Challenges are many in life
postponing that final step
whilst crossing that minefield
In many shapes and forms they appear
some enforced, some self-inculcated
they take on acceptable personas
education, career, family
some others are recruiting newer adopters
arts, culture and sports
other sombre ones as time immortal
health, death and mounting regrets
Never, my friend, you heed me now
never! let slip the chance to engage in
pointless challenges
Untitled
Poverty of the mind
Prosperity of the rind
Yoked to the grind
Woe to thee, O mankind!
19th June, 2014. Mumbai.
Shedding Itinerance
The road to seeking originality
in producing something for the sensing
is fraught with daily wringings
both agonising and disconcerting
but it ends, no doubt, in paradise
A fools paradise!
For, only a fool shields from the truth
‘What is new?’
Derivation can be the only claim
Choosing to ignore
that creator created once
Few know when
Those few, care little about when
Urban Haiku
Far away a field
blew across a lawn
implanted as a yard
cramming to survive
5th December, 2012. Mumbai.