Showing posts with label Acceptance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acceptance. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2016

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 
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?



Monday, December 28, 2015

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.   

Thursday, July 2, 2015

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
--


Written for " A Prompt each Day"
Prompt : LEAF

Sunday, July 28, 2013

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

--

OSI Prompt : Change

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Sunday, April 28, 2013

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

Sunday, March 24, 2013

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.

--
OSI Prompt : Moment


Sunday, February 17, 2013

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 

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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

Sunday, December 16, 2012

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

Sunday, November 25, 2012

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 

Saturday, October 13, 2012

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

Sunday, October 7, 2012

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 

Sunday, September 23, 2012

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

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Grass


Grass

Greener on other side?
Look well
At your Ground.
--
Haiku Heights Prompt: Grass

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Harmony


Ripples
Just on the surface
Violate nothing

You
My friend,
Add to stillness
I experience





Moon feels
More beautiful now







--
OSI Prompt : Violate

Sunday, August 5, 2012

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

Monday, July 30, 2012

Forget me not






Time to say bye
Heart tender; remember
When memory incites





--
Haiku Heights Prompt : Forget me not

Sunday, July 1, 2012

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

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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!
-

OSI : Wassail