roomamehra

A Little Intro

rooma mehra is an artist who has faith in the power of nature, God and positive energy of life. "Expect a miracle. Have faith and hope. Because night is darkest just before dawn.. and you or I do not hold the brush that colors the night and the day. Just expect to wake up to one miracle morning, as an unreasonably happy person. It will happen inevitably when you have reached the end of your tether. When God and peace have begun to appear like bleak dreams that only fools believe in. Dream of that morning, it will come." This artist statement elucidates her beliefs.

This belief resonates in Mehra's works, whether it is her paintings, drawings or sculptures. Her style is fluid and colors vibrant echoing her positive attitude. She is not restricted by styles or palette each work reflects her individuality and her perception of the subject.

The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
Courtesy tribuneindia.com (https://m.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011111/spectrum/main2.htm)

Exhibitions:

International & National One Woman Shows: 12
International & National Group Shows: 14
Participation in International & National shows: 10

Mehra's artworks are found in private and permanent collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Arte Antica Gallery, Canada, and individual collections in Switzerland, the US, Denmark, Austria the UK, Spain, the U.A.E. and Japan. Mehra's art has been referred to as a new art. rooma mehra is also a well known poet, author, journalist and spiritual singer (musician and singer)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooma_Mehra

Art Journey.. rooma mehra

EXCERPTS FROM ART REVIEWS AND WRITE-UPS BY ART CRITICS

Things that fade, that cannot easily be caught and pinned down are Mehra’s concern, as of any devoted artist who knows that to seek is all.

Keshav Malik in The Times of India

There must be something common between painting, sculpture, poetry and music, so many painters write poetry, so many poets can also play some musical instrument or the other or sing.

One of them is rooma mehra .

Khushwant Singh in his MALICE column on rooma mehra in THE HINDUSTAN TIMES.

Rooma’s works reveal the products of a mind which in its ultimate imaginative reach is capable of finding itself wherever it looks even though it marks within, its own divisive strengths.

There is a sense of visual victory, as one perceives these works. Rooma’s is a fertile mind rich in the aspects of intricately and exquisitely enriched cognitive details. Rooma’s works invite an inexorable condition in which the intricacies are not to be revealed in the experience of the condition. It’s quality is felt in the richness of the ambient which engages the imagination with a wide range of tactile visual incident.

Rooma’s paintings evoke a splendor that must have existed below the thin white sheen of the canvas she touched. In the stillness of all else around you listen to these paintings – as they weave their way through the crest of melody. For Rooma perhaps it is the inevitable that colour should be used with a fervent relish. In her deliberation to personalize or depersonalize she has also set a stage for a new creative art.

ROOMA’S RESONANCE’ BY UMA NAIR

Rooma's Art is revolutionising in the sense that it emphasizes more on the happening. She touches the very core of personalities through her tantalizing and balanced shades

A HAPPY BLEND OF WATERCOLOURS" by Vijay Bhushan

rooma mehra is a young artist who combines in her person both poetry and painting. It is a rare combination, but a strong one. What is significant is that she makes effective statements both literally as well as visually.

Rooma’s works with a sure hand and a lot of thinking goes into her work. That is why she knows what she is doing and what exactly she wants from the medium. It will be interesting to watch her next stage in both painting and in poetry. For she is a progressive artist and poet.

WITH A SURE HAND" BY R.S. YADAV

Within the tradition of a synthesis of art forms and artists is an increasingly popular artist, rooma mehra . A self-taught painter and a poetess of repute, her watercolours are currently on display.

Rooma has chosen to work within the paradigm of the universal shunning the obvious "Indian" imagery.

NOT OF IMAGERY ALONE’ by Seema Bawa in THE PIONEER

Her strength lies in her sensitive faces as well as in her use of colours. Mehra has made skillful use of the medium of watercolours, exploiting both its dreamy, vapour-like quality as well as its rich colours and hues.

SERENE DREAMSCAPES’ by Bharati Chaturvedi in the INDIAN EXPRESS

Rooma’s works exude secretiveness and a magical charm. You must believe in magic, if you want to prod this unknown terrain.

ROOMA MEHRA’S ART: ‘PRODDING AN UNKNOWN TERRAIN’by Narendra Dixit (the then Director of the LALIT KALA AKADEMI’S ARTIST’S STUDIOS) IN Sunday Reading of "The Tribune"

Among the sculptors, rooma mehra holds an important place with her mural-like pieces. She interweaves imagery with a philosophical bent to life. In the modern context, her art is highly evocative and innovative. And the general effect is that of relief sculpture.

PROGRESSIVE TRENDS’ by V. SHAW reviewing the 62nd Annual All India Art Exhibition organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society.

Rooma belongs to the new generation and as her duty demands, she has a record to show a total involvement with her subject. She is an artist who finds her platform step by step. Her growth in the field has been evident for a strong work base

GLIMPSE OF PRESENT-DAY OBJETS D’ART’ from the Art Review of THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART

The familiar idiom of brush and colour, used to express familiar emotions, but the style in which rooma mehra expresses them truly distinguishes them.

RATNOTTAMA SENGUPTA in THE TIMES OF INDIA

If the viewer goes through the paintings of rooma mehra , he will find a tragic sense of life deeply etched in the background of every painting. Looking at her paintings, no one would doubt the reality of the disquiet in her soul.

PAINTER’S DISQUIET IN SOUL’ in THE INDIAN EXPRESS

After seeing her paintings, the predominant feeling that one has is that she is in search of an incomprehensible and invisible truth – a longing for which is reflected in all her paintings.

ROOMA MEHRA’S WORLD OF ART’ IN NAVBHARAT TIMES

As a poetess and composer of many published pieces, Rooma views painting as having strong affinity with poetry. One expresses in the unsaid manner and the other in the said word.

FULFILLING A NEED’ in THE HINDUSTAN TIMES

rooma mehra ’s multi-faceted personality cast a woman in bronze entitled "Prayer" to remind the sacrifices made by the martyrs.
Conglomeration of forms, and rough textures are found so often in the art of Rooma.

IN TRIBUTE TO MARTYRS’ by VIJAY BHUSHAN Commenting on an exhibition organized by GARHI ARTISTS COMMUNITY FOR KARGIL MARTYRS at Lalit Kala Akademi

A very intense but muted angst permeates the Shridharani Gallery - a feeling of trauma and suffering runs through Mehra's work.

"COMMENDABLE" by the Art Critic, THE HINDU

rooma mehra 's has been an aware and active participation in Contemporary Art for the past many years.

THE COMPLETENESS OF THE WOMAN" in Dainik Jaagran

"Strokes of muse and colour" in The Sunday Tribune

Art Press (Los Angeles)

A review of "The Storm is Over.." by renowned Los Angeles Art Critic Kobina Wright in The Wrighter, Saturday, 19th October 2013
Followed by a write-up by well-known journalist Tim King in Salem News :
https://fineartamerica.com/pressreleases/-the-wrighter-reviews-the-storm-is-over---art-by-rooma-mehra.html
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july202012/tustin-india-art.php

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Painting, Watercolor on Paper Size: 28 W x 34 H x 1 D in

This work was inspired by the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, India in 2002 It was accompanied by a heart rending poem by her

Gujarat 2002

The stench
from
burning flesh
rises
like smoke
from the cremation
of a
smiling child.
Blood
from dripping
knives
carve wounds
on the
weeping roads
of my country.

At the end
of this tunnel
the Buddha
smiles..

But who will
end
the tunnel?

Worms
eating tunnels
into
gullible minds

Words
eating tunnels
into
gullible minds

Who will
will fill
the tunnel
with the
smile
of Buddha
burnt
in the cremation
of a
smiling child?

Painting Purchase Link : https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/9358

Wave (18.700 x 13.100 x 0.200 inches)

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Communication (9.000 x 12.000 x 0.010 inches)

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6.500 x 11.700 inches

CODE: 1106
PRICE: $1000

Ganesh, Watercolours on Paper, 1991, 55x74cms

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6.500 x 11.700 inches

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Celebration of life...

Be..

Stand
Tip-toe
Reach Out..
Run
Stop
Reach Out..

Fly
Grasp a star
By its tail
Thread The hole
In the soul
The blank
Aching hole
Left By the death
Of the Earth
The day
Of Judgement..

Touch..Touch..Touch..
The tip of the waves
In the blank blue sky
Catch dewdrops
On your ashen face
As they drip
From the being
Of pregnant raindrops
Into the vacuum
Of today..

Be.. be…be...

The Flute Player Painting(33.858 x 28.346 inches )

CODE: 1109
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6.500 x 11.700 inches)

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Transition flight

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Peace..Painting (28.000 x 21.000 x 0.200 inches)

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Enlightenment(28.3x23.6 inches)

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A New Dawn

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6.500 x 11.700 inches

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6.500 x 11.700 inches

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Soul Dance By rooma mehra

head held high
arms reaching out
to touch that star
yes, that star
the one that’s
going to fall
in my open palm
while my soul
prances
on the milky way
head held high
eyes on that star
that freefalls
earthway
heavy with
so many dreams
one of them
mine

Angel Eye (9.000 x 12.000 x 0.010 inches)

CODE: 1117
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Mother Theresa, (9.000 x 12.000 x 0.010 inches)

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Prisoner,(9.000 x 12.000 x 0.010 inches)

CODE: 1120
PRICE: $500

Race for God,(9.000 x 12.000 x 0.010 inches)

CODE: 1121
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Reaching Out.(9.000 x 12.000 x 0.010 inches)

CODE: 1122
PRICE: $500

Seeking,(9.000 x 12.000 x 0.010 inches)

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Soul 2019.. 9 inches by 12 inches Mixed Media

CODE: 1124
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untitled 12 (12.900 x 12.000 inches)

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33.858 x 28.346 inches

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untitled 13 (12.000 x 9.000 x 0.010 inches )

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9 Inches By 12 Inches

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9 x 12 inches

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9 Inches By 12 Inches

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Untitled 17,(17.900 x 12.000 inches)

CODE: 1135
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Untitled, (12.000 x 9.000 x 0.010 inches)

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Celebration Of Life.. Be..(18.000 x 26.000 inches)

CODE: 1137
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Enlightenment Paintings

CODE: 1138
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The Storm is Over" covered by art critic Kobina Wright

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Art beyond Borders.. Art without Boundaries

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----DREAM----

Blowing
on ashes
one purple night
Battling with
one tiny gust of wind
that blew
them back
to me.

Back and forth
Forth and back
Back and forth
Forth and back
The rocking rhythm
of a lullaby
sucked me quietly
into a whirlpool
of ash..

I dreamt of you,
Angel,
and woke
into a silver midnight A star in ash
smiled
in silver moonlight

One God One World One People

CODE: 1148
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YouTube video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ky0LQpQbeg

A Love Story,(28 x 34 inches)

CODE: 1149
PRICE: $4000

Dancer(30 x 23 inches)

CODE: 1151
PRICE: $900

Prayer (Poem PRAYER III) 30 x 23 inches

CODE: 1152
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Catch
A drifting cloud
In cupped hands
Wishing
A prayer
So hard pressed
Between
Two hands
That
A handful
Of sky
Emerges
A scroll
Of a few
Broken words
Of peace
To God

30 x 23 inches

CODE: 1153
PRICE: $900

25 x 31 inches

CODE: 1154
PRICE: $5000

...enlightenment...

from the ashes
of darkness
of pain
of death

quivering, hesitant
rises
the shadow-flame
of truth

blurred by tears

only slowly
very slowly
it metamorphoses
into a brilliant
yet soothing
light
of a whole truth

that illuminates
the tunnels
of the mindscape

i watch
..mesmerised..
the rainbow balsam
healing touch
on my wounds

i listen
..astonished..
to the truth
that sings
the inevitability
of the encounter
with the loving,
with the peaceful,
with the gentle

with God.. https://youtu.be/Nol1zTTGeBk?si=pBZ_g7g4hjdxQRtu

25 x 31 inches

CODE: 1155
PRICE: $5000

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30 x 23 inches

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PRICE: $900

15 x 19 inches

CODE: 1158
PRICE: $1900

14 x 17 inches

CODE: 1159
PRICE: $500

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29 x 36 inches

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24.000 x 18.000 inches

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CODE: 1169

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PRICE: $900

30 x 23 inches

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17 x 12 inches

CODE: 1172
PRICE: $500

CODE: 1173
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CODE: 1175

6.500 x 11.700 inches

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30.000 x 17.000 x 0.100 inches

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24.000 x 18.000 inches

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24.000 x 18.000 inches

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18.000 inches x 24.000

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24.000 x 18.000 inches

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From the Dialogue series..Watercolors

DIALOGUE by rooma mehra ....

Wordless words
Breathless breathing
Soundless songs
filling the vacuum
of senseless noise
with the Fragrance
of Flowers Fairies Love ...

Twin flames
Painting a Story
Between the Lines

Painting purchase Link https://www.saatchiart.com/rooma

27 x 33 inches

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29 x 33 inches

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3.5 ft. x 2.4 ft

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29 x 34 inches

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20.5 x 25 inches

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28.346 x 33.858 inches

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3 ft x 1.7 ft

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9 x 12 inches

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9 x 12 inches

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9 x 12 inches

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33 x 31 inches

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27 x 33 inches

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6.500 x 11.700 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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28 x 34 inches

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16 x 20 inches

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25 x 45 inches

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29 x 36 inches

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11 x 21 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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26 x 39 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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29 x 36 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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12 x 9 inches

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22 x 30 inches

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9 x 12 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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24.000 x 18.000 inches

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28 W x 20 H x 0.2 in

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19 x 15 inches

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29 x 36 inches

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26 x 33 inches

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3 ft x 1.5 ft

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18 x 37 inches

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24.000 x 18.000 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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31 x 40

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18 x 23 inches

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34 x 16 inches

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17 x 21 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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9 x 12 inches

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9 x 12 inches

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9 x 12 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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19.000 x 27.000 inches

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12 W x 10 H x 0.5 inches

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20.5 x 27.5 inches

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24.000 x 18.000 inches

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28 x 34 inches

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22.8 x 17.8 inches

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16 x 34 inches

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Side View

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Phoenix Sculpture(13.0 x 22.0 x 18.1 inches )

CODE: 1203
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A New Dawn is Born
by rooma mehra .. on CD Baby

Composition, lyrics, song, tune, artworks by rooma mehra
YouTube video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTmUHWzySA

A NEW DAWN
By rooma mehra
When dreams are done
and the night stretches on
Murdered moments, minutes, hours
but the night stretches on..

Dragging feet trying to escape
- Nothing â tags along â heavy
Memories erased, so long ago
but â nothing â tags along â heavy

Covered an inch, a foot, a step
and dawn is miles away
on the other side of the mountain
Dawn is m i l e s away

Fall, lie back, conjure up a vision
but memories have been erased
When the end began its stumbling journey
All memories were erased

Get up, go, another step
The night must be spent
Dawn lies at the end of night
The night must be spent
Give up, surrender to the night within
but sleep is blanked out past
The day is miles, mountains away
and sleep is blanked out past

Draw an illusion with heartburn
on the canvas of the night
But ashes mingle with ashes
on the canvas of the night

Night falls heavy on lidless eyes
Glowing embers from the fire within
Look into a mirror to see two suns
Glowing embers from the fire within

And a dawn
is born
from the ashes
of dreams

Installations Gallery

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Prayer

CODE: 1205
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AFTER THE WAR - III By rooma mehra
So many stars
Sleep
An eternal slumber
In the heavenly embrace
Of a sleeping sky
…unseen.
Unawakened…
By a wisp
Of a whistling wind
…unfelt.
Since the day
A zillion eyes fused
In a nuclear fission.
Forgotten…
But for the black hole
In the heart
Of the sleeping sky.
A mute testimony
Of days gone by
Telling no one
The story
Of the earth
That was
Once upon a time.
When stars shimmered
And the sky smiled
Because life saw…

But it is of no consequence
Really…
That era ended
A long time ago.
And who is listening
anyway…