Short Wakeful Poems

nascent musings moon
nightingale's    wakeful  music
edifying dawn


2/20/22...

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with diamond eyesight
jumps over the early rats
wakeful cat jogging


24.06.2020 Chattogram...

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Chaotic romance.
Fearful dreams of war.
Lost in the river.
Wakeful spirit.
Chaotic storms.
Heavy snow falls.
Fate or chance?
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Mother

Mother
Even in slumber
Wakeful care.


26 feb 13

S.Jagathsimhan Nair

Contest:Leonara Galinta's 'Write me a poem'...

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darkness wakeful grace
sings my heart to lull calmness
invite moonlight walk
recall stories of my youth
could I had amend outcomes

6/6/2021...

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Now I lay me down, hopin' sleep...
Another wakeful day, I doubt can keep,
And if the Lord should call me home...
I only hope, he uses the telephone......

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icy fog blurs the ships,

            back to a dream so warm

      he slips ...

      lips on 

             steaming teacup, early sun

                   wakes the rooster up !...

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As I prepare to part with tired old ways,
       Feeling uplifted, to observe
            dawn's new days.
There's harmony in breathing precious moments ,             
          wakeful contemplation......

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Life wobbling in cacophony
Quietude niche deep within
State of 'I am' perceived
At the fork of enigma
Engagement with life you choose
Abysmal path of pain of being alone
Or golden trail of glory of blissful solitude
The wakeful sleepwalk on thunderstorm.

May 11, 2019...

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Wakeful slumber
Rise and shine
Greet Nature Mother
Wink at Father Time
Advance to Go
Daily choices
Purposeful endeavors
Momentary miracles
Internal-I-zations
Thoughts abundant
Feelings adrift
Actions Aware
Consequential checkmate
Evolved emotions Exiled
Rich Resplendent Resolve
All's Well Within...

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The wakeful wind whistles
Winding wearily and watching all
Wafting silently whispering woes
Weightlessly whipping wisplike whacks
Wondrously wild when wrathful weather attacks
Wrecking and walloping worsening in time
Nature wilts whimpering wordlessly worried
The wind whirls and wrestles in wingless flight



19/3/2016...

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A wakeful man riding
Constant terminal dusk
Coveting dawns glow

Conqueror of rapacity
Constructing his empire
Of gold and silvers avarice 

Feigning his thrill of life
So spuriously rehearsed
In his eyes they are trivialities

Only now he sees the truth
In the darkness of his sepulcher
Surrounded by his useless wealth...

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Down memory lane, 
I waited in vain 

For your sweet smile 
To come even for  a while.

But all that came  then,
Was the whispering wind from heaven,

Blowing in a slow processing of light,
With echoes of  your name in the darkling night.

Buzzing breeze breathing webs of cloud,
Shows wakeful sorrows clad in mournful shroud....

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I am your dad,
Hold my finger,
And learn to walk;
First few steps are arduous,
Hold my finger tight;
Life ahead is tough,
May have thorns, 
May have bumpy terrain,
Be wakeful on each step you move;
Dad's hands always over your head,
As a brolly for shade;
In bad and tough times,
Follow you as shadow,
to keep you move;

© sadashivan nair...

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Rise Oh Sun!  Your muted passage holds me possessed
In passing beams of brilliant poetic imagery obsessed
In the stream of dreams moving light to darkness to call
On this point of wakeful art where headlands rise and fall


Stanza extracted from Body Of Light, April 1, 2020

October 3, 2020
Rithimus Divisa 8 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Gregory Barden...

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Dreams begin to dim, fading
Light begins to show, invading
 Swirling into wakeful focus
Lavender, white, autumn crocus

Dusty lilac daybreak dawning
On this misty autumn morning
Merging into dreamlike wonder
Rousing to the sound of thunder

Clinging onto fading dreams
Dancing, golden sunshine beams
Lazily you start to swim
As mystic dreams begin to dim...

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Happy half moon hides half
       of happiness halfway high

Across a vast avalanche
       of silvery speck of sky

Nighttime neither nods nor sways
       to steal some wakeful sleep

Nature's new miracle mesmerizes,
       moves me deep

At the sight and touch of you,
       I pause, I smile, I sigh

Happier, yes, than the happiest
       half moon am I !...

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Fields of spun gold silk somber auburn shades
Resonant a hum breath yawn against blades.
Wiff of cool air espy hush cries cascades
Dry in silence nature's quaint everglades.

Weft of rain lingers round as slow rhythm fades.
Mystique wakeful light of dawn serenades
While the warm sun rises, the bullfrog wades,
Small blue heron stand watch like waiting maids.

3/29/2023...

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the first one to drink it
is the rooster who crows
high in the mountains
where the coffee bean grows

a wakeful injection
a confection so brown
in a dark-coloured liquid
I daily do drown

to be wired and fired
and mired in glad
it's desired and I'm inspired
to never be sad

from cash crop bushes
high up in the Andes
the world's gone apeshit
for stimulant candies...

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Happy half moon hides half 
        of happiness halfway high

Across a vast avalanche 
        of silvery specks of sky,

Nighttime neither nods nor sways 
        to steal some wakeful sleep,

Nature's new miracle you are, 
        moving, soothing me deep,

At the touch of your tiny fingers,  
        I smile, I sigh,

Happier, yes,  than the happiest 
        half moon am I!...

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FATHER

His sinewy hands as strong as lion’s
Hold close wobbly me like trellises
Wet sun shone through latticework mangled by harsh wind
In the stormy night we were soaked
Rain came down like maggots
I slept under his wakeful eyes.

Juice trickled from his tissues
My fingers awoke in contentment
To suck his rocky skin with my sisters
We felt like fireside cats.

He died fifty years old....

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Oh sleep,ye silent 
stealing of all conscious
that slips thru our minds
to capture dreams
to bring forth inconsistencies
a blur of schemes
that my wakeful mind
has no thought of
oh!ye steal our rest
and plunge our deepest
thoughts into mind
alternating images
to take our sleep
and leave us as tho
we have run a marathon
ye rambling,rumbling,tumbling
bits of logic
where nothing exist........

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The moon waxes beneath 
the sleepy shadow 
of its own halo.

By the mirror lake 
a lucid lunatic 
waxes poetic.

There he listens and 
sways to the tempo 
and rhythm that go

with the tune of colors, 
tints and hues 
of the lunar rainbow.

These he alone sees 
and hears in the night 
with deepest delight.

He grins at the moon and 
wakeful hours he can't keep, 
crawls back to sleep!...

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Most people fall asleep at night
And dream of fantasies delight;
Those spawned by wakeful malcontent
Of dreaded pasts and all they meant.
But when the light begins to dawn
Their dreams all vanish with a yawn.
My dreams are themes they are but two:
I dream of love and loving you;
And when I wake and wipe away
Besprinkled sand to start the day
I look around and here I see
The loving dream lies next to me....

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My significant other,
to our family 
you are a magnificent mother.
You are closer to me
than my sister and my brother.
You're my ray of light 
You're my friend and my lover.

And as I lay beside you 
in my oh so wakeful state,
I don't want to fall asleep
Because my dreams are not this great.
I pray we'll spend 
the rest of our days together
and In my heart my thoughts of you
are green for ever and ever....

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