tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970136006273099502024-02-22T10:32:03.527-08:00A Little of that in those commas,,,,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-69266883155652158422015-03-07T04:56:00.001-08:002015-03-08T01:16:36.263-08:00The Balloon Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7spNptSO2L8iCb-wVwwqB65udqaDfDh13Q-dsrjGY3Zjni34s7JzmYPl8pbJQcEFz6AXfjSw0VC1tkFnW91ZZpTYY0mROdt0G8BaVFsIswNgXI5HInEUNCCPxrBg0SEt6se3ZuNY6xI/s1600/conceit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7spNptSO2L8iCb-wVwwqB65udqaDfDh13Q-dsrjGY3Zjni34s7JzmYPl8pbJQcEFz6AXfjSw0VC1tkFnW91ZZpTYY0mROdt0G8BaVFsIswNgXI5HInEUNCCPxrBg0SEt6se3ZuNY6xI/s1600/conceit.jpg" /></a></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">“It’s useless to spree; you just think you’re free</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">In a balloon that carries you, you reach dormant heights</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Where everyone sees you, But hey! You balloon man!</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">You think you can, but you can’t</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Chase the free birds or touch the stars</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Coz to the walls of the balloon</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Limited is your wisdom sparse</span></blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><o:p> </o:p>Of course you’re something shiny</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Made of burlesque for bourgeoisie</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">But all you do is tinkle and remember not twinkle</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Like the ones grounded but light with wisdom</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">The wisdom of who continue to shine</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">From beneath the crinkled</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">You don’t know them Balloon man</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">They obviously don’t fall in your circle</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">They are to whom glory doesn’t matter</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Those fake cheers are nothing but titter tatter<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">While you wicker away in that swollen balloon</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Here love tenders, flowers and laughter bloom</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Do you still think it was worth</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">to render such rendition worthless?</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">You lacked apathy and mocked people’s sagacity</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">You called it dull what was but only serenity<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Well I think you shot yourself dead, you braggart!</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">With that extra dose of adrenaline</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">It’s worse than jumping off the top of a building</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Coz here you know and you have to wait</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Till you reach the height when the balloon bursts</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">The same society that you once mocked</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">would pity you now, as you fall back</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">And you thought the scene you would put on display</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Would be the likes of that of a shooting star?</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Well, you are nothing more than a faultily thrown falling
dart.</span></blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><b>I see Balloon Man; the world down here</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><b>Never looked glorious to you vainglorious</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><b>But you and we were the beauty</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><b>Those stars shone upon and viewed lovingly”</b></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: left;">
</blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"><b>“</b>Well well, you conceited cynical societal pseudo-intellectual
man!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Your life is nothing but greased with everything mundane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">This life that you worship is a lie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqVIE7bSsXYtSwq0BesFMk6ykNlNJ7JNPdu495da5nFqkg8YNipnE-Qdly7rC-wjuUMHGJ54pcoth9fr5BL3BhBZjKpupXN9he199BaLQclKJS7HNvHNs70mCqCLPiY6BeB0BgOz8z88/s1600/images+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqVIE7bSsXYtSwq0BesFMk6ykNlNJ7JNPdu495da5nFqkg8YNipnE-Qdly7rC-wjuUMHGJ54pcoth9fr5BL3BhBZjKpupXN9he199BaLQclKJS7HNvHNs70mCqCLPiY6BeB0BgOz8z88/s1600/images+(1).jpg" height="200" width="190" /></span></a><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">and nothing more than a fleeting butterfly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">You think it would remain for some time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqVIE7bSsXYtSwq0BesFMk6ykNlNJ7JNPdu495da5nFqkg8YNipnE-Qdly7rC-wjuUMHGJ54pcoth9fr5BL3BhBZjKpupXN9he199BaLQclKJS7HNvHNs70mCqCLPiY6BeB0BgOz8z88/s1600/images+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span></a><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">But when did time become your ally<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Your life is a balloon just like mine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">It will crumble you before you die<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">You dream no more than to just live<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">But I had a dream and my balloon had it realized</span></div>
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">I’m the balloon man who flew in the sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">And I’m sure the stars heard me laugh and cry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">“What a flying beauty!” I heard them sigh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">And as I fall, I don’t wait to die<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"><b>I breathe in life more than you would ever<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"><b>And it’s called undying spirit not some adrenaline rush</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"><b>My heart is not heavy, but as light as that of a child<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"><b>I’m the balloon man, I only rise!”</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
<!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-5zhJM15dq9w%2FVPr0xPMQJ1I%2FAAAAAAAAAxU%2FD1q72WTwiAI%2Fs1600%2Fimages%252B%25281%2529.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqVIE7bSsXYtSwq0BesFMk6ykNlNJ7JNPdu495da5nFqkg8YNipnE-Qdly7rC-wjuUMHGJ54pcoth9fr5BL3BhBZjKpupXN9he199BaLQclKJS7HNvHNs70mCqCLPiY6BeB0BgOz8z88/s1600/images+(1).jpg" -->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-44480971676260863332013-12-23T03:41:00.001-08:002013-12-23T05:54:59.531-08:00Cloud led-Big data or small data for SMEs in India?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpotWHhzQb-P2EZwbE_I2Z5VsvNphPBSRQto0QqcNyByEiV0VLm5g1E5X2D0XoCXknJyvGEq5YThQ3nJ_TRpjIKNelEhyphenhyphen1J88eRjfdyvZ2H8QXVRwchP_AzovOCNGSUTEeY68AK3ss6A/s1600/cloud-computing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="SMEs, cloud computing, India" border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpotWHhzQb-P2EZwbE_I2Z5VsvNphPBSRQto0QqcNyByEiV0VLm5g1E5X2D0XoCXknJyvGEq5YThQ3nJ_TRpjIKNelEhyphenhyphen1J88eRjfdyvZ2H8QXVRwchP_AzovOCNGSUTEeY68AK3ss6A/s320/cloud-computing.jpg" title="Cloud computing and SMEs in India" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
A guest post on 'The Cloud and The SMEs' by me, only on 'MyOperator'. And yes, it is not a poem or has any thing to do with romance ;) !!<br />
Enjoy reading it @ <a href="http://myoperator.co/cloud-led-big-data-or-small-data-for-smes-in-india/" target="_blank">Cloud led-Big data or small data for SMEs in India?</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-82648106849124889152013-11-30T06:41:00.002-08:002014-09-19T23:51:07.208-07:00Love Bitten..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6HfQhUdZaMhyphenhyphendfi_HUZlK_np4BjXjmOfSRmDApFbu_BHRQr6M2P-y5Ga12AHoTX4q9TiT6jbjo8yKLtsTB-fNdtBbAeO31KzhYTO8lGyOmwGyPrKB2oHRKLy0Xmx1DF6i8RBy8pNsSdc/s1600/122_apple_heart_love_romance_large_by_hopelessromanticnh-d5uiyio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Love-Bitten" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6HfQhUdZaMhyphenhyphendfi_HUZlK_np4BjXjmOfSRmDApFbu_BHRQr6M2P-y5Ga12AHoTX4q9TiT6jbjo8yKLtsTB-fNdtBbAeO31KzhYTO8lGyOmwGyPrKB2oHRKLy0Xmx1DF6i8RBy8pNsSdc/s320/122_apple_heart_love_romance_large_by_hopelessromanticnh-d5uiyio.jpg" height="199" title="Love-Bitten" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It
is because time and again I've expressed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That
I am at loss now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">with seemingly nothing to write for you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I
love you in every metaphorical way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">that I have kept forward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every
song that I've sung for you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">every poem & prose that I wrote for you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So
what do I do now that suddenly there seems to be a dearth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">One
word that has sat heavily on my floating mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">is
that how lost my world would have been in your absence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And
to my surprise, the best person I've met is a man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">in
you whom I met just few years back, and I wonder whence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">did
all this love emanate between us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of
course some time back I would have said</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> that the love was always there within
us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We
just pierced each other to let it flow between us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But
now I say, “you made me create it, we created it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">in
bright and dark, calm and passionate hues”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And
I pick different pieces from the scattered world around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And
it all gets metamorphosed into love for you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything
from the basic to complicated,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">violet to red and beyond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">sketches
you and me surviving winds,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">drying in scorching heat,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">getting
wet in rains, twitching eyes in bright lights,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> kissing dark nights<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">You
for no reason have fought with me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">and so have I, a few times!!</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You
have left me innumerable times</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to come back to me in few numbers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But
my heart runs towards you every time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">my mind dwells in your city<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Of
course it wears me out but despite of it, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">in front of you always, I try to
stand pretty</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You
conjure the best dream for me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and compose the sweetest song I can sing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You
wouldn't ever leave me, <span style="line-height: 115%;">would you?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I fear it some time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Without
you outside, </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I would freeze inside to force life out</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And you wouldn't leave me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">because your life would be dull<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Without
the solid colors I impart to the skin of your world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You
wouldn't be able to sail around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> without the strong hull<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Made
of my world, and of course </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">how would you spread your wings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and
fly the long distances in the free perilous skies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">without the companionship
that I bring?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So now I state and not just wish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because
I know that the movie we are part of has no meaning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">if
it doesn't end with us, it simply won’t make any sense<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
tears and the violent seas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">that I've swam across would be grieving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">for
troubling me for no reason,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">for challenging me for nothing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So
my love, don’t worry, and never panic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As I’m always with you as you will be with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Never
feel confined in the intricate world within and outside you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As I propel the fresh and old, calm and violent sea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to float on the periphery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So
that you can sit and relax, live and bask <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">under
the distant yellow sun, lying of course next to me!!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<br />
image source: <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/382814309?view_mode=2" style="line-height: 115%;">http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/382814309?view_mode=2</a></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-27185046389786966662013-09-16T00:56:00.001-07:002014-01-18T04:08:49.139-08:00Now you see It..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFQ9cLcp7GnGMu5y76AvT-4F1puKnJaXpxCfEXqhqkZfndBz6EY6hMC6Px8EQtKT2rt1Olc7GF6c5aQR0AXZVTy60yk-FVPj5cP5uyUAnIo1i-0OhPLpU-PndUZNMVkGD_j02D51AH8U/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFQ9cLcp7GnGMu5y76AvT-4F1puKnJaXpxCfEXqhqkZfndBz6EY6hMC6Px8EQtKT2rt1Olc7GF6c5aQR0AXZVTy60yk-FVPj5cP5uyUAnIo1i-0OhPLpU-PndUZNMVkGD_j02D51AH8U/s320/images.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
They are coming, they
are nigh</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
They are coming, they
have weighed</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your life then and
now</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
With and without
hope, sweet and sour</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You remain still;
your eyes do not blink</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You think, may be,
this is the time</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You think, maybe
there will be no more commas</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
They are coming, they
are faintly saying</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You see a lucid passage
into the sky</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your numb feet are
floating,</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
you don’t need now concrete to walk on</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And you smile that
you are no more stumbling</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The religiously worn black threads around
your ankles get untied</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You think, maybe
there will be no more fear of injury</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
They are coming, they
are singing</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And you hear your
songs all being played</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You seem to
disintegrate with the music or the other way</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And it all stays; it
seems eternal</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Tears of redemption
flow from your eyes</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
What more could you have asked for, you think</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You’re drinking
heaven; you’re hearing heaven</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Now that you have
contained it</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You think, may be you
are bigger than heaven</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
They are coming, they
are preaching</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And your knowledge
seems to surpass your imagination</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
All that you learned
in your life was full of pure wisdom</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The richness of your mind, you easily underestimated</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Yet you remained under the illusion</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
that you were not
blessed</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and now as you feel
connected to other souls</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You realize the false
truth that you were never loved</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
They are disappearing
and so are you now</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A strange cloud
spreads inside you somehow</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You cry and laugh from
the past</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
till you are filled
with both</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
till both life and
death contains you</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
till you see the one,
the one you loved the most</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Your life then becomes only that one moment<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>when with him you had become one<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>For a moment you want to live that moment again<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>You want to rewind and live life with him again<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>But before other memories<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>start clinging to that one moment<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>you expand into the space around you<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>till your love, your life fills the whole<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>till you neither have to dispense or draw on any dole</i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>till the canvass that you had painted with colors of verity and faults</i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>hangs in front of you, plain white ethereal unrolled</i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>till everything in the end sums to zero<o:p></o:p></i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i><b>It's a poem written from a perspective of a person experiencing death..</b></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<i><b>Our life dreams the Utopia.</b></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<i><b> Our Death achieves the ideal..</b></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<i><b> - Victor Hugo</b></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<i>image source: <a href="http://godzdogz.op.org/2011/05/art-of-redemption-3josef-zacek.html" target="_blank">http://godzdogz.op.org/2011/05/art-of-redemption-3josef-zacek.html</a></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-83258471648319965192013-07-23T08:20:00.002-07:002013-09-03T11:18:53.990-07:00Found You..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE1mTg99tc-TrSpP52m0ezCR84lXzG2W96Rjdm13bWO6XlqCiQVUf2jJYxLSd_m1sTZZi6dPiyrRtag8HAyL37IST1NQ4esK98M01139V05oKe6p9xxe9mAOQsPZG2gF3wkL0w2Fx9cmw/s1600/spicysaturday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="selected for spicy saturday pick by blogadda" border="0" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE1mTg99tc-TrSpP52m0ezCR84lXzG2W96Rjdm13bWO6XlqCiQVUf2jJYxLSd_m1sTZZi6dPiyrRtag8HAyL37IST1NQ4esK98M01139V05oKe6p9xxe9mAOQsPZG2gF3wkL0w2Fx9cmw/s200/spicysaturday.jpg" title="spicy saturday pick by blogadda" width="200" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://blog.blogadda.com/2013/08/03/spicy-saturday-picks-indian-bloggers-best-reads-weekend-reads" target="_blank">Spicy Saturday Picks by Blogadda</a>.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
That one person, who you always find everywhere in everything somehow. You don't need to remember, you just know it.."Wish you were here.."</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8pbXJsvT1_-G2lNXopBtOTrsOwBvgD2JGVrVP8SmxDdFyKxJu3jCUyspkwLVfg4uMPnsjgY063fa5HMYrfddUG9Gm9UHLmGTi22lgH49D-ixxTnBpqpwfP9qySo9Y6obp-BDW_nQ5rLc/s1600/abstract-painting-touch-of-nature-detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="found my lover in everything" border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8pbXJsvT1_-G2lNXopBtOTrsOwBvgD2JGVrVP8SmxDdFyKxJu3jCUyspkwLVfg4uMPnsjgY063fa5HMYrfddUG9Gm9UHLmGTi22lgH49D-ixxTnBpqpwfP9qySo9Y6obp-BDW_nQ5rLc/s320/abstract-painting-touch-of-nature-detail.jpg" title="found my lover" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Amidst the unknown, in the new rains</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
With young clear drops falling on a smile</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
With wet colours on unfinished palette</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In the creation that my fate, with my hands was designing</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I found you; I sketched you</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In the most soothing music, in my favourite line</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
For that melody in the tune that I hear on loop </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In logic for all the facts and lies</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
that were told to me since I was a child</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I found you; I heard you</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I wove many stories in my mind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
in my dreams day and night </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
with colourful sands of time</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
with shadows from past and neigh</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
There I found you; I created you</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
As I set my fingers on lows and highs</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
on white and black keys on piano of my life</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
With strings of lucidity and blurredness</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
As I gave my heart beats to the rhythm</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I found you; I sang you</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
With yellow rays of hope and freshness,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
with words of wisdom and foolishness</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
on the riverbed of mornings and evenings</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
on flowing pebbles and flowers</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I found you, I drew your reflection</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
At a distance, as you flinched, in bright daylight</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I cheated that moment and came close to you</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I stole the light around to confine you to my sight</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
As the weight of the moment grew</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
to a place away, with you I flew</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Where then I found you, I unravelled you</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>“As the dry air gets the scent of wet soil</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>I know it’s raining somewhere</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Yet within me something as caught flare</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Somewhere the sleepiness has awaken</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>to only lose consciousness again in your arms..”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A beautiful scenery was then conjured</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But the morning has returned now</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
As I wear the faded fabric of that evening</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I find you, I sense you<br />
In old and new, I somehow always find you..<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JQ4wX76_oMI" width="480"></iframe>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: left;">"Wish you were here.."..If you haven't listened to this song, you are missing out on one of the most beautiful songs that have ever been..</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
image source: <a href="http://www.carmenguedez.com/" target="_blank">http://www.carmenguedez.com/</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-19010969138079102212013-07-07T12:22:00.000-07:002013-09-03T10:42:56.712-07:00Disfigured<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-DbcetmBxM-5T2eQLMq8SC6fYuip9qakJO5mAbcsEyzCodrb9oo8eWN80qO0442VLZfqP0rTxR0-w8usBw8mWPn2Qrv5L4RqTPKgdRsZ2wOKrmcQF8eRj54g-H1uZppsYauTf23s1ixw/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="disfigured by pride" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-DbcetmBxM-5T2eQLMq8SC6fYuip9qakJO5mAbcsEyzCodrb9oo8eWN80qO0442VLZfqP0rTxR0-w8usBw8mWPn2Qrv5L4RqTPKgdRsZ2wOKrmcQF8eRj54g-H1uZppsYauTf23s1ixw/s1600/images.jpg" title="a poem on pride" /></a></div>
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span id="goog_1411089267"></span><span id="goog_1411089268"></span><br />
I shooed the pride away</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In silence it grew around my neck little by little</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So, I curbed it by its neck</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
It ballooned out of my hand</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I waited for it to explode</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In silence I heard it roar</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I can’t hear me speak any more.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So, I started humming a tune</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
From a melodious to a high pitch one</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I spoke expressions that gushed out of no one’s land</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and wore colours that bloomed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
out of the pond of self-conceitedness</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Engaged to night in broad daylight </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I stand still in front of a mirror</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and all I see is a clueless veiled bride</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So I take the jewels off my body</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I rub the colours off my skin </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
till I feel the warmth of my own blood</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And for a moment, for once, I feel near to me</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
drenched in the two red; one false and true</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And as I look at my hands trying to identify</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I realize the loss that I once used to dread</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And when the swiveling group of pride stings me</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I run to save myself on a road unknown</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I know I’ll get lost, I know</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I’m thinking of the place where I might land</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
If I could have my fears fanned</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I would stand still and feel each sting</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And in my ears, hear the pride ring</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The lies it has got for me</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I try to hear from distance the warning</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Of the flying truth soon to be a bygone</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So I close my eyes and I remember</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
a music that can still reach my ears,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A melody so pure that can meet,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the truth’s seat at a depth inside me,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
in a well where both heaven and hell flow </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A song that can melt my pride into tears</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and smile, honey and brine</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A tune that with affection can lift the veil</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
to smoothen my disfigured face</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I’m hearing it now</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
a harmony in the chaos</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
With a curtain that’s not low</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I’m seeing clearly a dove</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
with which, to bliss a melancholy just rose</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and a pride glowing with humility </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Where’s the disfigured me? </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
All I now see is splendour</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
All I now hear is splendour..<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
image source: <a href="http://www.taschen.com/" target="_blank">www.taschen.com</a></div>
</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-13414332236839307902013-04-30T05:23:00.000-07:002013-09-03T10:44:10.723-07:00Spellbound<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivO9rWeoDDy1CXJ7a9o7XUyB5Jv3a_VJUxqnrJgoy6vUhtOD0iypPbVkk3OkpIt5doH8WMBOD8Y0kIm5h-Ul_81YpxA206lmGiZ4tsCrPauEp-f7G2G6NnIP1zmv0uFaF7UIuOqEyRBLY/s1600/09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="those moments of love" border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivO9rWeoDDy1CXJ7a9o7XUyB5Jv3a_VJUxqnrJgoy6vUhtOD0iypPbVkk3OkpIt5doH8WMBOD8Y0kIm5h-Ul_81YpxA206lmGiZ4tsCrPauEp-f7G2G6NnIP1zmv0uFaF7UIuOqEyRBLY/s320/09.jpg" title="magic moment" width="320" /></a></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
How can it be? It's just a brunch!</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Yet you sit here spellbinding me..</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And nobody is
watching, except for your eyes</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And your sight fills
the room</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The music that’s
playing melts in this moment</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I realize my eyes
are not dry..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
They say something
beautiful, your eyes</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Like a lovely song in
a language I can’t understand</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The music of which
only I comprehend</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I don’t wish to
memorize the tune</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But just the bliss to
stay and linger around</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In this moment
untouched by the world outside</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So I beg to borrow
some time from all the time I have</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
to defer the next
second not containing this moment</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But this moment is so
strong and yet light</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Like a dove set to
take its flight</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
How do I keep it till
this song ends</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
till your eyes leave
mine?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We do the talking
through the curves on our face</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We walk the lanes of the
memories that have just flashed</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Only if I could
praise; and if at all I could praise</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The beauty of what we
are going through now, this day</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I would write forever
and still remain unsated</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And to understand the
depth of this moment</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I will have to seed
it in all my dreams</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We remain seated next
to each other</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I feel as safe as
if I were in your arms</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We don’t move as if
happily paralyzed</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Yet I’m living a
thousand lives</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I don’t know, how you
feel and if you understand</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But all that your
eyes contrive</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Is like a dreamy
place in a mist</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Where I wish to
remain endlessly</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But you don’t
understand</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I would know, if
you did</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The mirage that your
eyes have created</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Will do no good to me
afterwards, amidst those sands</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Tell me if this music
will flow</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Or is it just a
fantasy that I plough?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-11869758503969178262013-03-30T07:45:00.001-07:002013-09-03T10:44:51.806-07:00Rush<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<line-height: .0001pt="" 0cm="" 115="" margin-bottom:="" margin:="">
<span style="color: #333333;">We talked, and more often we use to have arguments, unending
discussions which used to exhaust our energies but not the content and thoughts
fueling our mind. We wrote too, on Microsoft word, on our own tangible old
buddy-paper, in diaries and at times we scribbled too on bare walls of our
hostel rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></line-height:><br />
<line-height: .0001pt="" 0cm="" 115="" margin-bottom:="" margin:="">
<span style="color: #333333;">Well I’m talking about one of my dearest friends-Pooja
Joshi (if I were putting it on facebook, I would have tagged you Pooja!!) whom I recently asked
to write a guest post for my blog. And just as I had expected, she came up with
a beautiful piece I can decorate my blog with. And here I’m sharing it with you
guys.<o:p></o:p></span></line-height:>
<line-height: .0001pt="" 0cm="" 115="" margin-bottom:="" margin:="">
<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></line-height:>
<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzw7QT9oB2RIPPyuIx4pBxyQeWdt-SDLew5iY6US5NbUB7pWKg9AB3p7KWpzHCk7LxP9ZAXY2uQNN1juZEEwjjCPNHATNWwY9jeRnyG3trz2JPYBRk5lWjE5h1HofHN99FfVP0RovhyphenhyphenZk/s1600/11696783-busy-business-center-people-in-rush-abstract-conceptual-motion-blur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="rush in life" border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzw7QT9oB2RIPPyuIx4pBxyQeWdt-SDLew5iY6US5NbUB7pWKg9AB3p7KWpzHCk7LxP9ZAXY2uQNN1juZEEwjjCPNHATNWwY9jeRnyG3trz2JPYBRk5lWjE5h1HofHN99FfVP0RovhyphenhyphenZk/s320/11696783-busy-business-center-people-in-rush-abstract-conceptual-motion-blur.jpg" title="rush in life" width="320" /></a></div>
<line-height: .0001pt="" 0cm="" 115="" margin-bottom:="" margin:="">
<span style="color: #333333;"> <o:p></o:p></span></line-height:><br />
<line-height: .0001pt="" 0cm="" 115="" margin-bottom:="" margin:="">
<span style="color: #333333;"><b> <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> "Inspired by Each thing I do I rush through so I can do/
something else" - Stephen Dobyns</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></line-height:>
<br />
<div 0.0001pt="" 0cm="" 115="" 6.6pt="" align="center" background-position:="" background-repeat:="" center="" initial="" line-height:="" margin:="" text-align:="">
<span style="color: #333333;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><i>If
I had a single moment to myself each day,<br />
That day would be filled with pain again-<br />
For in that moment I would unquestionably find<br />
That what I'd become is not how I'd begun.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><i><br />
If I had a single chance to take,<br />
That instance would be filled with doubt again-<br />
For in that chance I would not rely,<br />
This what I wanted is not what I need.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><i><br />
If I had a single fibre of courage bestowed,<br />
That strength would slowly waste away<br />
And to that strength I would not hold<br />
For tears taste better to a hopeless soul.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><i><br />
If I had a single hand to hold-<br />
That gesture would be frowned upon,<br />
For in that hand is a touch of kindness-<br />
That guilt would be my ultimate withdrawal.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><i><br />
If I was asked to make a single wish,<br />
That dream I'd seen open eyes would revive,<br />
And in that dream I would want to reside-<br />
For what I rush through is just life.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><i><br />
So don't give me a moment, a chance or courage<br />
Don't lend me a hand or ask for my wish<br />
I don't want to cherish what I can't nourish<br />
I just want to rush through this life.</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><i><br /></i></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #333333;">Image source: </span><span style="color: #333333;">http://www.123rf.com</span></div>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-75662109894562350822013-02-26T09:51:00.002-08:002013-09-03T10:45:34.610-07:00Detachment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrwyDaHKbBK3JbhXeVM7QZSv23d-RgB2oiU4Nk0dkXTz8CKXFwD9FlKG3DaaVixyArKsMDRfDj__8iRTX0viVFa6nWB6mpEKzwLMaoWKMzSPS31gWw_cZo9ZX0ZBaVEcrxGx1JuYwdws/s1600/Hymn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="a poem on detachment" border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrwyDaHKbBK3JbhXeVM7QZSv23d-RgB2oiU4Nk0dkXTz8CKXFwD9FlKG3DaaVixyArKsMDRfDj__8iRTX0viVFa6nWB6mpEKzwLMaoWKMzSPS31gWw_cZo9ZX0ZBaVEcrxGx1JuYwdws/s400/Hymn.jpg" title="detachment from the loved ones" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
If I could fly, if I could fly</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Would you spare me the ground, would you?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
If I could wish, if I could wish</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Would you spare me the truth?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And if I could compose music</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Would you spare me the audience?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You see, I don’t know, who you are</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But would you spare me the mirror?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And why are you standing here by me</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
when my world won’t even accommodate your shadow?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And why do you even listen to me,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the words between us would be lost </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
If there’s a speck of light in this time</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
let it be suspended here in this frost</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
for these moments to be warm in our memories</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
If I could leave, if I could leave</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Would you spare me the memories?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
These skies offer us nothing</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
no boundaries between the tenses, past and present, present
and future</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Yet we look above as if something’s there to look after us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And you wait here in the yellows and oranges of heat and
rain</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Our dampened feet would just stay in the pool of rain</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Tomorrow our feet would dry but the pool would remain</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
If I could run away, if I could run away</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Would you spare me the chase?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I wear a crown of broken thoughts studded with twigs of freedom</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And the twin wings of light and dark carry me under the
skies</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Yet you try to join and understand the broken</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The red edges of disjoint thoughts have bled</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
These stains won’t leave your fingers then</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
My impression on your world would leave an empty dent</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You have already carried yourself too far, all along</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
If I could hurt myself, if I could hurt myself</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Would you spare me the healing?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So offer me an escape, you can’t catch up with me</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Let the words and music stay at their own place</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Those are not to be carried around; you will lose them and
the pace</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You would land nowhere and they would offer you no solace</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Coz tomorrow is yet to come and you don’t know</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The music it would play for you </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The words that would splash on the glass of that time</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
That other pair of feet that would stay in the pool </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So buy the space for your future now</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Don’t get carried away, the present always decays</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
What remains belongs to no tense</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So If I could stay, if I could stay</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Would you spare yourself my company?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
image source: http://www.lintcoat.com/tunes/mono-hymn-immortal-wind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-28541677227774226902013-02-07T02:22:00.002-08:002013-09-03T10:46:02.166-07:00A Guest post from Glad2bawoman: Conversation With Myself<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5RiG2kAXo3G7qCUxtRcytVSBEiFwsv9w1hQDvNEe8sIurR1eY9QU8ah1fv2gsaT7KrFwtp0ofP3mi7mit1m_cvA0LSR-DroDShCa9ycS5qcNP4aBn-jOYhswoaIN3YELcEERE4ySHoyg/s1600/g2baw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5RiG2kAXo3G7qCUxtRcytVSBEiFwsv9w1hQDvNEe8sIurR1eY9QU8ah1fv2gsaT7KrFwtp0ofP3mi7mit1m_cvA0LSR-DroDShCa9ycS5qcNP4aBn-jOYhswoaIN3YELcEERE4ySHoyg/s640/g2baw.png" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">This is a </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">guest post from <a href="http://www.glad2bawoman.com/" target="_blank">glad2bawoman</a>, a website that specially celebrates the success and freedom of women. With various articles written from the women's perspective and by women, this is surely a step towards furthering the liberation of women in today's era. The following is a poem that captures the transient phase in a journey of a woman and how she is dealing with it by having a conversation with herself. </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>"In moments of solitude and even
amidst crowd,</i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>I’ve often talked to myself out loud,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>And wondered about the myriad things,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>The moony tinges and gossamer wings,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>Why do I smile smiles that hide a
pang of pain,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>Why do we calculate life in terms of
loss and gain?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>Why is freedom reduced to simply a
term?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>And we live a life, enslaved, worse
than a worm.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>I stand solitary in this journey,
stranded and cold,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>No heart to comfort me, no arms to
hold,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>Walking through this maze, I might
find myself,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>I’m melting away to oblivion, like
the candle-flame,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>Dusty and defeated, I lost in this
vicious game,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=97013600627309950" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="line-height: 115%;">My cries break the dead silence,</span>
<span style="line-height: 115%;">yet heard by none.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>The void within cries out in agony - all
said and done.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>All that is pent-up within, I want to
shout out to the skies,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>But sinister shadows choke my voice
with lies.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>How long shall I walk on, tired and
numb, I know not,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>The vast unknown lies ahead, yet
nothingness is all I’ve got."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>For more on Glad2baWoman, visit <a href="http://www.glad2bawoman.com/" target="_blank">http://www.glad2bawoman.com/</a></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-73669556689861118982013-01-10T08:14:00.001-08:002013-09-03T11:01:04.196-07:00This Road<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW58XWtOs6E1vJfGcRLG3zlkkPr0eD7Hi6s1bEKc1c4d9g74lIqW6s2zGqGnBwKGaekPtY57S4-L8EUzYBKiUKkrFLWJO2eDP3-AKGRLbEzYNI8DCDqFx5q7YKxnHF3erNFUZA0uemhJc/s1600/thejourney+blog1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="hope after pain, rape" border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW58XWtOs6E1vJfGcRLG3zlkkPr0eD7Hi6s1bEKc1c4d9g74lIqW6s2zGqGnBwKGaekPtY57S4-L8EUzYBKiUKkrFLWJO2eDP3-AKGRLbEzYNI8DCDqFx5q7YKxnHF3erNFUZA0uemhJc/s320/thejourney+blog1.jpg" title="a poem on hope" width="320" /></a></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
This road goes
somewhere, I think and so do you</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
This sky is limitless
and so is the time that brews</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
your grief, your
sins, your joy, your deeds</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
in all those hours
that you spent in those pits and at cliffs</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You know that you
know nothing</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And you know that the
true may not even exist</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You’ve seen
everything and yet nothing</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So you try to recall
and try to dig</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You then find a trunk
of treasure and gifts, cheers and spit</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and those moments
that had lasted few seconds,</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
your hopes and fears
that have both throbbed and numbed</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You were confident
but you don’t know what to believe</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You’re tired, you’re
torn, you’re in company and yet forlorn</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But if I open the
doors to the white beaches and blue seas</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I know you’ll run
towards it with open heart, and free legs and arms</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I know it’s just
under a layer of dust, your yearn, not torn</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In your heart, yes
you have a heart, no matter how you are</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
you carry the energy
of life, the sanctity of death</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the whispers of
eternity, the echoes of your breath</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You may not realise
what has been seen by your eyes</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the ugliness of
heinous brutality,</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the vividness of
kindness and generosity</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You may not realise
when the blink of your eyes took a longer time</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and you missed the
drops of reality</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
that would have
livened up the essence of you and your life</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The pastures are
still green somewhere down this road</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
that you and I have
taken up to explore</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the unseen, the
unknown, the beauty that we wish to hope</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
that is still there,
not murdered, not raped</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and lies naked and
clothed at its own wish, with pride and dreams unfettered</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
where you and I will
not step back or fear</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But with our eyes
squinched, we’ll pause in awe from distance to see</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the beauty that is to
be loved and not conquered,</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
before we move ahead
feeling blessed and in bliss</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Remember that we may
know nothing, but we know to hope</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We may not have the
map, but we know there’s the road..</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Life goes on. For
those who are feeling pathetic about the inhuman incidents that our minds are
repeatedly horrified with, I want to say, that we have to keep moving towards
the light, howsoever distant it may be; that we have to keep striving to make
our lives better.</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-65844982110242584562012-11-08T07:09:00.002-08:002013-09-03T11:10:09.004-07:00The Embrace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwrxWkJ87pWTKKWGnHTBCNPXAN0XxqsFkkRinXzR-sLP5Ed0AOY1_SVPP6nNikQNrtb_NNr7l0G9AneObR_X_ZoVT8bc4nqEYFp-O5HsWi1vjAT_LuBy7kv0gy67yn__oRI9ITQ1ZtlmU/s1600/Abstract+Nothing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwrxWkJ87pWTKKWGnHTBCNPXAN0XxqsFkkRinXzR-sLP5Ed0AOY1_SVPP6nNikQNrtb_NNr7l0G9AneObR_X_ZoVT8bc4nqEYFp-O5HsWi1vjAT_LuBy7kv0gy67yn__oRI9ITQ1ZtlmU/s320/Abstract+Nothing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>“Show it some mercy,
it’s burning in flames<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>The skin of all hopes
is melting; <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>tell me out of this
what do you gain?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Shower it with some relief;
it’s scorching under the sun<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>The soothing peach color
has turned into brownish red<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Tell me how do you
plan to resist your misdeeds’ brunt?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Oh well yes, I’m,
talking about myself in third person<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>That’s because you
seem to have some grudge against me for some reason!!”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You see, for an artist, stage is a temple, and performance worship</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So this pain that I have been talking to, who has got the
stage, does not leave</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I tell it that it has to go away</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I have tried to convey the message, but it simply pays
no heed </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Yes, it swirls around my bed across the hall of nothing</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And the dryness in my eyes </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
tries to sip its beauty and wrath </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The tears entering in my ears cheer its performance</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But the curtains have to be drawn, and as I doze</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
This pain, not giving up, then sits next to me, and waits,
swinging to and fro….</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I do get some relief while I sleep</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I wish the consciousness won’t greet me again</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But I guess even if all the wishes would wish for the same</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I would still be made to open the door to the pain</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And with a smile on my face</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
To respect the piece of art that pain puts up with such
grace</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So I decide, why should I fear the fate</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Instead I should join the beauty that has come to my gate</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and be the excited audience it deserves to have </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So with pricked ankles and bare face</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And non fancy fabric in which I’m draped</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I give it a standing ovation and clap</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
As if I were standing in the meadows amidst the colors </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
that are waiting to be refilled, to be shaded darker</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Finally overwhelmed by the response, it <b>embraces</b> me with grief</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But my suffering then escalates, after all this is the
closest I’ve got with the pain</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But then satiated with the response, for a while it takes a
break</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and the needles are plucked out of my veins</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I then bid it a good bye with a sad rendition</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
It leaves but with a bonding condition</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
That I shall always cheer for every beauty that I come
across</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I say <i>‘yes’</i>, immediately, although with the premonition</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
That it will be back for the greed of applause</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Or perhaps, my pessimism is ballooned</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and optimism simply pricked and flawed..!!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p>image source: http://good-wallpapers.com/abstract/1778</o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-54274592340484642902012-10-28T11:09:00.003-07:002013-09-03T11:11:18.680-07:00Delight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlPPkrpMSxLLgmMwywcGONMRCjz-6lwis-1TYP1eUXXs8qvqwKXEjzbY2yDDArB8P7Qt4iQkNBQ5-NttqfytRQwfcZpDEAuT6FADRqeesNP43Rj_0aD6nDZEIp8FCrbgVPS-hp9MN64gg/s1600/delighted1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlPPkrpMSxLLgmMwywcGONMRCjz-6lwis-1TYP1eUXXs8qvqwKXEjzbY2yDDArB8P7Qt4iQkNBQ5-NttqfytRQwfcZpDEAuT6FADRqeesNP43Rj_0aD6nDZEIp8FCrbgVPS-hp9MN64gg/s320/delighted1.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I won’t define management. And there is no definite
management style pertaining to any particular kind of organization. What I would
rather like to talk about is the ingredients!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Management is like a food item. The different ingredients and
the ratio in which they go in the preparation of a dish define the style. It is
these styles that draw the differentiating factor. And of course, the chef, the architect of the
style makes the final difference. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Now a dish popular in north India won’t be as popular in
other parts of India and vice-versa. Hence the popularity or success of the
dish is in congruence with factors involving geography, history, society,
religion et al. Similarly, success of management style also depends on the factors
stated above and their likes. Of course, the culinary experience has to be implausible
and recurrent in nature for which constant innovation has to be encouraged.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Evolution of management style has been as dynamic as water. Societal
changes and the final mix have had reflections upon it. Hence the external
environment of an organization, which is almost an open system in today’s world
of globalization, plays a major decisive role in designing the style and structure
of the organization. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The management world is aware of the so called ingredients,
some of which are creativity and innovation, ethics and social responsibility,
transparency and communication, structuring and restructuring, clear
distribution of power.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
These ingredients have to be considered in a ratio
commensurate to the type of organization; whether it is a start-up or a
competitor, a young or middle aged company (according to the age group of
employees). Also an organization can be typified according to a company life
cycle (CLC) on the lines of product life cycle (PLC).</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Another emerging trend that needs to be integrated in
organizations is internal branding. The atmosphere in an organization has to be
charged with enthusiasm all the time and constant updates and each employee
inclusion are needed for the same.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
All of us may choose a work profile in an organization for
the money and career prospects, but in the long run, what maintains the health
of engine of our work life is the feeling of belongingness to the company. And for
that respect, identity and subsequent ‘I am important’ phrase has to be
pronounced by employees’ minds.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Also a clear division of work has to be maintained within an
organization for proper planning, efficient execution and optimized result. One
of the road blocks for the drive of UID is unclear division of work. Whether there
is a vertical or horizontal hierarchy, or, whether there is a pooled,
sequential or reciprocal interdependence seen in an organization, clear
allocation of responsibility for work is indispensable. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Authority should not be synonymous with rigidity and
bossiness, but assertiveness, confidence and leadership. Whether it’s a top-bottom
or bottom-up line of control, the above stated factors remain vital.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Multiple initiatives like organizing cultural and sports
events and other employee centred activities should be focussed upon. After all
in the highly competitive era that we are facing now, the spotlight must move
on from employee retention and satisfaction to employee delight! </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p>Image source: </o:p><a href="http://wavelengthsblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/the-download-on-delivering-delight/">http://wavelengthsblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/the-download-on-delivering-delight/</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-29033029971839052932012-10-01T10:30:00.000-07:002013-09-03T11:12:55.661-07:00Foolish you<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnCvNjLBgIzydxlhO-g32rE8RMrWgYutb85Rwok5PJ4AQp28ohzbPcA4CMOhotey6x5eqg2IjhXSpniqt_J5bzpuuZRoxIdyJtOVe2HHYmbtW2C7hRa9-sTfaeDQVjk8QkgybojRnm4E/s1600/man+with+his+heart+trying+to+leap+from+his+head.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnCvNjLBgIzydxlhO-g32rE8RMrWgYutb85Rwok5PJ4AQp28ohzbPcA4CMOhotey6x5eqg2IjhXSpniqt_J5bzpuuZRoxIdyJtOVe2HHYmbtW2C7hRa9-sTfaeDQVjk8QkgybojRnm4E/s1600/man+with+his+heart+trying+to+leap+from+his+head.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You are getting nervous, do you know that?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your gaze is at her but you’re trying hard to look away</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your heart beats are skipping the regular count</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
It’s not normal, can it be gainsaid?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your side of garden is full of roses in the times of drought</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
There are butterflies fluttering spiralling the red hearts
in the peak summers</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your days and nights are in direct proportion</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
to the number of times in your mind she appears</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your wishes are different shades of the same colour</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Nod your head if it’s not a usual behaviour</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You are telling yourself that telling her won’t do any good</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
May be you’re right but the truth will still goon</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You’re running in circles around your own mind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In your head, your words are hunting you, and they simply
never die</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You are chasing the squirrel of solution around the tree,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the roots of which simply do not exist</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
underneath the grounds that you’re standing upon..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The memory of the facts seem to grind your skull</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your heart aches, suffocates, forgets and jumps into the
deep dark waters</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But soon you heartless feel the empty space within you, in
the core</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You miss the childlike crazy heart that you wore</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The heart that made you a demon, bird and human</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You are teased by the lost innocence that you just threw
away</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And you’re left alone staring blankly into the space</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You’re getting pale, do you know that?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You disowned nonchalantly your true colour </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
as if you have the ability to weave another</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your artificial colour painted on your skin will leave in
coming seasons</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your so called love by then, will have deprived you of
everything</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Foolish you, you gave up your heart just for nothing..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>So listen to me, and pay some heed</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Whistle the tune of joy, of simple innocence and not greed</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Desert the bloody roses of grim soils of the superficial
gardens</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Unhinge your mind off her; the knot of the troubles will be
untied</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Rediscover clear skies, and soar your kite of destiny high</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>The dry cutting pain of the emptied space of your heart</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Will be made fertile once again for your lovely heart</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>And promise it you’ll never give it away just like that..!!</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p>Also, I came across a beautiful song. You may like to listen to it here.</o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/lPMm0MK0N2M?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
image source: <a href="http://www.to-en.gr/Newton/p01_t_en.htm" style="text-align: left;">http://www.to-en.gr/Newton/p01_t_en.htm</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-48418600604746029132012-09-14T12:08:00.002-07:002013-09-03T11:15:02.805-07:00The Hero<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0nmzdsmWwpyFQESDAk_yLElfZgN3Tg-YUuVAErkvwOy4bK9dKcHpzRzi6Z5yBc9e-NvBU6qRZSgXlrHNA6MHE_3k_ulA5sVAT2GdVAK6C5nZZjni6my6Nl5NEzmxLwkRPXPCEZC5eCE4/s1600/china-dalian-oil-spill-wave_24147_600x450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0nmzdsmWwpyFQESDAk_yLElfZgN3Tg-YUuVAErkvwOy4bK9dKcHpzRzi6Z5yBc9e-NvBU6qRZSgXlrHNA6MHE_3k_ulA5sVAT2GdVAK6C5nZZjni6my6Nl5NEzmxLwkRPXPCEZC5eCE4/s320/china-dalian-oil-spill-wave_24147_600x450.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Numb
the time and swell it<u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Let
the bloodstream stop and listen to your heartbeats</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
The
moment would pause and history disappear</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Let
the present throb till it dies of wear and tear…..</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Pluck
and eat the fruits of anxieties from the garden of future</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Stare
at the sky and ask it to pour</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
The
greenery that your present needs</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Don’t
let this time be pricked…</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Cheat
logic for once in your life</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Drive
away your child like passions in a car to a beach</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Abscond
the building of boundaries</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Run away…
Run away from the daily redundant drudgeries</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Grind
your emotions and feed them to your heart</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Make
it beat faster and redder</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Kiss
the panic and seduce it till it surrenders</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Create
a house of cards and demolish it…</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Dare
the stillness to move by an inch</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Interview
the silence and hear it out for what it speaks</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Memorize
the conversation that you would have</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Retrospect
what you and others didn’t convey</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Is
there a smile, a fury, or any other curve that your lips might make?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Pump
this moment with air and make it float</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Steer
the ship of problems to an unknown island and then flee</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Swim
back from the widowed waters and don’t turn back</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
But don’t
wait for any welcome, you hero, from the folks of your city</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
In your
mind, just ink a shade darker the route you followed on the waters</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Don’t
let the defeats, slaughters, injuries make your solid steps falter</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Break
in the dark and dingy territories</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Open
the floodgates to deluge the area in the river of spirit</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Drop
the match stick and paint the city in a colour of orange for a change</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Before
of course it dies of the colour into ashes</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
But don’t
you rest now, you hero, your work is not yet done</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
Watch
out! There are shadows lurking around to be burnt</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<b><i>Now
wake up, you killed all those music-less places of anxieties</i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<b><i>The music
now soothes you</i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<b><i>You won’t
look at your life and others’ and extract disparities</i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<b><i>The present
now awaits you</i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<b><i>You
won’t look back and fear the curves ahead on your way</i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<b><i>The road
now awaits you</i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<b><i>You won’t
weigh your past and future against your blood</i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<b><i>The life
now awaits you..!</i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2KlRx2v1KCMCHtZPh9nmqzuUa09ZPGK6V-_yrpkI9I3P3pMnhFvQXM95djOQdBUP953WN1VWXnmtxs-Uow83rgtEYhb5NoeKoiv990ijFL4N2bUwTZIFMK7WKcIRDYcW0O1sqTtlk10/s1600/199073_435859716456186_1251940757_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2KlRx2v1KCMCHtZPh9nmqzuUa09ZPGK6V-_yrpkI9I3P3pMnhFvQXM95djOQdBUP953WN1VWXnmtxs-Uow83rgtEYhb5NoeKoiv990ijFL4N2bUwTZIFMK7WKcIRDYcW0O1sqTtlk10/s320/199073_435859716456186_1251940757_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">image sources: </span></b></i><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/photogalleries/100730-china-oil-spill-dalian-environment-world-pictures/" style="text-align: left;">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/photogalleries/100730-china-oil-spill-dalian-environment-world-pictures/</a></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/islamicquotes">https://www.facebook.com/islamicquotes</a>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-24510254912375199732012-08-13T08:44:00.000-07:002013-09-03T11:15:47.061-07:00Fighting The Heavyweight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGa8wroCDWcxop-UQ17oe4aOVt3B-XNvyJsEjJYh2MT_ZwsY3ukaseRVdm4BCHmKbRHzzP9AIpNlhgn970zInClFCCPyLZldGMJZF1nM_L_3LOAtCmeqwWUDyNISrhewFj_hSKOssjkE/s1600/Troubled_Mind.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGa8wroCDWcxop-UQ17oe4aOVt3B-XNvyJsEjJYh2MT_ZwsY3ukaseRVdm4BCHmKbRHzzP9AIpNlhgn970zInClFCCPyLZldGMJZF1nM_L_3LOAtCmeqwWUDyNISrhewFj_hSKOssjkE/s320/Troubled_Mind.jpg" width="222" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p> </o:p>I love
talking. When there’s no one around to talk to, I talk to myself. When there’s
something I need to share with someone, and can’t, I talk to myself. And so I love talking.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Most of the times something or other goes on in my mind and
so when I cannot talk, I write. So I love
writing. I need to pour out my thoughts or else I feel flooded; flooded with my
own thoughts. And floods remind me of
nature. I see my thoughts’, my feelings’ reflection in the nature. Those beautiful
rains make us either ecstatic or forlorn; may be because we get to see what joy
is and what grief is in the form of rains. It is as if there is something
inside us which we know exists, but can’t define. I mean those feelings do
exist. It’s just that they need to be manifested in some physical form for me
to witness them; in a smile on our face for others to see, and in the nature
for us to see. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And so I look outside and search for tangible forms of all
that is intangible, there inside me to be viewed, appreciated, criticised and
analysed by me..!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Words for me are like a mirror. I can see myself. I can read
myself and so I can come closer to myself and love myself consciously.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So as I said when there are too much of things going on in
one’s mind, it’s better to dispense them. In my case I have to do it. In my
third year of college, a professor mistakenly gave me detention (wherein I was barred from sitting through exams) in two of my
subjects. It obviously worried me a lot and I knew that there was no use of worrying.
But I was not able to control my worrying and was feeling bullied by my
thoughts. I tried to emasculate them and so I scribbled the following lines on
a rough sheet of paper:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>So this moment
gains weight<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>as many
thoughts proliferate<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>This is not the
right time<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>so I ask them
to just wait….<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>But my mind has
no place<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>nowhere to make
them stay<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>and for a while
I say, <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>“Please, these thoughts
need some rest with such a pace<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>that they are incessantly
moving at..”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>But my plead is
caged in a bubble<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>No one listens
and it goes to waste<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>So I tell my
thoughts in order to direct them,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>“You have to go
far, very far, and so go, segregate..”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>And they do so
sincerely obeying me<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>in spite of
knowing the fact<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>that I’m
putting them on the wrong track<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>and that they
ought to be together in a group to affect me,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>torture me and bully
me to their best<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>They know that
I’m trying to mislead them<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>But they still
go on different tracks..!<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>But how could I
underestimate these thoughts<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>Of course, they
follow my order of getting dispersed as they very well know that<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>they can still
gain weight, enough weight<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>by producing
some and orienting other thoughts with each of them<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>And so, as my
efforts go in vain<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>this moment
still gains weight..<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Yes, my thoughts mushroomed
and at that moment I did get worried to a certain extent, while I was jotting
down the above lines, but afterwards, writing it down not just distracted me
from my previous state of mind (i.e. the one before writing down the above
lines), it also did make me feel better, much better!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And my efforts eventually did not
go in vain and the moments felt light.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So, try out this writing exercise and
disorient your thoughts whenever they try to appropriate your peace of mind. The
thoughts will try their best to club themselves to get powerful, but you have
to keep fighting and trust me you will succeed in the end. So don’t let such
worrisome thoughts bog you down and after you write, you will feel remarkably
well.<o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<br />
image source: <a href="http://www.markjonespainter.com/Image%20Pages/Troubled%20Mind.htm">http://www.markjonespainter.com/Image%20Pages/Troubled%20Mind.htm</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-55920116620680717002012-07-06T06:35:00.000-07:002013-09-03T11:16:58.369-07:00Desire to desire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QDrtkAa8Bbo_C3K3NK_2AcW5mEY8tbw6iF_HFGNWoLGmnbAOoqr7jQUPQ2WzocEUizXAGr-IKKDINkXY50Bs4i7jBJcbq0zathbjyPu59mmbf-S4E37IiT-HUz_jAfjo_ZXyO5ZCiP8/s1600/alonebeautifulcloudsfavoritesflyingfree-1d4b40cd608f452f4386822b0cf3df59_h.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QDrtkAa8Bbo_C3K3NK_2AcW5mEY8tbw6iF_HFGNWoLGmnbAOoqr7jQUPQ2WzocEUizXAGr-IKKDINkXY50Bs4i7jBJcbq0zathbjyPu59mmbf-S4E37IiT-HUz_jAfjo_ZXyO5ZCiP8/s320/alonebeautifulcloudsfavoritesflyingfree-1d4b40cd608f452f4386822b0cf3df59_h.jpg" width="307" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>If there were cotton seeds, that I could climb upon<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I would fly, if only for some distance, I would fly<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>And if there were any real dragons<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I would trick the evil and make it stand in front of the
mouth of fire<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>If I had long hands and sharp nails, I would rise, liberate
the sky<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>by tearing its mask behind which it refrains to cry<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>And if there were two of me, I would stand in front of me<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>to understand me, to love me, to know my heart and mind<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I know I can do this all but only if I knew how..<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>Do I need to carry or surrender, the love, the compassion,
the ire?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>And as I ponder, wander, halt on the highway of my life<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I realise, everything I’ve achieved, everything I write<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>all the songs that I sing, all the fears that I kill<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>keep me fresh and not stale, warm and not ice-like..<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I need to defeat if not conquer, stay alive and not die<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>Now I know, I can do it all, I could do it all<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>But only if I had those eyes,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>Only if I had those eyes, flaming with desire…..</b><o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
This life is a dog! No matter how far you throw the grief,
it puts all its energy and focus to get that grief back to you. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>And it expects you to pat it.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>Oh! my dear life, you really don’t get it, do you?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>That you need to get a life!</i><o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Things that we love, desire, no matter how much passion goes
in to fill it, they attain ephemeral characteristics. Whether it’s rain, cool
breeze, time spent with friends and loved ones, they all seem to come and go.
And yet we desire them every minute of our lives. We spend rest of the time to
possess those jewels. You get rich one moment, the next moment your jewels seem
to be fake. And you wonder that what is it that you possess. Whether you
possess the reality or if it’s the other way round. And most importantly,
whether you possess yourself..! </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Many a time, I decided to surrender myself to moments of
joy, grief, jealousy and their shades and then later recoiled fearing losing
myself to those ephemeral moments. Those colorful moments flutter in front of
us, attract us, possess us, color us, carry us, and then fly away dropping us somewhere in mid way. You find yourself
lost in foreign lands. You then trace back your steps. But you never reach the
same place, because time moved the plains. You wonder if it was worth flying
for the time-being. Yes of course, why not!! You got to experience the beauty,
the sky, the freedom. But what about the fall? Didn’t the landing hurt you? And
how many times can you relish the descent in the hope of next ascent if any? Or
are you surrendering to the assumption that the journey has to end with
descent?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
There is nothing wrong with fall, bruised, broken or grief.
I’ve patted my life even after it brought me grief. I stroked it with passion
and fuelled it with desire. Every time I fell, I searched for scrapes and
prepared it for next flight. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Every time I got bruised, I gathered strength to walk and
found old and new companions to cheer me up on my way. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>On my way, I sipped the sky, and greeted hills</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I cut the air above the blue and ran on the sea beach-frills</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
I did it with passion; I did it with enthusiasm..<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>On my way, I perched on the branches of grief</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I looked down wondering at the wandering nomads</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I filched a little momentum from them and left the shadows</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
I did it with passion, I did it without notions..<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>On my way, I met so many and flew with few</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>While we shared meals, recalled our journeys,</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I knew they followed different maps </i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
And yet, I did it with passion, I did it with love..<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>On my way, I witnessed different worlds of joy and glee</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>Rich fearing the fall, poor hoping the rise, but listening
to the same melodies</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I felt the despair of free children’s shrills halting with
descending swings</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
I saw it with passion, I saw it all with compassion..<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>On my way, I dipped my wings in river</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I ascended to a height I could not have imagined ever</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>I knew I may meet the thunder up there</i></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>But I did it with passion, I did it with the desire..<i><o:p></o:p></i></b><br />
<b><br /></b><br />
<b><br /></b><br />
<b><br /></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">image source: </span></b><a href="http://beforethebabywakes.com/2011/01/flying-bird-prayers-mouth/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://beforethebabywakes.com/2011/01/flying-bird-prayers-mouth/</span></span></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<u1:p></u1:p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-82524601103675871952012-06-12T09:28:00.002-07:002013-09-03T11:17:48.638-07:00It's always about YOU..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9pxTv_Yj7NFVET976cBBz_-IlloACm2Y2jSkbVhJ60IEatGHBy4VuuDsARAihfLPE09qibyYqo1raQQ0T9JxS40snXAb_twD_kgifkT8cCR3wnnvtvgi753FHYa6htETp7EvK3RcRzO8/s1600/4e5430e08a6f26b6ccbc244dca3259a9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9pxTv_Yj7NFVET976cBBz_-IlloACm2Y2jSkbVhJ60IEatGHBy4VuuDsARAihfLPE09qibyYqo1raQQ0T9JxS40snXAb_twD_kgifkT8cCR3wnnvtvgi753FHYa6htETp7EvK3RcRzO8/s200/4e5430e08a6f26b6ccbc244dca3259a9.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>“Go away..”</i>, I say, to these times that are prevailing</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the state of us being together, that these days are
curtailing</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I say it helplessly to the time, to the eternity</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
As against the currents and winds, my happiness is sailing </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
It is then when I give up to the belligerent winds</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
That you fill my heart and bones and make me sing</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The complex tune of honey & brine, flowers &
butterflies, death & life, good times & these times……</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And So, You become the cutting contrast </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
That brings out the stark difference between the white
& black, the happy & sad</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You’re the silver lining between this land & the blue
grey sky</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You’re the one that makes me want to live even beyond this
life</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Tell me how do you cut me so softly into a lovable one?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
How do you manage to bring peace in this wild town of my
mind that burns?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But then as you control the fire, you deluge me as your
thoughts flood my mind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and then I remember your touch as your skin against mine
rubs,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
only if I could contain you all this while</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
only if I could be with you, all day and night…</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You perhaps don’t even know as certain facts evade my
understanding too</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
That how you’ve taken over all the aspects of my relations
in this world that exist</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>You’re my friend and my competitor, </i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>You’re my student and my teacher</i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>You’re my guide and my lover</i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>You’re my veil and my mirror </i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Your absence becomes poison, and your presence an elixir……</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But then somehow even without the explanation, I’m more
happy than bewildered!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So as this moment gains the weight and I feel sinking deep down
the water</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I remember those moments that we had spent together when the
days were brighter</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I close my eyes and I enter the gates of my parallel
universe</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Where you’re there with me before and after the dinners</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And then your weight on me lifts all the burden</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
your eyes strike me every time like bullets from gun</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
they pierce me and the pain inside me gushes out</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
you make me as white and calm as a white flower</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Tell me, how do you do it with such ease and indomitable
power?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But then I wake up as the ‘present tense’ orders me to, of
which I’ve to be a minion</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I see the fresh flowers of
our yesterdays that were once bestowed upon us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
now lay on the ground, dried; at times I feel they are in complete
oblivion</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and then you ask me to clean it up and that it’s such a mess</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I pick a flower and preserve it in a book, as those days’
dried yet redolent reminiscence………..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I take a walk down some street alone..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Abandoning those lanes on which our shadows together once
strolled</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But then I reach one of the crossroads where our lives
intertwine</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So as I meet you, you show me your book, looking at which my
heart smiles</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You too have kept some of those flowers and as the rest lay
fresh in your heart</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I promise you that I’ll never let those flowers dry</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I’ll bestow them with all the required ingredients to
nourish them</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And In this garden of your heart I’ll grow other colors too </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
All you have to do is, in my heart, keep pumping this life</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
As I’m from <b>You,</b> since I started the walk in search of <b>You…</b><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Image source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Its-Always-about-You/785280</b></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com80tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-2456715770350953112012-05-24T10:42:00.002-07:002016-01-20T08:20:34.772-08:00*IPL Weds Branding*<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="background-color: white;">
<br />
<br />
And you all (crazy cricket fanatics, businessmen/women, Dada/Nana followers, wives/girlfriends of all non followers of soccer, sponsors and whoever is left) are cordially invited to the auspicious wedding that’s taking place at various stadiums in India, and costlier the gift you get(ticket), better will be the service from our side! Namaste.<br />
<br />
I’m not an avid fan of cricket or even IPL or any other Indian big fat wedding. Nevertheless, I happen to observe few aspects of IPL just like various movie trailers that I get to see, seated along my excited-for-new movies-siblings.<br />
<br />
On every ‘IPL day’ at dinner, my mother ridicules some random poor guy because he is rich and awkward and gives insights about IPL on TV, and some female who would have put up too much of make-up or dressed in revealing attire. My dad condemns every catch that is dropped, gets exalted every time the ball kisses or flies across the boundary and opposes every team that my mother supports. I instead focus on the teams’ t-shirts and caps, bats and grounds, umpires’ uniforms, giant screens. If you take a ‘who’s in whose team?’ quiz, I’ll shamelessly terribly fail. But ‘the bigwigs-sponsors’ of various teams have definitely spammed in my ‘memory-the mailbox’.<br />
<br />
<br />
So whether it’s 'LUX COZI 'written on uniforms of ‘Kings XI’ and ‘DC’ or ‘Manyavar ethnic wears’ partnership with ‘KKR’, or even small firm like ‘Burn Fitness Port’ which has invested in 'DC', they all have converted these cricket men into playing talking living hoardings and cartoons ( in various comic features like ‘Rock 'n' Royals' and ‘Electric Chargers', The 'Delhi Daredevils' in Diamond Comics' special series where they join the latter's characters 'Chacha Chadhury' and 'Sabu') and models ('KKR' team dressed elegantly, posing in 'Manyavar ethnic wear', and they look so cute, some look hot..!! see the link below, no wonder I know who all are in this team!!).<br />
<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i4EON_tBa0c" width="640"></iframe>
<br />
<br />
The above video with ethnic wears reminded me of big fat weddings that most of the people like to be invited to. We love to celebrate know, whether it's a child-birth ceremony, marriages, or cricket and its various forms. WE push the boat out.<br />
Not that I’m against it, not at all, but it is more like the Indian wedding where everything (designer clothes, people wanting to be captured by camera, shiny 'firangi' hopping cheerleaders, the ‘pandol’-stadium setup) , except the couple, is noticed. Obviously little happenings like ‘SRK-MCA fight’, etc are bound to take place in the big wedding (controversies are main features of such grand occasions)!! <br />
<br />
Anyhow, the couple is going to make a good profit out of the whole wedding and we, the invitees, the audience, the viewers will get entertained somehow( I’m going to have spicy ‘chhole-bhature’ while checking out some cute guy wrapped in the ‘wedding’ dress on TV). Also, I have a gut feeling that the strong couple will have a long-lasting marriage with pompous anniversaries to be enjoyed equally, later on.What a charm!!<br />
<br />
With 302k followers on twitter, 1.1 million on facebook( thanks to various FB pages, youtube accounts devoted to these teams), others whether invited or not, whether a fan or not, this wedding is being attended by many.<br />
<br />
So are you attending the wedding?<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-42213168485128134522012-05-08T02:24:00.001-07:002013-09-04T11:13:30.936-07:00White UP White DOWN…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOAcY_5-BKeR9f_Jx-nUTv2AbT70xB2MP9MhGvgw_yhPQb0BjHNgO1Xv5-oMx9FyLpA1jFffjWXQV6dcuKqvxocUZaJfdHnSaYVN53NZEF9iAMvab1Lx-SRL9jl7kUv2uNherJPKX-IHI/s1600/black_and_white_daisies-1551.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOAcY_5-BKeR9f_Jx-nUTv2AbT70xB2MP9MhGvgw_yhPQb0BjHNgO1Xv5-oMx9FyLpA1jFffjWXQV6dcuKqvxocUZaJfdHnSaYVN53NZEF9iAMvab1Lx-SRL9jl7kUv2uNherJPKX-IHI/s320/black_and_white_daisies-1551.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So basically once again we got manipulated by ubiquitous
commercials. But this time, it’s different!! We don’t want fairness creams (for
females’ private parts). </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I got to know about so called fairness cream after I read
that there was a furor in Rajya Sabha (upper house in Indian Parliament) regarding it. According to them, the
concerned commercial was debasing females. Well, the first thing I did after
reading that article was signing in my you tube account( so that I could see
the commercial even if it were X-rated). I had to see it as I wanted to know
what it was that made it more attention-seeking and women debasing than various
gang-rapes, eve-teasing, honour-killing of women, all of which never create
such furor in Rajya Sabha, on print-media, digital media..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I saw it. I saw it once again and read the you-tube users’
comments on that commercial. And I started to figure out what exactly was
wrong.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I was sure that one of the reasons for the uproar was that
the product dealt with female private parts. Another reason was the story-line
of the commercial, which according to me was confusing, like other commercials.
It showed a husband/boyfriend ignoring his plastic doll-like-wife/girlfriend.
The sad female is shown with the product, followed by a not-so-offensive-sketch
of a female applying the product on the darkest area of the body. Meanwhile,
the specifications were told which were mainly about keeping the concerned part
dry, clean and also making the complexion lighter. And so in the end, the husband/boyfriend
was happy. <i>Yeae!!</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And so, viewers focused on only one aspect of it and that
was the fairness one, not the hygienic ones. Even the product’s name has got no
word related to fairness. But still they took it as female-private-part-bleaching-cream.
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Men thought that the next product might target their private
parts’ skin. And so they felt offended in advance. Also they thought that the
product was typecasting them as racists and narrow-minded. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They won’t say it openly, <i>“ darling, if you don’t have <b>'it'</b> fair, </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i> you may
use the product there, </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i> at
least you can have it considered </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i> I
might even do it for a longer time, my dear.”, </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ha! But that’s
what many of them may say it loud and clear, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
but only in their private minds’ corners……..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Women professed that the concept of the product was
senseless. They don’t have to show <i><b>'it'</b></i> to impress/attract men. And because
showing *it* is not involved in the process, unlike what was shown in the
advertisement, they don’t really require the product. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Now let me ask all these thoughtful critiques that why such
uproar is not created when almost all the advertisements for men deodorant show
skimpily-clad-females going wild after males using the advertised deodorant. That’s
not debasing women? And will they use their moody logic towards such
advertisement? Because going by the advertisement, I should transform into a
sexually hyperactive female running crazily after some random guy using ‘the’
deodorant; also I’ll smell the scent even if I were a mile away. But no, they
won’t use their logic over here.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I’m not judging the product or its usage. If you don’t like or
want it, don’t use it. Why does anyone have to get the product banned? Do we
take care of those body parts only which are to be shown in near future? We all
go to beauty parlor and saloons and use shampoos and soaps and other ‘beauty’ products.
Do we use them to attract the opposite sex? I personally like to keep myself
groomed (at least at basic level) even when I don’t have to step out of my
house.There are already facial fairness creams and fairness ‘body’ lotions for
females. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
There are advertisements that show using certain toothpaste (once
again) attracting female mindlessly towards a random guy using the product. Now
do we all use tooth-paste for that? May be some do. And this is where the
manipulation comes in. Read the specifications and advantages of a product. If
you think some of those might help you in some way, then use it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
There is definitely something wrong with the ‘fairness
addiction’ that Asians have. I already spread my views regarding it on an
earlier blog-post(You may like to read <a href="http://wwwbloggercom-shiva.blogspot.in/2012/02/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html" target="_blank">Copper Maiden</a> ). </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But guys, grow up (pun intended). And women, we all are
lovely and intelligent, but we don’t really have to sniff sense at
everything(pun intended)!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
image source: http://free-extras.com/images/black_and_white_daisies-1551.htm </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com51tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-28825225164127433502012-04-29T14:40:00.000-07:002013-09-04T10:50:55.157-07:00The Omitted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUayj43p-mX_KkyMIvwot9xSuZgodITCiTCB1k74SI8n0G7JkYGGLjrh2HE9rncDe1NIq3O_WBxvW0LR-OPXVsZJwu3Auuy2DH5Y_7yH4jN_FhAdHJAhfS9lNLO0kfl_cJZ4m3afXzbA/s1600/disappearing_4001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUayj43p-mX_KkyMIvwot9xSuZgodITCiTCB1k74SI8n0G7JkYGGLjrh2HE9rncDe1NIq3O_WBxvW0LR-OPXVsZJwu3Auuy2DH5Y_7yH4jN_FhAdHJAhfS9lNLO0kfl_cJZ4m3afXzbA/s320/disappearing_4001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
After a while as I was filling an application form today, I
realized that I was missing the alphabet ‘<i>e’</i> repeatedly. We all, I suppose,
usually omit random alphabets while writing. That happens. What took my
attention today was that I was omitting only ‘e’.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
May be I was tired. Even though I skip every time, ‘<i>e</i>’ in
the word <i>haven’t</i>, just because at some time during my teenager years, I had
developed the habit of using <i>SMS lingo</i>, all the time. Still, it bothered me.
Only if I could erase memory of this incident! Yes the movie, <i>‘Eternal sunshine
of the spotless mind’</i> came to my mind, but other things, as usual, also followed..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I imagined a scenario with my family and me, sitting
together, chatting, smiling, enjoying. And then suddenly, I vanishing,
dissolving in the air, omitted from the scene. It would happen instantly. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>I would evaporate in the frozen time. </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And then my memories getting erased from family’s minds. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They would be confused later, seeing a cup of tea, my
clothes lying on my seat. Their confused senses would sense something amiss. My
belongings, photographs, voice recordings, cards, gifts, poems, writings that
will catch them eventually will force them to think. They would try to
establish my identity and their relationship with me, but it would go in vain. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then, they would try to understand their habits related to
me. My mom coming to my room in morning to switch off the night lamp, but
finding no one in the room. My sister dialing my number not knowing whom to
talk to. The sudden free time left in the life of those that otherwise was
spent talking to me. The habits would frustrate them. But then they are
<i>‘Habits’</i>. <i>With time, habit without purpose erodes away. </i>It is transient in
nature. And if the essence of the habit is not reminded, it is forgotten. My vanishing into the infinite followed by a
short phase of vanishing habits will be all. They would eventually then go on.
They wouldn’t place the omitted in their lives.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I have had such friends in many phases of my life without
whom I used to think life would cease to exist. Now I just remember their names
and very few things related to those times spent with them. New people came in
and took their places which obviously happened in a very gradual way. They have
been like different curtains on windows of my life with different capabilities
of filtering light. I got used to all of them till they vanished or were
substituted. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
What bothers me the most is the fact that we people render
nothing worthy, because everything and everyone, times spent in joy and
oblivion, enemies and loved ones, at some point of time under some reasonable
situations and circumstances can be logically forgotten. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We take pride at something and next moment we delete it. It
doesn’t really matter, even if it is restored to its original place from the
recycle bin. It loses it’s worth.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Once omitted, remains omitted forever, even
if it is re-established strongly in darker shades.</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>It is a very strange fact that the <b>‘Omission’ </b>leaves the
darkest mark; darker than any shade of insertion. <b>And yet we skip the
‘Omitted’</b>.</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Synthesize the pigments of sorrow, indifference and joy</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>And color the time with them, it doesn’t matter if you are
color blind</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>as you spread the sheet of time around yourself</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>and dip the brush of your actions in tears, waterfalls and
brine</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>make it beautiful with shades of success and romance</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>and then cherish it; I say, hold it high in the day light</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>and if you don’t like some part or shade of it</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>bring it and see it with a different aspect, under a
different colored lamp</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>you will then feel the beauty again </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>and the sorrow will camouflage with joy surrounding</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>The whole process of painting goes on, on the same canvass</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Your dimensions change with each painting</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Then one day when your skin and hair would have changed their
color</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>try to place that lovely shade you had once spotted on the
canvass</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>which you had held high with the satisfaction of a monk</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>with a blissful smile of a first-time-in-life-proud child</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>You may not find it and the worst being, you may not miss it
at all!!</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>For it would have been omitted from your mind</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Like the dreams you ride between sunset and sunrise..</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Image source: http://freelanceweekly.com/2010/03/03/the-case-of-the-vanishing-client/</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com69tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-19969078579820274812012-04-26T05:05:00.000-07:002013-09-04T10:50:32.695-07:00Pebbles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOlKZ89Z_qoZChoGFgGV0BgZt2DsjEXAaN2BHubhWVEHf_xOZJ77OL6sD3ILo0QaACYVdnuRxRlWyzSyGyiw2KmbFUkTYTcxO-H9NpbCJJOcNYAecNz9QuyrImTBiT931Xt3Op4G7mjY/s1600/River-Pebbles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOlKZ89Z_qoZChoGFgGV0BgZt2DsjEXAaN2BHubhWVEHf_xOZJ77OL6sD3ILo0QaACYVdnuRxRlWyzSyGyiw2KmbFUkTYTcxO-H9NpbCJJOcNYAecNz9QuyrImTBiT931Xt3Op4G7mjY/s320/River-Pebbles.jpg" width="225" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A simple logic that runs through my mind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A hard truth which is equally hard to grind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
is that world that we are possessed by</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
is unfaithful to everybody who is alive..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And we still have faith in it despite</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Our logic that doesn’t fit in the given attire</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I wonder what is it that’s mine</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
irrespective of all the knowledge and quagmire..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I wonder how do I know who is mine</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
irrespective of this cycle of death and life..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A sinking feeling then makes me realize</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the depth of simplicity that I have taken in hand so easily</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
A negative feeling, in me that balloons inside,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
then feels the pressure of the positivity in the air outside..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But it keeps soaring high in the sky</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And I wonder when the balloon would deflate into nothing…</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The complexity has churned nothing out of my head</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And to contemplate upon what they and I said </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
has lost its charm as it doesn’t seem to help!!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So what do I do? Others say that I should take some rest</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and spare them from the torture of the whips of the simple and the complex!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But I say someone would foresee, someone would understand</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The need to mull over the seen and unseen, heard and unheard,
fought and abandoned..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Well I suggest that this complexity is an exercise to
understand the simple</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And our logic and thoughts are nothing but ripples</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
that arise out of some disturbance, good or bad, in our
lives..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
So let’s just sit quietly at a river bank, under shade of a
tree</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>And drink the beauty of those ripples appearing, swimming,
and disappearing</i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>caused by nothing but by</i></b> <b><i>pebbles</i></b> <b><i>of
those moments…</i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0GfLPFXJC1mm5uRA6n9AtIAOjBeXgRvEOXwATh0nGAcWx5FPIrGfaWhVyUM0Gd_y7dOs44PO2E5PZzW3CbFkmjeE06ifGKIH78Fofmkm7BfSSseQmZadkCg2VylaCPcn9yXJ6TAEVr_U/s1600/vlcsnap-7627380.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0GfLPFXJC1mm5uRA6n9AtIAOjBeXgRvEOXwATh0nGAcWx5FPIrGfaWhVyUM0Gd_y7dOs44PO2E5PZzW3CbFkmjeE06ifGKIH78Fofmkm7BfSSseQmZadkCg2VylaCPcn9yXJ6TAEVr_U/s320/vlcsnap-7627380.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
image source: http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/uncategorized/lesson-3-people-aren%E2%80%99t-going-to-act-the-way-you-want-them-to-act-2/</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-20423144328427636812012-04-08T06:56:00.000-07:002013-09-04T10:59:43.129-07:00The Fugitive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:ApplyBreakingRules/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
</style> <![endif]--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7rNfm9bl-KeCzOArgMCbw65AbeT1IYiiVvb090jB073gYy8WcWtxcwsNdiRDTqgKefg0RK7axNVySxi39RvfSWMxDECWPM_6d55w2avqAeBt9t9fGQZL5i2l9e2psfQV8dzKKppvKSv0/s1600/John-Tennek-4x18-Insomniac-Ren-e9378116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7rNfm9bl-KeCzOArgMCbw65AbeT1IYiiVvb090jB073gYy8WcWtxcwsNdiRDTqgKefg0RK7axNVySxi39RvfSWMxDECWPM_6d55w2avqAeBt9t9fGQZL5i2l9e2psfQV8dzKKppvKSv0/s200/John-Tennek-4x18-Insomniac-Ren-e9378116.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A lonely street I see, in front of me</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Full of people’s dreams floating in the air</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">It makes me wonder, “Where is my sleep?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">This night is passing away,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the dawn is near</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I try to listen to the sound of tip toe</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Somewhere I know I’ll find it if I follow</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">But it seems all I hear, is my panting breath</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And even my heart beats have gone low</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Where are you my slippery sleep? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">What have you slipped into? Where did you go?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">To my left and right, I toss and toss</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">My now straight legs I then again cross </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">In my mind I still wander here and there</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">This consciousness, now my mind cannot bear</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Someone tell me where are my dreams, where?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Can’t you see my helplessness now bare…?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I’m on the verge of giving up now</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The sun is rising<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the sky has allowed</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The birds to fly towards the horizon</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And as I see the scene outside my window so mesmerizing</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">“Forget it..!!”, I say, springing out of my bed</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Why should I mourn over my sleep which has fled…?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A rusty book I see, in front of me</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Full of hazy words floating in there</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">It makes me wonder, “where is my sleep?..!!”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The book from my hands is slipping away</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">.........And my sleep is finally near……! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAvpic1QEXFGGeNM8jOCbaWfELjgViYVGOYS6FOHKC8vCbLIciDrelmCp0X0FbccxfrjIM_Sn_0R4acgPs97mxKrQg0pYGd9S-qF16Of5ll1ALHd-meBvmt8HWxeR05tSMQXkgLgUKAs4/s1600/0511-0907-1220-3962_Cartoon_of_a_Woman_Asleep_at_Her_Desk_clipart_image.jpg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAvpic1QEXFGGeNM8jOCbaWfELjgViYVGOYS6FOHKC8vCbLIciDrelmCp0X0FbccxfrjIM_Sn_0R4acgPs97mxKrQg0pYGd9S-qF16Of5ll1ALHd-meBvmt8HWxeR05tSMQXkgLgUKAs4/s320/0511-0907-1220-3962_Cartoon_of_a_Woman_Asleep_at_Her_Desk_clipart_image.jpg.png" width="263" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">image sources: <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:ApplyBreakingRules/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><a href="http://cloudninetalks.blogspot.in/2012_01_01_archive.html">http://cloudninetalks.blogspot.in/2012_01_01_archive.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:ApplyBreakingRules/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><a href="http://www.thesocialpenguinblog.com/2011/08/29/the-weird-world-of-the-blog-spam-comment/john-tennek-4x18-insomniac-ren-e9378116/">http://www.thesocialpenguinblog.com/2011/08/29/the-weird-world-of-the-blog-spam-comment/john-tennek-4x18-insomniac-ren-e9378116/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-15184998603996094762012-04-05T01:09:00.002-07:002013-09-04T11:01:14.428-07:00Stirring The Wonderful<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7GuucrgQmT_7ACsisLPzM-imJLQTlXAJNKjsNsREcLo0Kw9b9MgXIX666m3ePnpqNrKmfogZMmiNbfIk8AZkK5xJrUU2710ABcrIxPaoNy-_P-Jbu7yXm_eK9pSh0xrN8e3ftotG_xE/s1600/edited+leaves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7GuucrgQmT_7ACsisLPzM-imJLQTlXAJNKjsNsREcLo0Kw9b9MgXIX666m3ePnpqNrKmfogZMmiNbfIk8AZkK5xJrUU2710ABcrIxPaoNy-_P-Jbu7yXm_eK9pSh0xrN8e3ftotG_xE/s320/edited+leaves.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
At the behest of my own knowledge</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I consider myself and you as one </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But Oh Dear! Do I have to take any pledge</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
before I profess such statement?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Anyhow, I think I still craze</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
for those moments that passed by </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
without our permission they crossed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the territories of our then present..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Tell me, tell me please </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Can we ever retrieve them?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And even though we compose new music now</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
You see I have my favorites that I want to rewind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And those templates of the past that once menaced</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I wish I could play with them once again this time</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And those street lights that behind us flashed once</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the darkest phase of our lives had lit when</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
And that light music that played in our loud heart beats’ presence</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Yes I remember that time that left such deep dent</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I don’t want to get it repaired and cherish it instead!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Only if I could get into the memories in my head for real</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I would sneak into that world and get it sealed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But tell me if you would accompany me in this endeavor</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
because without you every world is rendered </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
colorless whether real or fiction..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Will you sip the drink of magic</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
that I will create for us to enter our dreams</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
or are we expected to stay lethargic?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and just miss helplessly those moments that still gleam..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I also wish I could somehow get</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
new lyrics for the old times, the music that we once played</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and fresh dialogues and gestures to recreate</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
some moments that we didn’t live to the fullest..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
But why should I mull over the bygones</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
when distance has followed our decision </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
of staying away from each other?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
In such case, how shall we ever</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
expect to do the justice to our past?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
May be we should just move forward</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
with a bag of things we managed to escape which</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
otherwise would have left us in the endless stream of spent years</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Eight pairs of 3D glasses, that parking lot and bus tickets</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the expired Barista cards, the ring made instantly out of the grass</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
flower petals, a black cap, and defunct earphones,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
the tissue paper on which we played the game of criss-cross</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and other remnants of that glorious time</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I carry them all with me stirring the wonderful in my mind </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
and with them I make this dim conduit of your absence a little bright..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97013600627309950.post-89932243064369486082012-03-06T10:29:00.001-08:002013-09-04T11:04:37.184-07:00Apathy?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZ54O7J24omgo1OiAFNCi9gGBeTSzCUgRNgCzwbJjhX8hkhsx6nkqVJgPT4KkOuhnbV3BcKnDwyOyPprKt0S8aGmN153eSox7Ih9OyR1K84Nj7Eoao_5_ocrh9qxnLMKisuoFrvm-Ra8/s1600/devleavespaintabst.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZ54O7J24omgo1OiAFNCi9gGBeTSzCUgRNgCzwbJjhX8hkhsx6nkqVJgPT4KkOuhnbV3BcKnDwyOyPprKt0S8aGmN153eSox7Ih9OyR1K84Nj7Eoao_5_ocrh9qxnLMKisuoFrvm-Ra8/s320/devleavespaintabst.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
If there were ashes flying in the air</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Would you be glad to see it?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
And if snowflakes instead were there</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Will from your eyes, emanate tears?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
In mornings when your feet touch soft grass</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Do they ever painfully sear?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
And if you know somewhere a child is without meal</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Will you still dare to waste a supper?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Or if an evil you confront in present</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Will you welcome its footsteps into the future?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
I know your answer is ‘no’</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Because we are under our control and we know</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
The right, the wrong, the good , the bad</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
We can identify the comforts, the discomforts,</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
what makes us and people happy and sad</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Then how with such ease, do we chose to suture</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
The mask made of ignorance towards suffering of others?</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Look into your own eyes in the mirror</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
And try to evade the above question..</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
If you’re thinking I’m going to talk about compassion and kindness and mercy, then may be you are mistaken!!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
What I actually want to highlight though is the complexity of human mind (not anatomically). I wonder how could I enjoy a delicious meal while watching television, just five minutes after reading an article on the condition of slum dwellers in Mumbai. Obviously my mind was numbed by the joy my taste buds provided it with. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
OK. Well I think that I am going to talk about compassion and ignorance. Continue reading. So let me throw some light on what I read about the condition of slum dwellers in Mumbai. Kids over there, at times, have to kill rats and feed on them. Other alternative may be collecting grass grown near a pool of stagnant water or some ponds (where we better-offs would chose to shut our noses and mouth). Lack of education and opportunities make working in nearby hotels as waiters, a dream job. They rattle junk materials in search of metals and to differentiate them. And so on. And I pledged that I would not waste any food thereafter. But I couldn’t keep my own promise; may be because I am not ‘Chulbul Pandey’ of our typical Bollywood movie ‘Dabangg’, whose famous dialogue goes like, <i>“<span class="profilenamefnfsxlfwb">Ekbaar jo </span></i><span class="profilenamefnfsxlfwb"><i>maine</i></span><span class="profilenamefnfsxlfwb"><i> commitment kardi to phir main khud ki bhi nahi sunta</i></span><i>.” ( “if I commit once , then I do not even listen to myself.”).</i> Also I am no Mother Teresa and likes. So what can I do? And a prequel to this question is, “Do I need to do anything?”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
I read all sort of bad articles, news on atrocities being committed in this world, in present, in history, and those that will take place in near future. I get moved, both emotionally and literally. I take a step ahead and forget. I may remember all the bad things that have happened in he past and get depressed but not once do I think of those underprivileged, I read about in the past, and then get depressed. I need to be keep myself abreast with such news to feel bad about them, or passionate about them. And I think most of the people reading or not reading this piece of article share the same story.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
Well, as for now, I do the minimum I can do to help the underprivileged. I hope I raise myself to the platform where I will be competing in the field of philanthropy. For now, I need to compete in other fields to feed my stomach and my ambitions. The starvation for philanthropy is yet not felt by me. It's concealed and subjugated by the selfishness and greediness of my mind, just like those kids’ starvation is concealed by them, behind the veil of ignorance, helplessness, capitulation to their fate…<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/MukvxBZw1oM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<a href="http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/10/21/20-successful-nonprofits-started-students/" target="_blank">Watch the video of this NGO 'Kartavya', also listed among 20 successful nonprofits started by students across the world</a><br />
<br />
<h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; color: #107093; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">
<br /></h1>
<br />
<h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; color: #107093; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">
<br /></h1>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
Image source: http://www.sonrays.org/2011_05_01_archive.html </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com34