Monday, January 31, 2011

Words of Angels - Haiku

Today morning..I heard some lovely songs in my mind....and this haiku was born.. Hope you too will be able to .. yes, let us continue to practice happiness..



Words of angels
Float through fresh morning breeze
Wind -chimes catch and sing..




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Saturday, January 29, 2011

SHE WALKS BESIDE ME...

Written for OSI PROMPT.. EVENING
Also entered for Poetry Potluck at Jingle Poetry

SHE WALKS BESIDE ME....


Long days, hectic schedules,
Endless hours of work

Absolute control of
Selfishness embellished by
Thanklessness,
A way of life, watching
Setting sun on the edge of city
Turned into a distant dream
Street lights would burn bright
To make my tired face shine
I would pass through

The looming shadows
Of large trees tickled by a polite wind
Swaying on my side of the road
And I would reach home,
Opening the door
She would force a smile
Yes acceptance of my routine
Had made life a lot easier
Children too didn’t expect me
To return early,
But then one day, she spilled her
Hidden expression of sadness
“Can’t we ever be gifted even one
Evening of togetherness,’
And the poet in me turned and said,
“Oh, dear, the evenings would be ours
Now only in the evening of our lives”;
But my answer gave rise
To a question – how could I be
So confident, what if….
God appeared to have heard
The silence of her eyes, and pulled
A few tricks out of His hat
Burning all my dreams baked
Under a Sun of illusions
Over the years

Lifted by the smoke that arose
I suddenly found myself
At a place where I am
Able to watch the day turning
In to a night, and
In those effervescent moments
She walks beside me
No, it doesn’t matter if hundreds
Of moving machines pass us
Honking and screaming
Togetherness fills our hearts with
Comfort and peace
I try to hold the evening
Strolling just a little ahead of us
Scattering the shining
Black beads of darkness
But then our hearts glow
With light, as we look up,
To see a happy Moon smile
Making us a lot happier
We thank God, for having
Played a splendid trick,
To gift us our evenings
Of peaceful togetherness
And we return home with starry eyes
Waiting for another evening
Hey! Won’t we find
A glorious sunrise on the way…


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I think a Haiku Hides there in the poem:


Evening opens her hands ,
Throws beads of shining darkness
Turns in to bright night

Happy Moon Shines..

Written for Haiku Heights Prompt: Splendor
Al
so my third entry in Haiku My Heart..


Happy Moon shines, She
Hides behind her expression
A veil of splendor...


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Friday, January 28, 2011

A Happy Haiku , Friends




Colorful dreams
Hang in mind’s window, gleams
Rainbow of thoughts..




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Hi Haiku for Haiku My Heart

Strong wind takes
His dream away, unripened
Fruit falls..


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I find my shadow
Dancing ahead of me, oh,
Light is left behind

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Yes, My Ego Needs To Be Served...

Written for 3WW Prompts: Janky, Conniption & Scooch


Yes, My Ego Needed To Be Served…


A mistake was about to happen
I wasn’t able to foresee
But he could and as usual
He expressed it, but how could he
I was in power and
He didn’t have any right to
Be wiser than me, so
In spite of his warning
I chose to use my veto and
Overlooked his wisdom
My misadventure resulted
In a janky situation
As the fears projected proved true
And I had a conniption fit
But wasn’t unduly worried
Since I had never forgiven
The lesser one for the mistakes
I had been doing to him
So once again he got blamed
And I, the powerful, relaxed
In the glory of my own conceit
What a perk for being in power
Nothing wrong, a normal way in which
The world moves on and the lesser ones
Can’t even scooch, prefer a status quo
For, a known devil is better always
Than an unknown one.. and so I thought
But then if he chose to move, I shuddered
For I knew, power also gets bestowed
On those who were strong enough
To take responsibility for their mistakes
And the talented always had the choice..
Yet I wasn’t bothered, for I knew
I would find someone else
Yes, my ego needed to be served constantly




( A poem where I placed myself on the opposite side to see life from another perspective..)