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Anant Dhavale

@anantdhavale.bsky.social
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Poet. Much of the stuff I post here is impromptu and un-edited.

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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Staying busy is not the same as advancing.
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
autumnal shades of quietude a slow walk through the years the sky moves in a waning hum, the songs I wrote fade away quietly. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
busy street a mélange of voices strangers brushing past a rush to the unknown . Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
in the end what breaks us is self-pity .Anant #poetry
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you like free e-books, both my books are now available on Smashwords and Barnes and Noble for free. Appreciate the download ! www.smashwords.com/books/1386834 For the novel - search “Nobody’s War” by A.S. Dhavale. That’s me lol. #freebooks #ebooks #poems #poetry
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What the Tornado Left Behind
What the Tornado Left Behind is Anant Dhavale's first collection of poems. Praise for "What The Tornado Left Behind" Starting with a name check of William Carlos Williams and ending with an autumnal...
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
sponged up things an influx of the unavoidable visible . Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Blue sky.
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
words will betray feelings, there’s no hiding in this game .Anant #vas365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
letters to things wind, stones, rivers the earnest readers .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
lethargia some the rain ushered in some the existential boredom a lulled knock on the windowpane. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
men and women of our times we trudge the muddy waters of our circumstance in search of obscure individual glories some un-realized splendor a certain summit shines in the distance always visible, yet never attainable. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
another quest another day a loner path waives away history drools by awkward shrubs huddled together, in the desert’s way . Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
back then, when we were obsessed with poems of Mir a cloud of melancholy used to shroud us in the sadness, inexplicable yet beautiful in its own right and how we sat through the hours and how the hours lingered for us much like they did in Mir’s poems. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
so you hustle match the velocity run, run,run end the solitudinem once and for brief. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
like our hearts our failures,too are stellar and fragile. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“What the Tornado Left Behind” is now available on Kindle Select. Do give it a read. Leave a review if you like. a.co/d/01DL0gGJ
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
minuscule drops of water old as time itself in them, I find meanings, new and never occurred .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Better or not I am my original self When undressed Nude as I was born. .Anant #poemsabout #undressed
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
a kiss missed is akin to the notional pie you want to but you cannot consume. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
the dark it sifts down the chimney the invisible unavoidable void claws at you you acknowledge it and walk on. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
nostalgia is ache a prison of the mind we are hard-wired to be miserable through our knowing the ancients knew it, and offered symbols into the flowing river to let go of what we carry; what we perceive to be our ultimate reality. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
bones of culture : generational angst embedded deep within hollow mansions of tradition this old dusty, barren tale the endless wasteland within. . Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
cracks appear ever so slowly a gradual decay of the individual until the denouement hits. Lineage of blood: a trail, a story of what happened that keeps happening generation after generation. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
another journey another soul another time to reckon the whole .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
shadows, I see the detached selves of mine .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Mid-age meandering An obfuscated view of life Uncertainty, the sole constant ..Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If you like my poetry, consider buying this book! It’s been on amazon all this while lol :)
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
along this bend I see you thrown off uncertain what eats you what keeps you awake time tide circumstances people ? ..Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
midnight hour packs of strays howl in unison some loner wails: a long drawn out cry these, these these are laments veering into the hollow spaces of the tropical night seeking some or something who’s to say. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
street: out to get people street : armed with hordes of unruly vehicles each in a preposterous rush to reach somewhere do not zone out stay focused a murmur says, watch out! the street will get ya. . Anant #vas365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
stale smells the facetiousness sounds and seems too time catches up years line-up the horse gallops ahead. .Anant #poetry #shortpoems #digitalpoems
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
come ye fellow oddballs, misfits, awkwards together, let us hum the hymns of weird-ity, absurdity and staying true-ity. . Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
But these, my beloved are mere abstractions shards of reality scattered over countless minutiae of life. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
with age, delight becomes a simpler thing, a hot cup of tea a good book, or a damp rainy morning that rhymes with the inner world. . Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
a dream is a fleeting illusion, a simulation of being and forgotten-ness Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
How I run From the thing That keeps me afloat Then return Like I never left The careful self-sabotage All too evident. .Anant #poetry #poems
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
ineluctable consolation of the waning moon lonesome among scattered clouds .. Anant Dhavale #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
An augury of the Impending solitude: A dull sky Soused in winter Gloom. .. Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Street art as seen in Austin Tx. Kudos to the local artist.
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Most suffer through the world deeming what came their way to be bearable. In a way making room for newer wrongs; emptying the mind and heart-space of the older ones. .Anant #vss365 #microprose
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I’ll have my usual unusual With a touch of irony And a hint of cynicism But mostly a dis-interested View of what is or what could be A lackadaisical mosaic of The serenading laziness, A dull eye on the Sprawling life around. . Anant #random #poetry
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
go on, take a chance this isn’t a game of forevers. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
articles from the past: unpolished drafts, to-do lists, a detached awareness of the one dimensional slippage of time. . Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Floating in an endless vacuum trying to hold onto something that doesn’t exist A free fall is an experience a life-study, a thought experiment An unblemished acknowledgment felt like the coarse hard ground . Anant #freeverse #random
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Things happening in an arbitrary state of mind include my saying hello to you, and your responding to me with an equally vacant hi. But somewhere in between those perfunctory courtesies we enriched our lonely hours. .Anant #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
a constant hum disembodied like the distant past - Anant #vss365 #shortverse
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Between things we own (And still don’t) And our timid souls Belonging is a thin filament Break it, I say, break it now! No, no, no! You’ll be lost! You will be lost to the oblivion You’ll be freed, I say. Freed. - Anant
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Being ok, alright is a mixed bag.
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
more than people it is their malformed opinions that I am scared of Anant Dhavale #vss365
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Anant Dhavale @anantdhavale.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
All you’ve managed to do is add your fistful to the world, to something it was saturated with, since before you were born : a reek of selfishness an omnipresent indifference. - Anant #vss365
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