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Sensitivity
One would burst when least provoked.
One would bear what most hurled at.
Some are over sensitive;
Some are least sensitive.
Sensitivity is in-born.
Bear and give allowance
To the anger of sensitive ones.
May, 2013
Indian Systems Of Politics
He’s in charge, honest and loyal.
He permits thefts and condones fraud.
He rescues thieves brought to notice.
He’s not sacked; the boss is happy.
May, 2013
Rules Are For Harmony.
You must have harmony within yourself.
You must have it with family and friends.
Harmony brings about peace in societies,
For which a code of conducts must prevail.
With this in view, fear of God was installed.
With this in view, scriptures were made and sold.
They are the umpire and rules for the life game.
Atheists must value theists on this score.
May, 2013
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Mothers To Children
To stop the growth of violence;
To stop the growth of theft and fraud;
To stop the growth of sexual assault;
Mothers can do as role models.
To help the spread of tolerance;
To help the spread of truth and just;
To help the spread of propriety;
Mothers can do as role models.
May, 2013
Cancerous Effects
Cancer, the zodiac sign, rings good
In people’s mind as the fate ruler.
Cancer,the blight, is a dreadful word
People feel shy of mentioning it.
It strikes fear in the people’s hearts
And gives powerlessness to patients.
Victims believe they would recover;
Others wait for the end of victims.
The pity shown to patients kills them.
Patients, while alive, are written off.
Powerlessness overcomes treatments.
Stigma clung to cancer be cut off.
May, 2013
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Let us play.
You are the master and I am the dog.
We are in harmony. How would we turn
If we both were dogs or both were masters?
Interests must match to make harmony work.
May, 2013
The crowd turning fanatic
The Hyderabad team was playing.
The venue was in Hyderabad.
The crowd from Hyderabad bought tickets
And emoted in their team’s progress.
There was rapture among the crowd
When fours and sixes were made and
When catches were made by their team.
Each one watched as if he owned it.
It was telecast the worldwide.
It was watched in rapt attention
By the patriotic all over,
Helping revenue from advertisements.
The team was theirs only by name.
It is owned by an outsider.
Its skipper is an outsider.
Even players are drawn of outside.
The organizers named the teams
After the regions to sell tickets.
Ruled by the pseudo-identity,
The native crowd turned fanatics.May, 2013
Professional Killers
Hunters, poachers and butchers have no mercy.
Robbers, killers and snatchers have no mercy.
Soldiers, police and fanatics have no mercy.
As a profession, hurting kills mercy.
May, 2013
The Good And The Bad Die.
The public memory is short lived.
The name known for the reason good or bad,
Would die soon in the people’s memory.
That is why bad elements are emboldened.
May, 2013
Refuse The Excess.
What you give is from what you have
Or from what you got. It’s not great.
Not to get in order to give
And refuse the excess is great.
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Accommodate.
Don’t suspect that there’s something fishy,
Else take that what is fishy is not fishy.
This is the best way to beat anxiety
When you feel that you cannot put it right.
May, 2013
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In A Death…
A library has been burnt;
A history has been consumed;
A workshop has been gutted.
An album has been lost.
Because an old person died.
May, 2013
Punters Are Pathetic.
Punters are neither thieves, nor robbers either
To be taken to task by the police
As if they’re criminals, leaving criminals.
They stake theirs, and gain or lose knowingly.
They test their skills and derive thrills as sports.
Their families at stake, they must refrain.
May, 2013
Sympathy Waves
Calls are from relatives to come and stay.
Helps are from relatives, with means unasked.
We, the couple, are fresh with the cancer.
Maybe they fear they might miss us soon.
June, 2013
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I Am His Tormentor.
He spent on my funeral more
Than he had spent on my treatment.
He shed on my body his tears
That he withheld when I was held.
He got mine with no gratitude.
In my death anniversary,
He feasted like of which I didn’t eat.
He remembers with reverence
To nullify the contempt shown.
I am in his thought, in the form of guilt.
It’ll be slit by his son’s action later.
June, 2013
Other Species Would Outlive Man.
Man reasons, invents and has cognition
Unlike other species, and overrides.
His exploring dropped, he exploits resources.
He puts on weight and loses immunity.
If at all he falls, he’ll do with his weight.
Other species would outlive him.
June, 2013
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Follies Are Interesting
Twists are introduced in stories.
Miracles are inserted in scriptures.
Mysteries are made in poetry.
The unrealistic are interesting.
Believing it true while knowing it untrue
Is the folly man enjoys doing in.
June, 2013
Contempt And Acceptance
Familiarity breeds contempt.
A familiar saying, all have heard.
It occurs on a downward journey.
Familiarity gains acceptance also.
It occurs on an upward journey.
The braid sheds her charm while the maid gains hers.
June, 2013
Men Are My Friends.
Seeds sown could give returns tenfold.
Men helped would give returns one tenth.
Men, helping, take away more than that.
They’ve come as guests and left as pest.
June, 2013
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Regrets Accumulate.
Regrets come on either way:
That it’s said or that it isn’t,
That it’s done or that it isn’t.
With a bundle of regrets
One dies, with no other way.
June, 2013
Two Phases
Waxing
phases and waning phases
Are usual occurrence to any.
To have a face same in both phases
Will spare you shame and embarrassment.
June, 2013.
Not To Be Held In Contempt
Presence is a disturbance;
Suggestion is an irritation;
Offer of help is a nuisance;
Good morning is unwelcome.
Such occasions, one must sense
Not to be held in contempt.
June, 2013
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Arousal Is Not In Your Hand.
Anger and arousal come unasked.
Anger and arousal are unstoppable.
No contraceptives found to stop their births;
The stimuli are the active agents.
Anger and arousal cannot be blocked.
The wise pocket them; the fools spit at spot.
The weak sublimates or broods for a hatch.
June 2013
The Deluded Ownership
You live in one house, though owning many.
Your money in the bank is in use elsewhere.
To think that you own it that you don’t enjoy
Is a deluded ownership you’re caught in.
June, 2013
For Children To Emulate
Tell your children and their children
About your parents and grandparents.
Dedicate to parents any works.
Name after parents any structures.
Your children must emulate you.
June, 2013
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Efforts And Merits
The one atop the tenth step,
Has stooped ten times to reach it.
The one atop the twelfth step,
Has stooped twelve times to reach it.
The one who minded stooping
Was happy to be on the floor.
The world recognizes
The efforts and not the merits.
June, 2013
To Clear The Debts
What you did is inadequate
To the sacrifice your parents made.
You must do it to your children
As much and silence your conscience.
June, 2013
Who Is To Be Blamed?
The tendency to give concession
Has come down as the tendency
To claim it as a matter of right
Has risen among the recipients.
The tendency to offer succour
Has declined as the tendency
To requite it or show gratitude
Has slowed down among the beneficiaries.
June, 2013
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Feel The Moment ‘Now’.
Millions of people have been slaughtered
In the name of religion in the past.
Millions of people have been put to death
To establish the rule of communism.
Countless are the dead in both the world wars,
And for liberation or equality.
Millions are sacrificing their lives
Doing penance for the unseen bliss.
Almost the whole population march ahead
With a focus on a goal or a thrill.
Thus one forgets to live the moment ‘now’.
Regrets of the past and hopes of the future
Engulf one from feeling the moment ‘now’.
Set not lofty goals; feel the moment ‘now’.
June, 2013
Draw hopes.
A movie moves us.
A story touches us.
They aren’t real.
Knowing it, we do.
We enjoy in follies.
Be God real or not;
Let some take Him real
And draw from Him hopes.
July, 2013
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Get Positive Energy.
It is energy that manifests itself
In all things; be it living or nonliving.
Nothing is good or evil among them.
It’s life energy that manifests itself
In all organisms: plants and animals.
No organism is good or evil.
The energy itself is transforming
To some other energy by some means,
Like electricity to heat by the heater.
Mental energy is a kind of means
By which a thing or a place is made good
Or bad and dealt with accordingly.
A thing found divine or a place, serene
Will find you in positive energy.
Find such things and places in abundance.
July, 2013
Be Less Judgmental.
Don’t judge one at once.
Don’t judge at face value.
Collect facts and do.
Yet you’ll go faulty
With some data missing.
Be less judgmental.
July, 2013
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Biography Is A Story.
No one is fit to write my biography.
No one knows about me as well and full
As they think they do and, hence, I say so.
Parents knew me but not after their exits.
Children knew me but not before their entries.
Wife was ignorant of my outdoor news.
No one was as a friend for whole my life.
I myself didn’t know about my childhood.
None of them had been fit to be a writer.
I hired a writer to do the job.
July, 2013
Forgiveness Is An Effort.
Retaliation comes in spurts;
Forgiveness is brought with efforts.
If you don’t forgive kin or friends
You will break the bridge made for them.
If you don’t forgive a stranger
You will miss a bridge he would make.
Forgiveness maintains harmony;
Retaliation will break it.
Aug., 2013
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Regularize it.
My son was stealing from us
For his pocket expenses.
I gave him right to take from us
And now his is not stealing.
Regularize, if you can’t stop,
Your inmates’ unpleasant actions.
July, 2013
Be Sincere To Smiling.
To smile is an instant response.
It must come with no efforts.
To wear a smile on one’s face
Is an intentional act.
Let it comes itself; don’t fake it,
Else it lacks transparency.
Aug., 2013
Who Is Harmful?
A snake bites a man when provoked,
But man kills snakes when unprovoked.
Man, with sixth sense, is more harmful
To animals than they are to him.
Aug., 2013
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Means And Ends
She sold her beauty
And bought popularity,
And, with popularity,
She got prosperity,
With which she attained
Supremacy to stay afloat.
He sold his greediness
And bought elevation,
And, with elevation,
He got governance,
With which he minted
Money to keep others down.
Means are accomplices for the ends.
Aug., 2013
The Livelihood Matters.
An astrologer has no faith
In astrology.
A preacher has no belief
In his gospel truth.
A temple priest has no faith
In the idol served.
They engage themselves in them
For their livelihood.
Aug., 2013
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Judgm
ent’s influence
Judgment would differ
From person to person,
From place to place
And from time to time.
Each action is the result
Of judgment one makes.
Cause and effect law
Is universal
But in the case of
Human involvement
Judgment at each stage
Alter the effects.
Aug., 2013
The Growth Driven Set Up
Pushed by one behind, I push one in front.
Nudged by one beside, I nudge one beside.
An effect made is carried over in chains.
The borrowed capital must be returned.
The rental on things hired must be paid.
The bribe paid must be recovered somehow.
Recurring expenses must also be met.
The burden is transferred to consumers.
Unscrupulous earning is hence let loose
At the cost of ethics and honesty.
This is the growth driven economy,
Where means are sacrificed for the end.
Aug., 2013
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Unity Of Siblings
Brothers and sisters to remain
As brothers and sisters for long,
They must share no common interest,
And get to no joint venture.
Aug., 2013
Unity Of Siblings
Brothers and sisters to remain
As brothers and sisters for long,
They must share no common interest,
And get to no joint venture.
Aug., 2013
Revisits Enthrall.
I do enjoy revisiting a place
A thing or a book after a long gap,
Not that it was appealing to me then
But that I am able to learn new things,
Missed then to my developing mind,
By observation from my grown up mind.
Aug.,.2013