Pallavi Baruah (Freedom 2022)

Pallavi Baruah

My Purple Heart

 

holding on to my bruised,

battered and bent out of shape

pulsing purple heart,

never deflecting, always facing

with clarity and freedom

of already having donned

apposite outcome of

choices awaiting me,

every breath, a silent promise

to rise, reshape, restart

my still wild purple heart

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The Gift of Freedom

between the howl of yesterday

and the silence of today

I stand fearless beneath

paralyzed and perplexed skies

imbued with pulsing life of

your divine essence throbbing in me

bestowing me with the gift of freedom

from forever wanting, wailing, wandering

leading me to rest gently,

in the lyrical climes of this

solivagant soul’s encapsulation

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Let it...

let it take you there

let your uncharted guide you to treasures of you

let your untamed lead you to unlimited courage

let your fear push you to conquer your unlimited

let your wonder guide you to breathtaking expanses

let your thoughts be colored by the chromatic hues of nature

let your faith in yourself be indivisible

let your freedom learn to be free

let it take you there

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Freedom at Rock Bottom

that moment when I hit rock bottom,

mauled by futile nothingness

listening keenly for the susurration of hope

I found starlight ripples of freedom,

I transformed, from without to within

unfurling unturned shades of choices,

language of awareness and acceptance,

to being, to know myself, to walk my talk,

being comfortable to 'be different and be damned'

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My words

my words murmur in the lair

welcoming the whisper of dawn

longing for the gift of liquid freedom

to pluck and tuck from fragments of buried memories

before it becomes lost to echoes of forever

trickling into poetic waterfalls

unperturbed by any flip of the spin,

if nothing, words are what will

always remain of me, waiting in the lair

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Bio: Pallavi is an incidental poet and a writer who loves to write just for the love of

writing and expressing life around and about her.

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Freedom 2022 :: Setu, August 2022