After many days

As though I drank your jagged shadow
and couldn't spit it out

After many days
I didn't know, from nowhere
you would come and rake my heart
rake my heart

again

As though I swallowed your beaten spirit
and couldn't gulp it down

After many days
I didn't know, from nowhere
you would come and stroke my heart
stroke my heart

again

As though with you, I chewed away some of me 
and couldn't tell us apart

After many days
I didn't know, from nowhere
we would come and probe my heart
probe my heart

like many days back.

Shringi
January 30, 2017

Painting: After Many Days by Thomas Hart Benton

Wrote the poem while listening to 'The Robin's Jar' by My Brightest Diamond 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL3xTt-cvSU

A Flight

We stand in a colorful array

You and I and the people we have met

With dresses and smiles, in the color red

You and I and the people we  have met

Against the night of stars

With young, brilliant hearts

As a sparkling twinkle in the expanse

decked in dreams, we stand

In a moment from now, we will form a ballad 

With lyrical symmetry and lit eyes -
You and I, and the people we have met

Will rise and swim in the starlit skies

Shringi

January 18, 2017

unknown photographer from Archana's engagement

To broken darkness,

We have come far
From nowhere to nowhere

Our journey has been of words
You and I have celebrated the festival of silhouettes
Stared into endless blurry nights

My dear broken darkness,
As light spills through you, I feel reassured of your presence
Thank you; tonight
I owe you my ornamental lapse.

Shringi

13 January 2017

from my instagram