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Jan., 2013
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Harvesting Dissatisfaction
What would you feel about the temple
You built if it is full of webs?
What would you feel about the book
You wrote if it gathered dust?
What would you feel about the child
You begot if it went mate-less?
What would you feel about the person
You loved if no requite of love?
Unasked, we do such things in life
And harvest dissatisfaction.
Oct., 2013
To Feel At Peak Is To Feel Good.
In each stage you evolve about yourself
And set your preferences for vocation,
Hobbies, and values to beultimate,
With the beliefs that you’ve reached the peak.
You do this exercise at every stage
As if that is final, which is not to be.
You believe that you’re at peak at each time
For you feel good in forming such beliefs.
You won’t be the person you expect to be.
You aren’t the person you’d expected to be.
If you review what you wrote sometime back
You cannot do it without amendments.
Jan., 2013
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Friendships And Relationships
We don’t show ourselves as we are.
We want the people’s acceptance.
We want to meet their expectation,
Which is a demand made on us.
Else we should not mind losing them.
Relationships differ from friendships.
Friendships last where much is concealed.
Relationships last where much is revealed.
Jan., 2013
Spouses Are Partners.
My children must live long after me.
Their children must prosper after me.
No such aspirations for my spouse.
Spouses cannot be more than partners.
Jan., 2013
To Carve A Name
Aggressive marketing promotes sales.
Aggressive canvassing promotes brand.
Unless you spend a lot for promotion
Of recognition you can’t carve a name.
Jan.,2013
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Apathy Of Good Men
A few bad men; many good men;
The society is inflicted
Not with misdeeds of the bad men
But with the apathy of good men.
Jan., 2013
Adopt One To Serve
Parents brought you up; you must see them off.
Childless, you must adopt one to bring up..
Parentless, you must adopt one, to look after.
There lies security of existence.
Jan., 2013
Good Citizens
A country is rich with the citizens
Who don’t spend because they can afford to,
Who won’t buy because they are able to
And who don’t grab things because they have hands.
Jan., 2013
Crazy For Titles
Some want to add a title to their names.
They want to be called with the title, then
By the title alone and beam thus called.
Insecure fellows go after titles.
Jan., 2013.
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Today’s Best
The best love, the best friend,
The best job and the best style
Are dislodged at every stage
Because of incoming influence.
Jan., 2013
Man’s Demands
I must exist, that others should know.
I must grow up, that others should watch.
I must display, that others should see.
This is the demand of the sixth sense.
Jan., 2013
Nature At The Hand Of Man
Man is more damaging
Than managing the Nature.
Man is more straining
Than maintaining the Nature.
He would continue this
Till he’s caught by it and lost.
Jan., 2013
Good Manners
Between good manners and bad manners lies
A fine line that tells you good manners are
Doing petty sacrifices so that
Others are not put to discomforts.
Feb., 2013
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Love Gives Meaning To Life.
Be there nights to enjoy the moon.
Be there sleeps to enjoy the nights,
And hard works to relish the sleeps.
Be there progress to enjoy works.
Be there peers to gaze the progress,
For which be your love for the peers.
Feb., 2013
To love, Shed Self-love.
Unless one stops loving oneself,
One cannot love well another.
Love demands some sacrifices
For which selfishness must drain down.
Sexual love and mother’s love do it.
Let love of other kinds apes them.
Feb., 2013
A Man's Aspiration
My son was growing;
I didn’t know I was aging.
My son is going up;
I didn’t know he was drifting.
My son is living away.
Now I know he is of no use.
Feb., 2013
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Be With Him
Be on God’s side
And accept what happens.
Don’t expect Him
To be on your side, and blame.
It’s a nice way
Of not being angry
For anything that goes wrong,
Which is His and not yours.
Feb.,2013
Wait. You’ll Come Up.
Resilience is a law of nature.
Plants have it; so do animals and man.
It happens though the time it takes varies.
Patience is the key to unlock it with.
Have you fall down? Wait! You will wake up.
If you are not, your children will do.
Feb., 2013
Seeing People
Having grown old, I dropped seeing places.
I cannot keep those impressions for long.
Instead, I go seeing people, in whom
I can imprint as they could live farther.
Feb., 2013
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Freedom Of Expression
Freedom of expression has no meaning
If it is not granted to those despised,
Estranged suppressed and employed as well.
Forget. It is not going to happen.
Feb., 2013
Credits For The Age
He is not taller but older than me.
He is not higher but older than me.
He is not richer but older than me.
I must give him allowance for the age.
Feb., .2013
Basic Traits Are They.
Is he mean? Blame his possessiveness.
Is he selfish? Blame his greediness.
Is he shameless? Blame his libido.
Is he a slave? Blame his insecure feelings.
Feb., 2013
To Aspire Rather Than Expect
Have more aspiration and less expectation.
Aspiration is self-initiative.
Expectation is external dependence.
Aspire more, expect less and beat the stress.
Feb., 2013
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So Soon Had He Died.
I would have fed him to his taste,
Nursed him without a murmour
And treated him with more concern
Had I known that he’d di
e so soon.
Mar., 2013
Don’t Fight For Replacement.
When’ll a woman become a Pope?
Woman! Such fancy you must drop.
Don’t go for replacement of Heads.
Build one and become its Head.
Mar., 2013
The Unfair Remembrance
Writers are known,
Whose works we haven’t read.
Inventers aren’t known,
Whose devises we use.
Are we fair in remembrance?
Mar., 2013
A minimum Gratefulness
I get two parents, four grand parents
And eight great grandparents, all of whom
I must know and leave short notes of them,
A minimum gratitude for inheritance.
Mar., 2013
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To Stop Self-pity
I pity my son, chronically ill,
And, hence, his children with no fortune.
I pity my daughter, a caged bird
And also her son whose love was not paid.
I pity my wife, a cancer patient
When I detected a tumor in me.
Tendency to pity them has gone up
To put a full stop to my self-pity.
Mar., 2013
Faith Is Lost As Wholesale
How to cure has gone
And how to make money has come in.
How to educate has gone
And how to capitalize has come in.
How to serve has gone
And how to exploit has come in.
Faith has been lost as wholesale
And insecurity has set in.
Mar., 2013
Sheep For Shepherd
Customers are an asset.
Clients are an asset.
Devotees are an asset.
They are sheep to their shepherds.
Mar., 2013
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The Moving Mass
Be they caterpillars or ants,
They move in processional lines,
Each one following the other,
With the same pace and same rhythm
Without minding where they’re led to.
Any mass movement is like that.
So are religious enterprises.
Mar., 2013
Share The Glory.
The Son of God is not jealous of God.
Virgin Mary is not jealous of Son.
Be not jealous of your father or son
They are your extension and share the fame.
Mar., 2013
Make Comfort Zones.
You must feel secure or be in comfort zones
To practise or preach virtues and morals.
Serve to provide assistance and supports.
Lip services, abundant, are of no use
Mar., 2013
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No One Is True To You.
However loyal he is to you,
You cannot have him speak to you facts
Unaltered or unadulterated.
He wants harmony more with you.
Mar., 2013
Attachments Are Removed.
I lost my drive; I lost my fire;
I lost my sheen on 22nd march
When my thyroids were removed
For cancer; with that attachment too.
31.03.2013
Practise Promptness.
When you fail to do what you’ve intended,
That strengthens your inability to do,
Your temperament to insincerity
And your tendency for justification.
Mar., 2013
The Old Beg Their Children.
Out of love, I had pleased my child;
Now I please it to gets its care.
Out of pity, I had served it.
Now I beg it to get its pity.
Apr., 2013
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Credits To The Body
Wounds are not cured by drugs and doctors
But by healing mechanisms.
Wits are not gained by books and teachers
But by learning mechanisms.
Healing and learning mechanisms
Are the phenomena of the Life-force.
Apr., 2013
Don’t Count On Offspring
I beget a child to bear my stamp,
To represent me after my exit,
And to inherit mine; it is my wish.
It is my heir and my nominee.
I can act only as its guardian.
It has more right on me than I on it.
I invest love without a guarantee,
And persevere in its wellbeing.
Old lions are dying being unattended.
One is lucky should one get the child’s care.
Apr., 2013
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Curses Inevitable
A merciless mother
Is a curse to her child,
Being not replaceable
And not the child’s making.
A merciless offspring
Is a curse to parents,
Being not replaceable
And not retrievable.
Such like misfortunes are
In plenty, God’s making.
Apr., 2013
A Solitary Living
Living alone is now a new life style
Living alone is not feeling alone,
Nor feeling lonely or isolated either.
Singleton is a self-imposed life style.
Time and space are in absolute control.
Freedom of movements needs no adjustments.
Socialization is on one’s own term.
As a proprietor, he/she answers no partner.
Is this a trend showing intolerance?
Is tolerance in deterioration?
The solitary living has potential
To maroon you from the mate’s companionship.
Apr., 2013
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Hair-dye
Every stimulant is an irritant.
The sky is spoilt with radiation.
Immune system is in low vibration.
Any irritant can cause cancer.
Cancer is a biological suicide,
A device to curb over population
So that predators do not wipe the preys.
Even thehair-dye canbe fatal to one.
Apr., 2013.
The Society Must Condemn.
It is a disgrace to have servants in rags,
Not to say about one’s family,
For the society values the one that way.
Equally it must be a disgrace to one
Who neglects or abandons one’s parents.
The society must treat such ones likewise.
Apr., 2013
Death Is Made Easy.
My people have made me ready
To face death without anxiety
By withdrawing care and concern
And inflicting hate and contempt.
Apr., 2013
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Dishonesty At A Check
Lured by sensual comforts,
We tend to be loyal.
Struck by the ego’s pride,
We strive to be honest.
We have to feed senses;
We have to feed the ego,
Which is why dishonesty
Is at check from growing.
Apr., 2013
One’s Name Dies With One.
The successor to your throne
Is not to uphold your name
But to establish his name
Big enough to shadow yours.
Apr., 2013
The One To Love Most
The one who you love the most is
Whom you are free to scold,
Whom you can ask at ease,
Whom you’ll love to obey
And whom you fear to lose.
Try to have s
uch one
To beat the loneliness.
Apr., 2013
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Siblings And Offspring
He is my brother; she is my sister.
They have same blood as I, drawn from parents.
He is my son and she is my daughter.
They have blood of which mine is only a half.
Though of same blood, siblings are loose in knots.
Though with half blood, offspring are a tight knot.
Siblings are like branches from a fork.
Parent and child link is like root and stem.
Apr., 2013
Relation Is A Prejudice.
Entrust not a work to someone
Because he is your relation.
You’ll shy to bargain or argue
And he’ll capitalize on it.
Apr., 2013
To Sustain Friendship
Symbiosis sustains
Friendship of same gender.
Sexuality sustains
Friendship of cross gender.
Otherwise all friendships
Would suffer and wither,
Just for want of oil
To fuel the friendship.
Apr., 2013
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Let Me Go With Good Hopes.
It still disturbs me that my parents died
Before seeing births of my grandchildren.
It gives me relief that my parents died
Before seeing me developing cancer.
After my death will come plus and minus
To my descendants; I need not bother.
May, 2013
Inefficiencies Are Pets.
Inefficiencies enter through the backdoor.
Inefficiencies thrive in the hide outs
With the efficiencies put in lock up
In all sectors, and at the public’s cost.
May, 2013
Parents Are Spared.
Parents can’t bear deaths of their children.
Even the spouses can’t match them in grief.
That’s why parents die before children do.
Parents are spared pain, and children denied care.
May, 2013