Friday, April 12, 2013

THE SONG OF RAIN



Rain o rain
Where from do you fall
Signing and dancing all the way
Where to do you call
Have you no home
O why do you fall at all ??
Rain replied rosily
Ask me not
Ask the rain bird
Ask the parched plains
Ask the fields of rice & grain
Waiting merrily for me
Ask the kids playing down the lane !
Who I am
And where from I fall??
O I’m the life’s blood
And I run through  the vast veins
of the universe...!!!
Everywhere I am
Whispering a song
I am the ocean deep
I am the muddy pond
I’m the waves
That on the seas chest sweep
But I stay nowhere for long
I drag on
I run along
And I sublimate my form
Sometimes I dwell as nectar
In the heart of flowers…
Sometimes I becomes a dew drops…
On the cheek of a lotus leaf…
At times, I dwell in a shell
And give birth to a precious pearl
At times, I travel up the trees
And become the forest green.
Sometimes invisible unseen
I’m a ubiquitous being
But I’m called rain
When laughing, singing, dancing
I fall down
upon the parched lands & desert sands
by the touch of divine hands…!
When innocent kids feel me
on their checks
and down their back
and yelling they cry, “Rain O Rain..!!
Its then I rejoice being
Called ‘The Rain’ !!

SONG OF a WILD FLOWER




Full Blossomed
Fragrant
Floating on the flanks
of a pond,
a wild flower
stared at the serene sky
each day, each night
Each hour.
One day
Dawn Delivered nectar
To the cup of the flower.
Intoxicated it held up its
Gift to the sky-
“O sky serene ! Come & drink
Out of my heart !”
Sky stood serenely silent
And smiled.
Day dragged on…
The breeze brought about
the wild flower…
The rich fragrance of the
flower’s own heart…
Once more the wild flower
Opened its arms…
And looked at the serene sky-
“O sky dear ! Come & feel
my fresh fragrance…
Why do u stare from afar…?
The sky, serene as ever
Stayed  silent yet again
The twilight hours
Came with the stars…
The wild flower felt an ache
in its heart
The nectar vanished
The fragrance had flown away
The petals drooped..
The wild flower could
No longer stare upwards…
But suddenly the flower found
Itself embracing the sky…
… starlit, serene, smiling.
Drooping almost Dead.
The wild flower kissed the sky
& said-
‘O sky serene ! Thanks
For coming down
To my little town
But tell me why you never came
For my nectar
For my fragrance..
Why U came when I’m empty
And drooping in shame…
The wild flower embraced
the sky yet again
& slept peacefully night long!
The sky serene stared
From above…
And smiled at the flower
and the pond…
…reflecting…
’the embrace’……!!




MOTHER’S LOVE


The most beautiful of all blessings
…. the most sacred of all bonds
…. the most sublime
of feelings all
a mother’s eternal love!
Magnanimous as the heaven’s above
innocent as the white doves….
Mellow and deep
like an ethereal echo
Luminiscent like
an angel’s halo...!!
Affirming God’s benevolence 
through the open windows
of her blessed eyes…..
silently telling the story
of a mother’s love for her child!