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Spirituality, awakening, self-realisation,

Philosophy, intuition- nothing works!

Flabbergasted I hear a ‘heartbeat’,

Within me nestled like an ‘obedient child’,

I lay inert, an announcement: You are my heartbeat!

This beat has seen my many moods,

Insatiable shopping, the premiere cinema with popcorn,

Lunches at fancy restaurants,

Or a ‘quiet’ melancholy at a coffee shop,

Every time its rhythm an attractive redemption.

I am in awe with the word – heartbeat,

Joint yet such separable entities,

A word: an eternal life armour,

Show me who isn’t full of it?

Engaging yet compartmentalized: you are my heartbeat.

 

It has always been in me: at times fluctuating, 

Asking for no alterations, substitute or a pause(rest),

I have neglected, sometimes ignored it,

All my answers lie within it: a cosmos energy,

You are my heartbeat: an authenticity that binds me.

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Rajshree is from the defence forces. Married to Olive green, to her patriotism is a synonymous blend. Her father COL.KS RATHORE, is a gallantry award winner, Kirti Chakra. She is a classical dancer (Odissi), a voice over artist and a poetess at heart. Culmination of art and literature has held her pen over the years beginning as a child and deepened her understanding of aesthetics. It has sharpened her philosophical edge and made words pliable. Her genre of poetry is such where words are living entities, encircling and sometimes questioning the connotations of life. It has made the seeker in her more pronouncedand at times differential too. As an Indian classical dancer (Odissi) movements and words have been a constant engagement to her. Her works have found place in Asian Literary society, the poetry circle and the literature festival at Himachal Pradesh. Growing up reading Rabindranath Tagore, Khushwant Singh to Amrita Pritam, feminism has also impacted her thought process. John Keats and William Wordsworth have inspired her sense ‘creative imagery’. In her journey from childhood to adulthood poems have consciously reminded her to ‘stay’ in the moment yet continue to dream.