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0.1 Expressions
Newness of Being
July 2021
Artwork: Moonflower by Tejal Sharan
Discovery by Ria Chauhan
Consummating life/
Breaking up with life by Neharika Gupta
The butterfly sings for you to wake up and dream of movement as pure as it is painful; with silvery inventions which master creation like a statue bursting forth with rain as pencilled-in prophecies erupt like fireworks in twenty-three new memories which are fragile; inquisitive; and hold themselves up against the sun.
Remembering that, the sky is jealous of the happiness of the eclipse – happy as fingertips reaching for the azure mind of the orange sky where shimmering salts give us space to understand its brightness; it is like expecting someone whose drops of laughter dream out loud for you; pirouetting across like dreams.
The flowers cast a shadow of blood and the lantern spins in the mirror while the calcite unites and the paper ball crumples and uncrumples in the soil; as tea bags of salt whitewash the room; the accuracy of the haunting giving way to shreds of thought like broken music dancing before your eyes.
Supposing… just suppose yellow melancholy raindrops in a second flash like ghosts do on reality; and shock us into believing our kisses are numbered – interrupting the love reverie of the owl in beat to the glory and colour of the stain on the landscape; of the inadequate skeletons of porcelain.
On the path of discovery
I look for a key.
Dipping into a pool for energy
only to find it replenished
with each touch from me.
How does this work?
Scrounging around, and
puddles keep on growing.
Now, they seem like the
perfect spot for growth.
So, I sit bare-feet.
Maybe answers are buried deep in -
each time I go looking outside
I somehow heal more from within.
And flowers bloom
where doubts once loomed
with each stroke of my hand
my mind eases down.
Don’t pick them it says,
they are just a part of you.
All of the blooms, and thorns too.
Bring some water to the pool instead
and surround yourself.
The answer sits besides you
quietly, as it always has.
About Mysticeti's friends:
Neharika Gupta is a poet, fiction author and lifestyle writer based in Delhi.
Tejal Sharan loves illustrating and believes in the power of visual storytelling in everyday life.
Ria Chauhan writes free verse and spends most of her time baking lemon cakes.
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