tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95922872024-03-07T16:12:57.899-05:00VedicVersesGrowing up one day at a time...VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-90474999962401717792021-04-13T21:32:00.001-04:002021-04-13T21:32:54.597-04:00Poem: Spider Spider<div><p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Spider spider</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Little spider</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Here we go again</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Climb up</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Squirming</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Pushing, turning</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Whoops! Back down again</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular""></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">You are a speck</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">In this big bad world</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Just a tiny little mite</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Why do you try</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">So hard, so steady</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">With all your gritty might</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular""></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">What’s up there</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">What will you find</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Why not leave it be</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Maybe it’s magic</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Maybe it’s tragic</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Will you live to see</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular""></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Spider spider</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Little spider</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Oh you sweet wee thing</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">This world is mean</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">The people scary</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">They’ll never make you king</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular""></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Will you be happy</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Just climbing falling</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">All to start again</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Will you have peace</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">If your wee heart stops</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">And you can never climb again</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular""></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Girlie girlie</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Big tall girlie</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">What else will you have me do</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">At least I’m moving</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Winning or losing</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Not stuck in place like you</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular""></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">My world is tiny</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">It’s people small</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">And we live within our walls</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">You can spread your wings</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">And do many things</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">But still you’re stuck is all</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular""></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Girlie girlie</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Big tall girlie</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">We both have our way</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">You in your prison</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">Me in mine</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="".SFUI-Regular"">But where will we go today</span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-46702541798447919542020-10-12T21:17:00.002-04:002020-10-12T21:17:22.911-04:00Poem: Mine<div><p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">She’s mine</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">I tell you</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">All mine</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">His, only because</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">He’s allowed</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">Inside</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">My realm</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">As spouse</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">Theirs, only because</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">I say</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">It’s okay</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">The world needs her more</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">Anyway</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">If they</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"> claim</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">A right </span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">Greater than</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">My </span><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">generosity allows</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">Remember</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">You heard it here first</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">She. Is. Mine.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">Of my blood</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">My sacrifice</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">My love</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">My choice</span></p>
<p style="font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">She. Is. Mine.</span></p></div><div><br /></div>(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-55460196611002904642019-03-04T15:40:00.001-05:002019-03-04T15:40:20.701-05:00My Father's Daughter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What lies ahead I do not know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the ages past crooked my brow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beneath it peers my father's eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above it lies the wave of his hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am nothing like him and yet I am</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His spirit personified</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-60388837654401277532018-11-14T06:08:00.001-05:002018-11-14T06:08:03.881-05:00Magic kingdom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I clean<br />
She sings<br />
Of mundane things<br />
<br />
I cook<br />
She talks<br />
Of imagined walks<br />
<br />
I listen<br />
She chimes<br />
And makes up rhymes<br />
<br />
I scribble<br />
She sketches<br />
Destroys evil witches<br />
<br />
I smile<br />
She kisses<br />
Away all my hits and misses<br />
<br />
I'm blessed<br />
She's here<br />
Living her wonder years<br />
<br />
This is no ordinary life<br />
It's our magic kingdom<br />
<br />
(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-68551704604009924692018-11-14T06:06:00.001-05:002018-11-14T06:07:06.533-05:00Patient and lonely<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My eldest<br />
The soul of this Enterprise<br />
Lies all alone in the darkness<br />
Away from all she loves<br />
She and I await<br />
The judgement yet to be passed<br />
<br />
I'm ashamed and ridden with guilt<br />
That it took me so much time<br />
To sense her pain<br />
As her stoic little heart<br />
Withstood the agony of neglect<br />
Wordlessly, and smiling<br />
<br />
The more I try to be that person<br />
The less of a Mother am I<br />
Women can truly have it all<br />
Just never at the same time<br />
<br />
And yet what I want outside of Motherhood<br />
Has forever eluded me<br />
The title, the wages<br />
Nothing but child's play to most<br />
Are a forever-out-of-reach carrot<br />
To this donkey<br />
<br />
I've no patience left<br />
Patience is what brought me here<br />
In the first place<br />
Put my head down and work they said<br />
Apparently that only applies to women<br />
And immigrants<br />
While the Trumps of this world<br />
Shall leave a lasting legacy behind<br />
Gloating over us lesser mortals<br />
With hard-won degrees and<br />
Award-worthy patience<br />
<br />
Time with her is what makes me<br />
Her love is what saves me<br />
She is all alone in the darkness<br />
How am I the lonely one?<br />
<br />
(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-62393228342787690362018-05-24T13:30:00.000-04:002018-05-24T13:30:03.676-04:00Poem: Frozen in Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here I go again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Waiting for the Big Thaw</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Watching a hive of activity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Beyond these walls of ice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Isn't a freeze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meant to preserve?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every passing moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Adds a new line t</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">o this wizened face</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Isn't a frost</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meant to be a balm a</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">gainst all feeling?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It deepens t</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he sting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like an acupuncture-gone-wrong</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shouldn't the ice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Conceal my heart?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It reveals to the world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Its every flaw</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here I go again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Defrosting slowly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Painfully</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As the universe softly burns</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Beyond these walls of ice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-4631596592238390462017-07-09T18:59:00.001-04:002017-07-09T19:15:57.867-04:00Poem: My Forever Best Friend<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In my lonely life</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You were my North Star </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">When all hope wandered away </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'd call </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And you answered</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well, mostly</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You never had the right words </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nor what I needed momentarily </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet you stood steadfast blinking </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">But never looking away, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Never shrinking </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I walked away many a times </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Frustrated, defeated, not knowing </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">How to be someone </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">That you might need </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet you never faded</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Were never gone too long</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You were not what I needed </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nor I someone who could ever fit in </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your world</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">But you were so much more</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You were my only friend</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You're not here now</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I'll cope</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm like that</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Disloyal, frivolous</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Painfully sensitive</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ardently caring</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">But you win</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You've forced </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your charming way</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Into being</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My forever (and only!)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best friend</span><br />
<br />
#jessisnomore #lifeafterjess</div>
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(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-62706419358523501172017-05-12T06:05:00.000-04:002017-05-12T06:08:47.825-04:00Poem: The Old Bungalow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
My mornings are spent
</div>
<div>
Defending critters from each other
</div>
<div>
And themselves
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The Redbird with its broken talon
</div>
<div>
The fat brown dove bullying its younger mate
</div>
<div>
The sparrows pecking at my marigold
</div>
<div>
Having words with the squirrel
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
I’m once again that little girl
</div>
<div>
Who roamed the grounds of that old bungalow
</div>
<div>
Playing out imaginary scenes
</div>
<div>
Rescuing critters who didn’t want to be rescued
</div>
<div>
When my life was this one long journey
</div>
<div>
I had yet to undertake
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
I hadn’t many friends I could call my own
</div>
<div>
Who wants to hang around Miss Goody Two Shoes?
</div>
<div>
And yet I had the best of childhoods
</div>
<div>
Thanks to that old bungalow
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Children will invent games if you’ll let them
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<div>
I tell the other mothers
</div>
<div>
As my little girl acts out complete scenes
</div>
<div>
From movies she recently watched
</div>
<div>
When her friends would rather play with each other
</div>
<div>
She doesn’t mind
</div>
<div>
She goes it alone, for several hours
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<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
She is nothing like me
</div>
<div>
And yet she is
</div>
<div>
We both learned or knew
</div>
<div>
How to be friends with solitude
</div>
<div>
Because we never are alone
</div>
<div>
When we have ourselves
</div>
<div>
And an old bungalow
</div>
<div>
Filled with critters
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
As a mother stands guard
</div>
<div>
To fill in the spaces</div>
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(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-40991994120012110192017-05-09T12:20:00.000-04:002017-05-09T12:20:28.869-04:00Poem: The Wait<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Patience is a virtue.<br />
So say the hapless victims<br />
Of that wicked siren<br />
Called Hope.<br />
<br />
In what must an Atheist<br />
Put her faith?<br />
In Hope?<br />
In all that is just and right?<br />
That sounds too much like<br />
Religion<br />
For her taste.<br />
<br />
How must a Romantic<br />
Defend her faith?<br />
With science and probability?<br />
Cause and effect?<br />
Or fact-based evidence?<br />
Where's the fun in that?<br />
<br />
Maybe the distraction of the debate<br />
Between her twin souls<br />
Is Patience after all!<br />
<br />
Well,<br />
At least it helps<br />
Keep her company<br />
As she waits.<br />
<br />
(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-31547547330709545972016-09-16T06:37:00.003-04:002017-05-09T12:20:42.332-04:00Poem: The Woman Entrepreneur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The journey of a million miles<br />
in pursuit of many lofty goals<br />
began with but a simple dream<br />
<br />
No tides no oceans no raging rivers<br />
no! these meandering waters<br />
fell in with the driver's theme<br />
<br />
I am done disrupting<br />
now I build an empire<br />
from what's left of a pile of rubble<br />
<br />
While you wonder if I could<br />
handle the machinery of trade<br />
here I am already starting trouble<br />
<br />
(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-31170824102199542972015-08-27T06:13:00.001-04:002015-08-27T06:13:37.988-04:00Poem: A Birthday Song<p style="border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My little angel<br>My Joan of Arc<br>My sweet Ariel<br>My Tony Stark</span></p><p style="border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of all their traits<br>You were made<br>Wit and beauty<br>Skill and staid<br>Sweetness, kindness<br>Beauty of heart<br>Bright and sassy<br>Too smart for art</span></p><p style="border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You are the wind<br>Beneath our wings<br>Unbending, undefeated<br>And inspiring<br>But best of all<br>My little one<br>You are you<br>When all's said and done</span></p><p style="border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A birthday full of gifts<br>Is par for the course<br>And my first is a promise<br>Of love of course<br>Whatever the outcome<br>Whatever the game<br>Whichever the battle<br>Or beast to tame<br>Your Dad & I will travel with you<br>Today and always</span></p><div>(C) VedicVerses</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-71450408014550950522015-04-03T04:02:00.001-04:002015-04-03T04:19:34.490-04:00Poem: Seeking a Friend for the End<h1 style="border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; outline: 0px;"><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lift me up <br>Lighten my load<br>Tell me we'll make it <br>To the end of this road</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">See the work I put in<br>To take it all in<br>Shield me from the judging<br>And the rest of the din</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Take me in your arms<br>Wrap me in them tight<br>Make me smile with your silliness<br>Tell me stories in the night</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This heart is so tortured<br>It needs your help to lighten up<br>People tell me don't be bitter<br>I'm not, I'm just fed up</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This soul is so defeated<br>It needs some loving care<br>People tell me I'm depressed<br>I'm not, but I'm getting there</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This smile is so wan<br>It needs a reason to exist<br>People say I'm closed to suggestion<br>I'm not, I'm just dealing with this</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This spirit is all I have<br>A weak and fading light<br>People say I'm defeated<br>I'm not, I've got plenty of fight</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm seeking a friend for the end<br>I'm seeking a kindred soul<br>I'm asking for an atom not a mountain<br>A tiny spot of sunshine to make me whole</span></p></h1><div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-69784231794534972012015-01-24T17:41:00.001-05:002015-01-24T17:48:20.643-05:00Poem: (She Doesn't Know)<h1 style="border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; outline: 0px;"><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There's a cloud over my head</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Deathlier than any sword</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Silver lining or not</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Its louder than a raging storm</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I have no God to offer her</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My faith is in my love for her</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But some days I love me more</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some days I cannot save her</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I break out in cold sweat</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She sleeps softly)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I whisper her name in the dark</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She's snoring now)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I rub the sleep from my eyes</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She's waking there)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hold her close in my arms</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She gives me a kiss)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I lie awake long after</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stoking the resentment I sometimes feel</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then she chuckles in her sleep</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And I fall deep into my own guilt</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Was it my doing and its consequence?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or the queer workings of happenstance?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this way do I get my comeuppance?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Planted seed, sowed this circumstance?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All I can do is await the day</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Try to predict the outcome</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How will she judge me in some future there?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Worse than I do in this present here?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(She doesn't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do I tell you of this coming fate?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(You don't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Smiling you will embrace the day</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(You don't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As they take you away to 'heal'</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(You don't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Will I watch trust's demise in your eyes?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(You don't know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't think less of me my little one</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(I hope you know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'd take your place if I could</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(I hope you know) </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't judge too harshly when time is come</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(I hope you know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Black though my deeds, my heart is good</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(I hope you know)</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">© VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</span></div></h1><div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-14473687082978883232015-01-08T11:54:00.001-05:002015-01-08T12:08:21.585-05:00Poem: Your Prejudice<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Keep your prejudice</span></div><div>In a time capsule</div><div>Bury it deep</div><div>For progeny, you fool</div><div><br></div><div>Open your eyes</div><div>To the damage you do</div><div>To self, to us</div><div>Who must endure you</div><div><br></div><div>You complain</div><div>Of injustice done</div><div>In ancient times</div><div>When battles could be won</div><div><br></div><div>Who will survive</div><div>Humanity's downfall</div><div>When a mere atom</div><div>Can obliterate all?</div><div><br></div><div>An apocalypse stirs</div><div>Beneath shallow tinder pools</div><div>Hate is a spark</div><div>In the hands of fools</div><div><br></div><div>Keep your prejudice</div><div>In a time capsule</div><div>And if it is unearthed</div><div>We'll have survived you</div><div><br></div><div>#jesuischarlie</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8qK6W69p2tMU2nU5xQijz3szTsc9_0W0o5IS3zEjMQRdXZj3ZgFc6AiJz1cm4wC5BftdXy_rQYhc20vHURfZE2qP8zZlRo_4MGWB5SAMdQmMaumRRex4PeVv251boiBQdjrbSyg/s640/blogger-image--1499721813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I look at your Instagram<br>I reach out<br>My fingers find a cold screen<br>At the end of their journey<br>I want to know the back-story<br>I'd ask but<br>I'm too afraid to break the code<br>Is there one?<br>I've often wondered</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your pictures weave a beautiful story<br>More beautiful than my feeble attempts<br>Story-telling is such a magical gift<br>Poetry is merely gilded<br>Emotional barfing<br>I've been bulimic<br>For so long<br>I've forgotten<br>What its like to be full</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I stumble upon words<br>My vocabulary is accidental<br>Its the reason I thought<br>I'd take up photography<br>And I've been hash-tagging my way<br>Along, since then,<br>On my Instagram</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But my prison has a limited view<br>There are only so many pictures<br>I can take<br>Of that beautiful sky<br>And its lonely gulls<br>This place has just 2 seasons<br>Worth shooting</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But your Instagram<br>Breathes and bounces<br>It has a life of its own<br>You make even a lonely<br>Telephone pole<br>Seem alluring</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've had a good run<br>My life has been full<br>Of its own little magic<br>But its dull now<br>My attempts at coloring it<br>Seem almost desperate<br>I wonder... if I had your skill...<br>I wonder if I could<br>Instagram my life around</span></div>
(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-77112606146104737472014-12-09T23:21:00.002-05:002014-12-09T23:36:36.293-05:00Poem: My promise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I like it when its quiet<br />
I’m allowed it<br />
A few minutes everyday<br />
Its quiet without<br />
But there’s a din within<br />
Being hard on myself is easy<br />
Jumping up on a pedestal<br />
Only a little more work<br />
Accepting the simple plausible truth<br />
Staring back at me from the mirror<br />
Somehow, is a hike<br />
<br />
Always, I waited<br />
For them to leave<br />
And my heart bled<br />
Till it could bleed no more<br />
Yet I was lucky<br />
For they left in time<br />
But not this time<br />
He is sticking it out<br />
How this will end<br />
Is anybody’s guess<br />
I wait and watch<br />
As that weather-beaten organ<br />
Continues to bleed dry<br />
<br />
Do I dare hope?<br />
Is that love in the shadows?<br />
Waiting for me<br />
Waiting for our chance<br />
To arrive finally<br />
Or does it get ready?<br />
To buckle its shoes and run<br />
It needn’t go far<br />
It is already out of reach<br />
<br />
Someday my sweet darling<br />
You and I will be the queens<br />
Of a quiet little villa on a beautiful hill<br />
In a faraway sunny place<br />
With white wide verandahs<br />
Through which cool breeze dances<br />
Under a hot sun<br />
In the shade of some humble tree<br />
<br />
And I will set you up to win<br />
In every way<br />
In life, in love<br />
At work and at play<br />
Yours will be my final victory<br />
Snatched from the jaws of defeat<br />
By my poor weather-beaten heart<br />
<br />
This, I promise you<br />
<br />
(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-27954739699864987062014-08-27T06:21:00.001-04:002014-12-09T23:36:47.882-05:00Poem: Two Lifes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've lived my life in two parts:</div>
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The one that came before you</div>
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Lived as if I had forever</div>
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To unwrap, unpackage</div>
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Me, my only endeavor</div>
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It was a wicked time, of much derring-do</div>
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And then there was you</div>
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Making me work harder</div>
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Than I had ever done</div>
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Even before you were conceived</div>
<div>
Little one</div>
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Making me want to live</div>
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For a higher purpose</div>
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The pursuit of me giving way</div>
<div>
To a love so utterly selfless</div>
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This year of my new life I've lived</div>
<div>
From one smile to the next</div>
<div>
Measuring my worth</div>
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By every tear you shed</div>
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My life now full of</div>
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The comfort of soft little hands</div>
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The buzz from tinkling little laughs</div>
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The tickles from snorty little chuckles</div>
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The little growls when you're in that mood</div>
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The cuteness fix from you mimicking Harley</div>
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Stolen kisses while you dream your dreams</div>
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Life couldn't get better than this!</div>
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(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-13342127621733542392014-03-05T18:23:00.001-05:002014-03-05T18:23:16.411-05:00Poem: Evenings are for regret<div>Evenings are for regret</div><div>Loathsome feelings emerge</div><div>From something vile bubbling beneath</div><div>The tired aching earth</div><div><br></div><div>Evenings are to forget</div><div>The million smiles given freely</div><div>Bazillion hugs taken </div><div>From that selfish innocent</div><div><br></div><div>Evenings make me lament</div><div>Another day lost to little jobs</div><div>That pay nothing, not even satisfaction</div><div>At a job well done, for it's got to be done again</div><div><br></div><div>Mornings are my friends</div><div>I wake up to her laughter</div><div>It washes over me</div><div>Rids me of the filthy remnants</div><div>Of last evening's slovenly regret</div><div><br></div><div>(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-72818517006902667132014-02-05T22:31:00.001-05:002014-02-05T22:43:15.706-05:00Poem: Choice<div>Love what you have</div><div>Love who you are</div><div>Make a little room</div><div>In your soul</div><div>For the world around you</div><div>Cherish this time</div><div>It won't come back</div><div>The future can wait</div><div>That is it's purpose</div><div><br></div><div>Hate what you have</div><div>Be your own worst enemy</div><div>Lose what you have</div><div>In pursuit of a wild eyed dream</div><div>Chase the future</div><div>Ignore your present</div><div>For if tomorrow comes</div><div>You'll be your only friend</div><div><br></div><div>There's a choice to make</div><div><br></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-23737253680404264212013-10-15T17:30:00.001-04:002013-10-15T17:31:39.713-04:00Poem: Babe<p style="border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Loves to keep me on my toes<br>What she's thinking no one knows<br>Gives me smiles that make my heart melt<br>Her crying does to me stuff I've never felt<br>Holds my finger tight in her little hands<br>I try to teach her to turn, but she's ready to stand<br>Grabs my hair in her little fists<br>Hers is the sweetest face I've ever kissed<br>Boy! Has she got that pout down<br>When it comes to fake tears, she'll laugh every 'ol croc out of town</span></p><p style="border: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin: 12px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These sleepless nights, those painful weeks<br>Those achy days of changing messy leaks<br>Wish they were fewer? Yes of course I do!<br>But one more thing I'd say too..<br>My unpredictable babe, my treasure, my little gift<br>You're the only reason for life and everything in it</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-47071477411431334042013-08-14T16:01:00.000-04:002013-08-14T16:01:15.489-04:00Poem: Forgotten<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Lost my edge?<br />
Lost my nerve?<br />
Lost the will<br />
Or just my verve?<br />
<br />
Had a goal<br />
Stayed the path<br />
Then explain<br />
This sorry start<br />
<br />
Not a start<br />
A fork in the road<br />
Leading away<br />
From my other half<br />
<br />
Never been this forgotten<br />
This faded away<br />
This insignificant<br />
Didn't think I'd see this day<br />
<br />
The half that is new<br />
Is hard-won too<br />
But should it compel me<br />
To let the other half go?<br />
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Questions there always are<br />
And always will be<br />
But I used to have answers<br />
There was an oracle in me<br />
<br />
Who am I?<br />
Where do I go?<br />
Once this sabbatical is done<br />
What will I know?<br />
<br />
O help! despair<br />
There's no place for you<br />
I may be forgotten<br />
But I'm needed too<br />
<br />
Give me strength<br />
And sweet hope to spare<br />
I'll know where I am<br />
When I get there<br />
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(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-388816606331219622013-02-14T18:22:00.001-05:002013-02-14T18:25:59.165-05:00Poem: My Sweet ValentineGo where you will<br />
Fly, fly away<br />
I will borrow wings<br />
To fly with you<br />
<br />
Be who you will<br />
Find, find yourself<br />
I will be you for a day<br />
To watch you grow<br />
<br />
Feel what you will<br />
Share, share your dreams<br />
I will be a sponge<br />
To live the world through your senses<br />
<br />
Do your worst<br />
Show, show the naysayers<br />
I will be strong<br />
To be your shield against their blows<br />
<br />
Fall all you will<br />
Glide, glide on a sweet breeze<br />
I will be a giant pillow<br />
To catch you <br />
<br />
Be more than I'll ever be<br />
Be less than I ever was<br />
Live for you<br />
Love for you<br />
Sing your own songs<br />
Walk your own path<br />
<br />
You are what I dreamed I'd be one day<br />
Mine is an endless selfish love<br />
And it will never fail you<br />
My little one<br />
<br />
(C) VedicVerses<br />
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-71865177134375356332012-10-05T17:42:00.000-04:002013-02-15T05:30:02.805-05:00Poem: Love yourselfThe heart is generous<br />
Love fills it to the brim<br />
The heart is made for love <br />
After all<br />
<br />
And love's not wasted<br />
When the world is full of things<br />
To care for<br />
<br />
A mother who's more than motherhood<br />
A friend, a foe and everything in between<br />
A father who's the first man<br />
You ever kissed on the cheek<br />
And hoped that every man that followed<br />
Lived up to at least a shadow of the man<br />
<br />
A sister who was always there<br />
Even if just to fight<br />
Caring in a way, only sisters can<br />
Promising to lend even her soul<br />
If ever you were in need of one<br />
<br />
All the quiet loving friends<br />
Who never let on how much you've meant<br />
And for how long<br />
Not knowing how it might've helped<br />
When you struggled through life's little battles<br />
<br />
All those unfortunate princes<br />
Who weren't quite the white knights<br />
Not for you in any event<br />
Plunging that knife, deeper,<br />
In an ever bleeding heart<br />
Than all the evil queens in the world<br />
<br />
And that final fortunate prince<br />
Who stole your heart when you challenged him<br />
And stole it for life<br />
<br />
All the gentle, mute, mischievous children<br />
Siblings, friends and strangers in need<br />
Of the animal kind<br />
<br />
So many to love, who loved<br />
A busy journey for the heart<br />
I'm sure<br />
Strange that you forgot to enjoy<br />
The lightness being busy brings<br />
<br />
So I wonder in the end<br />
Did you forget to love yourself?<br />
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(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-65783179476325628182012-08-18T19:24:00.003-04:002012-08-18T19:24:37.776-04:00Poem: The List<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Remember the milk...<br />
... Remember to heal<br />
From all the insignificant hurts<br />
They are only a fraction of how you feel<br />
Remember to sow<br />
All that you want to reap<br />
Remember to grow<br />
Remember to keep<br />
Sleep on a thought<br />
You think in haste<br />
Remember not to let<br />
A loving impulse go waste<br />
Be true to yourself<br />
Remember to smile<br />
Remember your heart<br />
When the mind's gone on for a while<br />
Remember you have<br />
A place in this world<br />
Someone else is that other person<br />
Remember to be your own girl<br />
Life is too short<br />
And slippery as silk<br />
Remember that little one...<br />
Oh! and remember the milk!<br />
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(c) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9592287.post-34148568424330670682012-04-20T07:46:00.001-04:002012-04-20T07:46:56.958-04:00Poem: LostToo weary to move<br />
Too intimidated to try<br />
My own choices<br />
Brought me here<br />
But where's here?<br />
I'm so lost!<div class="blogger-post-footer">(C) VedicVerses (Rucha Gokhale)</div>VedicVerseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04957973768964010038noreply@blogger.com1