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142 · Dec 2022
Life without obligations
Eshwara Prasad Dec 2022
Those present had left by the time others arrived.
There was no time to wait for others to arrive.
Nobody was eager to see others in flesh and blood.
Everyone had focused their attention on their own lives.
142 · Jul 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2021
It is necessary to break through the shell of ignorance in order to progress from mere Matter to Spirit.
142 · Dec 2023
Ruins of our fallacies
Eshwara Prasad Dec 2023
Will we, despite what seems, rise from the ruins of our fallacies?
142 · Mar 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2021
When a bird poo dropped on my head while I was writing poetry beneath a pine, I realized that I had been writing pooetry all along!
142 · Aug 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2022
When you rejected the gift I brought you, it stayed with me as a memento of your contempt.
142 · May 2022
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Eshwara Prasad May 2022
Why would your enemies want to break into the castle you've built to protect yourself if you can't get out?
142 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
Let your Broadway Smile be your ****** screen saver.
142 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
If you don't see yourself in my eyes, they aren't yours.
142 · Jul 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2022
What matters is  attitude, not dogma.
142 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
What is lost to greed cannot be recovered in its entirety by wisdom.
142 · Nov 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Nov 2021
Desire that remains potent despite the passage of time is never destroyed.
142 · Oct 2021
Silence in absence
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2021
He chose silence where words were necessary.
He chose absence where silence was necessary.
142 · Jul 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2022
Even hardship is sprinkled with affection, sympathy, companionship, and compassion.
141 · May 2022
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Eshwara Prasad May 2022
People change their behaviour as frequently as the air they breathe.
141 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
Hey God,
You gave some people brains.
You gave some people courage.
You gave some people money.
You made some people beautiful.
But why was I left out of all of this?
141 · May 2022
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Eshwara Prasad May 2022
The light in the lamp has the same sanctity in every home.
141 · May 2022
HP Sun Rise
Eshwara Prasad May 2022
The most magnificent Sun rise one could ever witness is the small red sphere hanging over the HP notification bell.
141 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
When a devotee writes entirely about God and keeps his own identity hidden, he is exemplifying devotion.
141 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
Sullied vision
Reality masked
Truth distorted
Life twisted
Hearts broken
Strife becomes rife
Tardy souls flee.
141 · Nov 2023
Flickers of Consciousness
Eshwara Prasad Nov 2023
As mere flickers of consciousness, glowing fleetingly, we illuminate the consciousness with the flames of our imagination.
141 · Nov 2023
Silence
Eshwara Prasad Nov 2023
Silence is the abode of the soul.
141 · Oct 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Oct 2022
Your radiant smile sparked a rainbow in the night sky.
141 · Jul 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2021
For the less capable intellectually, life is a plain struggle, continually.

The same struggle assumes complex forms of description for people endowed with varying degrees of intellectuality.
141 · Aug 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2022
The lotus bloomed, the lilies shrunk, as the Sun rose from the eastern hills at the crack of dawn. Life seemed to emerge from its shroud of gloom and sail into a vivid dream.
141 · Apr 2022
Big eliminates small
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
When big rocks are pushed loose by force, the dust that clings to them is flung off.
141 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
People that pass me on the street appear to be more unique than I am.
141 · Oct 2021
Mild Mind-Mighty Bull
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2021
I can hear the grunt of a mighty bull  inside my mild mind, often.
141 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Ego hits its peak
at death.
It won't let
the body move!
141 · Jul 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jul 2022
Nobody will give up on themselves and talk well of others.
140 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Eventually all have to surrender to time.
140 · Apr 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
I didn't tell you about his leaving this place because I didn't think it would affect your feelings.
140 · Feb 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2022
I didn't know that you would come. But I didn't know why I wouldn't exclude that possibility.
140 · Nov 2023
Life
Eshwara Prasad Nov 2023
An engagement with the divine.
140 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Hopes of achieving the goal faded as the obstacles proved insurmountable, but even failure guaranteed a certain glory.
140 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
His windswept look clearly conveyed the magnitude of his battle with his own inner nature, though it was not obvious to him.
140 · Aug 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2021
In the land of war, the dead and the living co-exist.
140 · Mar 2023
Do with self motivation
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2023
Good deeds performed while under the influence of others are short-lived. Without influence, good deeds decline.
140 · Aug 2020
Live Through Life
Eshwara Prasad Aug 2020
You cannot overcome life

You have to live through it
140 · May 2021
Hypocrite
Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I am not a frontline revolutionary.
I am a total backstage hypocrite.
140 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Who bent the rainbow?
Was beauty it's lure?
Bent like a bow,
can't use it as a boat
to sail across the universe.
Utility, not beauty,
is important.
139 · Mar 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2022
Because I failed to properly incubate my poetic eggs, most of them hatched too quickly and produced dead chicks.
139 · Sep 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Sep 2021
He was a silent pickle
that exploded when
squeezed on the tongue.
139 · Oct 2023
Peace is sacred
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2023
An iota of peace is more sacred than a sea of strife.
139 · Jan 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2022
In a dinghy, I packed my desires and sent them out to sea. However, it was returned to me on a stolen ship.
139 · Aug 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2021
With her love to them deepening, all of her possessions had reached her age and had no possibility of being freed.
139 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
Hey, wearing the garb of rich won't make you rich. Your thatched hearth still stands on the field defying strong winds as a  symbol of your life's misfortune.
139 · Mar 2024
Wisdom in restraint
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
Silent anger burns.
Speaking only fuels the fire.
Wisdom in restraint.
139 · Feb 2023
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.
139 · Feb 2024
Home is my soul
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2024
Unfamiliar skies.
Every moment new and bright.
Home seems far away.
139 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
Pleasure tainted produces a lifetime of regret.
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