Ashok's Musings

How strange..? How strange? Some people come into our life, when we least expect them. How strange? The same people leave us all alone, when we least expect them to. How strange? They seem as if they don't miss us anymore, While we die to talk, meet and see them. How strange? The same people come back when we already built our walls around us,  When we learned to live without them, but with their memories. How strange? That these people can make our life more vulnerable, doubt our own worth, and cause us existential crisis in us. How strange? Life can be? how strange love can be? and how strange people and relationships can be? How strange? All of these for what? For loving genuinely, wholeheartedly and unconditionally. #CrazyPoetry  #LifeGoesOn #InsomniacWritings (This write-up was written on a winter night in November 2023)

Celestial Magic ✨ Two celestial bodies, came together, With beaming lights and bringing smiles, As if to embrace and check on each other, For soul connection is real, erasing all miles. It was a stellar artwork, a celestial magic, And there's your message, the skygazing souls, That you're not lonely and lost of that's tragic, I have your back and you mine, say the souls. For Souls Connection is real,  Erasing distances, and erasing miles, With the embrace of love and friendship so ideal,  And with the everlasting bond between those souls. #CrazyPoetry #CrescentMoon #Venus #MoonAndVenusConjunction #SkyGazing *** (It was written on Saturday, March 25th 2023 around 12.30 AM after skygazing two celestial bodies 'Moon and Venus' in their conjunction)

Your Friendship - An Ode to My Bestie "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one."                                    - C.S. Lewis Your Friendship You're that one Friend I wish everyone gets, That their world becomes a happy place. You're part in my life is so meaningful and pleasantly sets, And I am thankful to all the forces for this grace. You're that loyal friend who never left, And many a times I felt, My parents sent you from above that I don't bereft, As you with love, care and concern to me you dealt. You're that one soul, so practical, And the one that don't let me be so dreamy, With you around not a moment is dull, As with your presence you make places gleamy. How can I forget our old sweet days? Of Cinemas and food, beaches and college, Our deep talks about Literature, Cricket and life's ways,  and ...

Longing for My Love Drenched and drowned, Loved and lost in you, In your memories, In your voice, In your touch, In your love, And in everything about you, my love. Will you come and save me, my love? Will you wipe me away from this drenched state? With the warmth of your love? Will you be my lifeboat to take me to a shore, Where there's life and love? For only you, yeah you alone can save me. From this misery,  From this loneliness, From this emptiness, From this agony and  Will you come to my rescue my love? Here I am waiting for you, Waiting when everyone around me says to move on, I am waiting and waiting. I feel tired and exhausted, In waiting for you my love.  Come save this poor soul, From this state of immobility, From this state of darkness, From this state of aloofness. The walls around me are growing taller, Surrounding me with this lonely darker days and nights, Will you come and break them off? For you alone can do it to save me now. I gave the key of my happ...

To My Beautiful Butterfly 🦋❤️🦋 You're the best person I met this year No no..... Let me rewrite...... wait... You're the best person I ever met, In my whole life, my love. I'm not saying this in my drunken state, No my love, believe me for they say...  Drinkers talk the truth... Will you come to my rescue my love? I'm tired and exhausted in waiting for you my love. Oh love, you are my butterfly, My beautiful colourful butterfly, Your mere appearance is so enchanting, That I get lost in you as my world stops. I am slowly getting lost in your memories now. Let me get lost in you... Let me get lost in your love, In your tight hugs, In your warm kisses, In your embrace... And in your heart.... Forever and ever and ever.... To my dearest love.... My dearest butterfly 🦋❤️ In your love, I'm drenched and drowned,  Loved and lost in you, in your memories,  In your voice, in your touch, in your love,  And in everything about you, my love.  Will you come and save me, my...

Loneliness and  Depression When the nights seem longer, When the winds are colder, When the world seems darker, And the darkness seems scarier, Know that your survival is tougher, Oh dear mighty loner. The days seem depressing, The nights seem devastating, This loneliness slowly devouring, Fr om within and I'm feeling myself all losing,  The alcohol lost it's effect disgustingly, The lonely walks work no more tragically, Cinema and Music lost their charm ironically, And I come to Poetry so dearly. You were my Poetry, You were my happiness tree, And you stabbed my back against my plea, Does it make you happy and free? I can feel I am falling, Into depression from which you brought me out calling, Me with voice so angelic and loving, And all I have now are darker nights around me storming. Does anyone hear me out? Can you pass the message to her that she might comeback? To get me out of this sudden death, And crazier life that's depressing to the core. Is it just me? Or is i...

A Poem for My Lovely Butterfly on Her Birthday To MY LOVE, To my most Beautiful Butterfly, To my enchantress, And my Angel. Many happy returns of the day, To the one who tugs the strings of my heart. Many more awesome days may you have like today,  To the one who's beautiful in and out and smart. We met, for reasons unknown. We smiled from heart, for seasons known.  And once there was void at us that's blown, And now so strong we call each other my own. I shall always be thankful for having met You,  Oh! what memorable times I had with You! Thanks to heavens for the gift of her view, That forever I shall admire this beau. Oh but admiration seems so small a word, When I try to spell my heart's feeling for you, For you're an Angel in human form in the world, That I can't stop myself from falling for you. Near or far, it's only a distance, In my heart I have you carved for my existence. I shall continue to love only You until my death, Even if you don't come to...

Are you the Angel? Are you the Angel that God sent to me? Or are you the Goddess herself? Are you the answer for all my prayers and wishes?  Or are you the lucky charm that I most needed?  I bother not for the answers to these questions. For I know that you are my life's solution.  Angel or Goddess, you are here for me now,  And I wish that you would be there for me forever. #CrazyPoetry *** (This Poem was written on a cold night in December 2018 when life really felt blessed with the arrival of someone special at that time)

 The Love You Deserve  The Love You Deserve The love you deserve, Is the love you should seek to preserve. You deserve a love that is certain, Where you become yourself a better version. You deserve a love that is easy, Even on the days that feels mad and crazy. You deserve a love that is slow, Slow as a river but steadily on the flow. You deserve a love that is silent, Yet all the words in the world expressed in a way that's splendent. You deserve a love that is uncompromised, Where there's understanding ever promised. You deserve a love where you are prioritised, You become their world even without being asked. You deserve a love that is not rushing, Where you have time to breathe and not gushing. You deserve a love that's not toxic, Where loving them don't make you sad and sick. You deserve a love that doesn't seek affirmation, But knows that you stand on a confirmation. You deserve a love that doesn't ask for validation, Where there's freedom for you to ...

  Sarojini Naidu: the Nightingale who Courageously Sang and Fought for What is Right. February 13th is the Birth Anniversary of Sarojini Naidu. It was 145 years ago this incredible lady was born in Hyderabad in 1879. She was a multifaceted woman, who is remembered for her courage, her active participation in the Indian freedom movement and also for her creative, and motivational poetry. Sarojini Naidu's birthday (February 13th) is declared as National Women's Day by the Government of India to celebrate all the Indian Women for their significant contribution to society by their active participation in various fields. Sarojini Naidu fought bravely for women's rights in India, advocated for girls' education, and wanted women to stand on their own feet by becoming economically independent. She encouraged women to explore all fields because she believed that women are equally capable as men. One example could be this interesting story I read on the internet sometime back. On...

Another Actor turns Politician Famous Tamil Star Actor Vijay to jump into serious politics. Cinema Field and Politics have a special bond, and society also acknowledges both these fields as special and important while sometimes conveniently blaming the people involved in these fields for many problems in life. Many film industry people jumped into politics. History shows that many actors from various Film Industries like Hollywood Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood and Sandalwood turned politicians.  There are some actors who were extremely successful in politics  like M.G.R & Jayalalithaa from Tamil Film Industry and N.T.R in Telugu Film Industry who became Chief Ministers of  Tamil Nadu and  Andhra Pradesh (United AP) respectively. There are other actors who are/ were partially successful from Telugu Film Industry like Chiranjeevi, who became an MLA and an MP, , Kota Srinivasa Rao, who became an MLA, Babu Mohan, who became an MLA and a State Minister, Krishnam Raj...

Mother's Love💝 Sometimes feelings just overflow, With each second they only grow, Specially when life feels real low, They take away the even the last glow.  This deadly loneliness, This headache that troubles endless, A cold and cough,  And a fever and fret that knocks me off. Oh! how I wish you were now here, My dear Mom, how I wish you're so near, Oh! how I wish heavens had visiting hours, For I should've been there countless hours. To feel your touch that's so lovely, To feel your warmth so much lively, To feel your love, in abundance you once gave, And then onwards none could give. You taught me what love is, You taught me how missing someone feels, You know what you are to me, And how I wish you come back to me. So many things to be shared, And so much of love to be felt. No matter how far you went, I still feel you around me present. Silently caring me from above, I know you motherly dove, I miss you more in sickness, For I love you for times endless. *Dedicated...

A Cold Night🌃 So cold is the weather in the night, So wild are the thoughts in the mind, So far are the stars in the skies, And so sweet are the dreams in the eyes. Every dream has a base, Of a love and happy face, Every night has a story, Of a feeling mirth or gory.  My night seems to be colder, As I feel lonely and older, Life has it's ways of teaching, Of love, relations and living. Oh! this cold night is the recent darkest, Of life's mysteries so loudest, Not knowing what holds the future, Trying hard to sleep a bit tighter. Will there be an end to this cold night? Will this winter chills give way to the summer bright? There seems to be no end to such questions, And no one to answer as an end to these terrible sessions. But my friends, life goes on, Whether we accept or not, it goes on, Whether we heal from it or not, life continues to go on, Life always goes on, whether you board on it or not, it just goes on and on and on. As P.B Shelley said famously, If winter comes, c...