Renu Rakheja a.k.a Tranquil Ocean Poems

Words hovering around the fringes of my mind
Refusing to emerge out
All coiled up, frozen and entwined
Have been sitting for hours in this drought
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When your wife bores you, your environment bores you
When you feel she is not a woman...enough to excite you too

When you feel she is not your friend...she just wants to control your life
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Intoxicated and spent, sleep overcame them as the moon bid adieu
Gentle rays of the morning sun murmured to her through the window
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Stroking the round belly
He burps
Centuries of being fed
Centuries of having read
The Vedas
By Hindus to wash away their sins
Brahmins-
Why, aren't they the 'superior' caste?
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Last night I dreamt of you
Continuing what we couldnt complete
Our salivas intermingling
Lips travelling from head to feet
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Thought
Response of a memory
An experience
An image that you see
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When we sleep, when we dream...
We can be anything that we want
Deep and inner longing manifesting into a form...
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For a moment
Can we just forget who we are?
Forget where we are from
Forget what we learnt
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The abyss yawns and beckons....
Its so easy to dropp in
To just give up the resistance
And get drawn
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Ek aur caarvaan aaj guzar rah hai
Tanha raat mein shama jalaakar
Zindagi bas yooh hi guzar jaayegi
Saans hi to leni hai, dabe paanv nikal jaayegi
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