A moment of clarity

 You do not need a mentor or a book to tell you the meaning or purpose of life. Look around you; there are enough answers. It is a roundabout way of saying most answers lie within ourselves if we look hard. Some people call it introspection, others meditation. I call it thinking. There is always a moment of clarity lurking around. It can find you under a tree, in a flowing brook, or under the plain blue sky.

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Anant Dhavale

( this is not a poem !)

11 PM

See, the music was awful.

so I had to intervene and

the night was opaque enough

to engulf things

living and not

(the cavorts of solitude included)

a solitary walk is still a possibility

but the question of

willingness is mostly moot

the first twist of the hour

a lament obscure enough to be

ignored, but the human condition

remains

lingering beneath

clean are these moments

of unperturbed-ness

and beyond

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Anant Dhavale

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Pictures

 This city is a proverbial

melting pot, your

roots do not matter much here 

nor do the modes of payment 

mostly digital 

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I negotiate for a complimentary 

Roasted papad

The maître d' agrees it’s a fair deal

The world moves on 

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A girl maneuvers her way

through stares and

glances

some benign 

others not so 

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It’s cozy here in this 

plush hotel room 

a curtain you’ve pulled over 

your eyes 

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Two worlds blossom 

on every street 

nook and cranny

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Anant Dhavale

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