The Falling Maples- Living Unconditionally- Poetry by S.S

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Distances be of miles, Or separation be of a hundred seas, All we need is the love filled smiles, And our inner-self would be at ease; Thou know the pain of seeking, So do I, The sought is to be kept from wrings, And from the sorrows' prying eyes; Dilemma stands no chance, Perplexities meant to be omitted, When two souls dance together in love trance, With joys, the ardor's delights must be greeted; What are distances? Some extended lengths and breadths! And what is love? It is two bodies, one soul and rhythmic breaths.............

(c) Shilpa Sandesh A story I am, Written in you, Your destiny I am, With a love that's true, This wide blue spread, Ahead of me, Is You, an enormous eye, An eye that sees all, knows all, Which fathoms my rise and fall, Like the moon and the celestial orbs, These waters stand as my holy book, "Oh the immense enchanting blue, My destiny awaits its impending due, For ages this soul has fluttered helplessly, Taking the fate's blows endlessly, But I see now my rising Sun, It's rays soothing the fate's burns, I would stand here forevermore, My feet glued to the seraphic shore, Let me hold the sight of thee, As I repose, as the Iris of my sea".

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Walking on the sand, Leaving behind the footprints, I pray, "Don't get washed away, For I await to see his foot prints, Along mine, And I shall find you, Here by my side.... "

(c) Shilpa Sandesh A weakness so beauteous, That a blessed can only get, A charm, an enchantment, And my soul, Would merry be, "let the earth, Bloom with glee, Into a witch I must turn, Mantras I would chant, Spells I would cast, And mine forever, My Wizard shall be " And then at peace, My innerself would be.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh We need no words, Material can't enslave us, Expressions are all, That we belong to, For our verses speak for us, I remember, When we first met, Poetry and magic, And so it is, My another poesy, For you....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Faith, my beloved, Is all our ethereal bond, Pleads for, Faith, my beloved, Is all that the miles, Crave for; The glitters and glints, Have been there ever since, But none has the power, To claim my senses, Ages are bygone, Ages would pass, My love and devotion, Remain unchanged ; I have left, And would leave, All that's fake, Or hinders our path, You claimed me births ago, And till eternity, I shall be yours........ 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I stepped on a piece of heaven today, The blissful blue shores, I sought your glimpse, In the dimming rays, Waves after waves, Made love with the Sands, But what was that shrill! Oh and I realized, It was the scream of your soul, Being one with my soul's, The pain of missing danced all over, While our distances rejoiced, We stepped further close to each other, In spirits, In love..... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh In the envelope of destiny, With a delight's abundant abyss, Is sealed a beauteous bliss; Like the corals, the raptures of the sea, Bathed in ardor's unique euphoria, Are sealed a thousand kisses; In your chest, resides my soul, With the meaning of my being, Is sealed my whole self; In my verses, With the scattered words, Are sealed my dreams of you, My innumerable wishes..........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Neither by the waves, Nor by the winds, Nor by the Tides, Or the substantial glints, She got swept away, By love....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh The enchantment of love, Dwells not only in sweet talks, Or the long delightful walks, It nests, In the sufferings and dolor, Which spreads the anguished colors, Only to strengthen the bond, While even in the throes, The two souls, smile together....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh They spoke and laughed, Living the moments life gave them, Like the dew drops on the morning grass, Their giggles embellish, The momentary togetherness; " Mine, I have some imperfections, Unseen and yet to be known to you, But afraid I am, learning those maculations, Like all good, you would leave me too" She says, "My love is not a slave, to any fraility or excellence, Imperfections are mere adornments, On a string of too much of perfections, You are the most precious gem I have, My soul is in your soul's obedience"

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And the dusk falls again, Bearing the dark clouds, Ready to pour down the impassioned rain; Reposing by the window, Sighs she, counting the nights and days, Striving to advance the clock ticking slow; Moon be the only solace, For her luck is seas apart, And the destiny has a mired pace; Strong are the peripherals of perseverance, Constituting a delightful wait, Soon they shall savour, the sweet fruit of forbearance; The setting sun marks, That she is a step closer, And they would step in the ardor's transcendental arc; The impatient heart and patient mind's brawl, So the musing deepens,  As the dusk falls again....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh A celibate heart, A beaming smile, Truth in his eyes, The sole reprise, When this heart cries, Where the transparency rules, The togetherness for infinite miles, When the missing kills, And every solitary second, Repose like a year, That is, What every woman wants, What every man wishes for, in love And so my beloved, You are mine, And forever, I am yours................

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Like the rays of the morning Sun, Crashing through the atmosphere, To enlighten the Elysian sky, You, my beloved, Steadily made your way, Into my barren life, It is just a material fact, That our meeting, Is the current birth's act, But the destiny of the souls, Is written not just for a birth, But all, Days and years and births, I was frozen in your love, And it is the flames of your touch, That shall melt me at last............

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And this shall be the aisle, In the white frills she would walk, At the altar he would wait, With his right arm spread, to hold hers, Gazing the beauty from heaven, Traipse, Reaching the tabernacle of clouds, Penning with her steps, Their eternal love lore................

A tingle of zeal's delight, Lingers on my tongue, And my senses rise to fervor's height, Into the colours of purple Tyrian, A tannin sourness,  And the melliferous hint of your breaths, The berries' saccharine sweetness, Lifting my soul, from the material depths, Your flavours capture my pneuma, Snatching me from my existence, My conscious drowns in the dilemma, And the desires lose their perseverance, Is it my first sip of the wine, Or is it my first kiss?                           ~S.S ~

Beneath the spring nights, Guarded by the angels and the stars, Lets make love, Hidden in the fields, Of the majestic wildflowers; Unseen from the world, Cloaked in the wooded night, Disguised, As the God and Goddess of the twilight, Lets be one, Where to the tunes of the wind, Dance, the glorious wildflowers; My hands in yours, Writing a resplendent love lore, Fingers entwined, Lets be nestled in each others embrace, Near the Eden's shores, Sequestered in the moorland, Of the charming wildflowers............                        ~ S.S ~

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I am flying high in love, Gliding as fast as my wings could flutter, Striding with all the haste I could, Riding on the waves, I am, My love, Coming to you.... Be not in any dilemma, I plead doubt me not my soul, For there then would be a storm, And swells would be so high, I won't be able to walk, And I won't be able to fly, I want to reach you, My love....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I giveth pain, Pain I shalt bear, I giveth sorrow, Sorrow I shalt get, I liveth seeking, Thy love. Thy trust, Broken canst be it, For it hast not a coarse crust, Thou recieveth hurt, I recieveth pain, I be the one, Who shalt recieveth both, I craveth for thy smile, Thou shalt be my magic, Thou be my words, Thou be my voice, And so I pen my verse...................

(c) Shilpa Sandesh My companion for life, As you marked your presence, In my barren existence, My being changed, What was this long futile, Now became worthwhile, Never for an instant can I live, Without your words, Without your verse, Without the magic you infuse, In all that I pen for you; Our bond, It is like a swan's love, You, my Wiz, Are my definition, I am your swan, You be the only love I have, The only I had, The only I would have, A tear of yours, And my heart would break, And I shall pass....come back to me!

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Oh mine, Last night, We took a wrong flight, I wept for you, Wanted to hold you tight, But you refused to forgive, And stood out of my sight, Oh love, you're a part of me, I crave to walk with you, Day and night, So forgive me........please Oh mine, You're my soul's delight, My heart resides in you, I can feel your pain, But don't be sad no more, For I will row our boat, Back to our fervor's shore, Oh love, you're a part of me, I yearn to be at your side, Day and night, So forgive me........please And my heart's it's crying loud, Do you hear the howling soul, I can't see you like this, And it pains to be the one, The one who be the reason, For your sorrow........ Oh mine, You're the sweetest nectar, I am yours, So forgive me.......please

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Tonight, I looked into the mirror, Mirror I detest the most, The more I fear, more it whispers, And I stood aghast, I am the ugliest of the ugly souls, For I am an accused, Convicted by this night, For having troubled a gem, My gem, Tonight, I spoke to the spirits, "Cometh o wicked spirits, Feast on my bones and flesh, Drink my blood, Strangle my breaths, I serve myself to you all, But spare my beloved, No tear shalt drop, From those divine eyes, No pain shalt pierce, His seraphic heart, Dig into my chest, A thousand daggers, Let me bleed, Let me.... " Close your eyes will you, Oh mine, I love you truly, These are not just the words, Trust me my beloved, Yours I am till eternity, Yours I have always been, Let the demons punish me, If for your sorrows, Ever I reason be........ 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh First night, Without thy words, There shalt be no sleep, I would be the cactus, Awaiting for the rain, That be you.... .. 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh It's hard to hear, When you say I am, Not trustworthy anymore, My body trembles, I may not live to say, "Please don't go away!"....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Tears, Welling up in the eyes, Refusing to spill, The voice so heavy, Like a burden on the throat, Let her imprison herself, And till the end, She shalt rot....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh A fish, It has been doomed, By it's own wrong strides, And then it swooned, In the fate's outrageous tides, To seek apologies, Have been like taking breaths, Washed away were its ideologies, To be in water it dreads, Devoid of its fins, It has no choice, Neither can it swim, Nor can it cry with a howling voice, To be in blue, Or to stay on the land, It wonders what's true, Or is it its pride's end, May be it would live, If it bends on its knees, And before it takes the last dive, It would ask for apologies............

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I am not superhuman, Neither am I deific, But for ye, my love, I have the power of flight, To escape the fiercest blows, As I leap from seas to seas, To reach thy Heavenly shores; We are connected, I see the truth, thou hast known too, 'Ts the love, of thee and I, I see the fairy fly, In the evenings of warm summers, The magical wings refract, The ambrosial Sun's light, The sheen spreads enclosing me, In a spectacular chimerical sight; Wings, Wings, I have wings, Oh, and I can fly, To fall in love with you, Was to be reborn, I will nurture the delightful dreams, In the ocean's depths as a nymph, And I shall take to the air, When with me, ye shalt be closer; Sigh, I gather all the transcendental sway, And rise up, My phase of celestial metamorphosis, Fluttering my newly owned wings, In thy garden, On that rose, I shall stay, And there thou shalt come, To hold me in your palms, For 'ts thy touch, That would chan

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And he's dejected, But she knows not why, His soul is in her embedded, And so her heart's too shrieking high, She would cure his saddened self, And so she pleads, "Oh mine, mine forever, To thee I belong forever, Shine upon me, With your cherubic smile, Or I would be lifeless, In this journey of miles, Tell me oh mine, What I ought to do, For not being able to relieve your sorrow, Is my biggest crime, So let me punish, The reason of it all, Without your happiness, I am nothing, Nothing I am........... "

You be the God of the Dusk, I, the Goddess of the Dawn, Feasting on the stars and the rays, Blessed by the Sun and the Moon, Afloat in the ethereal spheres, Adorned in the celestial robes, And so shall we meet, As we brush past, When the Night transforms into the Day......... (c) S.S

(c) Shilpa Sandesh You are the air I breathe, You are the beats of this heart, You are the lyrics of my songs, You are the expressions in my Odes, You are my muse, You are the seven colours of the rainbow, And because you love me, I am blessed, And I am yours.......... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Sweet are the existences, the spiritual and the human, The creator sculpts a frame out of sand, This life and the glitters around are mere illusion, At the end, all have to travel to a mystic land, Sorrows are but the fundamentals of happiness, For none wouldeth fathom it's true allusion, As 'ts the drops of misery that harness, The truest sweetness of the agony's and joy's fusion, To liveth 's to paint the wishes and hopes, Onto the canvas of benevolence and love, But as the woes and tribulations crop, The faith flies away like a nomadic dove, 'Ts and 't wouldeth be the actuality of life, Mind and heart, wouldeth be forever, in an endless strife....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh He hath strolled forth into the woods of dreams, Some smiles were a delight, But nightmarish were those screams, She shalt connect, 'twas her mulishness, 'T hath been a seeking, in the sardine thickets, With tears welling, she began her search, "Oh mine, where be thou, You left me stranded, in the material glow", Her every tear, sent a message of missing, Her heart suffered, a zillion stings, "Say one word, my dearest, Came I seeking, but lost I am, in these visionary forests" And she stumbles upon a sleeping frame, "Oh what relief! 'Ts my beloved, dreaming still...."

(c) Shilpa Sandesh The most benign form of existence in Nature, Is to convey to Humanity, The divinity in nature's and colours' fervor, And so was created by the Almighty, The immortal colours in Rainbow, And when I consume each colour, With my expressionless eyes, I see none, But you, Like the God's most magnificent creation, Striding forth, with the steps of zeal, Across the embers in the rays of the Sun, Crossing the oceans of immeasurable depths, All of this, just for me....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh What are you for me? What does your existence means to me? Why is every string of my breath, tied to yours? Well, my beloved, You are for me, A pristine essence, That magically binds the colours of my verses, With, The elements of Nature; In your eyes I see the black storms of ardor, Beautifying the twilight, My verses enveloped, in a starry night; In your smile I see the purest white gleam, Unspoken confessions, My verses sheathed in divine glitters; In your words, I see the whole blue sky, A thousand blessings, My verses wear your eternal glaze; In your laughs, I see the green tumultuous seas, Drenching me in it's perennial zeal, My verses bathing in the incessant swells; And this be my epitome, Of my love for you, And your pristine being for me.........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Mine.... Do you know, Which is my most heavenly moment? When the air is filled, With our laughter, A laughter on sweet nothings; Those dual meaning dialogues! Oh, those, Such a heap of delight, When all that I wish, Is to bug you and tease you, And that is when you are panicked, The obvious reasons of which, Are known to you!  I saw you yesterday, A chequered shirt, Dashing I must say! I am sure you are smiling your heart out, But this soul, all it wants to, Is to flatter you aloud; My life is like a story, Penned out of imaginations, Where I am the writer, Who imagines and assumes, A divine existence, And being with you, Are you reading this my Wizard? Because if you are, You would know, My endless confessions, And what t's to be mad in love!

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Like the smiles, Like the sorrows, Like the life's journey of miles, Where no one can fathom tomorrows; Wishes are the catalysts of joys; Not just I, but all have lived, Their share of miserable moments, But some refuse to crib, And rather infuse the dreams' atonement; Wishes become the impetus of jubilance; Years have bygone, Years would come, Some would be forlorn, Some delightful, like the beaming Sun; I wish for plentiousness in success, I wish for bountiful joys, Where happiness knows every soul's address, And bliss, in every heart shall poise; And as for me: I wish to see him, Every night in my dreams, To be his reasons to rejoice, when happiness goes dim, And to enlighten his life with my endless love's sheen.........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh A white sheet of paper I am, Write your verse on me, A canvas unpainted, Colour me in red and blue and hues, I am the clay, Be my sculptor, Mold me in the most alluring shape, I am the flute, Let your lips play, The most magnificent tune, The tune of Divinity in Love, And while you consume, These Fragments of my dreams, Let me envision some more moments, Of our togetherness' gleam.....

Moments, Days, Years and decades, Who knows how much has been lived, Or how much is yet to be, But truth lies still, That realisation and foreboding, Steps in a conscious that's tranquil; And so my premonitions come to life; I seek no fame, But to be lost in his tears and his smiles, I accept no blame, But a resolution to walk with him, for miles; My soul is clear like a crystal, Emitting the seven colours, Even beneath the fate so miserable, My foresightedness never goes blur; Material is not all that it takes, To nurture a long sought love, But it is the faith That makes it capable to rise above; Be not sad, Let not the soul loose its calm, Imagine us in the lands snow-clad, When I shall be in your arms; And this be the picture, Of our cherubic path, Togetherness in spirits in the lap of Nature, Forgetting our destiny's wrath............. (c) S.S

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Winter breeze I welcome thee, Fantasies on a frolicking spree, Wilderness of the passionate souls, And the solitude's inconsolable sighs, The desires soaring unfathomable highs, You are like a Greek God, Who emerges from the Myths, Once in a blue moon, Leaving the hearts in delightful croons, But choosing only the one, The one, That benign soul, Which shall be blessed, With your divine touch, Oh but autumn's here, I be the tree shedding its material sheath, Preparing to be covered, In your cherubic gleam, And soon we shalt be the history, A chapter of a legendary lore.........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Of the witches and the crystals, The fairies and the wands, To the powers and endowments, The inner self is bound, All thing's spiritual, Spiritual forms all, Joviality shalt rise, And the doom shalt fall, What lies above, Lies beneath, The love I carry for thou, Shalt be enduring and immortal, For t's, My Soul's call.........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Whether the alluring lands of Camelot, Surrounded by forests, Adorned by rivers; Or The beautiful Eden, Compassed with fruit sheathed trees, Riding the lions and tigers; Or The shimmering El Dorado, Like a Holy Grail, From which flows the gold; Or The Gorgeous valleys of Shangri-La, Writing the Nature's Odes, As immortal as the lives itself; My Beloved Wizard, A place would be this beauteous, Ceaseless would be the enchantments, Only, If You are with me.................

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Circumambient with Dedodars, Pines and Chinars, Satiating my thirst, For a magical sight, Breaking all bounds, Of enchantment and lure, The snow clad mounts, Your existence conquers all that is pure; A crystal, At a distant upland, Spreads its prominence, A mystic galore, Oh but what be these walls, Averting my progression, I can see nothing, Neither can I touch, And soon the realisation was such, I never stood where I thought I was, In the crystal, I was entrapped, Suddenly startled and aghast, Brooding over the past, I am waiting here, Ensnared, For you, To save me, From the clutches of the Unknown................

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Neither with brush strokes, Of hatching or scumbling or the gazing, Nor with colours in oil or water, Paint me with your words, With your verses, And your Odes, Let pen be your brush, And lyrics be your colours, And thus, Adorn my being, Paint me as You see me, Or paint me as I am...............

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Capturing my giggles and grins, Adorning my heart with celestial gleam, Are your laughs, your smiles, And your transcendental beam; Are you born a human? Or are you an angel in disguise? Whatever it is, that you are, In you, My soul finds reprise...........