ASHOK BHARGAVA

 

 

Walk With Many Winds

 

I wake not just from sleep

but from the hush of unknowing.

This body moves

through a world we share—

yet each of us walks it differently.

 

The rain touches every skin.

The sun offers light without choosing.

But strength is not in sameness—

it’s in how we carry difference.

 

Some shelter in silence.

Some sing in the storm.

None of us owns the sky,

but we shape its meaning

with the eyes we bring to it.

 

The Pattern We Belong To

 

My life sketches every moment

in colours not mine alone…

 

Each dawn, I align

myself with spirit, so

difference doesn’t divide, but deepens.

 

I reach across

to unfamiliar hands,

so no soul fades

beyond our shared light.

 

I learn from every silence —

from voices unlike mine —

how roots differ, but still rise,

how truth may ripen

on many branches.

 

I listen to your quiet

until it merges into mine…

and I know… no more

unheard parts

in this shared becoming.

 

Only a quiet rhythm

echoing across many hearts.

 

I step inside

the mosaic of lived truths

to complete the unseen pattern

that reveals our whole story,

forward and back,

with not a single piece missing.

 

ASHOK BHARGAVA

 

ASHOK BHARGAVA is a poet, writer, committed community activist, public speaker and a keen photographer. Based in Vancouver, he continues to combine in his life, all of the above yet it is apparent that his main passion is poetry. Ashok writes both in English and Hindi, and has published several selections of his poems: Riding the Tide, Mirror of Dreams, A Kernel of Truth, Skipping Stones and Lost in the Morning Calm, among others. His poetry has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies. He has been featured at the Word on the Street, the Asian Heritage Month and International Story Tellers Festivals. Ashok has written for The Canada Times Magazine and the East West News, Asian Journal, The Link, Indo-Canadian Voice and many other newspapers.