Priyanka Singhal http://www.priyankasinghal.com A Long Journey of Learning Experiences Called LIFE! Sun, 16 Jul 2023 03:48:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Highways 2.0 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/highways-2-0/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/highways-2-0/#respond Sat, 09 Jun 2018 11:15:37 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=454 Continue reading Highways 2.0 →]]>

Morning chirps mock the muddled mind
Too many whys and unresponsive echoes
Lonely dawns and lost dusks

Change changes nothing.

Pine spines cover the terrain in rust
Rocks peep from behind the trees
Road twists every fifteen metres
Mould settles in every crevice
Trees ambush the trails
Toes and peaks talk
River disappears

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Playing peek-a-boo on dividerless ways
Giving right of way to defence trucks
Chasing tail lights
Approaching the pale bare horizon.

That city seems desolate
Just worms there.
And the cruel lit up sky.
Relentless. Sleepless.

There’s no one waiting.
With parallel dimensions lost
and effort becoming isolated.
Highways lead nowhere.

I have become less of me.

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/highways-2-0/feed/ 0 Wind http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/wind/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/wind/#respond Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:20:57 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=451 Continue reading Wind →]]> The silence of the wind is an enchanting absence.
recurring consistent soul-consuming

The change of seasons is an illusory anticipation.
atrocious unfulfilling life-denying

The colour of the sky is a blurry vision.
sooty sulphuric eye-scratching

The flower of the tide is a dusty heap.

Sweeping the tree only by a violent surprise
The wind is no longer in love with the leaf.

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/wind/feed/ 0 No, You Don’t http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/no-you-dont/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/no-you-dont/#respond Wed, 16 May 2018 11:07:46 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=448 Do you know the real me?

A charade of childish apprehensions
A flicker of hearty laughter
A cornucopia of silent deceptions
A bundle of sighs
A glimmer of fatigued vision
A string of desperate forevers
A clinging for new tomorrows
A hope from the depths of hopelessness

You do not know the real me.

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/no-you-dont/feed/ 0 Would you? http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/would-you/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/would-you/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:41:14 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=444 Continue reading Would you? →]]> Let me ask you, please?

What do you do when you know they know how you feel…
Know that all has been invested
And has been revisited
Reiterated and reassured?

What do you do when you know they are crying softly…
Know that they have shut themselves
And has been irreversible
Indelible and irremediable?

What do you do when you know they don’t wish to be around…
Know that they have asked you to back off
And have become tired
Troubled and turned down?

What do you do when you realise you can’t write anymore…
Know that all has been bared
And has run unheeded
Understood and undermined?

What do I do?
How do I stop this from closing in?

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/would-you/feed/ 1 A different kind of a forever http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/a-different-kind-of-a-forever/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/a-different-kind-of-a-forever/#respond Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:38:36 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=440 Continue reading A different kind of a forever →]]> There’s one.
An extremely precious one
Sparkling
Envied
Possessed
Locked up
Till eternity but not acknowledged
Nor remembered
Unless
To make a statement
Perhaps
Like an heirloom which stays
Forever
Is summoned occasionally.

There’s another.
Like that little piece of jewellery which everybody recognises
That favourite tee that always fits
That lipstick shade bought every two months
That hairstyle chosen for every occasion.

Isn’t there that kinda forever?
That’s the forever I want.

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/a-different-kind-of-a-forever/feed/ 0 Aghast http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/aghast/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/aghast/#respond Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:21:41 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=437 Continue reading Aghast →]]> Outrageous similarities in lives lived at distinctly different times
Shared, not just as they intersected
Shared, at a different level altogether.
Unknown by at least one
Unravelling to another
Everyday.
Unspeakable parallels
Undeniable truths
Surely they are, right!
Am I reading in a bit too much?

It shouldn’t unfold in the same way
It should remain forever hidden
As it would have without the commonality
In my heart.
Buried.
It wasn’t required
Reliving the chaos through the life of a beloved being
It is undesirable
Perplexing
Disturbing
Unparalleled.
How can this be?!

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/aghast/feed/ 0 Sigh, Again and Again http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/sigh-again-and-again/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/sigh-again-and-again/#respond Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:43:12 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=435 Remnants of an abandoned shadow
Desolated Deserted Deciphered
Haunting dark memories.
That itch, exactly where, nowhere.
The flight
Exactly where, nowhere.

Those loud loud noises
Voices from the heart
Amnesiac longings
Transversing on crests and troughs
Loss at both ends

And the gist
A hyperbole
A sigh.

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/sigh-again-and-again/feed/ 0 #epiphany http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/epiphany/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/epiphany/#respond Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:00:44 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=432 When you realise ‘I love you too’ was just a way of saying ‘ I’m sure I don’t love anybody else at the moment, so yeah… whatever!’
.
.
.

Epiphany.

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/epiphany/feed/ 0 Oscillations http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/oscillations/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/oscillations/#respond Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:04:57 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=429 Life’s not giving me alternatives
I feel stuck
They talk about me
I have become a myth.

Life’s moods are sine waves
I feel the drift
It’s being impulsive
It’s taking me with it.

Life’s as I think of it
I resolve to shift
I’ve gotta stick
I will make it.

]]> http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/oscillations/feed/ 0 Conversations at three feet above the ground http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/conversations-at-three-feet-above-the-ground/ http://www.priyankasinghal.com/2018/conversations-at-three-feet-above-the-ground/#respond Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:20:40 +0000 http://www.priyankasinghal.com/?p=426 Continue reading Conversations at three feet above the ground →]]> Ecstasy in tapping n toppling bottles in shelves
Sketching stories in air while elders chatter
Inching closer to the screen with every incomprehensible talk around
Focussing on the littlest the tiniest possibility, still or alive
Revelling in myriad pleasures unaware of the rest
Settling in a corner with the craziest of imaginations
Reciting and reiterating just to familiarise
Reshelving when not allowed, reordering when not desired
Following a fantasised order unaffected by facades
Deciphering the world one at a time

These little people
Unsullied
Unperturbed
Unfathomed
Unique in their beings
Just stay that way, alright?

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