Wednesday, September 15, 2010
clarification
On a serious note, over the last few days had come across friends and heard stories about people who were stressed because of relationship issues and i thought let me share a perspective of looking at .... right or wrong... no correct answer.... it is just a point of view
enjoiii
Dedicate
'Dedicate'
My journey is my salvation
To keep walking is my motivation
I seek not the shade to rest
Neither to reach a goal is my interest
Not out there to find water to quench my thirst
Neither do I have the desire to do it first
Being aimless I find no confusion
For I laugh at me and the worrying world in any situation
I ask myself many a times trying to understand
Why I cannot walk on water and float on land
Why into the sky I cannot fly
Why people on each other cannot rely
I know for sure a thing
I ain't blindly following somebody or something
My journey of many mountains I need to navigate
To follow that shining star in the pole, my life I dedicate
Why heart breaks are important
I know its been really long since i wrote something, well like it is said there a time and place for everything... and so it is for this post....
One word that occupies a lot of mind space these days amongst all is "relationship" but do we really understand that i don't think we do because if at we did we would never create such a mess out of it.....
Let me try and explain my perspective with very simple examples that we can understand.
A relationship only takes place between two or more 'individuals'. This means there has to be coordination in every sense for it to function and to coordinate well with somebody else you have to be well coordinated yourself.
The problem is when we are not well coordinated we will always blame the wrong coordination of the other than ourselves.
Okay lets take the example of a smal child and the activity of eating... you know the mess they create.... it is your own hand and your own mouth but still you cannot get the spoon straight into the mouth without dropping food. Just think of it, instinctively you can feel your hunger, you know food has to be fed through your mouth, you have to use your hand to feed, etc. etc. yet it takes a few years to master the art of eating without dropping.
Now with your body, organs and senses to coordinate a basic thing takes you so long and by repeated use and practice you get it right, just imagine affairs of the heart and to make things worse emotions attached to it that are difficult to see, undertsand, deal with and the worst part is you do not know where they come from and where they go.
An early relationship is like the child getting the food in the mouth without dropping, it takes a lot of practice, patience and the liberty to drop food. The irony is that we all are just not willing to give our partners to drop the food when oursleves keep dropping it.
Just like dropping food teaches you how to eat properly, heartbreaks are very important to unsderstand your hearts desire and the coordination with your emotion and to balance expectations. When you can see the movement of your limbs and you can physically protect it from danger and injury by way of natural reflexes, unfortunately with the heart you cannot be proactive and in most cases the learning is reactive.
Proactive or reactive, learning is very important and hence the process of heart break on makes you realise what went wrong in the movement of the hand to the mouth.
Understand what you seek for you shall stop seeking in others. Because there nothing that you cannot find within but the depth you want to reach.
If there is life ... there is love.... there is no escape.... live life....love life!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Logic of life
This is in, this is out
Now its faith, next you doubt
Somethings sweet, somethings comic
And then those moments tragic
Wonder in those moments where is life's logic
Mind changes like the moment
Memories pile up like a monument
Distancing the self in the name of growing
Till a point where existence starts decaying
Wonder in those moments where is life's logic
The struggle and the pain
And there the pretence of happiness in vain
For the river shall take its course to the sea
Only if as carefree we could be
Wonder in those moments where is life's logic
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Walk
We realise what is not and what is worth
Memories some that heal the mind
Experiences some not kind
Walk, for your goal you need to reach
Till you do not learn, how will you ever teach
Carry no good, no bad with you
Just keep walking and reach your goal
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Window
There, somethings we don't somethings we know
We see the sun, the stars and the moon
See the bees hover when the flowers bloom
We see the world through our window
There, somethings we keep, somethings we let go
We see the clouds and mountains
After the summer see dark clouds burst into fountains
We see the world through our window
There, life will hide some mystries, some it will show
We see struggles fill up existense
Also see the fruits of persistence
We see the world through our window
There, life sometimes moves fast, sometimes slow
See the darkest nights lit by stars and fire flies
See the mother in pain when the baby cries
We see the world through our window
There, find love sometimes dim, sometimes glow
Lovers madly in love, see love to pass by
Sometimes love never ceases to try
Friday, March 5, 2010
My thoughts
It is not that I have run out of poems, but now I just feel like sharing whats going on in my mind.
Have just been sitting back and observing life whatever I have lived and also others who have been living it and this one thought struck me like an arrow.
When we are born we do not have any idea about God atleast in the conscious mind and our entire concept of God and spirituality is built by people who talk about it, the goodness and badness, the mundane and the divine and so on are concepts that form in our mind by hearing others.
In conclusion it only people through whom God communicates with us. Hence it is us people who are the messenger of God.
Am sure you would have experienced the fulfilment and satisfaction when you said something good to somebody and it impacted that person positively.
Hence we all are messenger of God by default whenever we choose to speak good to others to make a positive impact on them.
Cheers
Monday, February 22, 2010
Connection
What is the bird’s connection with the sky?
What is Truth's connection with the Lie?
What is the sea’s connection with the shore?
What is the boat’s connection with the oar?
What is the light’s connection with the shadow?
What is the cow’s connection with the meadow?
What is the mountain’s connection with the cloud?
What is the farmer’s connection with the seed he had ploughed?
What is the mother’s connection with the child?
What is the eyes connection with the mind?
What is the day’s connection with the night?
What is the string’s connection with the kite?
What is the connection between life and time?
What is the connection between your heart and mine?
Long time
Apologies for being silent for so long, just living life you know do not really wana give mundane reasons like life has busy etc, it means nothing. But does hold a meaning is the next poem which is completely unconditional and mystical just like my connection with you all.
This poem is titled " Connection" enjoy and if you like it do let me konw if you dont still let me know.
Also wanted to share with you all about this confernce I am attending, its called Cerebrate, go thru the link....
http://www.cerebrate.in/who.html
check out the poem
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Will I
Had to share a poem with you all wonderful people on Diwali.
Wrote this poem last Thursday and in 5 minutes flat. I am personally very content with this poem as when you read a poem you get to know whats good and whats not. This poem will make any woman fall in love with her man again if her man said whats written in the poem. ( I hope so...)
Will I
Will I ever be the man that you want me to
What if I leave you when you don't want me to
Will I ever be able to protect you like you would want me to
What if let go when you would like me to hold you
Will I ever be the friend that you were looking for through the years
What if am not there when you need to share your tears
Will I ever be able to understand
What if time slips between us like grains of sand
Will I ever be the lover you want me to be
What if cannot understand when you want you and when you want me
Will I ever be able to fill you in
What if am too dependent on you to fill me in
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Drops of love
When our eyes met and a question crossed the mind
Going back thinking the one when will I ever find
Wishing and hoping we cross paths again
Thinking hard how the conversation would begin
Now I know what it meant catching those drops of love
The exchange of thoughts and glances through eyes so bright
Everything we said suddenly sounded so right
To watch each move so closely
Every crease on your face looked so lovely
Now I know what it meant catching those drops of love
Gradually days became brighter and nights longer
With each dawn the bond stronger
Now time was on a sprint
The meetings left a cool and soothing after taste like the mint
Now I know what it meant catching those drops of love
Waiting for the question to pop
The bright red line shining through the tear drop
Beginning of a new journey a new mission of a kind
Bless the home with happiness and a lovely child
Now I know what it meant catching those drops of love
Through the contours of life as we travel
Along the way we stopped and bowed in his marvel
Sometimes silence dominated speech
Tough yet together guess this is what commitment had to teach
Now I know what it meant catching those drops of love
Always treasure these drops of love through smile or pain
Never forget a pearl is made by a drop of rain
Drops together can make an ocean
Drops of love together makes life's journey so much more fun
Now I know what it meant catching those drops of love
Yet
Hello everybody!!
Apologies for the delay in updating my blog. That is because I have been traveling like crazy all over. Spent a week in London and of course have been moving in India as well.
Let me share a poem that describes the lady and when I shared it with her she was awestruck as in her words it was the best description that somebody could have written about her after having known her for ages.
"Yet"
What I find in you have not found in anybody yet
The eyes like a child thoughts speeding like a jet
The innocence like the beginning of creation
The strength of will like iron
Tenderness behind the wrath
Free to experiment
All fits in such is the temperament
Happiness is not what you seek, you just attract
Capable of making the strongest minds to distract
Forgetful purposely
Questions you ignore conveniently
Mischief personified elegantly
Situations you get in and come out easily
Appear you are naive and cool
But you are nobody's fool
Wanting to do it all at the same time
You not listening her is the biggest crime
She can dance and she can sing
When she is with you she will answer every time the phone rings
Sunday, August 23, 2009
In my mothers lap
Sunday afternoon, updating my blog after doing Ganapati puja at home. Well you have got a glimpse of my poetry on philosophy and romance. The other aspect that I have written a few poms are on mother nature. Let me share a poem which I wrote when I was in a vineyard in Nasik in July for an offsite with around 100 colleagues. We had a blast there!
"In my mothers lap"
In my mothers lap I rest my head
With grass and flowers she prepared my bed
Always caring about all her children equally
Created the dawn noon and dusk and the three meals sequentially
She gives water for thirst
Feeds the hungry first
Does not complain in pain
Even if we hurt her for our gain
She makes the rain fall on the sea
Also on the garden where you grow tea
Makes the sun shines through the haze of winter
Also on the desert in summer
Decides the colour on each flower
To reach the sea makes the river maneuver
Gave different colours to the cloud
Made the lightening and thunder loud
Made waterways through the mountains
Make waterfalls sprout when it rains
Fruits to eat, leaves to cook
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Concern
"Concern"
God gives sight in most eyes
Why does he give vision to only few
Hearing to most ears
Why understanding to few
Strength in all arms
Why good deeds to few
God gives treasures to most to enjoy
Why does he give contentment to only few
God gives sleep to most
Why peace to few
Ability to smile to all
Why happiness to few
Veil
"Veil"
Veil not the fragrance of a blooming flower for the bees will still find it
Veil not a happy heart with sadness for there will be sunshine anyways
Veil not rather, let me veil you from the evil world
Veil you from grief that people cause
More about the lady
For my inspiration behind writing these poems I have got various responses ranging from " I find this very cute, romantic and mushy" to " God you are kidding... i thought you had met her professionally" to " You have become devdaas" and so on but responses have come on emails, text messages and phone calls.
Thank you all for taking out time for this.
This lady who inspired me to express myself and my thoughts through verses; let me tell you people every poetry that she has inspired I have sent it to her first saying this the incident or conversation that inspired the poem.
People just one thing to say go ahead reach out to people who have touched your lives and inspired you and tell them that they have made an impact and difference. Am sure they will reciprocate positively. Let us not stay restricted in our own closely held and bound world that we have created that we ourselves find it difficult to reach out to people or allow other to enter our world.
And by the way we are best buddies now and we feel our friendship and connect is eternal. Advantage of this ..... she is looking out for a chick for me to get hooked to I mean married to.... and everything in between.... ha ha
Hope the message is clear
I am single
More than eager to mingle
Can run around trees and sing a jingle
Baby your emotions I can tingle
Sunday, August 16, 2009
It's not me , it's you
"It's not me, it's you"
Its you it's not me
When I wake up in the middle of the night just to smile
When I drift away at work only to nod my head and hang it down n smile
Its not me it's you
When I pray
When am touched by the first sun rays
Feel
When I have no sense of time
It you it's not me
That makes me wait to hear from you
Enjoy the pain as if its liberating
Glance
All those who I have shared some of my poems call me the eternal romantic..... so this Sunday afternoon let me share with you one my first romantic poems that I wrote not really with the intention of writing a romantic poem but trying to express exactly what I felt at that moment. Had written this on May 4th called it "Glance" - a relatively short one.
"Glance"
The road long and cruel
You cross my path like a gust of cool breeze
Made my shadow leave me to follow you
Like a fling towards a magnet helplessly
You in yo
Realisation
This is a poem I started writing on a flight and completed while returning home from the airport. This is my attempt to reflect the world that we are living in and how we are positioned in it...... have called it "Realisation" - Aug 7; 21:35hrs
"Realisation"
Can anything other than life be more funny
From birth to death and this never ending journey
All walk the same line
At each step we determine what's yours and what's mine
Leaving the joys we gather worries all the time
And then blame god as if by creating us he committed the biggest crime
Constantly looking for what others have got
What we've got we forgot
Claim the world to be bad and the self good
I am the best to understand the way of the world but when it comes to me the world never understood
Mistake we commit and our mind changes the rule to pardon
But when anybody else does that, living with him is such a burden
Success is what you earn
And not in what you unlearn
Happiness is in what you get
And not in your actions that made others regret
The greed never seems to cease
What's even amazing is that with age it will only increase
Education printed in books
Knowledge? Do you know how it looks
Teachers driven not by knowledge but by their own hunger
Children everyday walking towards our created danger
The old left to fight alone
Not with the world outside but with those who grew in their home
If you find four shoulders to carry you, fortunate you are
Blessed you would be if you find a cloth to cover life's scar
Realisation dawns only after dusk
Birds of time took away the grain what's left is only husk
See the muck not the blooming lotus
What you can get and not build together is the focus
Fatigue is what the world is heading towards
What when god leaves us alone in our journey onwards
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Understand
Wrote this May 19, 2009 at 23:05 hrs when I thought that the world we are creating and living in would we ever understand that. Probably the code to crack pain that we all suffer from.
"Understand"
To understand silence you need to understand speech
To understand distance you need to understand reach
To understand black you need to understand white
To understand wrong you need to understand right
To smell the rose risk the thorn
To know the unknown challange the norm
Break the night with the dawn
Heal the hurt only when you hear them mourn
Appreciate sight when vision is blur
Appreciate life as you run your finger thru fur
Love hate and everything in between
Life death and everything beneath
Truth deceit and everything the eye can meet
Souls straying by as if they are not to be
Explaination consumes life
Hunger still dissatisfied
The more you quench the more you dry
Try try and only try
Nothing left but to try
Eyes and ears all a waste
Mind losing control all in haste
Hold on cling on
Look around for flowers still bloom
They may not necessarily find a place in your room
I wanna
" I wanna..."
I wanna talk to the sky
Jive with the stars
Wanna play ball with the sun
Wanna wake up feeling, last night I won the Oscars
I wanna sleep on the clouds
Slide down with the rain
Wanna fly like the wind
Wanna everyday explore a new domain
I wanna drink the sea
Go to the bottom of the mountain
Wanna grow like the tree
Wanna be the highest drop of water in a fountain
I wanna be as hot as ice
Meet the elves and fairies
Wana know the unknown
Wanna laze in the Prairies
I wanna understand light
Enable the revolution
Wanna see with eyes closed
Wanna be the point of the end and beginning of evolution
My poems not for me
It was May 1st, 2009 when I met this very charming lady who was still living as a free bird in this wild world completely untouched by the corruption and innocence reflected in her face and in her ways.
Wondering who this lady is ........ read on.
I met her at the Kemps Corner Crossword, was an official meeting.....me trying to be as correct as ever and throwing in that odd joke just to see if people around brush regularly. She that day again touched my heart with her mad ways and simplicity.
So I left the meeting and sent her an sms which was more like a little prayer.
"I pray to God that may you always rise like the soul that rises to unite with the spirit... if at all you fall may you fall like the waterfall for there is so much grace and dignity in its fall that it is a sight to watch"
And I guess that was the starting point. I somewhere felt the need to express my emotions, feelings and thoughts in a coded manner which would be simple for people to uncode.
So then since May 2, 2009 till date I have written more than 85 poems simply because everything I wanted to tell her or anything in the world that saw and touched me or influenced me ..... it simply flew as poetry.
If I have to classify broadly the subjects I have written on it ranges from "Love and romance" to "Nature" to "Life and its philosophy"
My inspiration to start this blog comes from my friends (I have not shared my poems with any male friends....... as I found that women really continue the conversation if you say you you write poetry ha ha ) who said I should publish them and put it all up on my blog.
So going forward let me share a few poems that I have written..... let me know if you would like more of them.
Cheers and God bless