Audacity

I wandered through heavens and the earth
In darkness and day, cold and warmth.

Nothing scared me more, not even hell
Than the eyes of my naked self,
The fact that I am "Not a drop in an ocean,
But an ocean in a drop"

mashoodkk

Zeitgeist

The blood bathed complexity of being human
Strays naked in the war field of civilization

Hey kid, "Light is all but distress and agony
Darkness is bliss, so sleep on...! "

mashoodkk

I Have a New Home........

Far beyond the mountains of good and evil,
Swampy lands of right, wrong, worth and worthlessness
Away from the gloomy cloud of melancholic self indulgence
Is a valley where you and I never did live
When my heart lie down on those meadows green
I am sure it will  start beating again...

mashoodkk

My Fears....

I too wanted to scribble poetry
But was so scared of reality
Can you blame a robin redbreast
For its fear of the horrors of night

mashoodkk

Back To Ground Zero - My Humanity

We are not as smart as we think...
We ain't as evolved as we claim...
We may have conquered stars and space
But not those dark alleys within,
Where we rarely ever have been
Darkness we should embrace,
To light up the horrors of our daily life
Dim lights where our ancestors met.

Let us begin by accepting that we are flawed,
Far more flawed than we would like to believe
Still taking pride in being human,
Our ability to march forth,
No matter how many times we stumble and fail....

mashoodkk

MUSINGS WITH THE MASTER......

Master: 

'What is your life anyway ?'

Ever scared that something will happen to you......some one will harm you......
Relentlessly trying to assert your worth...as if you were worthless by default.......
Guilt ridden every now and then........
Incessantly trying to impress, add more substance, manipulate, explain, convince.......

How have you gone so astray ?
How did you get lost in this falsehood ?

Come on....Son.......Its is time to return......
It is time for homecoming........

Disciple:

Why were you this late.......? ?

Master:

I was here throughout.....watching all along.....your zest and zeal......thought not to disturb...........

Son......early and late are for those who are trapped in the vexation of time.....we are birds of eternity........
Now flutter your wings.......chew this cane......let us fly.........


mashoodkk

LEARNING

Through sincere imitation
I stumbled on the art of being original
Through shameless acceptance
I started seeing glimpses of my naked face.

mashoodkk

LIFE'S GRAVEYARD

In the crafted mask thickly build
To shield in deceit the inner void
I saw worlds largest graveyard
Live souls gracefully buried.

Neither the agonies of angst
Nor the melodies of any zest
Only the gloom of self crucifixion
With no promise of a resurrection.

mashoodkk

Dedicated to the author of THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

Your Punishment or Our Crime ?

When I cannot do what my mind aspires
I blame my self......
But what if I end doing things which
I never wanted to.......
Am I the guilty or thee......
Is this disobedience your punishment,
Or our crime.....

mashoodkk

Secret of Beauty

When thou gets unveiled
What happens to thine beauty's glory
For it never can touch those zenith
While hidden within the cloaks of mystery

When they put the pen down
Admirers their gaze away
Thine hands and eyes may take it
For the comedy is over.

mashoodkk

For thine eyes I am an impostor

Neither did I change overnight
Nor could I, but for thine sight

Thine hands never came close to my veils
So tender is it that a gentle breeze suffice
And thou now accuse me of hiding my face

For thine eyes I am an impostor
Thou definitely art  no stranger
We all see what we wish to see.

mashoodkk

REFLECTIONS (3.0)

We all have our insecurities and limitations. But it should be our duty to ensure that they do not escalate into proportions that will inflict irreversible sufferings on others.

mashoodkk

Attempted translation of a couplet from VAYALAR

"Never will I be in love with any philosophy
That heeds not the laments of a suffering soul"

The original lines in malayalam

"Snehikkayilla njan ...novumathmavine....
Snehichidathoru tatwashastratheyum....."

MY PROPHET - THE GARDENER OF THE DESERT

Thou rekindled the spirit of tauhid
From the ashes of thine forefather grand

Held it safe in those cupped hands
Burned it aflame into an alchemist's fire

The shattered pieces of clay transformed
In thine hermetic vessel, perseverant

The inner light twinkled bright
Reverberated through heavenly height

The spark of self became a burning beacon
Over the dark ages like a radiant beam

Bartering tremendum through sleepless nights
An orphan evolved to an emperor of worlds

Lord called thee  mercy to the mankind
Gifted us mi'raj the most beautiful night

Oh!  the charming gardener of the desert
At thine holy feet, garlands of a billion salute

mashoodkk

OBLIVION AND DISGRACE

Infected is my vision
That Seeks in every corner
Either the futile pride of peacock
Or worthlessness of a worm

Oblivious to one's identity
The eagle wandering like a crow
Eyes ever on altitudes was my creed
Rambling shameless in garbages for feed

mashoodkk

DEPTHS

Sunken deep, amidst wrinkled brows
Those eyes may soon lose their vision
Yet whenever I look into them
I see myself as I haven't ever before.

mashoodkk

DISILLUISION

Eternity crumbling down
To exuberance of a moment
That will never pass
When time will freeze

All the idols turning to dust
Demons and devils burned to ashes
The formless reigning supreme
Bliss and back to the promised land.

mashoodkk

MY COUNTRY

Innumerable sleepless night
My mother land spend
Nurturing the infant of wisdom
In the spiritual cradle, warm

Her ever replenishing bosom
Nurtured all with no qualm
Yet the ugly hands of ingratitude
Many a times, made her bleed

Yet as witness unto the world
Stands her soul unconquered.

mashoodkk

MOTHER (2)

In thine lap we cries
In thine bosom lies our solace
Wisdom sleep in your eyes
Thy heart give birth to poems

Thou weep in silence
The music of cosmos
Fire of your inner angst
Intense to burn, even the hell.

mashoodkk

MOTHER

Mother alone knows
Lessons alien to books
For she saw hardships
Unseen ever by mortal eyes

Deep within her bosom
Written in scars is a poem
Alas ! with little rhyme
Its title is LIFE.

mashoodkk