Beauty of Broken

What does it feels like when something ends when someone leaves you or something is just taken back from you?
It feels as if the time should stop so that I can catch that thing before it flies away,
It feels as if I’m falling deep in a pit and I’m losing myself.
I feel the sudden darkness as if everything around me is losing it’s light or am I losing my light?
A piece of me is still there with that thing and I can’t get it back ever again now. I feel the hollowness it leaves inside me, and suddenly everything seems incomplete, I feel empty and it becomes hard to breath it’s like this air is not the air I need, this, this is suffocating me and my heart bleeds as if crying for it’s lose and right on cue tears coursed down my cheeks. Worst, is a small word to describe what it feels like and it doesn’t end there, the sadness, it makes a home inside you, filling up that empty place and that’s all you are left with after everything you do, that’s all you have and it makes you who you are. Try falling in love with the emptiness inside you and you’ll realize that the beauty doesn’t lie in the happiness, the beauty lies in the sadness and it makes everything more exquisite and today this beauty is all I feel, it feels beautiful to be broken.

– Mallika Pawar

Sunset

I have always loved a sunset more than a sunrise. I love how the sun is not in it’s full glory, and becomes subtle, almost delicate as it settles itself behind the water, afraid to hurt it. I love how the sky turns a soft shade of pink with little golden hues like an artist’s careless stroke. Maybe it’s the pessimist inside me that likes to watch the sun; something that resembles happiness go down or maybe it’s the nyctophile in me that will finally see the darkness.

-R. T. S

Insomnia

A little angry moon,
not too scarlet, not too pale;
is hovering over my roof
in the breathless night.

The company of soulless wind,
helps me no more,
the pain in my dreams is red
with a hint of charcoal;
it paints me every night
in the shades of venom.

So I seek the closeness
of tiny droplets of rain,
they’re the exquisite
touch of numbness,
I crave before every
sleepless night.

The numbness fades slowly.

Now I count the stars,
at the edge of the dawn
and they count the birds
I have buried in my backyard.

– Zenab Khan

Empty

A thousand word to curse the day,
none to hiss the pain of prey.
Gallons of eye to scare my shape,
a pair to reflect the rage I tame.
Some mercy from clouds to soften veins, for all the eyes with dejectible pain.
Hush and push the chaos all cross, not the burden in my hands and legs.
I feel my hand in someone’s embrace
I look and smile to all I want.
The facade is gone my mask overthrown,
with trembling lips and shaking voice to the face I love, I frown.
I feel safer the closer he gets, and smile when he whisper ‘its all okay’
Maybe a kiss will mend….
Just all this time my eyes been closed and as I open its all gone.

-Ocean

Bagh Paintings.

Replicas of Bagh Paintings, in State Museum of Bhopal.

There are total 30 paintings in State Museum at Bhopal that are replica of Paintings by the Master painters of ancient India at Bagh Cave around 5th century A.D. These paintings give a synopsis of the life they lived. They show them dancing and singing and being engaged in various forms of art.

There are around seven paintings that show Lord Buddha and his devotees, two of these pictures are named Preaching Buddha, in these pictures you can see Buddha he is shown very calm and peaceful, he is addressing religion, its true meaning and importance, to his devotees who are sitting around him in a circle. In Three of these paintings Buddha is alone he is very calm and peaceful, with his eyes closed, probably to show his spiritual connection with God.

There are many floral Paintings which highlight flora and fauna, you can see drawings of flowers and swans and elephants in most of them, this gives us an idea that elephants were of great importance that time, and they are present in most of the line paintings. Swans appear to be no less important than those of elephants, there are around five paintings which show swans, in three of them you can see a couple of swans, they’re said to represent love, and the other two are portraits of swan. One of these picture is divided into two parts, the above part shows a pair of swans and lower one a swan.

There are also paintings of Bodhi, which is known to a religion followed by devotees of Lord Buddha, In these paintings his devotees are shown spreading the religion, taking their beliefs to other people, helping them live a better live.

Some of these pictures are insight to their lifestyle, there is a picture that is named Mourning in it a woman is shown crying as she lost someone very close to her that probably is her child. Another one of them represents a group of boys who are dancing and another, a group of ladies who are singing and have some musical instruments. All these paintings are very beautifully drawn, and many of them are signed by B.A Gupta.

Colours used

The basic technique of colour extraction they used, that is known to us is, from different kind of stones Ochre is mostly used as we can see, there are many stones are are displayed in art gallery of State Museum of Bhopal, they are inside a big glass box with their names.

Canvas

Their canvas were the walls of caves they made and the pillars they used, all these paintings are reflection of them. There canvas could have been anything tree barks or grounds or anything. There are proof that they even use to draw on each other nothing but alike tattoo, we know this as there are some village near by where there live people who still follow ancient rituals and believes, there most of the people live in huts and the walls are decorated with different styles.

Engraved

It is possible that these paintings were drawn using sharp objects or tools, the pillars are very richly engraved showcasing a lot about them.

words, that can help you swim in the city.

– Authored by; Ocean.

Beginning

welcome.

“Three goes in, three comes out” this is a dialog in a very famous t.v series popularly known as shadowhunters. we changed it a bit (according to our convenience)  we say it as “four goes in, four comes out”.

Hello, this is Mallika’s, Ridah’s, Zenab’s and Richa’s (Ocean) blog, we are not just classmates or best-friends we are four parts of a puzzle that completes together, we belong together and are completely clueless without each other. Between lot of similarities our interest varies from history to psychology.

We write not just poetry but also short stories and are working on our individual novels, we do book reviews. And hopefully RRZM would provide you everything you’re looking for.

Thankyou.