PLENTITUDE

 

Behold enchanting beauty of nature,

Bountiful earth, food, water, air pure,

Ever visit rural scenery, serenity share,

Halt near ripe paddy field golden fair,

Human hunger minute, nature meet,

Harvest season intoxicate smiles greet,

Rice, wheat feeds billion, abundance earth,

Invaluable her gift, life grows in mirth,

Lost in thought of golden earth, blue skies,

Cloud of gay birds on wings happiness rise,

Plentitude for life on wings to feed, nest,

Huge shallow water bodies aquatic best,

Traveled once in thick forest overwhelm,

Vast kingdom of a creature, animal realm,

Endless huge trees shelter in solitude,

Nature provides food, mating plentitude,

No askance of desires, forest offer life,

Purest fresh air, clear water flows right,

Profuse in flowers colorful with fragrance,

Ripe fruits saucy, meadows in elegance,

A paradise for own mind infects beatitude,

Eternal happiness all seasons in plentitude,

Sweet homes of mankind door windows,

Furniture, floor, carvings nice multitude,

Woods from the jungle, feed paper or books,

Population exploits endless forest cover,

A plentitude of animal life fails to recover,

Sat once in beach blue ocean impress,

Huge marine life meets hunger express,

Pregnant with treasure, human plunder,

Reserve saline water from thirsty clever,

Huge clouds raise pure not salt, water,

Great winds cool earth carries farther,

Feed, in plentitude, river, lakes n pool,

Preserve underground water wonderful,

Puzzled at plentitude for human on earth,

Hunger, thirst, homeless, nature’s wrath,

Bountiful her hands to share and care,

No more happy, loving, empty, feed rare,

Mother earth bleeds poison, ignore thirst,

Flood furry, hostile climate, cyclones worst,

Devastation, plenitude as an answer to greed,

Nature’s cruel gesture, virulent virus breed,

A summarized consequence of mindless lust,

Humanity has forgotten, share plentitude lost,

Forgotten blue ocean, green forest, earth,

Forgotten blue skies, noisy birds in mirth,

Forgotten simple life, need scanty, savior,

Love of earth, nature, creature, safe secure,

Pregnant with jewel, gold, mineral radiate,

The animal mind of human savage will obliterate,

 

Awake, the future generation, the inheritor,

A path to plentitude is needed we discover,

Symbols remind human mind turned blind,

Throw gold to sky returns quick clear remind,

The river is serene till flows between banks,

Wave in beach surges ahead goes back,

Tree near pond never sucks water dry,

A river flows to the ocean slow never feels shy,

Insect live for a day vanishes quickly,

Multiply uncontrolled, locust savagely

The discipline of nature, growth within, limit,

A human can survive, the revival of nature, sweet,

A cow gives milk, milk flood in revolution,

Water harvest preserves underground innovation,

Plant a tree, cartload of fruit gift in return,

Rebuilding forest cover saves generation,

O’ human, express gratitude thanksgiving,

Nature bountiful, earth plentitude is reviving.

 

 

WICK

In teenage got friendship with wick,

Present teen rare use never to like,

Centuries ago Lantern, oil lamp, light,

Night, life opaque dark, lamps delight,

Kerosene lamp, lantern clean glass,

Wick long remove carbon burn class,

Temples of our time oil lamp earthen,

Gentle glow in Sanctorum Idol brighten,

In darkness divine lighted silent pure,

Blinding light present decoration sure,

Evening prayers, hundreds of lamp,

Courtyard of temple nice smell trap,

Wick has gone extinct, purity doubt,

Glamour ornaments dazzle proud,

Simple thread round or flat as a wick,

Capture mind, our time, so nostalgic,

We grew in lamp saw electricity came,

Dark our roads, lamp post, wick flame,

Festival night, homes nice in lamp, light,

Rows of earthen lamps in dark a sight,

Wick is missing, save candles in color,

Neon bulbs, bright light, Diwali fever,

Look pensive our yesteryears are only past,

Heart earns if wick burns bright last,

Glamour erased serenity of decent time,

Noisy bazaar, wide roads mansion shine,

Our generation has not forgotten wick,

Dussehra time oil lamps burn for a week,

Nine days oil lamp burns, wishes seek,

Wick glows near Mother, Prayers meek,

 

Behold O’ soul wick sucks oil nice slow,

Oil burns reach flame wick’s love glow,

Symbol of transformation, oil gives light,

As a child never knew dedication so bright,

Nightlong wick burned, we excel in study,

Transformation of innocence to the wise body,

Time rolled to modern, bright light music,

Television, mobile, internet, age is magic,

Nothing exists in our teenage silent night,

Wick burned in silence concentration right,

Magic a hand in fiction touches rock to gold,

Wick symbolizes essence, oil seeks to hold,

 

Searched long world service of wick similar,

Helps burning, turn black, flame spectacular,

Air, in the breath, serves like wick burns to energy,

Returns out as carbon, incredible is synergy.

Like a bright lamp, life glows to perform nice,

Curios mind seeks the book, wick to learn, precise.

 

SILHOUETTE

(FICTION)

 

Life has seen wanderer in night,

Hopes got lost, silhouette sight,

The flair of dress, charismatic look,

Missed, a time, tragic past hook,

Aspirations without a fence in the pull,

Curios mind ran, crestfallen full,

College day’s friend mixed for fun,

Studies, classes shared fairly own,

Canteen gossips sipping tea a time,

Visit the bazaar in the group, enjoy fine,

The exam was endless passed a success,

Dreams of young mind hope to express,

Far off cities, people place unknown,

Immersed in thought career awesome,

Mind built a castle in the air a rosy future,

Beauty as a friend, the fun of life partner,

Amazing sweet home small charmed,

From hostel bed to assets crammed,

Gadgets once glued in city showroom,

Pictured all for home nice n bedroom,

Final year engineering with the certificate,

Excellent result than expectation met,

Attractive car, wife, imagination breed,

Never stop from kids, family well indeed,

Picked backpack with books, certificate,

Farewell, sweet hostel, friend intimate,

Years visited offices for a job in hope,

Utter was sock fortune ignore elope,

Hunted looks of poor family anger,

The path did miss a life future secure,

Dark a small room sheltered fare,

Small bed few plates’ cloths in care,

Moneyless fail to visit call centers,

Debt-ridden life years behind a door,

Castle in air collapsed, dreams fade,

Sweet home, wife, kid, silhouette invade,

Shrink to see pictures imagined nice,

Silent tears, lonely, hopes prejudice,

 

Late-night took to prowl in lanes near,

Homes are in silhouette, window lighter,

Witness shadows of joyful life wonder,

Where error did commit a pure blunder,

Destiny ever control good result, tilt,

Career, few minutes interview ever built,

Sat crestfallen in mind, heart sank,

Near a lamppost, long night tears drank,

Shivered in a fear silhouette of man,

Approaching enquired lot n warn,

Invited his home, offered tea hot,

Listened to cool sad stories never hurt,

Allowed to sleep on a bench till dawn,

Found a letter of job, address drawn,

 

Time rolled faster decade after discover,

Sweet home, a job, family indeed appear,

Bought my car with wife from a nearby city,

The night was too late near home, the road empty,

In a jerking car stopped on break, stood still,

The wife was angry concerned, waited at will,

Dark silhouette a young fellow near halt,

Faltering most, narrated his life no trust,

Well educated, fluent, matching the same s
tory,

Invited to own house that night never burry,

Drove my car home, disobey tears to lip,

A screen of own silhouette, tears did lick.

 

Life stories did know pink not for all,

Future in silhouette few rosy, rest null.   

 

 

 

THE SHEPHERD

 

A life docile, peaceful, loving nature,

Little devours other, gentle endure,

Dwells nice in a herd in the pack in the night,

No claws to kill, avoid meek in the fight,

Green pasture serene nice sunshine,

Grazes in fields, cool shade rests fine,

Behold shepherd with stick indicates,

Little animal s follows the path it dictates,

The path from high ground, meadows green,

Runs through riverbank village is seen,

Gentle life passes the night in silence dark,

Happy to soothing tune listen close rank,

Picture of the shepherd, sheep, goat, cattle,

Life to watch alert sickness death rattle,

Peaceful a life in the lap of nature near the brook,

Quenches thirsty animals with water hook,

 

The picture changes as meaningful vogue,

Lord Jesus was a shepherd pacified rogue,

His voice, care, consolations attracted soul,

Healing of hurt, wounded heart, readily fall,

Followers of nature, gentle, love in pure trust,

Like shepherd once guided, the right path most,

A forest of wolves tiger lion hunt prey fast,

Shepherd guides alert, secure till safe last,

The cruel violent mind often hunts, predates,

Hatred, greed, lust, anger, jealousy indicate,

Ordinary spirit powerless, meek as sheep,

Avoids fight succumbs to injury worship,

Darkness is ignorance spread first in life,

Evil rules humanity ever dare to knife,

The shepherd by the spark of light, wisdom,

Showed a beacon of truth for freedom,

Agonies, worries, fear, slavery to erase,

Intrust suffering souls followed message,

The shepherd is an immortal guide spirit,

Dispel evil thoughts, purest life discreet,

 

Change the picture to ancient myth,

A cowboy tendered cattle with hype,

A flute, its tune magical effect attract,

Living being, plant, nature, did impact,

Smiles spread gently excite cool breeze,

Waves in the river did listen, water was placid,

Creepers blossom flowers fragrance well,

Bare was the beauty, vanity, ego rare dwell,

Incredible tune when human ear listen,

The amazing flute was calling in love glisten,

It took away cover for self, ego, pride,

Replicate pure nature surrender ride,

Seemingly he shepherds guided pure soul,

Evil mind, attitudes cleansed as a goal,

The shepherd drove the chariot in battle,

The battle continues within heart do rattle,

Fight of evil pretension and pure thought,

The shepherd is conscience never hurt,

Only tender purity to secure n safe in end,

The pure mind becomes king trust transcend.    

 

 

The picture change to decades back,

Freedom missing, slavery glories lack,

Fear, timid surrender to alien master,

The shepherd with two cloths musters,

A long stick walked to the beach for salt,

Memorized humanity behind to revolt,

He burned foreign cloths defiant open,

The nation was burning in cloth motion,

Shepherd spun from cotton cloth wheel,

Ocean of white, khadi wear, slavery heal,

Shepherd was music in evening prayer,

Ruler surrender, quit, a smile inspire,

The world looks in disbelief shepherd ignite,

One call resound continent colony bright,

 

Freedom, bondage gone, chains snap,

Shepherd in canvas eon darkness trap,

Symbol of purity, wisdom, look peaceful,

A tender herd of humans, hypnotize cool.

 

 

 

SHRINE

 

Indians roam merrily, visit all shrine,

Monumental creations to pray divine,

Length and breadth, submerged in time,

Mountain top, at height flutter flag fine,

Saints, peers, fakirs, freedom fighters,

Eminent, writer, poet, visionary, thinker,

Social reformer, national leader no more,

Read most of the shrines on mortal remains,

Immortal works for the nation, impact immense,

Century’s people from slumber got awake,

Sheer presence, doctrine, messages break,

Ignorance, blind custom, social vice, faith,

Millennium darkness, lighten poverty shake,

Hunger, illness, social practice demonic,

Beacon of light on truth cleansed, magnetic,

Yesteryear’s human in cloth, barefoot, hut,

Bullock cart was travel, palm leaf taught,

Oil lamp in the night to the lantern, bare feet,

Defecation open, disease erases neat,

School kids few, study on the moral lesion,

Vedantic, mythology, language awesome,

Current human incomparable, assets,

Gadgets like magic, futuristic aspects,

Gratitude is missing for citizen, respect,

Taj marvels, the shrine of a queen final rest,

Foreign rulers graves, palaces in splendor,

Shrines in crowd sing nation’s surrender,

 

Greats changed the face of the nation most modern,

Their abode of final rest as shrines reborn,

Call for national honor to amazing shrines,

Tribute to the statue of unity, the memorial shines,

The gratitude of the nation, shrines of spirits past,

Not for rulers, conquerors, invaders last,

Netaji’s shrine of the birthplace, many more,

Citizen of the future, today’s child learn, favor,

Sacred bank of river Sabarmati, the abode,

Greatest shrine of the nation, ashrama record,

Shrine in honor of the father of the nation, relics,

Bhajans, messages of Bapu, symbol pricks,

Millions throng to shrines of divine abode,

Pray in trust, practice faith, local n abroad,

Sabarmati waits for a great crowd, learn to practice,

Peace, love, serving humanity, erase injustice,

Non-violence, fasting for rightful freedom,

Freedom from overseas products awesome,

Sabarmati ashram, the shrine of Charkha,

A million women use solar power Charkha,

A message of Bapu on self-dependence,

Khadi is messages of time, prime credence,

Thousands of temples, a national architecture,

Shrines only sing golden past, never recover,

Shrine at the bank of Sabarmati inspire,

Do or die for nation’s cloth, salt require.