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  Sensitivity

  One would burst when least provoked.

  One would bear what most hurled at.

  Some are over sensitive;

  Some are least sensitive.

  Sensitivity is in-born.

  Bear and give allowance

  To the anger of sensitive ones.

  May, 2013

  Indian Systems Of Politics

  He’s in charge, honest and loyal.

  He permits thefts and condones fraud.

  He rescues thieves brought to notice.

  He’s not sacked; the boss is happy.

  May, 2013

  Rules Are For Harmony.

  You must have harmony within yourself.

  You must have it with family and friends.

  Harmony brings about peace in societies,

  For which a code of conducts must prevail.

  With this in view, fear of God was installed.

  With this in view, scriptures were made and sold.

  They are the umpire and rules for the life game.

  Atheists must value theists on this score.

  May, 2013

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  Mothers To Children

  To stop the growth of violence;

  To stop the growth of theft and fraud;

  To stop the growth of sexual assault;

  Mothers can do as role models.

  To help the spread of tolerance;

  To help the spread of truth and just;

  To help the spread of propriety;

  Mothers can do as role models.

  May, 2013

  Cancerous Effects

  Cancer, the zodiac sign, rings good

  In people’s mind as the fate ruler.

  Cancer,the blight, is a dreadful word

  People feel shy of mentioning it.

  It strikes fear in the people’s hearts

  And gives powerlessness to patients.

  Victims believe they would recover;

  Others wait for the end of victims.

  The pity shown to patients kills them.

  Patients, while alive, are written off.

  Powerlessness overcomes treatments.

  Stigma clung to cancer be cut off.

  May, 2013

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  Let us play.

  You are the master and I am the dog.

  We are in harmony. How would we turn

  If we both were dogs or both were masters?

  Interests must match to make harmony work.

  May, 2013

  The crowd turning fanatic

  The Hyderabad team was playing.

  The venue was in Hyderabad.

  The crowd from Hyderabad bought tickets

  And emoted in their team’s progress.

  There was rapture among the crowd

  When fours and sixes were made and

  When catches were made by their team.

  Each one watched as if he owned it.

  It was telecast the worldwide.

  It was watched in rapt attention

  By the patriotic all over,

  Helping revenue from advertisements.

  The team was theirs only by name.

  It is owned by an outsider.

  Its skipper is an outsider.

  Even players are drawn of outside.

  The organizers named the teams

  After the regions to sell tickets.

  Ruled by the pseudo-identity,

  The native crowd turned fanatics.May, 2013

  Professional Killers

  Hunters, poachers and butchers have no mercy.

  Robbers, killers and snatchers have no mercy.

  Soldiers, police and fanatics have no mercy.

  As a profession, hurting kills mercy.

  May, 2013

  The Good And The Bad Die.

  The public memory is short lived.

  The name known for the reason good or bad,

  Would die soon in the people’s memory.

  That is why bad elements are emboldened.

  May, 2013

  Refuse The Excess.

  What you give is from what you have

  Or from what you got. It’s not great.

  Not to get in order to give

  And refuse the excess is great.

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  Accommodate.

  Don’t suspect that there’s something fishy,

  Else take that what is fishy is not fishy.

  This is the best way to beat anxiety

  When you feel that you cannot put it right.

  May, 2013

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  In A Death…

  A library has been burnt;

  A history has been consumed;

  A workshop has been gutted.

  An album has been lost.

  Because an old person died.

  May, 2013

  Punters Are Pathetic.

  Punters are neither thieves, nor robbers either

  To be taken to task by the police

  As if they’re criminals, leaving criminals.

  They stake theirs, and gain or lose knowingly.

  They test their skills and derive thrills as sports.

  Their families at stake, they must refrain.

  May, 2013

  Sympathy Waves

  Calls are from relatives to come and stay.

  Helps are from relatives, with means unasked.

  We, the couple, are fresh with the cancer.

  Maybe they fear they might miss us soon.

  June, 2013

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  I Am His Tormentor.

  He spent on my funeral more

  Than he had spent on my treatment.

  He shed on my body his tears

  That he withheld when I was held.

  He got mine with no gratitude.

  In my death anniversary,

  He feasted like of which I didn’t eat.

  He remembers with reverence

  To nullify the contempt shown.

  I am in his thought, in the form of guilt.

  It’ll be slit by his son’s action later.

  June, 2013

  Other Species Would Outlive Man.

  Man reasons, invents and has cognition

  Unlike other species, and overrides.

  His exploring dropped, he exploits resources.

  He puts on weight and loses immunity.

  If at all he falls, he’ll do with his weight.

  Other species would outlive him.

  June, 2013

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  Follies Are Interesting

  Twists are introduced in stories.

  Miracles are inserted in scriptures.

  Mysteries are made in poetry.

  The unrealistic are interesting.

  Believing it true while knowing it untrue

  Is the folly man enjoys doing in.

  June, 2013

  Contempt And Acceptance

  Familiarity breeds contempt.

  A familiar saying, all have heard.

  It occurs on a downward journey.

  Familiarity gains acceptance also.

  It occurs on an upward journey.

  The braid sheds her charm while the maid gains hers.

  June, 2013

  Men Are My Friends.

  Seeds sown could give returns tenfold.

  Men helped would give returns one tenth.

  Men, helping, take away more than that.

  They’ve come as guests and left as pest.

  June, 2013

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  Regrets Accumulate.

  Regrets come on either way:

  That it’s said or that it isn’t,

  That it’s done or that it isn’t.

  With a bundle of regrets

  One dies, with no other way.

  June, 2013

  Two Phases

  Waxing
phases and waning phases

  Are usual occurrence to any.

  To have a face same in both phases

  Will spare you shame and embarrassment.

  June, 2013.

  Not To Be Held In Contempt

  Presence is a disturbance;

  Suggestion is an irritation;

  Offer of help is a nuisance;

  Good morning is unwelcome.

  Such occasions, one must sense

  Not to be held in contempt.

  June, 2013

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  Arousal Is Not In Your Hand.

  Anger and arousal come unasked.

  Anger and arousal are unstoppable.

  No contraceptives found to stop their births;

  The stimuli are the active agents.

  Anger and arousal cannot be blocked.

  The wise pocket them; the fools spit at spot.

  The weak sublimates or broods for a hatch.

  June 2013

  The Deluded Ownership

  You live in one house, though owning many.

  Your money in the bank is in use elsewhere.

  To think that you own it that you don’t enjoy

  Is a deluded ownership you’re caught in.

  June, 2013

  For Children To Emulate

  Tell your children and their children

  About your parents and grandparents.

  Dedicate to parents any works.

  Name after parents any structures.

  Your children must emulate you.

  June, 2013

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  Efforts And Merits

  The one atop the tenth step,

  Has stooped ten times to reach it.

  The one atop the twelfth step,

  Has stooped twelve times to reach it.

  The one who minded stooping

  Was happy to be on the floor.

  The world recognizes

  The efforts and not the merits.

  June, 2013

  To Clear The Debts

  What you did is inadequate

  To the sacrifice your parents made.

  You must do it to your children

  As much and silence your conscience.

  June, 2013

  Who Is To Be Blamed?

  The tendency to give concession

  Has come down as the tendency

  To claim it as a matter of right

  Has risen among the recipients.

  The tendency to offer succour

  Has declined as the tendency

  To requite it or show gratitude

  Has slowed down among the beneficiaries.

  June, 2013

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  Feel The Moment ‘Now’.

  Millions of people have been slaughtered

  In the name of religion in the past.

  Millions of people have been put to death

  To establish the rule of communism.

  Countless are the dead in both the world wars,

  And for liberation or equality.

  Millions are sacrificing their lives

  Doing penance for the unseen bliss.

  Almost the whole population march ahead

  With a focus on a goal or a thrill.

  Thus one forgets to live the moment ‘now’.

  Regrets of the past and hopes of the future

  Engulf one from feeling the moment ‘now’.

  Set not lofty goals; feel the moment ‘now’.

  June, 2013

  Draw hopes.

  A movie moves us.

  A story touches us.

  They aren’t real.

  Knowing it, we do.

  We enjoy in follies.

  Be God real or not;

  Let some take Him real

  And draw from Him hopes.

  July, 2013

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  Get Positive Energy.

  It is energy that manifests itself

  In all things; be it living or nonliving.

  Nothing is good or evil among them.

  It’s life energy that manifests itself

  In all organisms: plants and animals.

  No organism is good or evil.

  The energy itself is transforming

  To some other energy by some means,

  Like electricity to heat by the heater.

  Mental energy is a kind of means

  By which a thing or a place is made good

  Or bad and dealt with accordingly.

  A thing found divine or a place, serene

  Will find you in positive energy.

  Find such things and places in abundance.

  July, 2013

  Be Less Judgmental.

  Don’t judge one at once.

  Don’t judge at face value.

  Collect facts and do.

  Yet you’ll go faulty

  With some data missing.

  Be less judgmental.

  July, 2013

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  Biography Is A Story.

  No one is fit to write my biography.

  No one knows about me as well and full

  As they think they do and, hence, I say so.

  Parents knew me but not after their exits.

  Children knew me but not before their entries.

  Wife was ignorant of my outdoor news.

  No one was as a friend for whole my life.

  I myself didn’t know about my childhood.

  None of them had been fit to be a writer.

  I hired a writer to do the job.

  July, 2013

  Forgiveness Is An Effort.

  Retaliation comes in spurts;

  Forgiveness is brought with efforts.

  If you don’t forgive kin or friends

  You will break the bridge made for them.

  If you don’t forgive a stranger

  You will miss a bridge he would make.

  Forgiveness maintains harmony;

  Retaliation will break it.

  Aug., 2013

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  Regularize it.

  My son was stealing from us

  For his pocket expenses.

  I gave him right to take from us

  And now his is not stealing.

  Regularize, if you can’t stop,

  Your inmates’ unpleasant actions.

  July, 2013

  Be Sincere To Smiling.

  To smile is an instant response.

  It must come with no efforts.

  To wear a smile on one’s face

  Is an intentional act.

  Let it comes itself; don’t fake it,

  Else it lacks transparency.

  Aug., 2013

  Who Is Harmful?

  A snake bites a man when provoked,

  But man kills snakes when unprovoked.

  Man, with sixth sense, is more harmful

  To animals than they are to him.

  Aug., 2013

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  Means And Ends

  She sold her beauty

  And bought popularity,

  And, with popularity,

  She got prosperity,

  With which she attained

  Supremacy to stay afloat.

  He sold his greediness

  And bought elevation,

  And, with elevation,

  He got governance,

  With which he minted

  Money to keep others down.

  Means are accomplices for the ends.

  Aug., 2013

  The Livelihood Matters.

  An astrologer has no faith

  In astrology.

  A preacher has no belief

  In his gospel truth.

  A temple priest has no faith

  In the idol served.

  They engage themselves in them

  For their livelihood.

  Aug., 2013

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  Judgm
ent’s influence

  Judgment would differ

  From person to person,

  From place to place

  And from time to time.

  Each action is the result

  Of judgment one makes.

  Cause and effect law

  Is universal

  But in the case of

  Human involvement

  Judgment at each stage

  Alter the effects.

  Aug., 2013

  The Growth Driven Set Up

  Pushed by one behind, I push one in front.

  Nudged by one beside, I nudge one beside.

  An effect made is carried over in chains.

  The borrowed capital must be returned.

  The rental on things hired must be paid.

  The bribe paid must be recovered somehow.

  Recurring expenses must also be met.

  The burden is transferred to consumers.

  Unscrupulous earning is hence let loose

  At the cost of ethics and honesty.

  This is the growth driven economy,

  Where means are sacrificed for the end.

  Aug., 2013

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  Unity Of Siblings

  Brothers and sisters to remain

  As brothers and sisters for long,

  They must share no common interest,

  And get to no joint venture.

  Aug., 2013

  Unity Of Siblings

  Brothers and sisters to remain

  As brothers and sisters for long,

  They must share no common interest,

  And get to no joint venture.

  Aug., 2013

  Revisits Enthrall.

  I do enjoy revisiting a place

  A thing or a book after a long gap,

  Not that it was appealing to me then

  But that I am able to learn new things,

  Missed then to my developing mind,

  By observation from my grown up mind.

  Aug.,.2013