CULTURAL FUNCTION AT GIPF 2019

I LOVE YOU, RAINDROPS

They never predict

To be dried out by the sun,

Willing to continue to stay

So that we can say I love you,

Like breathing of life,

That greets ceremony of

Performance, over time

And time again.

This afternoon I love you

As the latest whispers

Gliding over touch of petals

Glittering raindrops like

Ornament ring that we discover

To exist on promises and feeling.

RAIN

EARTH DAY 2019

Flocking of birds,

Freedom in revelation,

Flying is not burden.

HAIKU chain – A Journey to Kanyakumari

HAIKU

Spring morning

Travelling in a train,

Unbound knowing.

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Sunrise above rooftops,

Distant night lamp not put out,

Delight in sun rays.

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Vast green field

Our train passing through,

Visible dream.

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Three boats at far,

So tiny they may be sight out,

Freedom of floating.

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A terrain town  

Curved road to climb a hill top,

Peak of perspective.

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Walking along dryness,

Dusty road blunts epigram,

Fading greens.

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A flyover bridge

Beautifully crafted across fields

Around, in our going,

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Outline of a town,

It bears brick built culture,

Amazing virtue.

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Planned forest,

Alongside hedges it bears

Thrills of the nature.

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Spring dusk,

Dithering with setting sun,

Mind left to perch.

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Railway yard at night

Passengers not in running time,

Slumber train.

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Train approaches to a

Station, destiny comes,

Repose withheld short.

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Station at night,

Fewer passengers,

Stillness of lights.

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Another spring morning,

Rising sun intoned with

Red, count continues.

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Wind propeller blades,

Generate electricity,

By wind thrust.

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HAIKU 16

Hillside wind farm,

All its power backs up lights,

Life gets its accent.

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Devi Kanyakumari temple,

With benignity, she is SAKTI,

Sounds of eternity.

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Vast Ocean,

Sea view of Kanyakumari town,

Edge on spring sun bath.

TANKA

Two monuments -

Swami Vivekananda memorial rock,

Other one -

Sculpture of Tamil poet and

Philosopher, Thiruvalluvar.

HAIKU 19 

Sunset at sea,

Burning warmth sinking,

For another daybreak.

HAIKU 20 

Another sun rise,

You better hope rising a

Golden day in clouds.

HAPPY SPRING BREAK - KANYAKUMARI, INDIA

Spring tour

Sacred place,

Sakti Peetha – Kanyakumari Temple,

Serendipity,

Sea rocks,

Swami Vivekananda Rock Memorial,

Sea waves,

Sea Bath,

Stone Sculpture of

          Tamil poet and Philosopher,

          Thiruvalluvar,

Space for tranquility of mind,

Sea wind brings vitality,

Stayed in tour for three days,

Started for Happy Holi, 2019 at home.

FIRST LOVE ON THIS BRIDGE

Fifty years ago, this bridge was lonely, approach-road was being constructed, no high rise building was there, and sound of the flowing water of channel can be heard.

One day I find a girl used came to this bridge every day in summer, and summer after,

Who drew attention as fuel to see her and to arrange a situation to talk with her,

She might be from a nearby village, now a part of city. One occasion, I ventured to speak rapidly, with syllables quivering with the sense of nervousness, and I said,

-  “Hi, I think you live nearby.”

She did not answer. She stood still, and looked at me with her beautiful eyes, As if I could not stir her silent kingdom for the answer. After a little while, she turned towards her way from where she came. To me, she was interesting and loving.  And I kept my way continuous with my attempts, and she used to come daily, as usual.

One day I went inching closer to her body and immediately after she opened ANCHAL of her sari and swung upon me and I stood like stone draped with beautifully crafted cotton art work of Anchal.

-          “Use this perfume. Then I will talk to you.”

I stood inside her ANCHAL as if I stood on her condition that insisted me to honor her request, that to be saved privately, As if she would give me all her heart if I did perform exactly what she asked. The smell of her body, perfume, beating of heart – all gave me a feeling of love, excitement, newness of young change, desire to stay in this way many a day, a true way to think about, to live about, to touch around, to hold about, to sink within, to dwell with, to obey her words, above this place, this region, and overall above this hemisphere to the universe.

My speech still remains in my heart.

POUSH PARBON AND SUBARNAREKHA

Poush Parbon Pithe (Bengal Cuisine)

My childhood around SUBARNAREKHA

Not vivid, I forget its vastness,

Its voice of flowing water,

It was for three years, sixty years back.

Like moving waters, like disturbed banks,

Unexpected floods in rainy days, wake me

Up around beetles in clogged water, in field,

I was eager to announce I am not capped cave,

Rather I am living like images of flowing water

That gives way to possibility of survival

And existence making tracks of wellbeing,

I spend sixty years, outside of glowing SUBARNAREKHA.

Today, in search of childhood, its breath,

A painting just arrives before my eyes,

Quiet arrives with a long beautiful bridge, almost dry riverbed,

Melancholy now holds me in breath.

It is like sight of nature’s game, and also journey

On vast way of my struggle, like water current,

As if I am still listening to the song of flowing waters,

As if love lingers all in heart of my attention,

And I want to say

Love me more,

Comfort me more,

And I want to listen to the echoes of forgiveness. 

TANKA

Now looking at you

In this morning, I open

My heart to you for

Love, like flowers, to get feeling,

In the warmth of breathing.

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Mind filled with love,

Sun-rays move into colors,

I see the leaves,

Hopeful shore, as a man,

I breathe in the nature.