Nature Poetry......Garden Games

GARDEN GAMES



This time I saw a bougainvillea bush
Swaying and swinging in the breeze
I saw more than the twigs and thorn
Pink-red flowers and dancing leaves

What I saw in the garden when
This time a bougainvillea swung and swayed
A fancy duel was being enacted
A naughty little game, being played !

Wind armed with invisible tricks
And an all-pervading open-armed embrace
Pinned down the healthy bush
Which, not worried, went down with grace

And mighty wind, greatly pleased with this
Released its hold of the armless hug
The bush, equal to the challenge, bowed
Back as if with a gentle shrug

And then to tease the erstwhile conqueror
Leaves of the bush made a flirting dance
Then wind came back with a stronger force
Now it seemed, the bush didn’t stand a chance

This alternating win and loss
This leafy flirt and faceless toss
Went on for an hour and quarter
And unknowingly made me smarter

This time someone made me see
A rare , new kind of beauty !!

Great Indian Recipes....!!! The Academic Fudge

"THE ACADEMIC FUDGE"

Take a lad who is bright
with an average or over IQ
peel off his creative urges
put him in a scholarly stew

then boil this green ingredient
for full term of secondary years
...now dip him in the UNIV.
to cool off his remaining fears !

now...take out this fully
schooled lump of a man
and marinate in the PHD
to unlearn whatever he can !

you now have a ready teacher
who tastes like an academic sure
and if your processing was thorough
you can bet he is 99% pure !!!

then take this rich scholar
make him teach a few classes
these would be a wooden cask for sure....
he'll mature...as do molasses !

when fermentation is over
when he has taught for fifteen years
... you now have a greying species
who by books and papers swears !

now this middle aged preparation
is ripe to become a professor
and if the 'yeast' has succeeded
he'll be the VC's successor !

One note of caution .....!
is a must for this recipe :
never leave it in the open air
....keep it covered by some 'degree' !

POET'S SPECIAL...Can Writers Bring Change ?

Can Writers bring Change ?

All the great poets
writers and literary men
have laughed at this circus
...charged with their mighty pen

...the 'wild beasts' ...shameless
have never bowed their head
...when the 'arrows' were unbearable...
....have 'bound' them...instead !

All the grat thinkers
enemies of the 'beasts'
have been kept in some library
and jokingly called 'high priests'

The swords...the arrows...and
other armoury of these men
have been used as some toys
in the 'literary' play pen !

...and when the new hunters
come and write against the rules
...at first are ridiculed...
but if accepted...join the 'fools'

they too are bound in volumes
...kept on fashionable bookshelves
what they have said ...is of no value
but we quote them... amuse ourselves !

The unwritten fate of a writer
the unwritten law supreme
...is to be taught in the curriculum
...not to fulfil his dream !!!!!

Great poets...writers...thinkers ...and the like
will come...and go...forever
...they cant change a thing...
but shall fill library shelves...however !

SAD POETRY....ALL SEASONS BRING SORROW !!!

ALL SEASONS BRING SORROW


I waited all summer, to eat the sweet fruit
And when rains came, they washed the very root

The fruit of summer, the nectar of sweat
Was bitter sweet, dry, and hard to get

Now the autumn has arrived, and we have new leaves
But the mood is like winters, is this what one achieves

I wonder what would happen when winter actually arrives
Trees would be lush green, but no blossom in our lives

When the spring breaks again and love is in the air
Trees would shed leaves, no spring this ; but despair !

Is this how I shall live the seasons of life
The summer of longing and rains full of strife

The autumn of hope
hanging by the winter’s rope

and spring that will hide behind the balding trees
a time of new happenings, but I shall find fallen leaves !

NOTE : ......poet normally refuses to take responsibility for these sentiments........although he cannot deny that these are his own !!!

POINT OF VIEW POETRY...A VISIT TO PLANET EARTH

"A VISIT TO PLANET EARTH"


During my trans-galactic flight
I made a brief halt on earth
These two hours in transit...
were precious...of massive worth !

The earth ...they have divided
in million ethnic zones
my space craft had to be parked
on two adjacent ones !

All men are equal
which includes women...they say
and to show they have no apartheid
each thing was colored in grey !!!

It is hard to decide
who are more in number
soldiers...arms dealers ...or
global peace plumbers...

I had a long cherished dream
to see the planet's art
...but what I found out ...was this:
art is flirted in the dealers mart !

One of the strangest things on earth
is a place they call as school
while the place is meant fo learning
you learn out of...as a rule !

But what I will remenber
most of my visit there:
'the art of double speak'
which....in the whole galaxy..I saw no where !

POINT OF VIEW POETRY.........NO PUSHING !

NO PUSHING !

Only thing I dont like about a boat ride
is that we push the water backwards....
....again and again....to get ahead !

Come...let us go for such a ride...in the river
where there is no pushing !

Come....let us ride on the waves of water !!!

POETRY IN EDUCATION...IN.VERSE.ECONOMICS

IN.VERSE.ECONOMICS



Whatever you study in different economic courses
is about the management …or messing up of resources

Resources are scarce….this is a fact…that is sad
and if we don’t optimise….it is bad….it is bad !!!

So whatever you read in any blessed book of Economics
is to teach you these fundas…these very useful tricks

Demand curve is a straight line….you might laugh
but all you’ve got to learn…is to plot it on a graph

as when the demand goes up …prices shall rise
you buy more if things get cheaper….only if you are wise

marginal utility….a term that is so great…..
first chocolate tastes good…not so…if you have eight

Micro economics is about finding equilibriums
and Macro economics is about totals…about sums…

Micro-economists have assumed you are rational
and Macro economics is about incomes…that are national

So don’t fret…down frown…economics is fun
with a given limited resource, you can make butter or a gun

but sometimes life is strange …we do things that are eerie
and these are the times…real tests for these theories

each year someone gets a Nobel for economics
and a year might come when we have found all the tricks

Humans are needy…and greedy…they want more
and this is the reason… Eco theory … can never bore !!!