Three Poems: Ghalib Mix Experiment

 the fragrance of a rose

better to live the life we know

take the world by storm

beautified by emerald tints

enjoyment of the view

itself enough to fire

you will not treat me unkindly

a want of things to grieve about

before it can become a pearl 

Frame of Mind

frame of mind

am I blind

and this world

is so unkind

brothers loss

sister too

what do you

want me to do?

simple words can't express

bizarre feeling

helplessness

neither up

nor quite down

we don't swim

nor do we drown

frame of mind

crazy kind

all we see

is cos we're blind

What is peace?

 

what is peace?

it is the absence of war

the absence of hate

the absence of ill-at-ease

what is peace?

it is the presence of love

the presence of contentment

the presence of non-harm towards all things

this is peace

somewhere in everyone's mind

in everyone's heart

it exists

waiting to be developed

until it becomes the dominant aspect

of everyone's way of doing life.

not capturing anything

so what is this then?

this thing that I see before me?

it's not a dagger

it's not a vision

it's not a dream

and yet it is

it's the famous "present moment"

that we're all meant to notice now

and yet it's slippery like ice that's melting

you try to notice it and it's gone already

you try to make it still it and it won't be still

you try to see it

but you realise that the human eye

doesn't see things for real

then you think about that

how a crow and a blue tit

are radiant with ultraviolet

but we petty humans

only see black or blue

and all of a sudden

you're in the land of intellect

posturing, conjecturing,

surmising

all those words that mean the same thing

but we say them to show how intelligent we are

yet we aren't

because we can't even be in the moment

and flow with it as it slides its momentary

thinginess

for ever

because we are thinking about

momentary thinginess

so we miss it

and mess it all up,

this thing called living.

thankfully a next moment

comes along and says "try again"

and peace becomes once more a possibility.