Photo credit to Wired Space Photo of the Day http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/space-photo-of-the-day-2/?pid=8451
The things that we did not hear or see
Once took us far away
Now with the doors open
Grounded in the Moment
Entrenched in the Journey of Here and Now
Embarking far ahead
Towards the Promises that were once Tucked Away
Knowing became familiar
And each Day became Lighter
Every new dawn full of hope, laughter and Joy.
© Sima Pendharkar October 2013
Northern Lights (photo credit given to http://fuckyeahnorthernlights.tumblr.com/post/38092318995)
Wondrous blue sky,
Floating above throughout the day
The keeper of our dreams,
Up, up and away
When the Night-time comes,
It holds all the tiny pieces that may,
One day light up our hearts
Bringing cherished wishes and hopes
Earthbound, here to stay
Forever is but a dream
But when it finally collides
The pieces from the dark sky night,
Touch the very moments of our lives
Feeding us with courage, hope and joy
To go in search of the path,
That can manifest our dreams,
In every single way
© Sima Pendharkar September 2013
Magical Forest (photo copyright from http://www.pegor.com)
Anchored from a time before,
Rooted in the seeds of yesterday
Tomorrow’s knowing
Stems from things of the Past
Small Waves,
Grounding Us in the Truth
What Lies ahead,
Is ever Present
Looking within,
Lights the path ahead.
© Sima Pendharkar September 2013
Ascension to another dimension
Floating in the sky,
Dark blue,
Then the other colors make their way too
Silent, standing air
Enveloping me in every way
This stillness
Speaks to me clearly
The message is infinite,
Eternal, untapped, released into this moment now
A familiar field from another time
Yet here in this space and time,
It all collides together
And I am the interpreter of these things
Dark night sky, salty ocean tide
Here is where the Past, Present and Future
Flow together as One
And for a Moment in time,
The silence magnifies us in Peace, Knowing and Stillness
And it is here where we collide and unite
Celebrating our Oneness
Offering a glimmer of Hope.
© Sima Pendharkar July 2013
“Hibiscus in Durham.” Photograph by Sima Pendharkar 2011.
Yesterday the sun rose
And so it came to fall
The birds that were chirping
Eventually went to rest
The crashing tides,
Melted into the earth’s stuff
And so it goes
The timeless cycle of nature
Here one minute,
But then gone the next,
Ever present
We find ourselves entrenched in the truth,
But A jewel of knowing
Infinite wisdom
Covers us in a blanket
Like the starry night sky
Enveloping us in warmth
A guiding light
Infinite possibility,
As such, we come to know
© Sima Pendharkar May 2013
“Highways.” Pastel/Color Pencil Sketch by Sima Pendharkar 2012.
The Room Upstairs is a place that fills me with such delight. The Room Upstairs is a place that I can go sometimes at night. Or other times when I’m not feeling just right.
The sunlight trickles in majestically, and there are things big and small that usually grow. Just what, Oh I do not claim to know.
And on some days when the bitter wind, burnishing my being, hits me in ways that send me railing, I can take shelter in The Room Upstairs.
Picking up the pieces, feeding upon the light, the love the unending hope and wisdom. An evolving door of sorts, to be entered in an infinite time, place and space. But only at your own pace.
A sparrow’s regeneration through flowing crystal drops, a child’s unfolding in the warm grains on a quiet afternoon, a woman’s delighting in songs that infiltrate the warm summer air, feeling all the while.
Do you have a Room Upstairs? The Room Upstairs is a place for the young and the old, for the furry and the bold. It is a place where the heart can unravel and unrest, meanwhile the soul and All will manifest.
So tell me, what are the contents that you choose to keep in that place and space, Where you ever so often grace.
In that room of yours, The Room Upstairs?
© Sima Pendharkar May 2013
And when the stars come out
In the middle of the night
What are the colors
Swimming through your dreams
Are they bright? Are they just right? Do they glow…
And make your heart grow
Helping you know
Just where you should go?
For the promise of tomorrow
Rests happily in the whispering winds, within the turning tides
The sleepy sun, the meandering meadows
And all that is within our reach
In the here and now in this time
Is in This Time
the treasured Moment.
© Sima Pendharkar August 2012
When I turned the light on and appeared
There you sat, a wounded mess
Steeped in your stuff and madness,
Stewing in your ephemeral haze,
That’s the way you went
The direction it seems, had been chosen
Or that is what you told you
If only you would have known
That over the billowing hills,
Just up the way
A field of sunshine lay
Open just about every day
But only to those
With the truest wishes, the most simple desires
To believers just Believers
These are the things that I learned
From the earth and sky
But since you can’t get by
I leave you here hoping someday you will fly
For now, Stew away in your stuff and mess
But as for me, I’m going so bye.
© Sima Pendharkar May 2013
“Ocean and Sky.” Acrylic Painting by Sima Pendharkar 2011.
My legs are strong. My arms are smooth. What was once unsure can now stand through the test of time. We step ahead. We step back. What keeps us going? I don’t have the answers. I hum to my favorite song as I speed down the highway. I like speed. I giggle. I cry. Who is doing that. Warm, burning feeling down my throat. I twist and turn, moving without rhythm to the beats that I cannot hear. I rest awake, staring into nothing. Who knows what the new day will bring.
© Sima Pendharkar July 2006
“Welcome to the World Amani.” Acrylic Painting by Sima Pendharkar 2008. (Painting/Poem written for my niece’s birth)
little Star,
may you tread lightly
with the Sun always hitting your Heart
may you hold your head high
and allow Mother Earth’s
eternal Love, peace, Happiness and kindness
to move your beautiful spirit
so that it may roam the earth in discovery
free, uninhibited, with purpose and joy
© Sima Pendharkar February 2010
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