Welcome to my poetry blog

I use this space to Catalogue the poems written by me.

Hope you enjoy them.

I am Tilottama Lele a poetry enthusiast.

By nature, am a spiritual person & an avid foodie who loves travelling.

Spending time with my grandsons is an absoute treat. Other than that I enjoy playing Sudoku, watching movies, trail walking and appreciating nature’s beauty in every form.

Also I love to write poetry in Marathi, Hindi and English. I have started this blog to keep a record of my poems which can then be shared with everyone.


🌷 Witnessing Life…


🌷 Witnessing Life...
Poetess: Tilottama Vijay Lele

We spend so much of life, just trying…
To make each moment mean something

Forgetting that moments R beautiful
Becuz they're not always meaningful

We turn life into a collection of tasks,
N live life as if wearing faulty masks

We walk to reach certain number of steps
Read books to know what's best…

Travel, so we can remember it later…
Sit with people, thinking we're better…

We R present, but only halfway…
D other half of us is somewhere away...

Arranging next moments to make it easy
We think Der's nothing wrong to be busy

It's human about having places to go…
To meet people n different things to know

D problem begins only when we become
So occupied with living our lives

That we act lifelessly just like machines
N forget to actually enjoy Li'l moments

We don't spare time to sit by a window
Watching rain fall, rhythmic n slow

We don’t want a metaphor from d clouds
Or a lesson from d changing seasons

We drink tea while it's warm,
Hear ordinary sounds other than d alarm

We can feel d ground beneath our feet,
N let d experience of few minutes exist

Not turning them into useful-something…
Der's a kind of freedom in doing nothing

Perhaps being present is not always
Some profound spiritual practice...

It is listening, when someone speaks
Instead of preparing for our relationship

It is eating when we're hungry...
N sleeping when we're ready...

To have a day with nothing remarkable
N yet it's worthwhile n memorable

We don’t need to abandon our plans
Or stop wanting more from life-span

We can still chase our little dreams,
Answer messages, meet our deadlines

Make mistakes, fall in love, begin again.
We can be hopeful, ambitious n uncertain

We watch d rain blurring buildings,
Follow a flying bird until it disappears…

It's such a contradiction of human mind,
To look away from us to know d thing…

We don’t need to examine every wound
To know that it hurts or not profound

That‘s what ordinary moments teach us,
N return without announcement or fuss

D kettle hums, d ceiling fan turns lazily
Someone laughs somewhere happily…

We wait for life to become meaningful
N forget, “it hides in things that R trivial”

Life doesn’t ask us to understand it…
Sometimes asks to stay n witness it…

🌷@Tilottama Vijay Lele
🙏🕉️🔆
  • 🌷 Witnessing Life…

    We spend so much of life, just trying to make each moment mean something…Life doesn’t ask us to understand it…Sometimes it asks to stay n witness it…

    Read more: 🌷 Witnessing Life…
  • 🌷 एक एहसास…

    हर जीव में, कण-कण में…परमात्मा का अंश मिलें है…अपनी अपनी जगह हरेक जीवन महत्व-पूर्ण होता है…सांस लेते हैं, सांस छोड़ते हैं…हमारे बस में कुछ भी नहीं है…जब नियंत्रण खोया सांस…

    Read more: 🌷 एक एहसास…
  • 🌷 कौन है असली दुश्मन…

    अक्सर हम जिन्हें शत्रु समझ लेते हैं, वो दरअसल दुश्मन होते भी नहीं हैं… सचमुच के दुश्मन तो अंदर होते हैं, अंत:करण में बैठे विनाश करवाते हैं… ज़िन्दगी को खोखला…

    Read more: 🌷 कौन है असली दुश्मन…
  • 🌷शब्द वेडे फितूर तुजसी…

    गुपचुप दबक्या-पावलांनी येते मनी तू… एखादी हळुवार सुखद आठवण बनून… मनात आठवांची अनुभूती, लोचने मिटून…शब्द वेडे फितूर तुजसी असे बसले हटून…

    Read more: 🌷शब्द वेडे फितूर तुजसी…
  • 🌷 मी मलाच शोधत आहे…

    गोफ गुंफतां-गुंफतां स्वप्नातले धागे गुंतत गेले…त्या गुंत्यातच जणू माझे “मीपण” हरवत गेले…उधळली अवघीच फुले, उधळले जीवन सगळे…आयुष्य जगतांना स्वप्नातल्या सावल्यांचा मागोवा चालू आहे…घेऊन पुढ्यात हे आयुष्य, मी मलाच शोधत आहे…

    Read more: 🌷 मी मलाच शोधत आहे…
  • 🌷 Complex Mind…

    Human Beings have a complex Mind…It thinks n overthinks all-d-time…Often we wonder how d worrying, Becomes easier than actual living…Life is too short to get stuck in our heads, Without…

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Poems by language


लेखनाचे प्रकार

भावगीत, भजन, भक्तिगीते, अभंग, भूपाळी, मराठी गझल, हिंदी गज़ल, अंगाई गीत, देशभक्तीपर गाणी बडबडगीते, बालगीते, युगुल प्रणय गीतं, शास्त्रीय संगीत-रागांवर आधारित बंदिश, कोळी गीते, नाट्य गीते, प्रार्थना, पावसाची गाणी, गवळण.

प्रेरणादायी व्यक्तिमत्व

छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज, बाल शिवाजी -शिवबा, समर्थ रामदास स्वामी, स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर, स्वामी विवेकानंद, सरदार वल्लभभाई पटेल, श्रीकृष्णाची शिकवण, भगवद्गीता, श्रीराम, अर्जुन, कर्ण, सिकंदर-पौरस

सणावारांवर बेतलेल्या कविता/गाणी

दिवाळी-भाऊबीज, गणेशोत्सव, पाडवा, गुढीपाडवा, दसरा, होळी, रंगपंचमी, धूलीवंदन, जन्माष्टमी, कोजागिरी पौर्णिमा, नवरात्र, आई अंबाबाई, शारदीय नवरात्रोत्सवाच्या पहिल्या माळेपासून, विजयादशमी पर्यंत प्रत्येक दिवसानिमित्त, गणेश चतुर्थी, संकष्टी, महाशिवरात्री, आषाढी एकादशी, विठ्ठल रखुमाई, हनुमान जयंती, वटपौर्णिमा, रक्षाबंधन, पोळा / पोंगल, दत्त जयंती, मकरसंक्रांत

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