SHALLOW I

Shallowness of the mind

The hollow thinking

That is under

The garb of intellect

The senses are to be pleased

All materials pleasures welcome

And All reasons welcome

To justify all acts

Humanity, humaneness, values

All thrown without

Any sign of caution

The senselessness all pervading

To please the mind

But in this mindlessness

Does any thought exist?

Shallow II

Shallow minds

Hollow thoughts

Go together

And create a song of life

Without any rhythm

Without any lilt

That tries to pass

For a soft melody

But will it pass?

WIP

I am a giant WIP

The work happens daily

Sometimes known

And many times unknown

But work happens

What do it work

With what I work

And how do I work

All leads to the quality of the output

But the WIP sign continues

This was on the caste based riots in Mumbai in 2018...

Darkness and Light series

Darkness and light

The light was always there

Darkness has just covered

The brightness

The dark rays

Covered the light

Giving an illusion

That light is over

It took

Time and patience

And perhaps an eternal hope

To unearth the hidden light

On change and changing

At times

I even befriend the darkness

Knowing well

The light

Lies hidden

In the arms of darkness

Time’s up

The time to show raw power

To weaken our resolve

To reduce us

To just Figurines of our physical self

To put us in pigeon holes

In fact to create those round and square holes

For different sizes

Is really up

To put us through

Lot of ordeal

Seen and Unseen

For fruits

That are commonplace and ordinary

Yet seem extraordinary for us

That time now will be far behind

As the timekeepers and clocks have changed

Darkness and Light series

The Eclipse

 The daily eclipse that shadows the light .

 It darkens all that is bright .

The eclipse of ignorance and hate .

 Of anger and vices .

That eclipse of the mind .

Robs humanity from humankind .

These eclipses are a mere play .

Of shadows that have no substance

yet keep substance at bay .

The sun always shines bright in that time and space .

Where the light of knowledge and positivity is ahead in the race .

For any kind of eclipse is there any room ?

Where the light of kindness and bliss sparkles in full zoom

(inspired by the recent eclipse on 27th July 2018.. but is an eclipse really  so rare ??)

A different God

A different God for men and a difficult one for women .

The one for women needs lot of propitiation.

Probably they need a different God

As they live in their world their own Nation .

Men tread at times on difficult paths

They did look needy .

But had it easy many times .

Frankly it wasn't so heady .

With the help of many Gods .

The walk for women to win and propitiate is on .

Even as the Gaps and differences Continue and new ones are born .

With these differing gods and difficult paths

 Own up

The pain and embarrassment to be on your own .

 To walk hand in hand but at your own pace .

Here the seeds of dissent as they say are sown .

For A woman to own a space in her own mind and outside of it .

Sounds so simple .

Yet doing it gnaws her  bit by bit

Time Is Up

The time for inequality

Is fast ticking

The bomb can explode

The countdown has begun

With a vow here

And a pledge there

The gaps

In income

Recognition, fame

The gap in life itself

The glaring gap

Has become a crater

Now a time to blow it up all

And create a pristine garden

Out of this battlefield

between equality and inequality

but weren’t the battle bugles blown

a long time back???

(on Iceland taking a pledge to remove the income gender gap  & Oprah Winfrey’s  Golden Globe inspirational speech..)

Evolve - As 2017 Speaks To 2018

Evolve I

Like a butterfly

I left the old

Thick protective covers

The river had to flow

The stifling blocks

That stopped the flow

Didn’t exist anymore

It required a nudge

A great push perhaps

But the flow has begun

The butterfly flits

With eagle wings

That were formed

With the push and nudge

 Evolve II

The petals bloomed

The flower blossomed

The dead leaves were blown

Away with the new winds

The change started

The change is on still

Of new blossoms

And new springs

Of the newness that comes

With each new day

Enjoy

Enjoy the tango

The fox trot

As the moves change

As the change itself happens

The new moves

The new steps

That you learnt

The hard way

Go ahead

Now do them

As if no one

Or even the whole world

 is watching you

Live

live the change

don’t die

as it happens

enjoy the flow

sometimes you drown

take help

come out

and flow again

to reach the shores

and perhaps start

for new shores

with all that is required

to stay afloat

and enjoy the swim

and the travel

 thru all known and unknown shores

The  year that was

To soar

To drop the dead wood

To drag

To climb

Move  ahead

With a sprightly walk

To let go

To complete

And move on           

To start afresh

Many things

To continue

With a few

That’s the trail

That I left behind

In 2017

To start a new 2018