Do you carry your cloud?

 

Do you carry your cloud

Wherever you go?

I've heard the little cloud

Over you,

Only rains happiness.

And you are always happy.

Mine is a speckless sky,

Nary a cloud,

Nary a cloud.

Week will be of rainbow colours

 

Week will be of rainbow colours

Some red, some orange,

Still others of blue.

Somedays I will think of you,

Other days I will think of you.

Will I deserve you?

 

You are so happy,

You are so beautiful,

In how many lifetimes

Will I deserve you?

Who will inherit your blog? ver 2.0.

 

In the year 2009, in these pages I wrote a blog called 'Who will inherit your blog?'

Who will inherit your blog?

Nothing much seems to have changed since then. 

Today, I got a message from one social media platform which asked me to congratulate someone on his work anniversary. Unfortunately, this 'someone' has taken the stairway to heaven some months ago. Happens to be an Army officer. Who was once the skipper of my unit.

How insensitive can this be? Imagine this "someone's" son got a similar message. It is very likely too. Because this 'someone' would be connected to his son on the platform.

Who will regulate this bullshit auto messaging?

Big Bang was Soundless

 

I learnt recently that the Big Bang - if it occurred at all - was probably soundless. Therefore, wasn't an explosion as we know an explosion. The theory is that sound travels through air. And at the very beginning there was no air.

I have a question to ask, though. How to explain - in terms of actual look and feel - to a person who has hundred percent hearing loss from birth, the origin of the universe? How to explain the Big Bang to that person?

Why have a theory which all the people of the world don't understand?

It's time I start the fire

 

How many stones have I left unturned?

How many bullets have I stopped?

I've only been singed by the pyre.

It's time I start the fire.

Long live the Republic!

Just keep walking

 

On a starry night,

When you walk the Milky Way,

You will find your love

Twinkling somewhere.

Just keep walking.

Shadow: 26 March '80

 

Worn out pages

Where there's a will: Posted on17 March 2021

 

Where there's a will, there is a way.

Specially if it is old and rich relative who is writing the will.

Shubhprabhat.

Many good men

 The world is full of married men,

The world is full of many good men.

And never returns

 

The breeze that comes

--Whether purwai,

  Whether garam hawa,

  Whether aandhi--

just passes through

And never returns.

*purwai: easterly

*garam hawa: hot wind

*aandhi: storm

Rise in love

 

Have you ever wondered

Why do we fall in love,

And not,

Rise in love?

Have a Heart!

 

Yesterday, my root canaled 'tooth' came off,

Ceramic, pillar, pile and all!

I wonder

when will my replaced knees wear out.

When will all my artifacts come off?

Oftentimes you have said to me

Have a heart!

And I have said,

I do have a heart.

It's not an artefact

It is not just of four chambers.

It's many creases of joy and hurt,

many droplets of pain.

Can't be replaced.

Can be transplanted, though.

World on Sale

 

This festive season,

World on Sale at Amazon

At an unbelievable discount,

Hurry!

Discount available only till World lasts!

Breathless in love

 

I know you met your love across the rainbow,

I know your love is the sunshine,

I know your love is beautiful

But catch not your breath

In love, and in wonder.

Just smile a bit,

-Whether in joy,

Whether in pain,

Whether in silence,

Whether on song-

For she will be beautiful forever,

And you will be

Breathless in love.

Dance your smile in my eyes: 4 August '75

 

Worn out pages:

Must have rained stars: 26 Dec 79

 

Worn out pages:

Playing in the Rain: 8 Aug '77

 Worn out pages:

Selective Amnesia

 

How do you do it, dear friend?

You don't remember the hurt,

You don't remember the pain.

Shubhprabhat

Do two half truths make a full truth?

 

In a truth table, in the 'or' case, one half truth gives you a full truth. However, in the 'and' case, only two half-truths gets a full truth.

But in real life, does two half truths make a full truth?

Shubhprabhat.

For the same reason: Posted on 23 March 2021

 

A friend wrote:

Lemon Grass in my backyard kitchen. In Punjab it is called Seonkdha. As the plant attracts termites towards it, away from the house.

I wrote back:

I think lemongrass repels termites as opposed to attracting termites. But the effect is the same. It chases away termites and pests. Lot of folks plant it in a way that it is fully grown during the election campaigning season, and for the same reason: to keep the termites and pests away.

Shubhprabhat.

Are you immune to the pain?

 

Gutsy wind,

Where are you headed?

There is a high voltage electric fence

At the borders.

The electric shocks?

Are you immune to the pain?

Shubhprabhat.

Posted on 2nd October 2020: May we meet after our victory

 

Bengali poet Jibananada Das wrote this about 75 years ago:

We will meet again after the pandemic,

May we meet after our victory,

We will meet after the virus sleeps,

We will meet on a green morning,

We will meet at the other side of sorrow,

We will meet in a city of  joy,

We will meet ahead of the lines of our palm,

We will meet in the morning light,

We will meet when Science wins,

We will meet when we conquer death,

We will meet just like we met before,

May we meet again in a rejuvenated city.

Shubhprabhat

I am not contrite

 

The day after, the day after,

The haze I see

Is not of fog,

Nor of smog,

Perhaps because

I drowned the year,

I drained the dregs,

Still,

Tis not right,

That I am not contrite,

The day after, the day after.

Shubhprabhat

The Day After

 

I have learnt

That I can't learn to love,

Love is just there

(In the heart);

That I can't learn to be compassionate,

Compassion is just there

(In the heart)

And the heart is more than

Flesh and blood.

And that's what I learnt

The day after

The pain surged.

Shubhprabhat