The Kiss of Life

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 5/17/2013 11:13:48 AM

'Resuscitate dreams Those turn insipid And colourless With touches of time Restore hope Buried beneath Debris of despair Recreate love That loses its sheen With ravages of age Recreate the sense of wonder It abandons Us in humdrum Of existence Reclaim parts Of the soul You masked to face the world Unearth the vulnerabilities You […]'

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Reflected Patterns

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 5/14/2013 10:16:10 AM

'Snippets And fragments That don’t fit together Jarring notes Aching to find a symphony Lingering moments Melting into bittersweet memories Inexplicable agony That slips into Unknown dark alleys Threads that weave Into patches not patterns Yet we amble on Ascribing meaning To ambiguity Till the pieces Begin to fall in place And fleeting emotions Find […]'

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The waves of time shall turn

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 5/1/2013 10:08:36 AM

'( image courtesy :Google) Drowning In an abyss Of our thoughts Floating in a swamp Of fear Walking on The trapeze of trepidation We seem to forget That the pieces Don’t always fit together It isn’t always going To be fair weather The storms will pass The darkness will Mellow into light Just hold on [...]'

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Rocky Road Ahead

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 4/23/2013 7:27:10 AM

'The road you chose Is a lonely one The Twists and turns are sharp There are bends and Boulders lined on the way You might encounter fellow travellers Who walk with you a distance And diverge to make their paths The road will get rockier There will be storms to conquer Don’t look back in [...]'

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Our worlds are different

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 4/17/2013 9:47:04 AM

'We inhabit different worlds You and I Our realities run Parallel Like the tracks of a train Our ideologies Collide and clash But seldom meet We run like The banks Of a river Our minds On different tangents Our perceptions In dissonant notes We walk side By side Yet our eyes View the world So [...]'

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Rekindling Life

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 4/17/2013 9:41:10 AM

'She cried Silently into the night Where no one could hear They had blown Away her castles In the air With whispers of conspiracy They had burnt down Her dreams On the pyre Of convention They had stepped On her hopes With a stampede Of disapproval Her dreams Her hopes Her world Lay scattered Like [...]'

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Life’s Lessons, Longings and Impressions

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 4/8/2013 9:42:18 AM

'Life’s unpredictable, unfair and yet a beautiful journey If you have an appetite life has a lot to offer. You just need to open your arms to feel it, experience it in entirety , all joys and sorrows, all hopes all dreams . As I inch towards 30, I have this incessant urge to reflect [...]'

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An eternal wait

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 4/4/2013 9:39:12 AM

'Broken dreams Abandoned hopes Lay strewn about Fledgling passion Half baked idealism lie buried in the recesses of a memory lane we no longer walk down Languishing under the dredges of reality Tempered with the bittersweet burden of existence they lay there waiting in earnest to be resurrected Longing for the walls of resistance to [...]'

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Celebrating Womanhood

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 3/8/2013 10:36:52 AM

'Don’t see my courage in it It’s a conspiracy of silence My endurance is no virtue Its a defense against years of conditioning and violence Don’t worship me while you bruise me in spirit and womb Don’t walk all over my being and put me on a pedestal or engrave my name in a temple [...]'

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A Place I can call home

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 3/7/2013 9:17:56 AM

'Where masks aren’t needed to veil vulnerability and tears Where there’s room for hope a space to assuage your fears Where the cup of love keeps brimming over and windows open up to the dawn of change Where the heart can follow its voice sans intrepidity Where peace and love nestle to give birth to [...]'

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Of Letting Dreams Die….

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 3/4/2013 6:15:07 AM

'“Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.” Ever so often I have noticed people give up dreams, longings and wishes because the significant others in their lives usually parents and spouse don’t approve of them or don’t take them seriously. And we human beings especially women  are ever [...]'

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Tell me….

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 3/1/2013 10:59:11 AM

'Tell me of the darkness that envelops our souls Tell me of the dreams and desires that we buried in the backyard of reality Tell me of the emptiness that swallows our core The helpless ire that clips our wings Talk to me of that simmering rage that scathe our beings like a forest on [...]'

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Life’s always elsewhere

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 2/27/2013 10:11:55 AM

'For ages if there’s something that I haven’t been able to figure is my relationship with reality.It’s been tumultuous nonetheless troubled. To top it all I have had a fascination for the make believe world and have also found a refuge in the world of reverie and fantasy. But now as I head towards the [...]'

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Empowered Women and Increasing Divorce Rates – Related?

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 2/26/2013 10:16:32 AM

'The chasm only keeps growing and is swallowing up our  relationships. If you’re still wondering what am I referring to here are  the striking  differences between men and women in our society. Archetypical and  biological differences are universal; but what plagues our society is different. The men seem trapped in a time warp and are [...]'

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Longing for Joy

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 2/16/2013 7:26:49 AM

'In fits and starts In scattered parts In fragments In figments In moments In fleeting longings In deep desire In raging fire In silence of the soul In transience In permanence they visit us fleetingly Joy, hope and happiness We owe them some space We owe it to ourselves A quiet cornerA room in our [...]'

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Tick-Tock, Were 30: A review

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 2/14/2013 7:24:05 AM

'At the brink of turning the big 30, the title more than caught my fancy and I couldn’t resist requesting a copy from the generous  Women’s Web . From Milan Vohra our very first indigenous Mills & Boon author , this book is a light breezy read on a spring afternoon. The key characters include  [...]'

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Foot in Mouth Syndrome

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 1/11/2013 10:50:33 AM

'Beware! An epidemic has hit our country,and all the politicos and god-men seem to be succumbing to this !It is the foot and mouth disease.  Mohan Bhagwat, Kailash Vijaywargiya, Ramesh Bais, Bapu Asaram and Abu Azmi have suddenly crawled out of the woodwork or rather oblivion and are smattering all kinds of regressive mumbo-jumbo on [...]'

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Reminiscing The Year That Was

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 12/28/2012 11:11:21 AM

'Meandering Between creases Between boundaries Between spaces Between emptiness Gushing Between love Between anguish Swinging Between hope Between Sorrow There is time That flows Sometimes like a silent river Passing beneath Bridges we build Washing away Walls we erect Sometimes rolling like A reckless stream Sometimes Roaring like impassioned waves We do all we can [...]'

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Embracing Change

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 12/4/2012 11:16:56 AM

'With the passage of time and with a brush with experiences I am coming to realize familiarity, security, comfort and security are double-edged swords. They lure you into shirking change and pull you towards maintaining status quo. We keep holding back fearing the imponderable what if change doesn’t bring what we visualize. We stay put [...]'

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4 years !

Author : liveonimpulse      Blog : Liveonimpulse's Blog      Date : 11/23/2012 10:53:59 AM

'Can’t believe its been four years today since the day I discovered the joys of blogging . This blog has seen me through several phases: good, bad, mad, ugly, sad and temperamental. It has been a sounding board for me, a place where I could say anything without the fear of being judged or caring [...]'

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