I Hate Milk !

I hate milk

You ask me why?

‘Cos I hate that bulk;

The pesky old cow.

There was a time I loved

Both the cow and milk

With all the excitement of a village life

So different and fresh

From the city life I had led.

Until that fateful day

The cow we called Ammu,

Who had me fooled fully

With her pristine naïve looks,

Gave me an unforgetful trip

Around the village, through the fields

With me screaming my tonsils out

Until she pinned me down

With her sharp curved horn

Landing me on the doctor’s stretch

Where he sewed me up like a ragged doll.

Ever since then

To get back at Ammu & all her kinds

I scorn at milk

N’ hate it with all my heart

Forever…

Until cows change their major product

Or lose their horns.

(This surely doesn't fit into my usual genre of poems;but there surely has to be an outlet somewhere for the kiddo poet in me)

Sleep Well, Dear !

Is it a crime to be crazily in love?
Yea? Then a criminal I be
Find me my prison.
Just one wish i hold-
Till an end comes to the world
He be as much mine
As I have become his.
"I love you" sounds so formal
Reflects my feeling with light so normal.
I wish I could go to the stars
Rearrange them to mark our name.
Let the world see the shining gleam
Of my golden dream
While you sleep to glory.
'N I find no way to hide nor bury
All I feel for you & all I wish to speak.
Sleep while these stars twinkle
Till the sun brings up the dawn.
Then
I shall wake you up
For our journey in a brand new day...

Dozzze On

Sleep baby girl;

With ur tear streaked cheeks,
With the lullaby of silence,
Hugging your trembling body,
Holding the past hours of weeping
N' the pain pricking your heart.
Some fairy angel from another world
Will feel some pity on you
Will come to hold u close
To take away your pain
To kiss you on ur red swollen eyes.

Sleep -

The morning shall be brighter than this night.

Thee

A breeze of cold wind
In this hot evening
Or was it just the thought of you?



The silent wish of you being with me
In these lonely times
Now and Forever?



T'is shiver of glee that ran through me
Is as much a mystery
As are thou...

Loneliness

As the night slowly draws

From shade to absolute darkness

My enemies come forth

N' gnaws me mercilessly

My tears serve not

As they usually do

But to brighten manifold

The burning pain within

I fantasize my victory

Every minute every day

From the dreaded enemies

Yet I fail, I fail, I fail

Tonight the pain

Just weighs me down

I might overcome

Or simply be drowned

Till sleep comes to my rescue

I have but one way to survive;

Hug my enemies till I die

That's how all these days went by;

I embrace tight

Every day, every night

My loneliness...

.

Free

Its quite strange the way it is...
Tears well up
When I want them least
Smiles I have to weave
When i want them to leave .
Yet i feel proud
Of my innocent nerves
For not popping off
Even when their wreck is known;
For not pushing me down
The somber valley of insanity.
I want to forgive
I want to hold close
But i want to give happiness most of all.
Embracing when I fail at it
I must set free;
Free to go and conquer
All it wants and deserves;
Except me.

( Image courtesy : Shekhar Shimpi

Original source : Ecstasy by Maxfield Parrish )

High Hopes

I sit pondering here
In the warmth of your lap
My thoughts force a tear to my eye
A tear in remembrance to the past-
Gloriously wrapped in beauty
Abundant scenic charm
Resplendent green pastures,splendid landscapes.


Times have changed...
Homes have turned to houses
N' have grown closer
While people drift farther.
The love, the bonding, the belonging
All have given way to materialism.
Your beauty unexplored
Has plunged from exuberant brilliance
To virgin abandonment.

Despair engulfs me with these thoughts
But in your loving lap
I take the courage to hope;
Hope that times do change again
N' change for the best.
Hope that the charm of yesteryears
Rebloom in bounty.

Hoping that my hopes come true........