In unison

'The most beautiful spot in your heart'
Is when you find oneness
In everything, everyone
It’s not free, it needs practice
It's an exercise, a rewarding art.

When you truly get there
There's lightness in the air
You overlook divisions, dissensions;
Lessons you learn
Is that everything's a game,
Everything's fun
Everyone's effortlessly won.

The interviewer, Soumik Datta, a disciple of late Pt Budhhadeb Dasgupta, is a Bengali-born British Indian musician and composer, who specialises in the sarod.

Credit

The world.
Begging for credit.
Stealing, robbing
Snatching it from others;
Friends, relatives, competitors.
Everyone is doomed
In the lose-lose gloom
Unable to choose.

Step back.
Giving becomes a given.
The world changes,
Flourishes, washes all sins,
Takes off the imprisoned page
With its win-win wings.

Credit is for giving.
It is not for getting.
Simple, no bombastic,
Antiquated words
Like those ignorant herds.

O workers, managers
Wise men, politicians
Scientists, artists, industrialists;
It just needs a shift to give credit.
Not expecting it in return
The world will be a marvellous place
For doing anything, for everyone.

Game is on

Every moment
An image surfaces,
Without a page,
A scratch, a paint;
It stays,
Gets destroyed, or recreated;
Game with Trinity
Is on, liberty
Is captured in the
Blue infinity.

Evergreen legacy

When you're happy
Plant a seed,
If you're down with sorrow
Water a weed,
Times when you’re green
With jealousy, or blue with worries
Indulge in composting
It’s an instant remedy.

When you're enjoying with family
Sit and sing under a tree,
When you're relaxing with friends
Nurse your garden
However small it might be,
A shrub, a herb
A creeper, a bush
Nourish them, nurture them
Wherever they shoot.

You don't have to do
Anything else for humanity,
Your children will benefit
From the flourishing garden;
Tonsured earth will heal,
Turn into heaven.

Share prices will be fine and fair
Inflation will cease, poverty will disappear
World will overcome all debacle
Simple, pure effort will plant the miracle.

With countless fruits and flowers 
Bounty will bloom and shower,
Such is the magical power
Of a wee little sprout,
Without an iota of doubt
For a prosperous posterity,
You'll leave behind
An evergreen legacy.

Crisis

Whenever there's crisis
There's Christ

...

Krishna, in any form
In any norm
With or without a name
Responds to distress

...

Allah is light
Waiting to alight
Unto anyone in need
At the drop of a hat

A soulful wish on World Soil Day

Let all human beings

Of the global village,

With their heart and soul,

Connect to protect

The soil of the earth,

Where every single moment,

The flora and the fauna

With their diversities

Happily take birth.

Thursday 5 December 2019

a fallen grace

My hands,
made of gold,
couldn't touch
the flower
that separated from the tree,
like a teardrop,
to grace the tired road;

to pick it up,
my poor hands,
engaged,
couldn't stoop so low.

the blossom was caressed
by the sun though

I wasn't able to
take my eyes off
this neglected piece;
a fallen grace,
a curious chef-d'oeuvre
built with utmost care
that Gustave would've taken
to build the Eiffel tower,
standing tall;
or Leonard could've
yearned for days,
to bring the smile
on la Joconde's face,
years ago.

twin birds

Micro and macro,

they are of the same feather,

twin birds

that crow in the same manner,

not mere words!

you heal the micro creature

lo it cures the one bigger,

you mess up with the petite voleur

have both of them under the weather

Peter becomes Sunil's friend.

David, like a poor cousin, feels threatened;

we find groups in sports and families

breaking up into sub-groups

to safeguard their local identities

all become unsafe with their disparate disunities

the mirror image reflects

in schools, colleges, offices,

in places of worship, 

in political parties;

the pattern, replayed in towns, cities

in industries, in countries;

it spreads its wings in every community;

it is ageless, not a modern trend

we sense animosity even in friendship,

no thinking-out-of-the-box, no change

nothing new here, a universal challenge!

we have learned this strange relationship

for years, thanks to our esteemed education,

this is our culture, our civilization.

we believe in war, we mistrust peace;

little wonder that war is 

seen applied beyond boundaries,

the flyers perch on every branch of the trees

everywhere, the same song they sing,

from huts to homes to the global village

our race, trapped for good in the invisible cage

harmony remains an outcast sage.

let us first bring a change

in the way we bond and behave

world will willingly unchain

from the meaningless bondage,

herculean burden.

micro and macro are crowing birds

cuckoos in their nest, the crew can nurse.

Ukiaha3!

War is an invention,

Discover peace.

...

Monotony is mechanical,

Nature knows none of it.

...

In the world

There is no refugee, 

Or, all are.

...

We are more of being,

Less of human;

Human ages, like a calendar

Being doesn't, like nature.

...

Equality resides
In the priceless thought,

Not in lifeless words.

...

Talking about peace?

Working on its homonym, 

Walk the talk. please.

...  the end ...

Buried leaves

I buried heaps of leaves
Under my cosy bed;
Years later, they turned
A uniform brown,
Those, which were once
Green, yellow and red.

To have a glance

I dug them out and reread;
Left out for long, they appeared
Indecipherable, blurred
Lost their outstanding stance.

Once upon a time

They were also words;
I felt them alive within, afresh.