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Adieu, Mon Capitan

Adieu Ami, Mon Capitan,

Your voyage, hence has ended,

This Voyager, once befriended.

Adieu Ami, Mon Capitan,

The thrill for you, sailed the Seven Seas,

The will of crew, ever would appease.

Adieu Ami, Mon Capitan,

Your ship and crew behind you,

May Heaven soon remind you.

Valor of India Unyielding Gallantry at Neuve Chapelle During 1915

Bravest Sons of India – Neuve-Chapelle, 1915.
(Linking Pin Sonnet – Dr. Joseph Spence Sr. Style)

India’s sons marched where guns roared in flame,
Flame lit their path as the Lahore men onward pressed,
Pressed with the Meerut through wire none could tame,
Tamed only by hearts in brave Garhwal dressed.

Dressed for the storm, Gurkha steel cut the way,
Way through

What She Left Remains

A red wine stain stays
seared into the wooden grain —
the table keeps watch
how their laughter filled the room
last time they were together

Jellybeans loiter
on the shelf in cookie jar
I wish none remained —
better emptiness than this
waiting for sweet that's hollow

Perfume on pillows,
a scent that's too strong at times
still wafts through the air —
sometimes the scent warms

Love can be materialistic

Love is not something that belongs only to a living soul.
It could be anything your soul is tied to.
Neither human nor god,
but something you chose above them both—
that is what love truly is.
You look at it and know you cannot live without it.
It is not a person, nor devotion.
That is love.

Reunited

In crescendos and surges of light,
Beneath the somber, crimson sky,
Beyond the shadow's line,
He stretched his wings in haste
He found and swept an angels heart;
They shine and struck embrace
And onward flew the angels,
By crimson flame and flash
We simply stood and stared a while,
And heard the trumpets blast.
We saw it singed and scorched in light
And in the

INTO ANOTHER WORLD

While I was meditating 
Then I started visualizing 
And I saw a world 
That world seems differ
Different and far away from planet earth.

Just like astronaut 
I traveled from Earth 
To that wondrous world
Exploring without fear of the unknown 
Then I emerge 
It's a civilized world 
Not a jungle world 
A world without war,  propaganda

Windfall

We ate the windfall
Jillie Bulson and me
Wandering the orchard
From tree to tree
Apples and pears
Plums and cherries
Then the kitchen garden
To top up on berries.

Constitutions like iron
We gorged our fill
And never ever once
Were we ever ill.

The Orchard still stands,
Jillie sadly recently gone.
Our childhood friendship
In memory lingers on,
Still eating the windfall,
Jillie Bulson and me,
Wandering the orchard
From tree to

Adjusting My News Feed

      583 babies in England last year named Yahya
        Gasp! – in memory of Yahya Sinwar
          the vilest form of humanity… 

      594,094 were not
    

Speech on Memorial day

Value people when they have life
Strangely, people understand lately
Everything is loud and clear, yet blinds
Still, people find it challenging, but why? honestly 

Wait, let’s unpack the fact.
Dead people do not speak
Neither response is to pick a fight
They are calm and quiet
Due to which they candlelight
Celebrate the opponent's flight
Words flow with compassion disguised
The love poured out

For Refaat Alareer, Palestinian Poet

"There is a window open from my heart to yours." Rumi

See the splendor of pained poetic souls.

After he died, leapt out in the air above,
turned into a star in Gaza's bleak sky,
pouring words and tear.
How many heart cries. For what endless suffering,
soothed by his verse and rhyme.
The gallant Gazans follow it with reverence.
Although they weep

Torn by the Sky

It was sunny the day our hearts broke away.
A decade has passed—but some wounds ignore clocks.
The news bloomed like bruises on a nation’s chest.
Shoreham stood still.
Time forgot how to move.

Eleven men.
Men of mornings and small routines.
Lunchboxes. Laughter. Motorbikes.
Some had children. Others were children—still.
And one…
one kept wildflowers on his phone.
Too shy to say, “This made me

Still in Memory

As fate will play its role 
And legend will tell
For super stardom and limelight
The greatest have fell
The Silver Screen, fortune and fame
Rock-n-roll will never die

From Janis to Jim
Bonham to Bon
They given us so much
Elvis to Lennon
Jimmi and Randy
They had the touch

Let's not forget 
Stevie and Kurt
Take a walk down that well beaten path
You're all still

Armistice

NOVEMBER 2022

Rightly so, the poppies flood
Early in the winter sky
Merrily stood in field, and this
Existence of mine has passed by
Maybe they'd watch us contend
But are authorities ever sober?
Early now, in Winter's sky
Realise how they owed her

Unwillingly ignorant to the loss, they'll be
Scorching their retinas, a veil of red

Quiet Echoes

A quiet handshake—
now just dust on the breeze falls,
names fade with the dusk.

Soul Mates Forever

Soulmates Forever
For my husband, my best friend, my always

We met when the world was still wide and new,
In hallways of lockers and laughter and blue.
Just kids finding jokes in the folds of the day,
Not knowing love had already found its way.

Through dances and dreams, through growing and years,
Through triumphs and troubles and teenage tears—
We stayed

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