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The house is quiet and I’m  alone with my thoughts
There are many plaguing me , I must confess.
Why strifes and struggles, why loss and gain
Why minds light as laughter and minds under duress?
 
What is the truth ? What is it for me?
The certainty  of death  and human misery?
Or is it the innocence that we’ve lost [...]

Much before the clouds rumbleAnd travel inward from the seaMy heart begins a restless grumbleMy thirsty soul prepares to fleeHome is where the heart is Mine dwells here and that’s for sure.When the city smoke  begins to chokeThe homestead casts its magical lureI know I’m home when I can drawWater and wishes from the wellI [...]

              It has been raining a little here in Delhi and the neighbouring areas. Some slight relief to the oppressive heat that has been bogging us down. Independence Day celebrations was shadowed by the news  of  drought and failure of crops that is being predicted. Prices have been spiralling anyways. The morning nespaper had carried this article [...]

 I’ve sat watching this patch of sky
 As a kid, many tens of years ago
It was as blue, the clouds as white
 The palm fronds swaying to and fro.

 I wonder what then went through my mind
 Did I see it then as I see it now?
 Did the languor seep through to my soul
 In strife and sorrow, calm [...]

A friend sent me this prayer. It is kind of cute:-) “Every  single evening As  I’m lying here in  bed, This  tiny little Prayer Keeps  running through my  head: God  bless all my  family Wherever  they may be, Keep  them warm and  safe from harm For  they’re so close to  me. And  God, there is one more  thing I  wish that you could  do; Hope  you don’t [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
“Profusion in pink, blossoms on the wall
Gradients of green on the trees lithe and tall
Blue morning mists curling up from the moat
Indelible impressions of a ruined old fort?”

“A pleasant sojourn
Cool, clear and calm a morn
The gladed forests in the diminishing light
A million stars, a beautiful night

Tranquil thoughts,inspired by the bounty
Of nature manifest in that [...]

      I have always, always loved poetry, not the abstract , too intellectual kind of stuff. I have been more of a victim of maudlin sentimentalism, much too emotional at times for my own good and endowed with an incorrigibly foolish , dreamy , wistfulness.
And poetry comes in handy, particularly in those times, when [...]

     In school, we used to have elocution competitions. Our headmistresses, Mother Gabrielle, selected poems for each individual participant , in the different classes. Such was her love for poetry and for perfect diction that she would spend hours with us, making us recite them again and again and again, making us bite our lips [...]