POINT OF VIEW POETRY....FREEDOM

"FREEDOM"


It’s a myth that anyone can be totally free
Even the birds are not !

I can say this without any doubt or hesitation
As I have spent days and days
In a deserted city park, totally free to the onlookers...

Lazing around , doing nothing...
But little did those onlookers realize that
I was sentenced to this freedom
I was sentenced as I could not conform !

And during this ‘total freedom’ I was carrying
A non-stop computer on my poor shoulders

I seldom saw the birds playing and scooting
On the rippled lake of that municipal park
But when I saw them, once in a while...

I noticed that these birds too had been sentenced
To their freedom; they too had a pattern
They too had their fears, they too had their norms !

Occasionally I saw a lone non-conforming maverick bird
But he too did not seem totally free !!!

DIFFERENT POETRY.... REBEL QUATRAIN ?

REBEL QUATRAIN :

The age of reason
And the sage of season
The fury of fools
And ruffians of rules

Intense intellect
Normally selects
Red herring for a clue ;
But feelings are true

One eats to survive
And cheats to just thrive
This cheating and eating
Then the heart stops beating !

We call him a master
Who runs a bit faster
On the circumference of logic
Our judgement is tragic !

Oh! Ode to the codes
Traffic lights on life’s roads
Where a free spirit is blocked
As schools hate to be shocked !

The karmic code
For some is the lode
Not to find --- but to lose
With a heaven-sent excuse !

The silent majority
Or the vocal authority
Isn’t proof enough of right
Solid mass is seldom bright !

If majority can’t be wrong
With this thought you go along
Then you too add to the mass
For more to follow you, alas !

NATURE POETRY....PAINTING OF AN AUGUST SKY

The sky was clear, pale blue, after some showers,
A stray white cloud floated in a corner, a rainbow appeared
And I decided to paint( this glorious sight) !

While I was getting started with my brushes and paint,
The sky , suddenly changed !

The entire blue canvas was now covered with yellow-white clouds,

thickly coated with paint, it seemed.

I had painted these clouds for only a few moments when

these clouds again changed into a thin layer of grey-brown paint !

I mixed fresh colours and was thinning the paint when
Someone quickly put orange yellow streaks on to the now almost invisible clouds !

I took a short breather, thought I will paint the trees first
And let the sky dry out it’s paint !

But while I was mixing green and dark green,
The sky turned red and the trees too, had been repainted !

For hour and a half, I made gallant efforts to paint the open sky
But an invisible painter was painting and repainting…
Putting fresh colour and new strokes…..

…And all I had in the end were
some yellow,
some brown, some red-green
and some wet blue patches
on my painting sheet !

TRAVEL POETRY....Be a Traveller

BE A TRAVELLER


Be a traveller and explore
each day…each way…
there is a lot in store !

Don’t be just a tourist
don’t try to hit and run
Nature’s splendor is abundant
do not package all the fun !

How is a traveller different
from a tourist…I will explain :

A tourist goes on a vacation
but a traveller walks in rain !

One cant carry everything back..
not even in a camera roll
leave behind something…instead
even a smile…then you’ve done your role !

This world is far too beautiful
Don’t try to see…in a hurry !
Become a seeker of experiences..
become a traveller…who has no worry !!!

HUMOR POETRY...MISS NOMER

MISS NOMER

Our home-spun Homer
Is having quite an odyssey
Since he married miss Nomer !

He was quite a roamer
(Now is chained to his house)
Can be truly called a ‘homer’

Nomer, as is her habit
Is mostly off the mark
But is always right on target
(With a nail and a hammer)
When it comes to poor Homer !

Homer needs a respite, freedom from this Nomer
But he is so utterly confused, there is no way to leave her

He longs to be a loner, but is simply a goner
And wedlock as a word, for him is no misnomer !!!

POETRY IN EDUCATION...in-verse-edu

IN.VERSE.EDU



A thing about education one has to always remember
It is not to learn in Jan….and forget by December !

Education is not…should not…be linked with grades
it is time to be real…call spades as spades !

Learning as a process … may not end in ones life time
but what we are told is to cram up things in our prime

and then later on…reap the benefits of these degrees
ah! what a shame ! we succumb… but everyone
secretly disagrees ;

we all when we grow up recognise the faulty logic
of wasting our best years in merely learning the trick

of getting good grades….of mastering the rote
and not really learning…anything of note !

Then we all end up…shallow yet prosperous
and aha ! life becomes an ordeal for each one of us

What , if instead , we spend our young years
in knowing and growing… overcoming our hidden fears

what if , instead , we look at the schools
as great places to explore…not creatures of rules

what if , instead, we take joy in finding out
and shun these wretched feelings of fear and of doubt

What if , instead , we don’t study just for examination
we shall not only excel….yet live a life full of elation !!!

DIFFERENT POETRY....crossword clues !

......if you TRY to follow POE.......it is POETRY
............and if you MOPE 'badly' ....you often make a POEM
.......and if your attitude is in verse with the world....... you are IN VERSE !
........and if you are a POET you are a mad TOP 'EGG HEAD'....!!!
....... and if you are a 'bad' rhymer .... then you are a mad MERRY with a HOT 'HEAD'....

if you cant figure this out....or even if you do......come back to me

cluingly yours.....

love.......bhaskarbenjamin

NATURE POETRY....LEAVES

"LEAVES"


Leaves every time leave an indelible impression
On my mind


My heart goes out to these heart shaped leaves

And I often yearn to touch the green stars in the near sky…


Some leaves are like dangling rubies…
…While others are like some artist’s careless brush strokes….

All leaves possess the recipe of making sunlight more beautiful

…and all leaves know the precise angle at which
they should dance… to filter the ethereal gold…

And when the leaves dry up….they come down…
In a rhythmic fall…and then…
...they spread a carpet of yellow…and amber…and brown….and red….

And if you walk on this carpet of magic…

Your heart shall simply fly !!!

Leaves every time leave an indelible impression on my mind !

HUMOR POETRY....MISS TAKE

MISS TAKE

His only mistake was to marry miss Take
While he was a believer in giving and living
Take had only one passion : to take and to take !

One day in September, from her slumber did she wake
And announced she was hurting, she had a tooth ache
He suggested a dentist but Take asked for a chocolate cake !

Come on, let us pray, for this poor soul, for heaven’s sake !
Who married this Take ; his malady he cannot shake !

(Take too is not happy, cold shoulders she can’t take
But he listens to her stories, only for peace’s sake )

Now Take wants to become a mother
But he cannot afford this mistake :

Once was quite a heart ache
He does not want a retake !!!

POINT OF VIEW POETRY...THE RICHEST MAN

THE RICHEST MAN


It was a sunny morning.
While I was in my garden,
I saw some things in a new light :

I was lying flat on my stomach
Looking at the unkempt grass
Suddenly I noticed that my garden had little diamonds
And rubies, scattered all around !

Being the sceptic that I am, and I am
Not the only one like that !
I dismissed the sight as some
‘mere droplets of dew shining in the sunlight’!

It was true; they were actually dew drops !!

But as my head moved a little
These rubies shone differently !

I was amused so I started to rotate my head, slowly..
And I swear I saw these ‘droplets’ shine and sparkle

...In a riot of colours : silver, green, yellow, blue gold,
Purple and red…

During these fascinating few moments,
I happened to also notice the golden ring
That adorned my middle-aged finger .

This ring, too, shone but I can swear again !
… Not as bright as the little treasure of droplets on my blessed grass !

In this morning light I realised :
I was the richest man on earth !!!