Here I come, beachcombing,

The waves are silent now.

There is no more to seek.

The sun has gone below the line,

a moment of stark nothingness.

That's the time for the sea to speak.

I watch for the farthest tide

touched by the molten gold.

Several breakers have come and gone

before the one that is remote journeys forth

to reach the rock where I receive

the tired wave. In exhaustion and ecstasy, in the final leap, it rises high,

then leaves its treasure which is now the surf in its shiny strings of pearls.

The things I sought and could not find

in my long effort at beachcombing

now lie in abundance before my eyes,

But with a difference! These are the wonders I cannot possess

unlike the shells and conch, I gathered

in the long hours spent in combing the beach

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3 months ago

A ladder to stock
books and logs,
interlocked and intertwined,
and on the highest rung of the ladder, a cat
in a slumber, intuits the meaning of all.

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Wrapped in a shawl of dainty leaves
of some tamarind green
the bulbul arrived, rested awhile,
and flew
to some coastal town unknown to me.
Not yet bothered about
the worries of finding a mate and building a nest,
the bulbul hopped and flew around.
The spot of red on its crown
was missing still.
But why should the bird worry?
It never even knew it must wear a red crown.
It was Nature's job to worry.
And everything in Nature comes
in its own time, in its own way.

SUSHAMA KARNIK
15 August 2019

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Arup Banerji

15 August at 21:54

Restless, the sea calls. I smell the sea.
Tired of writing words,
I just want to sleep. A sleepwalker dreams
a dream of walking on the waves of the sea.
The salty air, the smell of fish,
the rocks whose bosom cradles the surf,
and the rain carrying the steamy air,
every night like a haunted soul
I wake up to their call.
A rowboat tied to a log,
I feel the tug of the sea.
Recall the changes in the shades of blue,
and I surrender the rhetoric of the empty words to the endlessness,
the rhythm of the gorge of the sea.
The irony of the madness of the urge to sing
in the presence of a vast tide of an awesome dream,
the dream when the madness is swallowed by the quietude of the sea.

Sushama Karnik
May 30, 2017


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  tony langmach+1

  Oh, So very felt known Ocean
  Wonderful well-written Sushama & Take care

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  Sushama Karnik+1

  The ocean has an accentuated presence! +tony langmach

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Sleep o baby in the cradle of my arms
Quiet is the sky, quiet are the stars and the winds.
The song of the river is mute.
The cows have fallen asleep, without a sound.
Birds have stopped the singing.
Shadows are singing and the moonlight is lulled.
Sleep my child, my delight, let the anklets be silent.
Inhale the scent of the queen of the night
and sweetly go to sleep.

Sushama Karnik
May 21, 2017

Hasten the stars through this patch of blue;

wrap a shawl of sunlight around the frozen moon.

Shine a light, the golden one

right inside the underworld,

of mermaids and sirens and the cyclops's world.

Do anything and everything tonight

to reawaken the secrets, the mysteries hidden

in the stories read in the brand new story-books

with the curious smell of printing ink and polished covers.

The thinnest new curtains of the finest lace

of snow-white fabric crumpled into a dainty crease,

let them hang over the window-sill,

as Peter Pan and Wendy fall in love,

and I shall tell my darling all the tales

that live inside the story-book shelf of my mind. 

Sushama Karnik

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