REALISATION

Like dried leaves
Picked up and hurled into the air
By a storm,
Pressure builds inside the head,
Words swirl
Looking for an outlet.
Alas, Outside, death lurks;
In friendly handshake
In human breath.
The words that would
normally every day
Find ears of friends
and accomplices,
Spent on advice
and pretence,
Find their road barred
By layers of cloth.
Too much has probably been said,
Too many opinions expressed,
Boasts of invincibility,
Of pride in human knowledge,
Now lie tattered and shredded.
Imprisoned thus in layers of cloth
Words lose garrulity.
And in the ensuing silence,
The mind works
Establishing a divine connect!

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Dated- 15th May 2020

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All is quiet-During Covid times

To roost in the city,
silence has come;
from the hills and
far-flung hamlets,
From forests and
within the ocean’s depths,
From the distant horizon
And earth’s edges,
From the vast desert stretches,
From cold polar continents
From ruins in history’s pages.
Like a maiden
bedecked in her finest,
She comes;
Dress the colour of azure of the sky
Spotted with the white of the clouds,
Luxuriant in the colours of the sun,
Fragrant with the smell of spring’s flowers,
The arrival greeted by
the cacophony of birds.
Silence has come to the city
And fills every street,
Every mall,
Every factory,
Every store.
At night, it dances with the traffic lights
At every cross-road!
It seeps into the human heart
And overwhelms human arrogance!

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Bliss of solitude- During Covid lockdown

Time stands still
and gapes at me in amazement everyday.
Frustrated perhaps
at my refusal to race with it these days.
The quarantined life has another bliss to dole.
In solitude,
I find myself talking to my soul.

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Memories of “Covid 19” Induced Lockdown

Life these days,
Wants to go back
Retract its footsteps
Wishes to seek solace
In sepia tinted photographs;
In the stories that they nurture,
In memories that bring about
The aura of youthful years.
Outside, the world seems
to have stopped dead.
These photographs however provide
the much needed escape.
“Come, let’s dive deep
Into a world
that was once yours.
A slice of time that
You once savoured.
Pictures of a place
that you once called Home,
And of people
who were your very own!
Friends of yours you can see
Holding each other tight.
Amidst nature….
Mesmerised by its sight?
Is this your baby?
A living doll, bonny and so cute.
Embracing her,
her mother stands, beaming
with the pride of Motherhood!
Look at you!
That shock of hair, lean frame,
This pic of yours, this phase of life
Truly un-believable!

Here are a few more !
Is that you dressed as a groom?
With your arms
around your lady-love,
Your joy seems to be over the moon!
Parties with friends,
Occasions you celebrated,
The photographs all reveal
Life’s precious moments!
Amongst these treaures
A few faces who have
become lost in time;
To dust and ashes
they have now been consigned.
A few are faces who
Have moved far apart.
Despite the distance,
Entrenched
In the mind and heart!”
Within he house,
The pictures thus spin a yarn
Of life and
its cause for warmth.
While outside, Fear,
sending out chill, engulfs!
But this too shall pass, is an assurance that comes from the heart.
So let the bliss prevail
And freeze these moments
With some more photographs!

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Togetherness

My verandah is basking in sunshine;
Sunshine that feels like melted butter today,
That which falls over everything
In a joyous whoop!
It wants to submerge everything
With unbridled exuberance,
Warm, playful, extrovert sunshine,
Like a lover’s passionate impatience,
Like a child’s unabashed playfulness,
Falling over my shoulders,
Running all over my face,
Happy to have found me
after many a decade.
Happy to have found
a willing friend,
Who wants to give in
To its friendliness.
Sunshine that falls
all over the place,
That deluges my face,
reminds of God’s assurance,
To dispel the dregs of loneliness
And provides much needed solace!

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Healer of Hearts

It’s time to help fellow humans.
Echoed the birds and bees
And in chorus, the palash trees!
Then spring arrived,
To heal grieving hearts!

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मिलन 2020

फिर मिले हैं हम
बुढापे की कगार पर खड़े,
अपने आप को ठरकी कहने वाले।
कुछ दोस्त मिले हैं फिर आज।

आँखों की रोशनी शायद धुंधलाने लगी हो,
मोटापे की मार से शायद परेशान भी हो।
बालों मे भले सुनहरे परत चढे हो।
लेकिन दिल से जवां है सारे।

बचपन इनके रगों में दौड़ता है।
सुकून, बचपन की यादों में खोजता है।
आज, फिर से वे सारे मिले है।

कह दो तारों को
आज रात उन्हें जागना होगा।
चन्दा को
अपनी चांदनी लिये ठहरना होगा।
हवाओं को आज
मतवाले सुर लिए बहना होगा।
क्योंकि
दोस्ती की यह बेमिसाल जश्न जो आज होगा।

बचपन से आज बचपन की मुलाकात जो होगी।
किस्सों की लड़ी से दिवाली जैसी रोशनी जो होगी।
उम्र के बढते कदम पर ठहाकों की बेड़ियाँ डाले जाएंगे।
कल कि फिक्र को जाम मे डुबोया जाएगा।
क्योंकि आज फिर मिले है दोस्त सारे।
आज फिर, मिले हैं दोस्त सारे।

मेरे बचपन के सभी स्कूल के दोस्तों को समर्पित

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