Snapping Ties

Oil on Canvas

Meena Chopra

Entwined Dimensions

Oil on Canvas

Meena Chopra

Unravelled mysteries 

coloured wide spaces

entwining dimensions.

Fire Ball -

A dot

disperses a line

in a voluminous circle,

folding the fire

of a living time.

Sculpture

Head

Contemplating

Contemplating

Shadow

Schizophrenic Metamorphosis - Meena goes digital.

Schizophrenic Metamorphosis
A dot she were,
her being
a zygotic stupor--
a peaceful sleep in
the mother's dark womb.

She raged to grow
splitting into several,
multiplying a
schizophrenic metamorphosis
from an embryo to a foetus,
ready for birth
into a space of chaotic movement,
coming to terms with what ?
Evolution ?

- Meena Chopra ( from my collection "Ignited Lines")

Fire

Fire

Oil on Canvas

Adrift

a sea of

hidden fire,

rises with

a smoky thread

to reach

the hearts of

early desires.

From Ruins

Embedded

Adrift

A bright sunshine
smiles
Surfs
the shores of horizon.
A sparkled vacuum glimmers
floats in the morning breeze,
trickles down
in the thin lines of my palm.

Trembling fingers,
reach out
Seeking
a fragrant dawn
concealing a universe
stroking the innermost
mingling with the blood stream
savouring
fullness from my lips.

A twinkling moment
adrift on your body,
a spotless undiluted soul
surfaced
ceased
to be my being
forever.
-Meena Chopra
(From "Ignited Lines")

Strangers

In the day's heat

I sought myself in you.
Strangers we were, still are
silhouettes in each other's eyes.
Remnants of a deflected time.


Monotony
Nonexistence
is claustrophobic.
I fear remaining an outline.


Your warmth lingers
Un-captured,
fading into opacity.
1 know 1 will burn
till the fire burns in me.

-Meena Chopra - from my collection "IGNITED LINES"

उन्मुक्त

कलम ने उठकर
चुपके से कोरे कागज़ से कुछ कहा
और मैं स्याही बनकर बह चली
           मधुर स्वछ्न्द गीत गुनगुनाती,
                     उड़ते पत्तों की नसों में लहलहाती।
उल्लसित जोशीले से
ये चल पड़े हवाओं पर
अपनी कहानियाँ लिखने।
           सितारों की धूल
                      इन्हें सहलाती रही।
कलम मन ही मन
             मुस्कुराती रही
                       गीत गाती रही।

-मीना चोपड़ा 

Flight - Black & White Drawing

Drawing by Meena

Black & White Drawing - Sleep

Drawing by Meena

Drawing - Black & White

Drawing by Meena

Oil Pastels on Paper

Oil Pastels on Paper

Oil Pastels on Paper - Whiffs of the Flowers

Whiffs of the Flowers

Oil Pastels on Paper 

Oil Pastels - Nest

Drawing by Meena