ASYLUM CRIES

 

Xmas is the season to celebrate love,

Ever human pain sorrow dissolves,

Forgiveness to cruelty, inhuman,

Color, place, gender, helpless one,

Victims of fate or lost future total,

Greedy for bright future, alien regal,

Foolishness to forgive, accept all,

The decision for millions rotting or call,

Who escapes from asylum life is a test,

Who lingers longer, misery in hell best,

Human race at odd with destiny run,

Discrimination, race, religion burn,

Flight beyond border quitting home,

Over boat, sheep, road travel mourn,

Twentieth-century modern prosperous,

Human this century in luxury curious,

Innovative, futuristic vision, intense,

Suffering, the river of life in cage immense,

Year of corona horror, death is close,

Asylum lost lives, sickness destiny owes,

Winter coldness fewer shivers than fate,

Every new year will let good news wait,

Ever asylum seekers return home sweet,

Ever family friends unite, locals greet,

Ever host country allows entry welcome,

Ever citizenship offered to settle a new home,

Ever children attend lost education,

Ever work permit offer in compassion,

The black hole of destiny in erosion,

Ever, terror, merciless killings vanish,

Ever discrimination of nation perish,

Ever asylum within barbed wire fades,

Ever human life rare, isolation evades,

The shanties, muddy roads, dirty look,

Hunting fear, dark futures hunger hook,

Destitution, stateless, floating in the globe,

The picture of the disaster, an asylum hub,

The picture questions future, New Year,

 Refugee life stream merge in ocean clear,

Asylum, the shame of modern time, turn a page,

A new life, home, hope, smiles but soil craze,

Selfish minds young, adult quit desert soil,

Stop humiliating servitude at pittance boil,

Be paradise in the desert, the dreamland of honey,

Be luxury, comfort, career golden n money,

New Year awaken flooding refugees turmoil,

Leaving parents, friends, home n own soil,

Who goes, then knows asylum dilute dignity,

Death on own oil better, patience is beauty,

Destruction of cities, homes never explode,

Never in name of faith, discrimination corrode,

Never powerful treat own people as a slave,

New Year may gimps of freedom as a wave,

New citizens on mercy, brotherhood surge,

New Year, new faces, alien culture merge

The new millennium, new concept asylum past,

Stateless, migrant, refugee, misfortune last.

 

 

HERMITAGE HOME

 

Dismay in life hermit is single,

A sage, matted hair rare mingle,

Scanty cloth in cover, small bag,

Begging people for food looks rag,

Such canvas so disgusting, error,

Amiss in modern life, few strangers,

Hermit is a decent family man,

Wife, kids, a home, loving one,

Hermit in youth passed life, nice,

Conserve from temptation, vice,

Simple life lead, studies, nature,

Searching within human life most,

Detached from society, comfort, lust,

Realized enough meaning of life,

Human life for peace, away from strife,

Get married, with family in seclusion,

Home becomes a hermitage awesome,

Few from modern life, educated,

Renounce career, posts dedicated,

Stay unmarried adopt monkhood,

Inhabit in solitude meditate good,

Their cottage turns a hermitage nice,

Source of wisdom, spiritual practice,

Human life in hermitage never poor,

Industrious, pious, earns well savor,

In midst of work simple with people,

Material ambitions least, peace simple,

Such hermits in modern times hide,

Far from limelight, glamour, reside,

A nation feverish for peace, content,

Attracts western seeker settle decent,

 

Deep forest, bank of the river, icy mountain,

Coastal belt a treasure, hermit enlighten,

Never selfish, private, active to serve,

Educate young wayward, they deserve,

Instill self-control, discipline, practice,

Instill exotic simple life, happy, service,

The desire to accumulate, endless in greed,

Source of sorrows, sick mind lust is a seed,

Youth acquire annihilation of desires,

Better humans, grew stable do inspire,

Modern life toxic, addicted mind wild,

Run for conjugate eat sleep fear mild,

Discipline youth no bar for core service,

Education no limit, clean life expertise,

A visionary technocrat, doctor, leader,

Lawyer, scientist, intellect play wonder,

Wrong to brand a hermit shy to exploit,

Inclined to serve people, offer clean bait,

Beyond corruption, twists of evil power,

Incredible upbringing, never fear, cower,

 

A fact of life, never fiction, happen often,

Such people as a hermit, show the nation,

A residence as home, the cottage was a hermitage,

Grateful people look inspired, ideal envisage,

Father of the nation a barrister in hermitage,

Sabarmati Ashram hook billion a heritage,

 

Search O’ human mind millions are content,

Hermitage homes fascinate, tranquil decent.     

 

 

PARABLE OF MONASTERY

 

Thousand years an ancient people,

Human mind detached, peace simple,

Cruelty, aggression, death, violence,

Cities burned, plundered, rest pittance,

Hunger, poverty, sufferings endless,

The golden age of land was a past pitiless,

Fractured thousands of tiny kingdoms,

Great Indus civilization flourished,

Gold, jewels wealth, knowledge exist,

Savage inner fight mindless continue,

Small kingdoms dissolve, empire new,

Destruction of empires to small pieces,

Great people ancient, wisdom misses,

Society sank in Dark Age fear hunted,

Days of horse, elephant, sword, wicked,

Himalayan peninsula under darkness,

Birth of Adi Sankar, Buddha awakens,

Lord Mahavir, Guru Nanak enlighten,

Filtered great people to purity, brighten,

Immortal teachings after realization,

The object of human life on world salvation,

Pure mind get liberated from bondage,

Bondage is a society, family, self linkage,

Freedom from temptations, desire, lust,

The soul is deathless, life independent most,

Monkhood, the birth of hatred to ignorance,

Bondage to social life, desire persistence,

Work for livelihood, shelter, family more,

The temptation for greed, wealth, ego enamor,

Enlighten prophets’ messages address,

Wealth, power, race, clan seed of distress,

Division of class, untouchable, poor, rich,

Disintegrated ancient systems beyond reach,

Childhood in hermitage, youth with family,

Old age in the forest alone, pilgrimage mostly,

Classless people, casteless were divine,

Krishna was a cowboy, Ram was a king,

Both were non-Brahmins, Yadav, Royal,

Hindu faith represents as Avatar regal,

Messages edict preaches casteless mind,

Pure, divine life, simple, peace well find,

No fear of death, rejection of all violence,

Family life needs to serve, least pretense,

Mutual love, share, quit negative attitude,

Scope human life to seek truth beatitude,

Realization of truth annihilate fear, lust,

Annihilate cruelty, tension, suffering most,

Calmness, bliss, everlasting happiness,

Awesome long life, pilgrimage envisage,

Monasteries took roots for practice n stay,

For preaching, spreading messages, way,

Youth, mold to monastic life, single traveler,

Hindu, Buddhist, Jainism, Sikh preacher,

Length n breadth of a populace, rock-carved,

Monastery took shape, near temples saved,

A bright culture epic, Nalanda depict well,

Asiatic of scholar, teacher and disciple swell,

Palm leaf scripts, ancient manuscript old,

Library in study, priceless document gold,

 

Today independent nation owes monasteries,

Dilapidated, in ruins, rock carvings mysteries,

Picture of Nalanda, burnt to ashes, ruins tragic,

No more monks in travel, cleansing pure, holistic,

 

Modernity depicts an insane mind wild, lustrous,

Monasteries missing, hotels, hostel fabulous,

Priests are world trotters, wealthy in comfort,

Monastery, solitude, silence, single monk taunt,

Inclines again to luxury, comfort, wealth most,

Puritan a lifestyle, nature-friendly, truth is worst.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 OCEANIA SPLENDOR

 

Distant deep space finds the blue planet,

Unique visible in cosmos, rare replicate,

Planet owes splendor of Oceania bluish,

Incredible living forms islands flourish,

Human heart questions heaven, a fiction,

Paradise of nature, great pacific conviction,

Emerald islands, flora, fauna, foliage,

Color birds, flightless penguin image,

Giant whales, shark, dolphin awesome,

Great ocean vastness horizon to horizon,

Lone Crevasses, vertical cliff, volcanic rock,

Midst of pacific, un-spoilt, myriad life sock,

Brooks crystal clear, impregnable greens,

Creature uncommon, mysterious means,

Specter of a castaway, shipwreck novelty,

Dreams busy life bore, human travesty,

Infinite peace, calm mind, solitude call,

Metro of lights, noise, high rise tower tall,

Modern mind in fracture seeks to silence,

A dark night in the forest, stardust influence,

Miles of golden beach, cocoanut grove,

Alone a soul, family, tensions dissolve,

Million world trotters converge amiss,

Scuba dive in coral islands goldfish,

The thrill, romance with beautiful nature,

Stories of shark, underwater crater,

Reel life projects mesmerizing scene,

Rare fortunate people witness clean,

Tourist’s lifelong memories visit album,

Astonishing realities in amber churn,

Great land in pacific, Australia inspire,

Vast desert highlands, cactus, bushfire,

Primitive tribal boomerang catch notice,

Kangaroo pleasant surprise, coral reefs,

Vast continent host mysteries in splendor,

Discovers lone traveler, paradise wonder,

Melancholy in wind shrills, desolations,

Bald mountains brown taunts Martian,

New Zealand, Philippines, Japan scenic,

Volcano in Pacific Rim ash n fume terrific,

Tourist hot spot captures the rare landscape,

Tsunami often plays havoc, one fail escape,

Cyclones, earthquake, Pacific Ocean surge,

Coastal belt in Oceania face a flood, submerge,

Beauty with beast goes story proverbial,

Beautiful blue pacific turn monster critical,

Great pacific trench depth fathomless dark,

Everest will sink, mysterious depth stark,

The human mind has lost in wild dreams,

The underwater planetary world thrives, seems,

Fanaticize people in silver screens often,

Parallel life hidden exists, stories in motion,

Oceania splendor mesmerizes curios mind,

Beauty n beast, exotic species, volcano rewind,

Incredible people, amazing life, pristine pacific,

Happy New Year welcomes first, glimpses ecstatic

 

SONG OF ORIENT

 

Beautiful earth, orient superlative,

Civilization ancient, culture exotic,

Himalayan heights to Hindukush,

Tibetan platitude glows golden roof,

Down the plains, fertile rivers flow,

Billions of humanity struggle, grow,

Great Plains’ rich culture inspires,

Prime people of globe future declare,

Spread over, world intellectual mind,

Enrich oriental vision friendly find,

Quick in adopting alien culture, nice,

Contribution to nation enormous price,

Peace, progress, growth, hospitality,

Orient shine in matchless quality,

Goods, knowledge, medicine excel,

Busiest commerce, transport well,

Leadership, lifestyle, economy rises,

Industry, people, hardship surprises,

Orient builds structures, Middle East,

Desert sand blaze, technology beast,

Pearl islands in the Indian Ocean, Pacific,

Maldives to Indonesia, Japan exotic,

Flora fauna, beach, Srilanka attracts,

World fascinate islands, trip interacts

Futuristic Japan industry flourishes,

Orient dazzles, products ravishes,

East Asia pacific ring in business,

Hong kong, Singapore, Bangkong city,

Tourist place, holiday, maritime beauty,

 New millennium, dense people develop,

Song of orient silent serene ocean throb,

Incredible impact on a global dimension,

Orient globetrotter, economy impression,

 

Orient song sweet to listen recent,

Past is a tear, blood, poverty insistent,

The dark period of colonial rule, bondage,

Vast richness, craft, wealth in a voyage,

Mongol or Mughal, orient in aggression

Inner partition, war, death devastation,

Last century was a melancholic song,

Tragedy captures, heart of a human long,

Expansion in war, ravaged continent,

Tragedies of partitions lost residents,

Orients was a canvas of horror etched,

Time was the healer, peace final fetched,

 

Orient sings on Buddhist preaching,

A simple, peaceful life, end of suffering,

Envisages truth, freedom from bondage,

Ancient Vedic teachings pain assuage,

Enlighten verses, preaching influence,

Globe attuned to resurrection essence,

Orient accepted Christian, Islamic faith,

Forgiveness, compassion, serve dwelt,

Peace and brotherhood, pious life,

Orient projects fine outlook, insight,

Mingled well with western culture dress,

Metros awake nightlong orient express.

 

Orient is populous, humans throng,

Enriches magnificent an orient song.