Friday, May 30, 2008

Joy of living

Walking past those dusty stalls,

Past all that bickering,

Amidst the whole crowd,

To enjoy the dry leaves raining.

Splashing in those muddy puddles,

With little care for the world,

And watch patiently

The hungry scruffy bird.

Smiling happily,

When those tender drops of rain,

Fall against your scorched cheek

And forget all pain.

That, my dear friend is pure bliss

‘tis the lord’s willing

In those moments of happiness

Lies the joy of living!!

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Another try

Mired in time's funny ways
I try hard to move just one limb
But he's got me tight, he's got me good
Maybe I am more than a little whim
So help me God for here I stand
With a lost will to laugh or cry
I yearn to feel, just feel again
Please let life give me another try

Monday, May 26, 2008

Little Wonders!

It often dazzles me when the most banal of moments in life are often the ones we tend to remember with a smile on our face! Even in the midst of our harrowing, hectic attempts at winning the hand of Lady joy, we unwittingly pick up the little treats she throws down our paths! Oh no, dear God, I ain't even remotely complaining here... rather just admiring His handiwork and how He's miraculously provided for that elusive universal wish of balance in one's life.

My earliest happy memories involve me on the beach with my daddy dearest.... Him flinging me away to glory and me whooping with delight at every crash of a wave! Then there are those where I, the pint-sized dacoit am plundering my dad's face in search of some mind-boggling treasure! Those expeditions more often than not ended with my dad clutching his eye in agony.. I seem to have some sort of an affinity for that particular part of the anatomy! The rather recent joyful outburst of mine came from the fact that my darling cousin at home failed to register any difference in my appearance after my rather radical new hair cut! Boy! Did I tire my sides laughing to that one!

What I am rather inarticulately trying to say by means of these picturesque descriptions is that even if you climb an everest or just top your class, it is the inconsequential that you tend to associate with the joy in the memories! The indignant refusal of your friend to accept that such an eventuality ever did happen or the glazed over expression of your friend when you say you won the lottery tickles you more than the idea of a lottery itself!

Trivialities in life are the most grossly underrated phenomena of human existence in my opinion. For it is in the ordinary that one can find the extraordinary! The example of my moments of joy at the beach with my dad may seem commonplace to most of you but it can never be the same... And every happy minute on the beach with your dad will mean equally much to all of you! So all those bedazzling mysteries of life have their answers deeply entrenched in that that fails to catch your eye! So for the ambitious, go look a little closer at the life you are living... and for those just looking to live life in joy, let the magic of the moment touch you!

Thursday, May 15, 2008

What's to blog?!

Have erected a bald patch on my head with all the scratching in an attempt to find something to blog in here... I tell myself that it is high time that I satisfied the itch in my hand to write something but somehow, that itch seems not to have found its way to my foolish brain yet! And then, the lazier part of me wonders why is it that I must write anyway? This ain't no moneymaking site I ain't no big 'celebrity' whose blog is a piece of literary art by default!

Talking of celebrities and literary arts, what is it with this new fad of well-known personalities being paid to write their apparent 'thoughts'?! Like they weren't over-exposed enough! They use it as a convenient medium for further publicity and sadly, there are enough naive, mesmerized people to lap it all up! Be it someone taking potshots at some one (in the most politically correct way possible) or others profiling minute details of action on the sets to promote interest in the film, the literary media is being insulted by this blatant abuse!

Although me lamenting my distress is as good as me crying 'wolf' in today's age of manipulative marketing. It's all a question of who fools whom better... The better the packaging, the lesser queries about the actual product, isn't it? So why blame celebrities for riding the wave? They do it best anyway so why not cash in on this wave riding their turf? Responsible media and social etiquette are things of the past... sigh!

And if the trivial descriptions of the life of a star entertains some, why not? It just might bring that elusive smile to someone's face... social work in a way, eh? Win-win situation for everyone around... so what if literature and journalism lies mutilated somewhere? They are blessed enough to be inanimate so it can't be that much of a pain to them thankfully!

Monday, May 12, 2008

It's been long...

It's been awhile since I wrote a word
But it's so hard for me to form just one line
As my mind meanders in roads a many
To sit back and breathe, it has no time.
With a whirl of colors, life's swept me by
Each color a sign of new beginnings
And as I rushed eagerly to try my hand
At all, I had but the thought of winning
And so I've striven hard to play them all well
And emerge the champion at all I did
But so lost I was in this race for life
That I almost forgot to let my mind in peace, sit.
So, weathered by the pressures from all around
My mind rebelled the shackles that bound
And slipped into times of lazy bliss
Until, this poem I didn't give a miss!
And for those that wonder about my fate
At the games of life, alas you must wait
For until this mental strike does end
Towards my goal of winning, I can't my mind bend!