Sunday, 30 October 2011
dynasty: Gypsy Vibes
dynasty: Gypsy Vibes: The mountains are green with monsoon trees Over them loom the dark blue clouds The river swells with unmeshed glee Breaks and ...
Gypsy Vibes
The mountains are green with monsoon trees
Over them loom the dark blue clouds
The river swells with unmeshed glee
Breaks and bounds in loops and curls.
Her snake black hair she unfurls
To flow along the river’s edge
Her sun kissed toes with silver rings
And tawny feet, anklet laced
Yield not their youthful spree
Her unveiled face is open to gaze
Of secret eyes she holds within
Somewhere deep in the wilderness
Her anchored being in stillness
Beholds---
A face and eyes long razed to dust
A face and eyes stilled not by time
A face and eyes become once more
Interred in her face and eyes.
Friday, 28 October 2011
dynasty: I Have no Wishes Now
dynasty: I Have no Wishes Now: I have no wishes now What time is this when the eye is wide but sees not The lives people live fall like yellow leaves all over ...
I Have no Wishes Now
I have no wishes now
What time is this when the eye is wide but sees not
The lives people live fall like yellow leaves all over me
I cannot hear them call their children
As evening throws its colours on the walls of the distant sky
The chaos of streets
Appears and disappears before my gaze
I do not weep with the lamenting mother with the head of her dead son on her withering breasts
I do not feel the hunger of the beggar who spreads his hands before me
The love of men for women , sister ,brother, father ,friend ---
A queue of relations
Frozen cold in some unknown deep within me.
Am I done with the play things of the world
I clung to once seeing in them
My joy ,my hearts desire
Or is this just a palsy in the blood ---
A cerebral disaster
Signs of age and decay, natural process of elimination
From the race of life
Whatever it may be I surrender
My self ---
I know I have other journeys
Other debts to render.
After the fall of the curtain
I wait my cue in another setting---
The show shall be new
The audience new Wednesday, 26 October 2011
dynasty: Pride and the Monkey
dynasty: Pride and the Monkey: All of us have been proud about ourselves at some time or the other. But bearing well in the mind the dictum that pride goeth before a fal...
Pride and the Monkey
All of us have been proud about ourselves at some time or the other. But bearing well in the mind the dictum that pride goeth before a fall, have been able to emerge out of the bind chrysallis of pride with some success .We are proud of our parentage, our lineage, our possessions our children etc. . Even those who have nothing , are far from humble. Perhaps it comes to us with our birth.Pride is one of the seven deadly sins, and if not curbed early, may grow into arrogance, and arrogance is even more poisonous than pride. It really kills your spirit and takes you back a thousand steps back in the evolutinary process. Many kings have displayed great arrogance because they felt they were so powerful that they could conquer the whole world. Arrogance caused the downfall of Duryodhan and his progeny. Once Shri Krishna wanted to teach Bhimsen a lesson for he had grown very arrogant. He thought of himself as the bravest and strongest of men on earth. No one was his equal.Shri Krishna had to work out a plan to remove his ignorance .
Mythology has it that one day as Bhim was goig through a forest he happened to come bu a tail which obstructed his path. He was filled with anger that there was some one so audacious as to have created obstacles on his path. He search led him to a monkey who was sitting in the bushes nearby. He accosted the creature thus.
"O monkey.Don't you realise that I am the great warrior Bhim of the Pandavas. None there is to equal my prowess .Remove thou thy tail and let me pass."
The monkey was disturbed out of his slumber.He voiced his incapability to do so. " O mighty Bhim,I am old and weak. I do not have the strength to do so.Please help me to remove my tail and thereby do me a great service. I am sure by doing this you will also be helping othertravellers who might befacing the same difficulties that you are doing".
Bhim bowed down and tried his best to lift the monkey's tail but the task was too much for him. He tried again and again and failed.At last he gave in. He could not understand how a strong man like him could not meet the challenge of a monkey.
At realised that this was no ordinary monkey and that Lord Krishna might be playing some kind of Joke on him. There was no one to equal His wit and strength. His humility was aroused.He bowed before the monkey and said,"O mysterious being.I realise I was hasty and arrogant. Do please forgive me and reveal your true identity.
The monkey got up and stretched himself to the skies. Bhim saw Hanuman the monkey God and Shri Raam's mighty servitor standing before him and heard his voice coming from the clouds.
"Bhim, this was only to remove your ignorance and pride.Go your way but remember that it is the humble who attain to Him.May Shri Raam guide yo always."
Mythology has it that one day as Bhim was goig through a forest he happened to come bu a tail which obstructed his path. He was filled with anger that there was some one so audacious as to have created obstacles on his path. He search led him to a monkey who was sitting in the bushes nearby. He accosted the creature thus.
"O monkey.Don't you realise that I am the great warrior Bhim of the Pandavas. None there is to equal my prowess .Remove thou thy tail and let me pass."
The monkey was disturbed out of his slumber.He voiced his incapability to do so. " O mighty Bhim,I am old and weak. I do not have the strength to do so.Please help me to remove my tail and thereby do me a great service. I am sure by doing this you will also be helping othertravellers who might befacing the same difficulties that you are doing".
Bhim bowed down and tried his best to lift the monkey's tail but the task was too much for him. He tried again and again and failed.At last he gave in. He could not understand how a strong man like him could not meet the challenge of a monkey.
At realised that this was no ordinary monkey and that Lord Krishna might be playing some kind of Joke on him. There was no one to equal His wit and strength. His humility was aroused.He bowed before the monkey and said,"O mysterious being.I realise I was hasty and arrogant. Do please forgive me and reveal your true identity.
The monkey got up and stretched himself to the skies. Bhim saw Hanuman the monkey God and Shri Raam's mighty servitor standing before him and heard his voice coming from the clouds.
"Bhim, this was only to remove your ignorance and pride.Go your way but remember that it is the humble who attain to Him.May Shri Raam guide yo always."
Saturday, 15 October 2011
dynasty: Weather Defaulting
dynasty: Weather Defaulting: It is getting hotter and hotter each year. There is no way to beat the heat. ACs don't work, refigators are turning into machines of storag...
dynasty: Weather Defaulting
dynasty: Weather Defaulting: It is getting hotter and hotter each year. There is no way to beat the heat. ACs don't work, refigators are turning into machines of storag...
Weather Defaulting
It is getting hotter and hotter each year. There is no way to beat the heat. ACs don't work, refigators are turning into machines of storage, the food goes bad and even the p cs don't follow your injunctions. The sweat creates rivulets that drip into your eyes and mouth and generally it is awful and sultry.
If you eat icecreams to ward off the pain of heat and the dust of the streets, you are bound to fall ill. That sore throat you have is not perhaps the result of cold waves in this month of November, but the cold water you drank at the roadside mall because you forgot to carry the safe water bottle when you left home in the morning.You are in bed with the flue before you realise that November is the cruellest month, breeding sweat and heat and a general sense of lassitude. Gone are the Novembers of desire and romance and we are as though on a rocky hot plain of desperate and giddy don't know what to do, as weather keeps defaulting.
April had showers we did not want. River, valleys and pastures drowned themselves in the too early rains, and the fields sodden with the deaths of rice plants and other crops.And now as we are waiting for the good old cold days and they are so late incoming. Will they come at all? Shall we again teach our kids honestly that there are four seasons in a year? Or say that there is only a sunny weather and a wet one. No seasons at all any more.
If you eat icecreams to ward off the pain of heat and the dust of the streets, you are bound to fall ill. That sore throat you have is not perhaps the result of cold waves in this month of November, but the cold water you drank at the roadside mall because you forgot to carry the safe water bottle when you left home in the morning.You are in bed with the flue before you realise that November is the cruellest month, breeding sweat and heat and a general sense of lassitude. Gone are the Novembers of desire and romance and we are as though on a rocky hot plain of desperate and giddy don't know what to do, as weather keeps defaulting.
April had showers we did not want. River, valleys and pastures drowned themselves in the too early rains, and the fields sodden with the deaths of rice plants and other crops.And now as we are waiting for the good old cold days and they are so late incoming. Will they come at all? Shall we again teach our kids honestly that there are four seasons in a year? Or say that there is only a sunny weather and a wet one. No seasons at all any more.
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