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            <title><![CDATA[More often than not, my words are taken funnily,
For more often than not, I say things subtly 
But…]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/@maitri.shah/more-often-than-not-my-words-are-taken-funnily-for-more-often-than-not-i-say-things-subtly-but-814ebe283ab1?source=rss-bfdf0d13d44f------2</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:47:03 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2020-12-18T19:47:03.133Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More often than not, my words are taken funnily,<br>For more often than not, I say things subtly <br>But funnily enough, more often than not, I joke about my pain <br>And more often than not, it’s only I who is rendered funny and inhumane, standing nothing to gain ,</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*xsdi1I_KFuzZMIRdPoUglg.jpeg" /></figure><p>But inhumanely or not - it’s most people in the scheme of things who have turned me into this magnificent monster-<br>That I have become so willingly- ferocious and fierce and a half past songster <br>More often than not, this semi- pro songster has so much to say<br>with but no one to listen, let alone understand<br>and those who listen yet not fathom , for more often than not she herself might not be the vision <br>but when she will gain her momentum about the envision, it is going to a cataclysmic collision <br>Nothing short of the perfect precision.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=814ebe283ab1" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[This cage of]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:19:41 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2020-04-08T19:19:41.371Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This cage of</p><p>Flesh and bone</p><p>Protects a heart</p><p>That once was stone!</p><p>It is only now that I worry,</p><p>That this frail frame</p><p>Would be all too weak</p><p>For the very inevitable pain-</p><p>That is only about to begin</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*gtxjN5SDu929rGr7qIWjjQ.jpeg" /></figure><p>Since you’ve shown me</p><p>How it feels- to be loved and kissed</p><p>And it should be done often</p><p>When, where and how often</p><p>Often- is what it shall be !</p><p>For I will be the one waitin,</p><p>For your silences to break,</p><p>For your desire to wake</p><p>For your soul to shake</p><p>For your love to get back</p><p>To me that is ,</p><p>Only to me with nothin else</p><p>But myrhh and lilac</p><p>For our story to start in loves flashback.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=92e1954f93d9" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[It is only a matter of a few ideas and a mindset to believe so]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[sleep]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:11:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2019-06-11T19:11:27.193Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is only a matter of a few ideas and a mindset to believe so</p><p>We are otherwise constantly at war, with ourselves , others or worse when we don’t know</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*zVwml1bzcepSzARpiNVhmA@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>Although when I hear the pulsating adrenaline in your veins that freely flows; and the most erratic heart beat under the rib cage of your throbbin corazon</p><p>I know I am home when I sleep on your chest with your arms around my waist, and even though that I am a train wreck, and you tell me all is well and even though</p><p>I feel at peace, at home and whole again</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=181a389e2a7d" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[It’s a funny thing how you don’t see how you make me smile]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:36:54 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2019-01-16T19:36:54.673Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s a funny thing how you don’t see how you make me smile</p><p>And even funnier how you see the tears am about to cry</p><p>It’s funny how you think you don’t deserve me</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/364/1*QQHamNL2EPb0LV7E9ErnzQ@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>Even funnier how I think you are the only one who does</p><p>It’s funny how you never said you love me</p><p>And even funnier every time I say something whilst, all you hear is my hatred.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=40359103814f" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[No courage Is have left in me anymore,]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:25:59 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-04-16T07:25:59.845Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No courage Is have left in me anymore,</p><p>No bravery to show no more</p><p>My heartless soulless being, wander, searchin, lookin for wht I don’t know</p><p>But not all those wanderin are lost</p><p>Not all those who we lost are a loss,</p><p>Thus m glad my solidarity, psyche has turned me into a traveller,</p><p>Much higher than a ruler- shah!</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=9ea7ab0a1524" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Leave everything and hug me like there’s no tomorrow]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:18:51 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-01-19T10:46:19.432Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leave everything and hug me like there’s no tomorrow</p><p>Come to me and lift me in your arms</p><p>I can’t wait to be with you anymore</p><p>Not until it’s another ‘morrow</p><p>Come to me like you can’t have enough of me</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/166/1*wdReHY33WU0vXiBfLhEprA@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>Hold my hand and Lemme sleep on your chest</p><p>Where I can hear out your heartbeats- clear and loud</p><p>Hold me to feel my pulse- screamin out your name</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=83010a5b3b8e" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[I carry your heart]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[believe]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[one-line]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:39:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-04-16T08:36:45.143Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I carry your heart</p><p>While I keep you in my heart</p><p>I wander never without it</p><p>A secret so deep</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/375/1*hNc12x91ygGNZMN-RSbMwg@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>Which goes higher than the soul may believe</p><p>The only thing that’s keeping the stars apart</p><p>They carry your heart</p><p>While I keep you in my heart</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=d36e12eb15c6" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spirits , a window to reality]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:01:20 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-04-16T08:31:05.367Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spirits , a window to reality</p><p>A window to potential</p><p>A window to true ideas and intentions,</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/361/1*q3ppk2oWVQvSPYdfH5k8tQ@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>bound in human blood bone and flesh</p><p>or contained in the bottles of precious crystal shining so bright</p><p>Metal flasks , bottles of agate containing a whiskey fine</p><p>But they didn’t like an acquired taste for I was a vintage wine</p><p>Spirits so high they wither my soul and yet makes me divine</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=a7dc34a0b41" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[I took a fancy to it as they came over , saw the painted faces and so I tagged along]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:56:38 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-04-16T08:25:31.615Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I took a fancy to it as they came over , saw the painted faces and so I tagged along</p><p>I didn’t have anything else to offer so I snuck in</p><p>Saw the costumes, listened to the songs, saw them with no make up on</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/272/1*0g-QGrT3-73-Bp1laQy9Cw@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>I cried when the young lovers died in each other’s arms,</p><p>I felt every emotion coarsin through my veins</p><p>I not only empathise but also understand the meanings and pains</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=28677bc7dd19" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The crown of the blood roses that sits so beautifully on your head ,]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[beautiful]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maitri Shah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:03:48 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2017-09-28T14:41:18.420Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The crown of the blood roses that sits so beautifully on your head ,</p><p>Those jet black tresses like the silken strands of China traps me more than ever</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/667/1*_CH_V2eRIDlrLDEcbMli0A@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>Havin no idea of the beauty lying underneath that skin of yours ever so pale</p><p>The intellect running deep in veins</p><p>The fierceness of your thoughts and precision of your actions</p><p>The sharpness of your words may even put the finest blade to shame</p><p>Unbeknownst you bifurcated my heart throbbing in the beats it can’t follow</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=1c3725eb4ea3" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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