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Dishna Phukan
Aug 12, 20241 min read
MY PRECIOUS
What were you to me ever? Always eluding my understanding? So dry I was, Not a drop of honey in life Not aware of your sweet nectar....
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Dishna Phukan
Sep 11, 20231 min read
LAMP
A night where I question, Who am I, what is my worth, Sleepless, anxious, Alone. From my window, a playful light That of a lamppost,...
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Dishna Phukan
Apr 22, 20231 min read
TREE
I am your Lark, Born on a different tree Made for You - my Tree. Born together, but parallel. Have flown for so long, To find You and...
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Dishna Phukan
Apr 2, 20231 min read
MY MOON
You are my moon, Your light, silver and cool Calming and stilling Your light - the only hope In the darkest of nights Those flowers bloom...
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Dishna Phukan
Mar 26, 20231 min read
WANT
Mind: "What do you want?" Floating and tossed and turned I feel, When I am with you What do you even want from me? Why do you have to So...
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Dishna Phukan
Mar 21, 20231 min read
MY LOVE, YOU SCARE ME
My Love, you scare me Your ideas thrill me Yet, sometimes I wonder, Do you look into me? And do you burn me? For me? My Love, I feel your...
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Dishna Phukan
Mar 19, 20231 min read
BAKED
So soft, teeth sinking pillowy pillowy against my lips Butter, butter, smooth and golden, Vacation of a sort. Waft of golden in the air...
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Dishna Phukan
Jul 18, 20221 min read
STARS
I had dreamt Of the stars in the sky -so beyond my reach The rich tapestry called 'Dreams'. But were they ever my own? After the dark,...
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Dishna Phukan
Jul 11, 20221 min read
DEAR MY FRIEND
So sore I was, fighting demons In this vast, yet vastless land Demons of my own. Bruised, Cut, Burnt, Almost without Life. But you found...
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Dishna Phukan
Jul 4, 20221 min read
LOVELESS
Wide eyes pleading, don't let go, Not just yet, not yet. But now that I see, You were never mine to lose, coz' I was clasping and...
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Dishna Phukan
Jun 27, 20221 min read
CLOUDS
Wading in the still dark waters, Chained in a deep dark abyss -Filled with the tears of despair Where, where is the light? It seems to...
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Dishna Phukan
Jun 20, 20221 min read
COME SOON
Almost sunset, warm breeze, salted air Deep in the fields, feet among the wheat stalks. Like wafts of baked bread, You come to me. Like a...
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Dishna Phukan
Dec 31, 20211 min read
NON-TEMPORAL
Timeless I have become Past, Present, Future All collide - one Eternal. Living every moment Countless of them together That child - that...
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Dishna Phukan
Dec 24, 20211 min read
CORNER
My Dream, blanket of darkness Yet, light deep within trying to spread Churn I did - body, head and mind Now, the light scattered into...
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Dishna Phukan
Dec 17, 20211 min read
BROWN LEAF
Standing still under the sunset Red umbrella overhead The sky above clearing Golden-brown, red leaves falling. The gentle autumn leaves...
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Dishna Phukan
Dec 11, 20211 min read
NOOR-E-KHUDA
Only yesterday I had heaved A sigh of relief. At last, at long last, I can breathe without fear. Life was just entering me when... Again...
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Dishna Phukan
Nov 14, 20211 min read
FLIGHT
I had made wings to fly Wings of dreams and hopes. Now I have chained them up. Without care - they rot. Built of light they were Bright,...
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Dishna Phukan
Oct 23, 20211 min read
NIMATIGHAT
Flashing before my eyes, My old, heart-broke parents, Yellow water all around - Fear; My roofless children, Black bodies all around -...
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Dishna Phukan
May 30, 20211 min read
Reading: THE LOST SYMBOL
Dan Brown's thriller The Lost Symbol starts with the following words, which the author quotes from Manly P. Hall's 'Secret Teaching Of...
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Dishna Phukan
May 23, 20211 min read
KHUD
Bataao zaraa humein Ki ye ghairat mandi hai Ya khud garzi (?), Ki maine 'khud'ko chunaa 'Hum'ko nahi. Translation: [Just tell me If it...
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