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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

DARJEELING

Darjeeling,
nestled in the hills
that has towering peaks
where the sun plays , 'hide and seek'
whose beauty is an enchantment,
a bewildermanet and a bafflement.

LAB ' E-20'

Watch out for falling whiteboards
Whose screws decide to give up
tired of the ‘hanging job’.
Even though you’re standing
far away
the snap and the crack
and the flying shards
of a laptop screen
hurt more than enough.


It’ll frighten your wits out
Leave you in doubt
Make you wonder
At what caused that thunder.
It’ll appall and assault
every sense, every nerve.
Will kill all the verve
With the unexpected swerve!

Therefore, stay reserved
In a safe curve
In order not to get
What you don’t deserve!

GRIEVE NOT...

Grieve not SOUL
Though you are not whole

The other half faked you
Assaulted and betrayed you.

That part was a foe
Resurrected from a grave,
Twelve years old.

It came like a storm
Caused all the harm
And then left feeling calm

VALENTINE

It’s Valentine
and that’s a good reason to illumine
Our love-line with a heart divine
and a pint of red wine.

To seek for 'red' hearts and 'redder' tarts.
That’ll make life , 'A Portrait of ART.'

An open canvas of memories,
a pallet of untold stories,
in all its glories.
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It’s Valentine!
That’s the time
to shine
on the love line
to a heart divine
with a pint of red wine

Seek the red hearts
and redder tarts
that in life and in part
make a portrait of art

An open canvas of memories
crowded with stories
of sins and glories.

FOR SALE!!!

Hearts for sale, hearts for sale, buy one and get two free, that’s the deal! Hearts are in plenty and available at throwaway prices. You don’t need to look further, even your neighborhood shop has it. You also have innumerous choices.
Hearts are in diamond, gold, silver, platinum, steel, iron, stone, flesh and blood. You can even opt for the assorted ones, sugar coated candy puffs, dark brown chocolates fudge with hazel nut or walnut, or almond or just a peanut. They are in all shapes and sizes; big and small, flat and round, light and dark, cute and ugly, expensive and inexpensive. It’s not difficult to find them either, you have them in posh malls alongside branded items and ordinary supermarkets amidst ordinary goods.
In other words, it’s the ‘hearts market’ in all its dazzling color and texture, all set to pounce on the consumer irrespective of the ‘Financial Crunch’ and the ‘Pocket Crunch’.
Consumers don’t mind either, in fact they are in a frenzy caught by the shopping fever, trying all the hearts possible in a desperate attempt to replace their ‘old’ unattractive mundane heart with a redder, more palpitating and a more feeling one. Little do they realize that the eyes can be deceptive and that every glittering object is not gold.

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If things remain simple then life will be easy but unfortunately simplicity is entertwined with complexity. The one you think you can trust stabs you , the one you think you can understand is a bundle of mystery and the one who promises you happiness burdens you with sorrow.

Reflection...

Life is a trail. Yesterday that was shapes the today that is which in turn paves the way for tomorrow that will be .Simple it may appear but life in actuality is a complex mesh and we all know that appearance is not reality. It’s just a façade. In fact reality is far fetched and its best left unfathomed. The minute you try to fathom it you are entangled in the mesh that has no clue; read, ‘A Passage to India’ by E. M Forster and you’ll understand me better.

Life is like the perpetual onion pealing whose end product is ‘NOTHINGNESS’. Of dust we are made and to dust we will be reduced. This is the ultimate truth. Yet man, with his ambitious nature keeps on striving, struggling, straggling and craving. He has a quest for a whole lot of things , he has a goal, a vision, a mission , a dream and his entire life is but an attempt to achieve that which to his ‘worldly eyes' appears ‘ worthy’. (Like the ‘Green light’ in ‘Great Gatsby’)
This is where the irony lies. Inspite of being the most sophisticated of God’s creation; man fails to see the truth.
Like the Great Gatsby, he (that is man) carries his dream in his heart and undertakes risks; lives a life of mockery, emptiness and pretense. He keeps faking because reality is unacceptable in the world that he wishes to patronize. He refuses to accept the real because of the fear of being ostracized. Therefore in his attempt at not being taken as an ‘outcast’ he gambles with his life and sells his soulto the devil. The devil in turn devours him reducing him to a ‘hollow bone’.And man in his foolishness has not just sold his soul, he has sold his reasoning too…

LOVE YOUR DIME

It’s an age
where everyone’s in ‘rage’
because of the stage
they face,
due to the Economic ‘RAZE’.

There’s cutting and controlling,
striking and struggling,
reducing and refraining,
from the ‘extravaganzas’,
'bonanzas'and ‘salsas’.

No money for ‘honey’,
and no ‘stealthy’ romancing.
The ‘Financial Tsunami’
has ended all ‘Polygamy’.

Instead it is time,
To love your 'Dime',
To hold to it tight,
And be 'Penny–wise'.

Life...

It’s a juxtaposition of sorts; I mean life, how people perceive it and what they make of it. Each one has his own reservations, own priorities, own principles and own understanding. The other binding factors are responsibilities and liabilities.
Many decisions made are actually compromises, sacrifices in fact for the sake of responsibilities.
Therefore in the process one has lived life not according to his whims and fancies but otherwise where he has had to sacrifice almost all his desires to be ‘fitting’ to his family values and to the values of the society. It’s an ‘Endless Pleasing’ game; you please everyone and everything around you. In this Life Course, people take into account many factors, the principal one being ‘money’ to make living worthwhile. Yes, they say money talks but honestly I have nothing much to contribute here.. Materialism has eaten us to the bone. Gone are days of joint families, of sharing and caring. Today, it’s more of survival of oneself, and survival that’s accepted by the norms of the present era. You are more in love with the GIZMOS’ than with your fellow beings.
What is the reason of happiness for one is the cause of sorrow for the other.