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. 

                *

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

One Single Impression : Shackles

Within reasons!!

Reasons demand ‘no, not done’

‘Stay within boundaries’

She remains confined.

Within walls of reasons

Maintaining balance.

She is an

Emotional eater,

Exercises regularly to maintain herself

Sometimes, though not often,

is seen

Staring far away………..,

Deep into the sky.

……but returns quickly

Within boundaries.

She is known as

A good homemaker.

-Harshad

(Written for OSI Prompt: Shackles - given  by my friend Ramesh Shood)

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One Single Impression : Reciprocate

A bench …. A smile

It has been a long way.

Body is tired, so is mind.

Roads seem to be taking nowhere,

Destination alluding.

How far? How long?

Luggage being carried

Feels too heavy,

Yet, difficult to let go of it.

It is hopeless, futile to go on

Is there any choice?

Well, it is a difficult world.

And a bench on the way…..

Little rest,

A pause…..

Body feels good.

Mind settles,

Dwells in space within – a different world.

Energized

He gets up, starts again.

Turns around to look back

At the bench that offered a pause.

……….And smiles.

“When I make it big,

I will build benches along the way….”

He thought as he was walking.

“And…

I would be like a bench to other.”

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Not so easy to reciprocate!

Not so easy to reciprocate!

She cared,

She loved

........so easy to reciprocate.

She distanced

And I was lost,

Not able to cope with.

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(OSI prompt : Reciprocate)

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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To Mr. Afridi, with love.

Big Heartedness

Different cultures,

Different belief systems and

Different ways of living

Have space in hearts of Indians

Hearts that include.

It is so since many centuries.

Big heartedness is to see greatness,

To see bigness.

You have missed the point, Mr. Afridi.

Please do come again

With an open heart.
A heart that wins..... hearts.

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This is in response to comments by Pakistani cricket team captain Mr. Afridi to press, on his return after a tour to India that Indians do not have big hearts.
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Virus

Virus

I have no date of birth, nor do I have any place of birth.

I flow freely & no boundaries can contain me.

I am powerful & spread like wild epidemic

Virus that spread me reside in idle minds.

I give sleepless nights. I make many feel guilty.

I make many hide their faces. I shake confidence of many.

I give heartburns & I break hearts.

I break relationships. I ruin careers.

I make many shed tears.

Goal focused activity & creativity are my foes.

Best way to make me powerless is to ignore me.

They may call me

Rumor,

Scandal,

Hearsay or just chit-chat.

GOSSIP is my name.

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(OSI Prompt : Epidemic)