prabhakar bhatlekar Poems

Face on the screen
zoomed to close-up
sharpening labyrinth of
hundred wrinkles.
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Some constantly
on move, some not.
Unmistakable
to and fro journey between
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They all make mistakes
and many more things.
They love each-other,
built a growing family
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At some crazy hour
why words turn hasty,
uncontrolled and stormy?
Why am not prepared
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Someone is coming?
Usual game of the dead leaves.
I fumble and laugh...
Now no one is there around me.
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Keep running the
unending race with
eyes shut then
you won't be frightened.
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Space within two words
burst out upheaval melting
all definitions.
Life, gone like a passing breeze.
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Tears watered these plants
and there bloomed thousand
flowers... immortal!
Strange! - and futile to probe.
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Am fixed like alone tree
somewhere strangely
in unmoved state.
Moments quietly come in flock.
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"Everything here is false...
it's killing! "
" Hold on dear. Suddenly why you
feel like this? "
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