Rhymes - For children below 4.

I am a baby
My mommy’s doll
Loved by Daddy
By One and all.
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I skip and jump
Play peek-a-boo
And bark with the doggy
Bho bho bho.
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Remembering Blue

I remember Blue
The blue you wore
On a stormy evening
Some ages ago.

The clouds were dark
And winds violent
The storm raging
Like the one within.

We walked on green turf
Of grass mowed and manicured
Hand in hand, foot naked
By the blue bloom flower bed

No thought no feeling
Just oneness with that evening
Without a word we acquiesced
The wind of west and east.

We sat back to back
Sharing the silence
So content.
You said- “let’s die this moment”.

Once again
I remember a blue
My drunkeness of spirit
My depth of contentment

The blue you wore
On a stormy evening
Several ages ago...

Wear Mauve

Wear mauve
And make my day.

In the winter of my years
When I‘ll be cold and grey
Left in the solitude,
To reminisce and pray

In the company of loneliness.
Lying with asthma and
Fighting the gout,
I’ll remember you.

Peeping and smiling
From the clouds of delusion
And through the daze of days...

You‘ll walk back in time.
In lavender, perhaps mauve
Bright and luminescent.
In the golden sunshine of our youth.

Drishtikon

Raah chaltey, kal savere
Kacchi dhoop ki saat kiranein
Dikh gayi, prachi ambar main.

Ek kiran jo thi akeli,
Usmain keval shwet rang tha.
Paas ja kar, muskura kar
Mridul bhav jab hriday se dekha;

Usmain to shat-sehestra rang the.

Kabhi Yun Baith chup chaap.

Kabhi Yun baith chup chaap
Keh jaye kuch khamoshi ki awaz
Ankhon main chipi wo kahani
Keh jaye sanson main saans.

Kabhi yun baith chup chaap
Sun bhooli hanseen ki phuhaar
Jo bhool nahi paye,wo din wo raat
Barsey naino se bisri barsaat.

Jagtey sotey , uthtey baithtey
Kho gaye jo Baton ki hod main
Na samay ruka , na umra,
Guzar gaye ankahe, anmaney se…

Jo bun na paye hum…
Jo sun na paye hum
Bator lein wo aaj…
Kabhi yun baith, chupp chaap.

A speck in the Cosmos

Let my vanities wane.
For every spark of cognizance.
For each gain and pain.
Let me unskew my image inane.

Just a speck in cosmos
Ray of light from nowhere to somewhere.
So were the world's empires and emperors.
So the constellation of Conquerors and paupers.

Each moment makes eternity.
Every note sings the song
Every word makes an epic
The cosmos is indeed a microcosm.

I make the cosmos.
Speck by speck I gather,
the vanities of my perception.
The glue that holds it on.
The ruse of existance.

4 A.M.

Feverish with night's sleep;
Gliding into intimacy deep .
we talk until dawn at four.
Yearning for such moments more.

Musing about past yearnings
Imaginations from a different eon
Recounting the times long gone
Blessed to be waking up, not alone.

Early birds begin to warble
Eastern lights light up the East.
The songs we forget to sing so oft.
Are often the ones we long for.