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

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Glorified is my morning, As the most beautiful flowers, Caressed my ears, as I opened my eyes, I heard your voice, Prepossessing and mesmeric, Was it an illusion? Was it for actual? How I wish to be adorned, In the most handsome voice in this universe, Only my heart knows, It is like a leaf, Falling softly on the earth, As the earth curls up coyly; Like a nectar, The drops of which, fall one after the other, Bathing the damsel's skin; Like a shooting star, Filling the humble heart, With wishes to win him forever; Like a string of precious pearls, Delicately embellished, Around a marble figurine; Like.... And my soul begins to yearn, For the moment, When thy voice shall fondle my ears, For real........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh The earth halted, Winds were still, Sea calmed, The aura was tranquil, Such is the scenario, That prevails, Inside of me, Engrossed I am,  In his saccharine desires, The desires made beauteous, With lips and kisses, With fingers and caresses, And I am still afloat, In thy amorous territory, Where your breaths sheathe my frame, And my hair, envelop yours, Such is the enchantment, Of thy expressions of love....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh My beloved, The Moon spoke to me last night, For it could fathom my inner-self, My heart's and mind's strife, "Why do you love him?"And I said, "I know, Oh celestial King, He who calls me his beloved, Sends through You, a wish, A wish to know, Why I love him? Then carry forth my message, Through the East winds, I love thee, For I see you, as a reflection of me, With you governing my being, I can survive, even without air to breathe, Believing that you would hold my hand, Saving me from every fall, I can walk with eyes closed, Not worrying that I would stumble, I love thee,  Because I know, The sacredness of these three words........"

(c) Shilpa Sandesh What is the sweetest anticipation? A humming bug,  Seeking to absorb the nectar, From the most luscious flower; A cold winter gust, Waiting to caress the earth, To be one with its warmth; A crystal flake of snow, Impatient to kiss the terrain, And melt in its embrace; The most saccharine anticipation, Is to be able to see you, In front of me, And live all that our dreams be........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh When my beloved contemplates, My heart skips a beat, "What may thou be ruminating, May be about the wildflowers, May be the tulip fields, May be the pouring rains, May be,,,,," I wonder, I truly do, Anticipating to read thy words, Such honeycoated lyrics, That each expression,  Settles in my eyes, And melts in my soul, Sweetening my entire self, And making my existence whole.........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh For a moment, I felt my wings cut, For a moment, I felt the earth crack, Absorbing me in the dungeons, For a moment, My eyes went blind, They couldn't see anymore, For a moment, My hands were benumbed, I couldn't pen a word, And then, The storm lapsed, And I could see the light once again, Striking through the darkest tunnels, I saw you, I saw you, Mine........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Hear, The falling of the rain, As it, Drizzles in my terrain, Savor the majestic sight of the rainbow, It's reflection, saved in my eyes, Drenched I am, My dripping frame coils, As you command the winds, To blow, Sending me into chilling shivers, I fathom, this delightful plot is yours, For only my soaked self would know, What is the warmth, Of thy eternal embrace........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I heard a faint whisper ask, "What to you is my semblance?" Dearest divine image, If you see the moon, Shining in it's most glorious gleams, If you see the Sun, Blazing in warmest impassioned beam, If you see the meteors, Fall endlessly from the silken sky, If you hear the hummingbird, Humming the most melodious song, And If you see my aura, Every day and night, Mine, if I may call you so, All this happens every moment, You step out of the four walls, Into the brighter streets, This is how the Universe glitters, And this is how dances the world, It is that glimpse of yours, It is your sweet semblance.....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Beneath the glistening Moon, And the brilliant stars, I raise my hand to the rains, Your heart is mine, I claim, If the power of Nature be true, So is then my soul, That exists to submit to you, Illusions are turning real, Never fathomed, it could be so, But here I stand now, Holding the dreams in my hands, Waiting to offer them to you.......

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Like a feather, Wishing to be blown, By the wind, A gust, I sought for so long, Here it is, I can feel the breeze, As it is, picking up its pace, Here it is, I can feel my hair sway, And dance to the tunes, Of that otherworldly whisk, The wind says I am gold, And I feel tears roll, Tracing down my cheeks, I wonder what they whisper, 'Thank you my dearest' That is all I can hear........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh When you lay your eyes on me, All that my soul says is, " Let me for now, Blush into scarlet, I cannot look back, Into thy eyes, Let me for now, Shy coyly, Let me for now, Submit to those illusions, Let me for now, Unlatch the door, For I see you, Reposing, On the other side, With unwoven dreams, And sweet anticipations, Think not, Open thy arms, And absorb me in thy warmth........."

And the ticking clock says, Twilight is here, But least does it know, That the breeze has changed, I feel awake, with the rising of the moon, And my poetic soul rejuvenates, Refusing to give in to the night, Declining to bow and swoon, What are you? Aeolus or Zephyrus? I am bathing in the winds, Winds which do not belong here, But yet, belong to me, As the inner me gently shies, My eyes are still drowned, in your  unseen smile......... (c) S.S 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh, The sound of rain, The blowing winds, Thunders, Beethoven's symphony, And us, Penning our verses, In a dark winter night, Warm, in front of a bonfire, What else would my soul ever ask for!

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Words can be beauteous, More than I could recognize, As I see them now, like tender buds, Opening delicately,  Splashing upon my soul, A galaxy of endless expressions, Dearest, I can write, now and every passing moment, My voice and my inner-self, Those sweet confessions, He fathoms, I know, And I so adore, The playful innocence....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh A magnificent mind, And a dazzling soul, The words that make me, Feel sublimely whole, Such is the aura, Of the unseen, The unheard, The theme, That the two hearts sing, The lyrics of one another,  only they can fathom, Two existences, Two lives, And thoughts imprisoned, By a magical sphere, While I form its half, You complete the rest, A delightful connection, Locked gracefully, in an enchanting chest, Only to be unlocked, When the eyes meet, From far far away....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh The wind has changed its course, It comes from the past, Caressing my present, Designing the future dreams, One day, Yes, I believe, One day it shall bring thou hither, Or would carry me, to thy lands, The terrain which has the path, That is sheathed in the roses, By the smile, which I can't see, Beneath those fascinating eyes, Say not a word, Sing not a hymn, For I wish to savor the sound, That my feet make, As they walk upon the flora, For that sound, my beloved, Is the song of soul reaching its gem, The sweetest song, of a delightful rendezvous........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Charming are those eyes, That I see,  through the day and night, Delightful, are those compositions, That mark my morrows and twilight, What is it, that you infuse in those lyrics, I can taste the sweetness, Of the sweetest honey, Drop after drop, upon my senses, As words after words, I grasp your verses, I am pulled into the bounds, Which you call as yours, Until the two poetic voices, Stride together, on the rhyming course, You say one word, And I shall follow, Penning the most rhapsodical song, That we shall hum together, Words said, Lyrics written, Songs sung, And I still wonder, What lies behind those eyes, That I am forever smitten........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh It's tonight, an orange Moon, Beneath which, two souls, In dreams shall swoon, Some desires, Some delusions, Together shall light, The iced fires........ 

Let for once,  My lips be adorned, With that One smile, Let for once, My frame be veiled, Beneath those endless sighs, Let for once, My eyes be filled, With ecstasy's tears, Let for once, My heart be devoid, Of those untold fears, Let for once, My soul reign, The unseen kingdom of dreams, Let for once, My sleeps be free, From the nightmarish screams, Let for once, Your fingers caress, The contours of my face, Let for once, Our souls traverse, At an impassioned pace.................                   ~S.S~

(c) Shilpa Sandesh She reposes besides the wooden boat, Penning with her heart, Her verses on the sea, As the waves play in the backdrop, The majestic tunes of fantasy, Wherein lies her imaginations, Sprawling like the wide spread ahead, Her mind dances, to the verve of the surf, And arms yearn for that pleasure embrace, Such seemed the plethora, Her mind, Soul, And the saline froth, Together forming the music of love, An enchantingly bizarre orchestra....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Such sway of the magnificent bow, As it dances with the violin strings, That I am adrift from my mortal existence, Into the afterlife, Where I am afloat,  Amidst the galaxies of stars, Swirling in a whirl of emotions, That the music has brought within me, A splendor, a rush, A kind of hysteria, I know not whether to welcome the joy, The joy of melody, With tears, With smiles, Or with words, All I can fathom, Is that my pneuma shuddered, As if shaken with a reality, The truth, The One Truth, Of You and I, Curling together in the celestial sky........

Into an undefined rondure, Magical lyrics, Euphony of violin and piano, The crest and troughs, In the notes so canorous, Symphonious and in tune with my heart, Never did I know, That duet of soul and symphony, Could bring me amidst, Such euphonic grandeur, Astounded I am, For my desire of you, Taught me at this moment, A whole new meaning of love, Our Euphonious Love.... Poem (c) S.S

What better sight, For ever frozen eyes, Than the moon midst clouds, Absorbing my soul's sighs, Which peeks and shines on me, As if to say, You're right here....                ~S.S~

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And once again, The fingers are dancing on the frets, Caressing the strings, Until is captured, Fervor's enthralling tune, Amazing it is to see, How the bow makes love, To seductively silhouetted violin, They are lovers till eternity, Lost into the melody, The ever-sweet Melodia de amor.......

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Our existences, Yours and mine,  together or apart, Are echoes from the ancient eras, Lovers we are, Since the Hellenic times, Like Pheadra and Hyppolytus, Or Galetae and Pygmalion, I can feel the tremors, The throbbing of two hearts, The fluttering of two souls, Since ages immemorial, What are those visions? What be those quivers, In my mind reside, Some voices that I hear, Trying endlessly to fathom, Are those the moments, Of our past togetherness, Which oscillates around our present?

(c) Shilpa Sandesh In the North, ruling the snow, I repose,  As I face the South, In the South, reigning the Sun, As thou cast, Thy sight upon the North, We be the two stars, And with the winds, The Moon, The rains, We form the sacred constellation of Adoration........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Emerging from, the nethermost depths, Soaring towards the zenithal heights, I am a tendril, Spiraling around the pillar of love, Aiming towards that luminous radiance, That emanates from thy sui generis soul, For the moment when I shall bathe in you, Shall be the hour of my soul's rebirth....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh The beauteous optical emissions, Like a factual illusion, Emerging of that celestial vibrance, The Polar's majestic Aurora, symbolize You and I, Where I be the frozen stretch, And you, the imperial eos, The warmth and vehemence of thy seize, Puts my frame at ease, The ease of inflamed bliss, As we make love, Where the magnific effulgence, And the ice meets, In the ceremonious ritual, Amidst Aurora Borealis........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh As your eyes caress, My face with fondness, A splash of fervor, And the true love's tenderness, filled I am , With a sacrosanct bliss, And beauteous I feel, Like Hera, Or Aphrodite, Or the enthralling Artemis....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And through the mesh, Of the unseen visions, And the waters, Of the messianic springs, Through the skeletal of the dry leaves, Whisked, By the violently blowing winds, My yonder heart, I see you........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh You and I, Are like the Moon and the Sun. That bedeck the morning and the twilight sky, While I float in the tranquil nights, You illuminate the morrow aurora, And then we await together, For that moment of Nature's blessing, Where for a flash, meets the dawn and the dusk, And we kiss,  Like a brushing past of your lips against mine, A single kiss of welcome and goodbye, Until another blissful instant........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh My distant soul, I sense your sorrowful heart, That has suffered, Fate's poisoned dart, I am here, But I am there, I am everywhere you are, You breathe, You Smile, You laugh, You cry, As the winds and stars, And clouds and rains, I am, Right there where you are.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Lying, On the winter grass, Gazing, At the starlit sky, Look hither,  my life, Be the shimmer in my eyes, Because as our eyes connect, And as the trembling fingers twine, My frame bids goodbye, To my fluttering soul, That frees from the cage of life, When our breaths meld, We're together held, With a kiss, beyond divine.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh My precious, Do you know, what I shuffled, In your absence, When my thoughts were muffled, Those leaflets, floating on the blue Nile, Where are penned, our sweet nothings, And countless smiles, But the Nile cried, I wonder why?

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I am drowning in the poetic river, Knowing not how to swim, Flapping my hands in vain, I am loosing on my breaths, I asked my soul, "Would you help, Would you stay by my side, There is no escape for me, Would you keep me afloat?" My soul said," I am no fool, I adore you, but I am no fool"

(c) Shilpa Sandesh In the Oasis of golden whims, A garden adorned in vivid tulips, I walk past every row, Caressing with my fingers, The soft velvety buds, Seeking that ambrosial bloom, That shall read my destiny aloud, And brighten the path, For me to walk, The course that leads to you........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Painting the canvas, With striking images, And vivid fantasies, Portraying my beloved, Amidst the brightest beams, Like a Greek God, Luring me, to step into the canvas, And live that incandescent dream, Adorned with the embraces and sighs, Exploding in scintillating gleam......

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And I waited, My sweet enchanter, I waited with eyes drenched in dew, I looked away from you, In anticipation, That you would appear and hold my hand, And urge me to look into your eyes, While you are afloat, In another world, I am here, Still waiting, For you.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh At times, I care not, where you be, Or how far apart we be, All I know, Is that when I need you, I simply need you, For some words that say, "Worry not, I am here", A smile that says, "You look beauteous, even in tears", Those affectionate eyes, which say "Drown into me, until you fail to recall what all your sorrows be", And that embrace, that would say, "Mine, bathe me in your shimmering gleam"

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Ghoulish illusions, Fed on my soul, And it rose, With an agonizing howl, I saw the blazing spheres of fire, Tearing apart my shielded sphere, It burnt me alive, Into invisible ashes, I wondered why, my eyes weren't charred, Soon to notice, the flowing tears, Every tear, brought back my being, My mortal frame regained, Readying for another twilight, Another ordeal, of my strife, With the sphere smoldering with yellow flames.......

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I fathom your inner-self, Its sorrows and its happiness, You are like that immortal shell, That treasures even the pain, Which inside your heart dwells, You wear a sheathe, Of countless smiles, The perplexing existences also, Couldn't steal your courage, Your mettle to walk, another zillion miles, Your poetry is your expression, Of love, Of anguish, Of torment, Of bliss, Your pen is your sword, From you fight the demons, That strip you, Of your inner peace, I am just, An unseen shadow, Wishing to be invisible, To the substantial existences, But I shall remain alive, In the transcendental skies, And watch over you, For what your soul suffers, Only I know....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh From across the distances, Yet to be measured, I repose here, As a reflection of thy soul, My smiles are bestowed, Upon me by you, I crave to hear, Your enthralling voice, I yearn to read, Your beguiling words, The verses you pen, As you cherish my eyes....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Sobs and tears, Endless fears, As I wake up, Amidst this dark night, Aghast, At my soul's inconsolable cries..... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh The fingers touch, And entwine, Two shuddering souls, In an intimate war, The sudden drizzle, a misty gust. The rising heat, Sighs and clenching flesh, Two impassioned frames, In a fervent mesh, The Nature is stirred, By this inflamed night, In the vivid darkness, While ardent verses, The moonlight writes. Crinkled sheets sing the amorous hymns, The twilight merges, With the winter's haze, While they set t he rain ablaze......

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Raising the heels, Off the ground, Tip toeing, en pointe, Like an alluring ballet dancer, Gracefully traipsing,  Flower adorned alley, Meandering faintly, Like the softest of the soft whispers, I tramp towards, my precious beloved, I see you there, Sitting by the lake, On the dewy grass, beneath the twilight stars, I spin and whirl, On the tunes of thy breaths, That are luring me, Across distances unmeasured, And  here I am, my darling, Right behind you, And I can't wait to startle you, With a kiss, on thy lips....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I am tied, To thy destiny, A celestial entanglement, Of what fervor be, Your voice, Oh my fiery flame, Imprisons my soul, Leaving me sequestered, In the allures of your love, This mortal form of mine, Whims to feel, the caress of thy breaths, The closeness of thy blazing frame, When, The sights, the smiles, The voices, The whispers, The warmth and zeal, All become one, One, As we stride, With impassioned steps, And inflamed pace, On our ardent crusade....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Let's hop on the swells, And leap over the waves, Bathing in the saline gust, To reach that whimsical place, Where the day ends, When the ocean is kissed, By the last golden ray of the Sun, In that hour, Oh mine, We shall burn in abysmal brine, While the night's first star would mark, Beginning, Of a blazing twilight....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And as I begin, To fall asleep, My inner self opens its wings, To take a leap, Into the chimera, Of ruminated dreams, Which begin to float around, Like a majestic stream, Your eyes, That gleam, And thy fascinating smile, Revolves around me, Leaving me bewildered, Lured I am, Towards thy distant shores, Where my soul is pulled, In your illusions, Where you pen, our love lore, It be the moment, Of my being's truth, Which is what ever would be, It is everything, it is all, As my soul unveils, In front of yours....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Sleep sweetly, My precious self, Adrift shall be your soul, In the lands of fairies and elves, Ask for a wish, If you may, For our togetherness, For ages,   And an endless embrace, Everyday.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I am that rising smoke, Which reaches the skies, With the sight of thy eyes, And decends to the lows, With your every sigh, Adorn me, On thy impassioned soul, And I shall be yours, Forevermore.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh How I imagine, You and I together, In a moment so pristine, And to say, I Do forever.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Bare foot, On the sparkling snow, I wonder, Where I am headed.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Toughest is the true love's stride, Like humming the song of roses, With the lyrics of thorns, I pen the song, all day long, And the lone twilight, Adds the tunes of missing, And the lores of forlorn, But firm remains the faith, In my destiny remade, That says, A moment shall come, When soul's joys, I would greet, That hour, When with his soul, Mine would meet........ 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And I would glide,  Until I find, The Gan Eden, Or the Fields of Aaru, The eternally joyous lands, Of Tir Na Nog, Or The Other World, Of the Celtic myths, For all these are but, Those Saccharine terrains, Which are ruled, By my archangelic beloved....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Should I call it a night of sorcery, Or a twilight of voodoo dreams, I know not, I saw my beloved wizard, Right in front of me, "To lock my eyes with yours, Was the moment, I have longed to live, When you mesmerized me, With some incantations and spells, And I submitted to you, My whole self " Only to find, to my dismay, That all was but just an illusion, A dream, In which I floated and swayed.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I penned a letter, with my smiles, Smiles that you lend, to my yearning lips, Lips which have urges, celestially divine, Divine with the magic of soulful fervor, Fervor that forms, the reason of my being, My being, which begins and ends with You.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I feel so full with expressions, So much, that it's hard to breathe, The soul bombarding, Betwixt the conscious and delusions, It is beauteous, to love thee, But so it is a restless stride for me, I demand freedom, my sweetest, Which for me, is to be in thy embrace, So open your arms wide, And set me free....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Let me close my eyes, And step on the ladder on illusions, To enter your world of glimmers, To see, how you dream of me........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh As the twilight calls, And the tranquility fills, My frame shudders, With the soul's shrills, A discordant noise, Yearning for thy closeness, A screeching voice, Longing for your warmth and tenderness, My sweetest, How long do I repose alone? When thou shall be along?

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Wakes up my soul, In the warmth of thy arms, The sweetest embrace, A reprise from life's strifes, Where only falsity lies, You are my veil of endless smiles, Have a wondrous day, Good morrow my precious....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I wouldn't dress up, in a snappy attire, Or wear the layer of fake maquillage, I wouldn't walk in a forced style, Or paint on my lips, that fabricated smile, My beloved, The verses are all I can and I would pen, To lure you in love, With an ambush of vows, And divine trap of promises, Until the afterlife....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh A world to weave some divine dreams, Dreams that are unhindered by the material gleam, Gleam that snatches our peace and belief, Belief, that governs our sincere love, Love that is distant from the intriguing souls, Souls that impede, our beatific stride, Stride which we vowed to walk together, Together, regardless of vexing presences, Presences which don't matter to us, Us, You and I, Twined forever, in celestial love....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh I saw a rose, devoted in love, To its gardener, With vows and promises, To bloom forever, It shall dry and die, For only hand, that can keep it alive, By watering and believing in it, Is its own gleaner, But the rose cried a tear, When the gardener said, "I saw you ogling, With the bumble bug", And wondered the rose, "I bloom, and blossom, With your caring, My own, But if the bugs trouble, Your peace of mind, I shall blossom no more...."

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And from the worldly haze, I saw the truth's face, Who pens the verses of love, A sui generic divine grace, How I await every dawn,, To immerse into the depths, Of majestic poesy, To savour thy lyrics, That the twilight has grown, This moment, now, Is another day, And I pause to see, The silver line of your expressions, Adorning the clouds that are grey....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh When the wait, And anticipation, Leaps beyond, The heart's patience, Tell me how do you feel? 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Through words and lyrics, Poesy and Odes, Through songs of yearning, And hymns of sigh, Let your eyes adorn, My poetry, As you read me, Through my verses, Be with me, Forevermore, For without you, I am a sky, Without moon or sun or stars.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Glum and tears, Are just a part, Of the puzzled life, That we all lead, These are like, Those poisonous darts, That pierce through, Killing the heart, The soul's very being, You are that Sun, Who knocks at my door, Every morrow, Leaving me befuddled, Keep shining and blazing, Forevermore, To keep my toes, On the blessed shores.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh In the haze, Of an endless time, Traversing the maze, As I call you mine; Counting the drops, Of the falling rain, The dewy mizzle gropes, Sheathing my Karma's disdain; As I walked alone, On the Time's mar, The stride on the thrones, Turns into, the tabernacle of flowers; Gone is the melancholy, The soul is buoyant, Like beastly, Now effervescent; Enlivening, With immortal smiles, Because of you....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh These rains, are my tears, These winds, the endless fears, Each twilight, Marks a ceaseless fight, For material intent, And the worldly rapt, Two mortal bodies live apart, But the spirits are entwined, Until the death arrives, And the two souls find their reprise, in untraveled orbs and celestial skies, Tell me, Where be you, my other self?

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Ever wondered what lies, Between the heart and the mind? There stands the temple of love, Often or always, Entangled in heart's and the mind's strife, Like a suspended frame, caught by the ropes of ardor, And seized, Incapacitated to stride ahead, Or to fall to the deepest depths, There, There abides our existence, Yours and mine, In between, The heart and the mind........

Envision a dream, Of you and me, Pen the contemplation, In your verse, Overflowing with cherubic sheen, Unaltered lyrics, However delicate or obtuse, My eyes yearn to read, The song you shall write, Where I be your muse....               ~S.S ~

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And says she, With a lost glee, "Mine, Be not silent, For such long moments, As it is your verses, Your spells, That together retrieve my soul, From an involuntary fall, In the material hell "

(c) Shilpa Sandesh In an orb, Where all that exists, Is the cherubic morrow mist, Where delusions are infused, With life, With a welcome absence, Of the destiny's strife, I am afloat.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Let me reach to you, Oh mine, A leap after leap, Over the saline swells, To lose myself, In thy mesmerizing fragrance, So close, That between us, There's no void, even for a sound wave, When all your dilemmas, Shall be answered, Not with words, But with impassioned caresses, And that shall be the moment, When I, the solitary wave, Shall be one, With you, the zeal's ocean, Let me reach to you....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Mine, I heard the whispers, Of the darkness, I read the verses, that the twilight pens, When it is kissed, By the cold and dewy dawn, Such is the bliss, Of those blessed hours, When for a micro moment, My frame becomes, Devoid of my soul, May be an unheard, divine call....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Charming as it is, The air around, bathed in zeal and adoration, Sometimes leaving me awed, At times, floored and spellbound, If verses can leave me confounded, I wonder, what your smile would do! 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Silence isn't arrogance, But it is sometimes, And irreversible necessity, Of the inner-self, Expressions are but, A way to speak without voice, When the tumult engulfs, And heart has no choice.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh The cold evening gust, Kisses my blushing cheeks, And bathed I am, In the saline whiff, And beneath the sky, I romance the winter winds.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Few steps to Elysium, Few breaths for firmament, Some splash of saline, And glorious eternity, Beneath the azure sky, I shall wear the sea........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh There stood the man of spells, He, in whom, the magic dwells, As he pens his verses, From the poesy, the divine light emerges, A voice overflowing with confessions, And promises, of fervor's devotion, Sprinkle some more ink, And let the mystic pages blink, As my eyes savor, his charismatic expressions, My soul traverses through, the fog of perplexions, Leaving me awestruck and wondering, Destiny too can be, truly marveling........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh And here I pen again, The nothingness, Imprisoning my frame, I yearn for the union, Of the magic with poetry, Only to realize, That poesy, since time immemorial, Has belonged to the spells, And with those very, Expressions of magic, The poetry shall live, For I, One day, Would become, A particle, afloat, In the forgotten Sands of time....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh In the hours, Of depressing tranquility, When you seek, For a soothing Silence, You shall hear a whisper, A voice of love, Which, with a tear, Crumples back to its state, The state of being invisible.... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh In these eyes, which envision, a zillion dreams, Lies a sacred figment, A chimera of glistening spectre, Which awaits thy soul's, homecoming, Come hither, And illuminate these, With a drop, of profoundly impassioned ice....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Reposing, On these shores, I wish to be foresighted, Such that your frame, that poses on farthest shores, Would seem, just an arm's length away; We'd chant those divine incantations, And rise to the amorous skies, Souls entwined like curling grapevines, and then a blazing flame shall ignite, Marking the beginning, Of an impassioned twilight, Two pneumas,  Coiled, In a frenzied wildfire, Starlit night, And two mortal bodies, Sitting across the seas, While their souls, connect and communicate....... 

(c) Shilpa Sandesh It's a gusty dusk, Sprinkles of orange, Adorning the sky, Like souls, burning in lust; The twilight is knocking, At my heart's sealed doors, And I prepare, For an ardent awakening; Here, I open the long shut gates, Of my barren existence, And all I find, Is nothing, None........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh From far away, distant lands, Across, the misty mountains, Above, the lightning sky, Beneath, the earth's core, Beyond, the densest woods, Wherever you be, Stay not silent, I miss you, my quintessence, Talk to me........

(c) Shilpa Sandesh How I wish, I could, Lend life, To these penned expressions, And you would know, The boundless love, That stays sheathed, Beneath the cape of my soul.... 

Put your arms, Around my waist, While far away, The music plays, Let's spin, Let's bend, As the steps twine, Some slants and turn, Ephemeral fusion of, Strings and some thump, So let's sway, In a trance, My sweetest, Let's dance........  (c) S.S

(c) Shilpa Sandesh With tingles on my tongue, Like a bite, into the most nectarous apple, Some sweetness of thy breaths, Blends, With, Some brininess of thy sighs, A hint of some berries, Brewed with the fragrance of Love, Aah! And all that is left, Is that first drop of rain, As I wish to be drenched, As I savor the most saccharine wine, And that my beloved,  is You....

(c) Shilpa Sandesh Perceptions, Of this tangible heart, The ferment, Of passion's sacrosanct dart, A piercing hallow, Of that rapturous nimbus, Are, Nothing, But the impressions, Of my stride, Into the transcendental thickets, Of Love....