Screened Innocence

Poetry, Illustrations, Photography and more... "We all start off with a handful of innocence and nothing else and in time a veil is pulled over it... it gets hidden and screened away from the world and we become a shadow of the darkness all around... "

Name: Anubhav Kushwaha
Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

I started writing with poetry around 1996-97. I have been writing since then - poetry, stories, articles etc. I lost most of my initial works as I never cared to write it down in one place. Then later after friends started nudging me to take my writing more seriously, I started writing down in a diary and finally started blogging in around 2003. I deleted my first blog "Across the wall" for certain reasons in 2006 and then started again with "Screened Innocence". I am inspired by human emotions. Be it courage, fear, love, lust, greed, desire, loneliness or anything else and that is what makes me write most of my works. I am currently working on a novella called "My rough way" and am also actively looking for a literary representative as well as a publisher. My current employment in the software industry does not leave much time for writing but then it being my first love, writing does find time in my life some way or the other...

Monday, November 28, 2005

Another Painful Recess

What am I? The summer heat? The winter cold?
Effervescence of sadness quietly re-told ?
A bubbling marsh of death; pain; destruction;
A fallen angel; Risked again for resurrection...

This poem is a part of the collection in my book “Across the wall of my mind”

Friday, November 25, 2005

Renegade of Hope

Relegation of dreams; High hopes to fear of death!
Summers full of darkness; Winters with cold breath;
Errors; misdemeanors; repercussions; I depreciate!
Smiles - Forgotten; Lost; To pain I now relate...
I am a prisoner of thoughts; An error-prone device!
Supple; Tender; Damaged; From dusk to sunrise...

This poem is a part of the collection in my book “Across the wall of my mind”

Monday, November 21, 2005

Calm Distress

Quiet paths; Sombre tones; Long forgotten dreams of you,
Silent voids; Unfelt songs; Thoughts melting into the blue....

This poem is a part of the collection in my book “Across the wall of my mind”

Thursday, November 10, 2005

It's been taken

Fragments; of Me and of the thoughts crawling in my head,
A part of my self retreating, realizing that I am dead,
Loose threads of imaginations funnel down my mind,
I look for a dream and there is nothing I can find...

This poem is a part of the collection in my book “Across the wall of my mind”

Thursday, November 3, 2005

Cognitive Silence

Silence; Impeccable; Cognitive;
Reflecting sounds from within...

This poem is a part of the collection in my book “Across the wall of my mind”

Doubts of the soul

Summer slit into the mind, effervescent with heat,
Like a bubbling marsh, smelling of dead carcasses,
Mundane but surreal, petrified and paralysed,
Must time ask permission, to halt and move on...

This poem is a part of the collection in my book “Across the wall of my mind”

Alive for just a night

You say "final words" at dawn,
And you met me just last night,
Would you leave me now and be gone,
It was a temporary delight!!

Was there nothing said at all,
Or did a lifetime just pass by,
Was it just a wishful dream,
Or is everything else a lie...

I could hear footsteps when I slept,
Your thoughts hitting in my head,
Born for so long; Alive for just a night,
Lived all these days again to be dead.

Like a whisper; said; not heard,
Like a crisp whiff of air,
A night, full of lights,
Then dark days; Life's unfair.

Would you smile once, before you go,
Just a last glimpse of light,
And then we part, you leave me,
In a dark endless night...

-Anubhav