POETRY

POETRY

For professionals and businesslike minds of diverse kinds like ours

Often we do not come to recognize when poetry or verse comes to us

Silently she steps in through our quiet or busy but distinctly lonely times

Poetry dresses herself soft and attractive every time she is very close to us

Suiting our tastes and molding us softer at our diversely different transacting moods!

Poetry arrives to awaken us to magnify our expressions of thought

Poetry is much closer to our mind and surely to our heart

But at times we do not wish to accept or to recognize the emotions

We, the professionals with businesslike mindset are often more close to our brain

Although we recognize the strengths that bind and unite through the feelings of heart

We lament when we fail regretting why we didn’t use our thoughts

Expressed more in the words of emotional knots

Through her sweet and meaningful verse,

Even though that would mean a bit worse

Some defeat in the pride of our intellectual logistic thoughts.

Poetry is a companion, a creative entity of every one of us

Poetry is the expression of maturity of our thoughts

Poetry empowers us, poetry provides us with strength

And for those who spend time with her more

They appear emotional, ripened and expressive from the core!

Poetry leaves for them who are closer to her

More of her finer humane and imaginative qualities of creations

In all their expressions, demonstrations and acts,

In the diversities of life, in all the determining events

Through the manifestation of maturities and through the detailing of thoughts.

The uprooted plant

The uprooted plant

When I picked up the plant that was uprooted

And thrown out to die, I recognized this to be one, which was acclaimed.

My neighbor laughed and commented on me with sore

“This was sterile, diseased and was of no use anymore”.

But I felt that it needed some affection and care right there and then

It had yet the desire to survive to live and to regain.

I thought, it would get cured and might bloom once again

And if it would flower, it would please me in my times of despair and pain.

I bought a big cemented pot with soil and more

I planted it in to the pot and kept it in shade

I watered it regularly till it showed some recovery and gain

I placed the pot in my garden under the sky then again.

The plant started to bear new leaves and branches

It was a joy to watch everyday its subtle nuances

And one day I found it blooming to flower!

That was the happiest moment for me to be out of despair.

The plant greets me smiling gratefully everyday

As I pass by it to my work even in the hottest days of May.

In my moments of sadness and pain,

I find my plant cheering me up in its way again and again!