A moderate speaks.

Hi friends,

I have been a religious moderate.

As a value system in family since my childhood, talks are generally goody –goody when it comes to talking about faith. One never takes close look at facts on the ground.

I think it is so because it keeps us well within our comfort zone.  It will also avoid others to point at negatives of faith that we follow.

Can I chose to have same comfort for long and avoid speaking what I feel is truth, though it may mean I may not appear to be a very polite goody- goody guy? 

I may, with dire consequences for my children and my grand children.

I came across a video which very systematically describes how being a moderate we just give cover to what we really not approve.  Let me post it for you.

I believe religions have outlived their useful life. Now what remains is politics of it. 

I have expressed my view on individual connection with God in my poem 

How Foolish!

Enjoy this video. Thoughts very well articulated.

Please spare few minutes in silence and think, can you afford luxury of being a silent spectator?

If answer is no, what can you do?

Not everything change

Holding your hand

Carrying a bag heavy with your stuff

Taking to doctors

Waiting for hours

Is as adoring as

Taking you for a fine dinner, my friend!

Each new stage of life

New role played

Yet same old feelings!

Same, always!

What change is on periphery

Centre remains unaffected.   

A Leaf

A leaf falls.

Was it blown away by wind?

Or was tired of the tree?

Or tired of holding on?

Or was tree tired of it?

Or was wind and earth more alluring?

Does it matter?

A leaf falls.

A moment passed.

New leaf will fill the space

 A heart felt pain

 A moment passed

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Written for " A Prompt each Day"

Prompt : LEAF

Permanent

Things change

People change

Seasons change…..

Yet there is a permanent in all

That remains unchanged

That keeps us together, 

In world real or virtual

Books or Blog or FB or G+

What change are medium, style and way of expression

Not its essence

Wherever you are

Whatever you do

We will be connected

In this love we feel

What change is around

Not the center

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OSI Prompt : Change

Flow

Words often fail to flow

Feelings not carried

Silence hardly fails
--
OSI Promt : Flow
http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.in/

Liquid

All she wants is to be treated as

One of them, part of them,

Adjusting with

Husband and in-laws,

Their ways, tastes, values,

Like liquid taking shape of the vessel

Alas she lost her own identity

Often she is made to wonder

If she is a part of them

Or like liquid that can be emptied

.....And replaced?

--

OSI Prompt : Liquid

A leaf falls

A leaf falls.

Was it blown away by wind?

Or was tired of the tree?

Or tired of holding on?

Or was tree tired of it?

Or was wind and earth more alluring?

Does it matter?

A leaf falls.

A moment passed.

Live with new one.

Account of each leaf is kept

By time

And presented when existence demand,

Not for you & me to worry.

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OSI Prompt : Moment

Embroidery

Gift of a Knitted heart

Helped stitch her

Wounded love

Yet scars remind painful past

Lost, at standstill

Moments pass

With a heavy sigh

Getting on with chores

She smiles at pain

Pinks, greens and blues

Splash of philosophical white

Embroidery of life

--

OSI Prompt :  Embroidery 

OSI Prompt : 2013

OSI Prompt : 2013

It comes, it pass

So do you, so do I.

Call it time.

When it is

Feel it.

When not,

Empty –useless fill.

Call it time-pass.

What is left of me

Is balance of yet to come

As much, as such.

--

OSI Prompt : 2013

Insecurity

Always ahead

And away

Rarely with me

What is so big hurry?

Chasing what is away

Ignoring what is in hand

Efforts endless

What is it you want?

Always on run

Searching unknown

Leaving me alone

Why this anxiety?

I bring you back, but can’t keep

You slip away

Even before I know

Why can’t you settle for awhile?

When you are with me

I connect so well, feel so cool,

But you do not care to stay

Why don’t you relax a bit?

What is it you want?

What are you chasing?

Please sit here, let me know,

Why this hurry?

You are mine

Yet not with me

Oh, my mind

Why always in hurry?  

--

OSI Prompt : Insecure

One single Impression : Nest

Now

They have wings

And have flown away

Yet

Their memory vibrates in air here

Striking note in my heart

To becomes a song

I murmur often

A place that not just offers

Shelter, security and address

But brings from within a song

--

OSI Prompt : Nest 

celebration

Each heartbeat

Each breath

One with the whole

Nothing special has to happen

Nothing else wanted

Each moment,

Linked with another

Yet complete and

Free

Free

To Love

To create

To share

--
OSI Prompt : Free

Scarecrow

A scarecrow is
Mocking at me

All I want is beyond it

I am on the edge

Since many lives

Waiting for it to pass

Life is slipping away

--

OSI Prompt: Scarecrow 

Childhood again!

Childhood again!

Playing with time

Capturing moments

In words, in pictures

Like butterflies in a jar!

To be shown off to friends

On  FB and  G+!

Halcyon days of life!!

--

OSI Prompt:   Halcyon

Grass

Grass

Greener on other side?

Look well

At your Ground.

--

Haiku Heights Prompt: Grass

Harmony

Ripples

Just on the surface

Violate nothing

You

My friend,

Add to stillness

I experience

Moon feels

More beautiful now

Image from :  http://www.public-domain-image.com

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OSI Prompt : Violate

Ways of Heart

Mind gives many reasons

And will find many more

For me to stay away from you

But

Heart has only one,

More powerful

Compelling and true;

A place in my heart belongs to you

I care for you

I am coming.

--

OSI Prompt: Shortcut

Forget me not

Time to say bye

Heart tender; remember

When memory incites

--

Haiku Heights Prompt : Forget me not

Flight of a kite

Light & colorful

Riding current high

I am seen flying in the sky

Proud to be a kite

Control is in hands not mine

How high and how long He decides

Ever thankful for a flight

Prayers are for landing fine

When it is time

--

OSI Prompt: Kite

To Mother Nature

 To Mother Nature

Let me

Toast and drink to

Her Goodness

For I feel loved by her

No matter

How I destroy

And disturb the balance

Of her vital elements

For my small comforts

And

Yet pretend to be ignorant,

Both of my acts

And her love!

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OSI : Wassail