Sunday, June 5, 2011

A New Star



A new star noticed
Blinking…
Getting brighter nights after nights.

Inkling was
It will gradually become so bright
That India will
Be seen in its full glory
Again.

Thank
Government of India,
For their action yesterday night
Accelerated the process.
            


                                                                                          5.6.11 (8.30AM)
                                                                                                                         Harshad

Sunday, May 29, 2011

NOW


NOW

 It was there,
Always.

Not seen
Not found
Not felt
Yet there.

Like
Pearls in the ocean,
Diamonds in earth.

Like 
Breathing in and out.

As clutters fall off
What has remained
Was
Always there.

Call it
Acceptance,
Truth,
Manifestation.

Always there,
Experiencing
Now.
---

OSI Prompt : Manifest

Monday, May 23, 2011

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?

--
OSI Prompt : Rambling

Sunday, May 15, 2011

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.
-
OSI Prompt : Exhibition 

Sunday, May 8, 2011

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.
--                                                                                                                            

OSI Prompt : LOVE.

Monday, May 2, 2011

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.
--

OSI Prompt : Border

Sunday, April 24, 2011

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. 

--
OSI Prompt : Place

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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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Monday, April 11, 2011

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.”
--

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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.

-
(OSI prompt : Reciprocate)