Sour Grapes

Sour Grapes

Life spent, searching Mr. Right,

… Of her ’perception’

She found one, at last!

But she did not fit

His perception of

Bride!!

"Oh, all men are like that"

She grumbled

While browsing on a dating site!

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OSI : Sour Grapes

One Single Impression : WRONG

Friends,

I just got up after watching a live debate about conversion of two Muslims in Kashmir valley on  TIMES NOW.  It was a terrible show. Quality of debate was nowhere near mellowness & serenity such discussions require.

Faith became a matter of ego instead a tool that alleviate harmony, love.

 Following verse is a result of that discussion – that noise.

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Faith,

A subject of heart.

Debated on a news channel

Arguments and counter arguments

All products of limited minds

Play of egos

Creating noises

Troubled Heart feels lost in that

Noisy bazaar

And no one cares!

Missing is serenity that connects

Missing is

Faith.

                                                                                                                                Harshad

                                                                                                                                                                           25.1.12

A strict Teacher

A strict teacher

A teacher

Stiff and hard,

For him

Rules are rules!

Observe them

Follow them

Meet deadlines

Maintain standards high

Right on time

No mistakes

No mess ups

Or force to amend

For rules are rules

Any violation

Meets with set of rules

Rules and more rules

For rules are rules

Oh! Rules,

Invincible Wall of rules

Surrounding him!

In alumni meet

Anxious, inquiring

About each student,

Holding tears in his moist eyes

Wall seen pierced

Revealing a soft heart

Rules are just rules

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OSI Prompt: Invincible

Renewal?

Renewal?

Spot a familiar face

on face book

Is it she?

Color of hair, complexion

And wrinkles can deceive, but

Spark in those eyes bear out

Floodgates of memory open up,

….College campus,

Canteen, Library, Cycle stand……

Scene pass in front of my eyes

 afresh and clear as new,

Forty years have passed although!

Feeling light as a gliding bird

I look for more information about her

But…….

It is for friends only!

 I send a request for friendship!!!!

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Ocean to Drops of falling rain:

“You were always a part of me,

You experienced a different world for a while,

Welcome back renewing ties!

Let us merge again

To be one

For we were never two!

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Christmas blessings shower

Everlasting love, parting and merging

May just be fun!”

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( Picture credit : beat102103.com )

MERRY CHRYSTMAS

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OSI Prompt: Renewal

Haiku Heights Prompt : Chistmas

Light

Light reveals only a part

Making world an interesting place,

Whole remain unknown

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Haiku Heights Prompt : Light

Limber up.

Limber up

A thought

An action

A wave

Ripples

Current

Flood

      Torrent……

For the idea whose time has come
Nothing can now stand in its way

No wall
No great wall

No Wall Street.

Begins with just a thought.

Followed by actions.

Limber up.

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World belongs to all. Let’s learn to share.

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OSI Prompt : Limber up

River of Life & Harmony

River of life

Sitting on the bank

Looking at the flow

Just seeing…..

Whirls, weaves, pace, swell, drop, current…..

Just seeing…..

Is

so cooling

So gratifying….

Isn’t thinking to change it foolish? and

Efforts painful and futile?

Yet indulging often in that foolishness!

                       

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Harmony

Loving is flowing with flow

Surrendering needs no efforts

Going against brings pain.

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OSI Prompt : River                                                                           

Holy Books

Holy Books

Some consider book as holy

Some words in it

Some changes it brings in them.

Some read words in it

Discuss lines and in-betweens

Some feel what is transmitted

No matter in what language

For some source of peace & love,

For some reasons to argue and kill

What is received

Depends more on receiver

Less on what is served

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OSI Prompt : Language

Cleaning needed

Cleaning needed

Obsessed about cleanliness

Uttered dirty words arrogantly

Spotting filth in a corner

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OSI Prompt : Obsession.

Gossip

Whisper when spread

Soon turns in to a gossip

Hurting someone deep

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Written for Haiki Heights

One Single Impression : Uncomfortable Encounter

One Single Impression: Uncomfortable encounter

The lady was very nice to her

She too reciprocated

But not relaxed,

Having encroached on her exclusive rights

Feeling guilty

More so

After the lady said

"I too worked as his secretary,

Before we got married."

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Written for OSI Prompt : Uncomfortable

Mask

Mask reveal more

Hide little
It tells what is sought to be hidden!

Masked can be 

Appearance

Words

Style

Can phantom

Called attitude

Masked for long??

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OSI Prompt : Phantom

Ordered?

Explosion at one place

Crater

And tsunami caused elsewhere!

Is it ordered

Or is it random

Or randomly ordered

Or ordered to be random?

Is there an order?

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Picture Credit & Copyright: Mariner 10 Project, NASA

OSI Prompt : Crater

Fear

Slavery for life

Thanks to fear of failure

Made acceptable

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written for Haiku heights prompt : Slavery

One Single Impression : Rambling

This and that

Here and there

I, me,

If, what not, but……

On and on…….

Efforts

Efforts

Efforts

to make the presence felt.

Point is

There is no point.

Got the point?

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OSI Prompt : Rambling

Exhibition and Show off.

Birds glide,

Child’s playfulness

Beauty of nature

So divine….

Seen and even sometimes displayed,

But never shown off.

Why do I strive to exhibit

My wealth

My power

My beauty

My intelligence

My skills?

*

When efforts to show off cease,

Seen easily  

Is real being – divinity.

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OSI Prompt : Exhibition 

LOVE

LOVE

Like a fresh breeze,

Coming without any notice

and stoping without any,

It blossoms on its own.

With love around,

Celebration is on.

Heart gets wings and

Soul is content,

Sunrise and sunsets are more colourful,

Moon more charming

And fragrance in air enchanting.

It is His grace that visits you

No one has control over it.

When in love you trust totally

But love cannot be trusted to be there, always.

So tender……

Efforts to retain it are like holding back

Cool breeze that lift your spirits. 

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Lasting are

Marriages

Contracts

Relationships

Understandings……

Right efforts can keep it going

…..With cool breeze refreshing your heart often,

If you are

Open  and  Lucky.

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OSI Prompt : LOVE.

Border

Border

Crossing the line

Was dreadful

But not crossing was killing her.

She had to.

She did.

Will you hold guilty a cuckoo

For singing her heart out

On a tree

in the hospital compound

With ‘Silence please’ board?

Everyone crosses

You

Me

All

Yet cast stones at others.

HE gave a seamless world.

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OSI Prompt : Border

Place

So, we meet tomorrow again?

Where??

‘My place.’

“Your place?  No, my place”.

‘My place’

“No , my place”

.............

……….

It goes on…….

It is just that they want to hang on

With each other,

Not wanting to leave.

Deep in their mind is a place

Which is neither hers nor his,

It is a place that they can call ‘ours’.

               

                *

Scene is not so romantic

For the waitress waiting on their table,

….Other guests are in queue. 

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OSI Prompt : Place

Response to Challenge

Response to Challenge

Time and again

Scams and scandals are exposed,

Seen on TV,

Read in News papers.

This is not new.

What is new and worrying is

Confidence of corrupts and

Smiles of accused.

It challenges -

Says “what the hell can you do?”

Youth of India is out to show

What can possibly be done.

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