YELLOW STREET LIGHT

Standing tall in the frosty corner

yellow and gleaming in the morning fog

Not noticed; not worried about

Yet lighting up; for its own part

The lonesome street light glows 

GREEN ENLIGHTENMENT

Curly dark clouds embrace the southern sky

As the rain drops kiss the moistened earth

Rippling smiles spread across the newly formed puddles

As the perfumed earth fills the air with fragrance

The trees sway to the tune of the moist wind

And the dust settles and the dirt is washed away

The glossy leaves attain green enlightenment

In this rejuvenating shower of paradisiacal bliss  

My besprent heart silently blossoms!

LIFELESS ROCK

Lifeless as a rock

Still is the bliss

Without thought or feeling

Form or formation

Without consciousness or contemplation

Existence or non-existence

All, none and only!

I am; I is; lifeless! In bliss!

Rock and non rock! 

DEDUCER

Deducer deducing !

Lost in silence ! 

Flames of delusion

Smoking confusion

Watered down in silence

Deducer deduced! 

The Rest is silence ! 

A WORKER'S PRAYER

Rushing towards another day

Oh Lord! Benevolent and merciful!

Make me realize this dream!

Scurrying through the busy corridors of life

 Let me not trample, on someone else’s!

While being caught up in tending to my own wounds of worry

Let me also feel, the pain of those in endless suffering

And let me act, with patience, love and compassion

Ascending up the ladder of your magnificent grace

Let me be free, of the tainted stains of self-conceit

Making decisions, opinions and conclusions, in daily life

Let me tolerate, differing points of views

Irrespective of the caste, creed or community; action or capability

Let me respect everyone equally

Acquiring, executing   and distributing; in the roles I play today

Let me be free, of greed, pride and prejudice

And in all actions I intend, choose or do

Let me uphold the hands of justice  

Walking this lonesome path of green pastures

Let me break free from the chains of passion and delusion!

Oh Lord! Benevolent and merciful!

As I rush through another day of my evanescent life

Make my dream; my ultimate reality!

ORIGINAL FACE

The sky has no path

The ocean has no destination

Spring comes and goes

Grass grows and withers

Formless is my original face

As a smile blossoms on it

SAIL AWAY

Oh striving mind sailing the roaring seas of life

This port you are relishing today is only a temporary halt!

Your destination is far away

And the loving seas still beckon you

Don’t be seduced, by the colours of this foreign land

Don’t be lost, in their hypnotic music

This mystical paradise is all but an illusion

A mere trick to steal your mind

Don’t built a castle here on this luring shore

When your home is far away across the ocean

Why gather and   hoard; when you can’t carry anything aboard

Oh! Striving mind!

Wounded by the jagged rocks, chasing foamy pleasures

Don’t you see, this shore is not your home

The tide is right and your home beckons

So cast away the anchor of your ego and sail away

Oh!  Striving mind!

Sail away on this everlasting voyage of love!

WET

Rain drops falling  

No mind, no matter 

Just getting wet 

SWORD OF WISDOM

Fighting this raging battle of so called life 

The wearied mind tells me; time to give up ! 

The aching heart  clings on ; and pleads to me,not to 

unscathed and unstained; still sharp and shinning !   

The sword of wisdom tells me which of these to follow 

PLASTIC FOSSILS

Waving blatant flags of victory, on this frosty peak of evolution

Oh mighty mankind!

Can’t you see the doomed horizon?

Can’t you see your numbered days?

Still warm from the pantry of the primordial soup

 With selection, variability and adaptation

 You humbly entered this treacherous game of natural selection!

From growing organelles and spines; to limbs and brains

You have indeed come a long way!

From tree trunks and dangling tails

Clubs and spears and torching fires

To guns and bombs, and even medicine!

You steadily scaled this evolutionary ladder

Yet!  Oh mighty mankind!

Why have you not learnt to love one another?

Stuck with single minded simplex minds

Clinging to the delusion of the ‘self ‘

Driven by the pleasures of the present and proximal   

Gathering with greed, and fending with hate

Your narrow bread basket of self-interest!

In this colossal game of the Survival of the fittest! 

How long can you remain the formidable?

  

Sentience, person-

hood and consciousness have blessed you!

And have made you rise above the shoulders of the rest of nature’s creation  

But by the virtue of having grown a head; a head full of gyriform grey intellect

Is it not your duty to sustain the helpless body of life?

With eyes to see beyond the chin; minds to think in anticipation

And intelligence, even to offer self regulation

Why is it still, you keep chewing at your own feet!

With teeth ragged with selfishness, digging into your own rotting flesh

Drinking the contaminated blood off your very own frail neck

How long can you hold up your pompous head?

Having pushed, the all embracing planet to this very sapless brink  

It’s not survival of the fittest; but survival of the sustainable

That can save this bleeding planet’s fate

Oh mighty mankind!

Learn to love, and learn to live! Before it’s too late!

Learn to sustain the rest of nature’s creation!  

For a sixty million years from now

When sentient lizards shall again roam!

Only your plastic fossils will speak!