Just a piece of paper!

Passing by

A meeting of different ‘papers’…..

Asserting importance,

Heard one say with authority

“I am the most valuable one, I am Rs. Ten thousand”

Second said loudly

“I am the most revered, holy words are printed on me and….”

Third said interrupting,

“I am most needed, I clean. Think what will happen without me!”

Paper of account ledger said

“Don’t you see I am very important? That is why kept so well”

Paper of school textbook was polite

“I just teach and so respected”

And another said charmingly “I beautify walls”

……………………………………..

…………………………………….

I found myself smiling

“How easily they forget they are just a piece of paper”

Next day

In a heated debate at workplace

I saw paper, I was making notes on,

……smiling!
Heard telling me
"How easily you forget you are just a human?
why get so heated and take sides?"

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OSI Prompt : Paper

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!

                       

-

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

Amusing

Amusing

He made faces,

Jumped, rolled, mimicked

Yet failed to amuse

Till he looked in her eyes 

....and asked

What can I do to make you laugh?

….And she laughed and laughed….

****

No amount of doing helps without being


*
OSI Prompt : Amuse

A plea

A plea

When I am not,

Love is.

When I am there,

Betrayal can be.

Please forgive me
or
Cast first stone at me.

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OSI Prompt : Betrayal

Dense clouds

I thought moon betrayed me,

But it was clouds covering it.

Time taught its lessons.

-

OSI Prompt : Betrayal

Haiku Heights : Sunday :Any topic

Betrayal ?

Betrayal ?

Love is like a

Fresh breeze refreshing mind,

Blossoming flowers filling heart with splendor,

Shower of rain cooling soul,

When it is there

feel blessed

Enjoy it.

When

Breeze pass

Rain go and

Flowers fall

Can I complain?

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OSI Prompt : Betrayal

Old Notebook

Old   Notebook

Notes on matters

That consumed my existence,

So important then

…..Now irrelevant.

Notebook dumped.

Left me wondering

What remains important forever?

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OSI Prompt : Notebook

Weed

W e e d

Useless

Unwanted

To be thrown out

Yet

Your part

You may not care

Show concern

Still

Please let me be

Just let me be

With you.

You will find love in me

Soon

Just let me be

With you.

Just let me be 

With you.

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OSI Prompt : Weed

Cleaning needed

Cleaning needed

Obsessed about cleanliness

Uttered dirty words arrogantly

Spotting filth in a corner

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OSI Prompt : Obsession.