Yesterday’s ours only to muse
On, the morrow, to win or lose.
To those not knowing this,
Time gives a passing kiss--
O it pays well today to choose.
_______________________
Happenings |14.02.2025| political, pride
Note: AAP party’s chief ruled Delhi for ten long years with a strong majority only to be undone in recent elections. Reason? Hubris. He failed to learn this truth from not-so-old history: Sheela Diksheet and Indira Gandhi of Congress, even war hero Churchill, and many, this ditty seems to say.
Categories:
indira, political, pride,
Form: Limerick
Proceed, my child proceed
With a smile on your face
With positivity and grace
With compassion in your heart
Proceed, my child proceed
With strength in your mind
leaving weakness behind
With stars in your eyes
Proceed, my child proceed
With progress as your aim
All the hardship you can tame
With determination and zeal
Proceed, my child, proceed
~Indira
Categories:
indira, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
She knows when to say yes and when to say no
She gives you so much, you keep asking for more
She manages her own home, kids and money
Straight talk, her words are not dripped with honey
She knows when you lie and looks you in the eye
Nothing misses her sight not even a fly
She can bulldoze her way into anything complicating
Before you know it she’s got everyone clapping
She will sacrifice her life if she believes it’s worth the cause
When she puts her mind to something there is no press for pause
And so we have, Indira Gandhi, Indra Nooyi and Sudha Murthy
Michelle Obama, Angela Merkel and Jacinda Arden
All these lovely ladies who need a good applause and garland
Categories:
indira, women,
Form: Couplet
pregnant dams scream
green-gown-clad earth maiden smiles ---
Indira* in moods
*Indira is considered to be the god of rain in Hindu mythology
Categories:
indira, nature, rain,
Form: Haiku
I am a girl whom everyone think low,
But oh no, oh no I am not low.
I too can do everything like boys,
From reading and writing to making noise.
I can become a great dancer and do ooh la la,
I can be an astronaut just like Kalpana Chawla!
Doesn’t matter whether I speak Bengali or Hindi,
I can become a famous prime minister like Indira Gandhi.
Equality between boys and girls is the biggest matter,
You don’t have any right to make our dreams shatter!
Grown-ups, please treat us equal,
When given a chance, we can do things wonderful and unusual.
Categories:
indira, girl, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
I-t's
N-o
D-ark
I-n
R-ays
A-bove
Topic: Poetess (Indira Renganathan)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
indira, poets,
Form: Acrostic
He was not more than twelve and I was just ten,
When in 1984, ‘they’ assassinated the PM in her den.
It was at her residence that the clay was kept.
Thousands of people reached to pay her last respect.
And we were one of them, daddy and the kids.
He was confused and afraid but for us it was the ultimate fun.
Suddenly the mob turned furious and went out of control
Nobody could help, not even those who were on patrol.
Carelessly people pushed and elbowed one another
Nobody thought for anyone, no one cared.
At that moment, two little arms surrounded me
And fought for my freedom,
I saw how he made space for me - my big brother.
Though he was crushed himself but helped me settle.
There in that dreadful situation he treated me like a petal.
It was when I was ten and he, not more than twelve.
Date: 05/01/2016
The violence in Delhi was triggered by the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the 4th Prime Minister of India .
Categories:
indira, brother, hero,
Form: Free verse
The decade
that saw
end of cold war
fall of Berlin Wall.
In Asia
Tianamen Square
student bloodbath,
democracy restored
in Philippines with 'People Power Revolution'..
first big shock of my life--
Indira assassinated.
In sports
'Hand of God' goal by Maradona,
Michael Jackson--his Moonwalk dance,
Stevie Wonder--"I just called to.........."
enjoyed"Rain Man","Driving Miss Daisy".
And in my life
first love,broken heart,
fragmented pieces
still stitching..........
#Indira Gandhi,the Prime Minister of India was gunned down in 1984.
© 2011 kashinath karmakar (7th May 2011)
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Placement: 7th; (May 2011)
Contest:Magic Of Decade's Mood
Sponsor:Nette Onclaud
Categories:
indira, history, passion
Form: Verse
Baby girl,
How do I write my love upon the moon?
How do I
Tell how a father's trust upon you swoon
Or inform
Your silence where belonging longs?
I so old
Fashion, filled with forms so clothed in wrongs
Afraid this
Telling of the heart weakens fiber of the man
And often
The pain in me is more than you can understand
Of a fear
That if I relent you may in my weakness fall
And leave me
More desolate that Christ before he drank his gall.
O this love
A wave incessant in tidal force against the rock
Makes the sands
That runs determinant in my crystal clock.
Categories:
indira, daughter, education, introspection
Form: Free verse