feel it.
Jan 2023 · 336
Poetic Justice!
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
I squeezed the azure sky with my poetically charged fists.
The earth was covered in a blue ocean. Everything turned bluish! The one-color world blinded humans' criminally discriminating eyes.
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