Elementry

Flower & bee

So different

Yet made from same elements

As You 

&

Me.

All we want is

To play,

Love and be loved!

So elementary is this knowledge

And evaporates even as we pass

Elementary schooling!

Rest of the life is spent

In search of it.

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OSI Prompt : Elemental

Vital

Not happy with

Situation around

And thought

Let go,

Not holding on,

…..Keeping silent

Will bring about desired effects

It did not.

Keenness for silence to be effective,

Took away a

Part of that silence

….A part so vital 

For silence to be effective

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OSI Prompt : Vital                           

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

connection

Connection

Thanks to smiles

To my small gestures,

Thirsty soul feels quenched

Loved and esteemed.

Small relief seen on faces

Connects me in that moment to

Infinite source of bliss

Indebted I am to

Those smiles.

“In dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed” – Khalil Gibran

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OSI Prompt : Smile

Soul

Soul

Godliness in a flower

Excitement in a contest

Fun in a party

Emptiness in a lonely

In you, me

In this table, chair…..

In trees and birds and clouds….everywhere,

Cannot be seen

Cannot be described or portrayed.

But known within,

More so when

See a dead

….Death in a dead.

                                                                                                                              

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OSI Prompt : Soul                   

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

Thanks !

Thanks

…for remaining unchanged.

It was god’s blessing that we met.

I loved you,

You loved me.

Years have past since then.

You have changed a lot,

I have changed a lot,

And the world has changed a lot.

Isn’t it a miracle that

You love ‘changed me’ &

I love ‘changed you’,

In this ever changing world?

Isn't it God’s blessing?

--which has remained unchanged.

Thank God.

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Years pass by

Traveler yet lost

2012 may bring change

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

FAMILY, FRIENDS, FELLOW BLOGGERS & READERS

LOTS OF LOVE

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OSI Prompt : Change
Haiku Heights Prompt :Travel

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!!!!

**

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!

**

Christmas blessings shower

Everlasting love, parting and merging

May just be fun!”

**

( Picture credit : beat102103.com )

MERRY CHRYSTMAS

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OSI Prompt: Renewal

Haiku Heights Prompt : Chistmas

Quill & Inkpot

"OUM"

Inspiration in every expression

Creativeness in every creation

Motivation in every action

Soul in every being

Quill and inkpot

Of every writing

Know it or not

--

OSI Prompt : Inkpot

Knight!!

Knight!!

Picture credit:  http://www.feistystudio.blogspot.com/ 

I need no one to talk

Just someone to share

I need no one to attend

Just one who cares

I need no escort

Just a friend

I need no one to free me

Just to hold me

No knight to ride

Just a lover to love me!

--

OSI Prompt : Knight

Light

Light reveals only a part

Making world an interesting place,

Whole remain unknown

--

Haiku Heights Prompt : Light

Which is a Fool’s Paradise?

Which is a Fool’s Paradise?

A world of their own

Where love is everything,

Nothing is more important

Not security, nor future

Nor prestige, nor power…. 

Floating in love

Living for love

They are told

“It is not practical

Reality of life is different!”

And

In practical world

One keeps on working for security

Yet feels insecure…….

 Keeps running after power

 Yet always short of it!!

Called mad by their clan

Jonathan Livingston seagull or

Meerabai or …….

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OSI Prompt :  A fool's paradise

Kalasha

Positivity within and

An urn, leaves and coconut

To begin an enterprise

-

Haiku Heights Prompt : Urn

Seeking

All my

Hurts, sorrows and pains

Dissolved as your hands stroked my head,

Agitated mind slowed

Peace dawned and

Coolness felt.

Love kindled

Smile returned.

Searching

For that magic

That will turn my tears into smile,

In books and knowledge

In wealth and power

In people and relationships…..

Search

Is eternal.

If you happen to find,

Hold on, don’t let go

For your life.

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OSI Prompt : Seeking.

Hourglass

Hourglass

We all have it.

Time.

A life- time.

For some mystery

For some play

Some just don’t care

Moment by moment

Grain by grain of sand

It slips out and

We have just

One.

One life- time.

Last grain and it will be over.

It cannot be put upside down

And start afresh.

Looking at the balance sand

I wonder,

Will I live each grain?

Or

Will it just pass?

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OSI Prompt : Hourglass

A Birdie, inviting!

A child

Wanting to fly, experience thrill!

“Let go, come out of this routine boring life!”

Another scared!

“Oh no, fall can hurt badly

And others will laugh”

A parent restricting, cautious,

Another encouraging!

All within me!

And  all caution thrown away 

I take off.

Come along!

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OSI Prompt : Birdie

Evening of life

Evening of life

Golden shades of light

Sounds music to ears

Fragrance lifting spirits
Hearts dancing tango……
Darkness not feared

Some call it sunset

I say, party just begins

-
OSI Prompt : Sunset

Happy Diwali

WISHING YOU AND YOUR DEAR ONES HAPPY DIWALI


Diwali or Dipawali, often written Deepavali is a significant festival and an official holiday in India. While Diwali is popularly known as the "festival of lights", the most significant spiritual meaning is "the awareness of the inner light". Diwali is celebrated through festive fireworks, lights, flowers, sharing of sweets, and worship of Godess Laxmi and Kali. 

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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.

--

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

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OSI Prompt : Limber up

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.

A letter to Respected Prime Minister from a common man.

Dear Prime Minister,

Subject :  Spirit of constitution

Dear Sir, in your letter when you asked Shri Anna Hazare to follow constitution in its spirit, your anxiety to maintain order of law can be well understood and appreciated. As a law abiding citizen I too will not want my country to derail from the path of peace and growth even for one hour.

By the same token, in the true spirit of constitution, I envisage that an elected PM in a vibrant democracy must go after corrupt ministers. Nothing can come in his ways, least fear that Government may lose its majority. Politics of coalition is not a permission to tolerate inefficiencies and practices that may even create doubt about corruption. It is absolutely against spirit of constitution.

Sir, I think it is still not too late. Please act in true spirit of constitution and save our nation from going into the state of anarchy.

1)    1)  Go with full force at your command against doubtful /corrupt practices.

2)   2) Give parliament an opportunity to discuss Jan-Lokpal Bill as drafted by civil society (Now represented by Shri  Anna Hazare and his team). Let parliament decide. Isn’t parliament supreme in democracy?

3)    3)  Make it clear by your actions that you stand for clean and efficient governance as a PM of this country and chances of Government losing power or Congress party returning to power in next election is not a matter of consideration for you as a PM.

4)      Sir, I think people of this country deserve this.

Sir, you have nothing to lose.

Jai Hind.

A common man 

16.8.11

Spirit of the matter

Spirit of the matter

It is felt

Deep within

Respected, held dear

Close to heart.

Followed intuitively

Wide awaken or in sleep.

When followed as such,

Gets embedded within,

Inducing same in others.

Those who cannot accept it

Stay away.

Those who love it

Come closer,

Strengthening it further.

                                                            Harshad

                                                                                16.8.11

Gossip

Whisper when spread

Soon turns in to a gossip

Hurting someone deep

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Written for Haiki Heights

One Single impression: Silence

One Single impression:   Silence

On a garden bench

After morning walk,

Relaxed

I see…..

A quill floating in the air

Drifting slowly up

and down

A butterfly with green and red spots

Passes over my head

Then goes on to flower near,

A call of cuckoo

Soon answered by his mate,

Two friends on a bench next

Sharing a joke…laughing loudly

Cool morning air

Passing through my nostrils

Touching deep into my stomach

……….Making me

Lighter

Lighter…..

Floating with quill

Slowly up

And down……..

Flowing …….with flow

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OSI prompt: Silence 

Silence and wants

 Silence   and   wants

After rapid spirited climb

To the peak

…….Warm breathe cooling and slowing,

Still feeling pleasing pain 

of pulled hair

Head resting over her heart…..

Hear pounding of her heart beats

Dhak…..dhak ….dhak

Her hand moving in my head

Playing with hair,

Her heart beats loud and clear

Dhak……………….dhak ……………….dhak

Pause between two beats

more spacious.

In that space

I vanish.

Remain

Just..... silence

…….No wants

Just silence

For a few moments.

(Silence visits in many ways. Are we there to receive?)

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OSI Prompt : Silence

Dream

D r e a m

It must be there

Buried

Deep beneath where

My awareness could not reach.

Surfaced in my unawareness

Touched my heart,

Filled me with affection

I had known only playing in his lap

But not since then

In the morning, still

Traces of that experience lingering within, I

Searched and found old family album

Looked at my uncle’s picture and

Thanked him

For visiting me last night.

It must be there

Buried

Deep within,

What I had known playing in his lap

But not since then.

Flying happens only in dream

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Poem dedicated to NANA KAKA.

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OSI Prompt : Dream

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