Manjari Shukla

The dewed twigs

were dangling in the breeze,

 

When the sunlight fell on them

It appeared as if they are

gleaming with golden gold like hues...

 

 

Beautiful were they...

So fresh...

So soothing to look at..

 

I felt like

Standing by them...

for

eternity...

 

 

Slowly the time

started travelling on his winged chariot...

as it always does...

 

The morning started converting itself

Into day...

Making the twigs

devoid of those dew drops,

which were embellishments

for them in the morning...

 

Painful was it…

But as elders say,

“Time changes everything”…

So it was like this…

 

The dewed twigs got transformed,

But it was sure, the next day will add a new hue

To them.

 
Manjari Shukla

Rolling down from the valley, the boulder finally fell into the nearby lake, was the fate of the boulder this?? Or was it something else…no one knows, but still it lost its original position in the valley just to fall in the lake, which was at the end of the valley. Dripping dew was wetting everything around and the wetty atmosphere was adding new hues to my deplorable condition. The rays of the sun were trying to penetrate the walls of the castle just to get a glance of the situation what was going on inside….tumbling down the hill they fell with a pale of water…what is going on????...hey…I am asking you….yes…you…if nothing is happening what is this which you have written……….stream of my scattered thoughts which came to my mind right now and I jotted them down….still thinking…no…not you….but You….yes You…You are still thinking….carry on………..
Manjari Shukla

Lost in the maze of thoughts, my mind found a thought which was lying in a corner of my conscience, it was an old one, and hence, the dust of memories have covered it from top to toe, I found it while I was brushing the shelves of my conscience. It was silent and did not move, as I tried coming close to it..
Suddenly  a sound penetrated my conscience,  the silent thought regained itself, and a slight movement was observed, I thought and realised, this was not dead, but was dormant for a while, or was dormant for past many ages, its this cleaning of the shelves of my conscience, which has brought it out in daylight, slowly and steadily, this memory too got its own conscience, and then what happened was really painful, I found it was one of the worst memories which I had, had since my childhood, no matter how hard I tried, I was not able to cope up with the aspects, it started once again unfolding, I cursed myself for the cleaning job of my conscience, as the time went by, this memory started getting more and more prominent, in my current memory status…I was trying my level best to once again shut this corner of my mind forever, but nothing was working out, each time I tried relegating it to the back doors, it came with a new bang…I am still trying to send it to the place from where it emerged,but to no avail…
Manjari Shukla

Today, at a far off place, near an attic..I found a small corner, where I found a number of things, small, big, medium…all were talking with each other, these things were the things which were lost by their owners in one way or the other, some were deliberately lost, and some where made to be lost and some were just lost…the corner of the attic had a book, a watch, a mirror, a color box, a drawing book, a photograph of a lady, small earrings and many more……these lost things, as I said were in a talkative session, each narrating their plight, and how they happened to be there, slowly I entered that corner of the attic and started listening to their conversation, some of them were sad, because they were happy being with their owners,and were missing their place and some were too happy by being part of the club…yes… Club of Lost Things….the things which were happy, were trying to make others happy….coz this was the fate of all the members to be part of the club forever, once they entered it, in one or the other way… the conversation was goin on when some more lost articles, came and joined the session, the best part about the club was that there was no typical hierarchy maintained here, no one was big, nor was anyone small, every thing had its say, and every other thing/things were listening…all were equal…the next interesting thing which I realised is that, now I know, what happens to the things which gets lost, and I will keep it a secret with myself, because if I will be talking to people about this place, the only place where equality is maintained will be LOST…and…hence I will be silent about this place…though I have talked about it, but I will not tell the address, coz Loss of the Club of Lost Things will be a big issue….
Manjari Shukla

What should I think? Is it necessary to think? Why? Is thinking the be all andend all, as said by Descartes I think therefore I am…or should certain things remain out of this thinking domain… can’t we ascribe certain things in the domain of feeling… can’t we say I feel, therefore I am…thinking , I think in some way or the other is restricted to a set group of people who are sound intellectually in some way or the other, but feeling is something which is bound to everyone…it comes effortlessly, without any prior knowledge of anything or everything, but thinking, yes it needs atleast some effort.
This write up is what…? A thinking effort or an effort of my suppressed feelings.
Manjari Shukla

MOMENTS ARE FLEETING,
DAYS ARE PASSING,
MONTHS ARE VARYING,
YEARS ARE CHANGING.
STILL LIFE APPEARS
TO BE STANDSTILL.
WHAT I AM HERE FOR?
FOR STUDYING,
FOR MAKING MY PARENTS PROUD,
FOR MAKING FRIENDS,
OR FOR WHAT?
WHATS MY PURPOSE OF LIVING?
WHAT I AM HERE FOR?
CAN SOMEONE GIVE ME THE ANSWER?
OR SHALL I REMAIN ANSWERLESS?
Manjari Shukla

WHAT SHOULD I DO?
HOW CAN I BE HAPPY?
WITHOUT A REASON.
ATLEAST REASON OF HAPPINESS
IS NEEDED
FOR BEING HAPPY.
I AM NOT HAPPY,
WHY AM I NOT,
WHY?
WHY?
CAN SOMEONE GIVE ME THE ANSWER?
OR HAVE I TO GROPE IN THE DARK?
WILL THE DARKNESS,
EVER EMIT ANY LIGHT,
OR WILL I BE LOST IN IT,
FOREVER…
IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS,
BY GETTING DARKNESS
ALL AROUND.
Manjari Shukla

SILENT HOPES,
SILENT THOUGHTS,
SILENT DESIRES,
SILENT DREAMS,
SILENT EMOTIONS,
SILENT FEELINGS,
SILENT SILENCE,
IS EVERYTHING SILENT,
OR HAVE I GROWN DEAF?
Manjari Shukla

BROKEN WINGS,
HELPLESS TO FLY,
AN IMAGE,
THAT CAME TO MY MIND.
DON’T KNOW WHY?
BUT IT CAME,
DOES IT HAVE A PURPOSE?
OR IT CAME,
WITHOUT ONE…
WILL TRY FINDING IT OUT,
BUT DON’T KNOW HOW?

WILL THESE BROKEN WINGS,
EVER GET A FLIGHT,
OR
WILL THEY REMAIN
AS THEY ARE…
BROKEN AND
WITHOUT FLIGHT.

WILL TRY FINDING IT OUT,
BUT DON’T KNOW HOW?
Manjari Shukla

A new year, A new beginning and A new attempt of Blog writing…hope this continues…….May the year 2012 be such an year which unfold many new unread chapters, and may it pave path for new vistas…….Kindly pay sometime of your busy schedules to this attempt of my blog-writing…your suggestions are  most welcome….I am writing after a long while so mistakes are bound to happen….pardon me for the same…..and hope I make a fruitful Blogging Year ahead…..Amen……