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Narayan Gadagkar Poem
She didn't walk the way the world expected
None could guess what storm she had weathered
She moved and moved and never stopped
And her every footstep was strong and bold.
With a body that has carved its own battles
Adversity could not shake her firmness
She carried none of its sting and bitterness
But joyfully shared only smiles and sweetness.
While we speak of limits and constraints
She spoke of immense possibilities
Always exploring her potentialities
And lived them as graceful entities.
She refused any act of sympathy
And spurned faint token of empathy
All the time stood firmly saying no to pity
Predictably preferred the ground of dignity.
Legacy of self-dependency and dignity she sowed.
In her life journey all along, she has proved
That Power and strength are not measured
in strides but in the grit and spirit imbued.
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Narayan Gadagkar Poem
From bathroom pipes, kitchen sinks
From inside cabinets, drain and sewer points
The cockroach approaches in a flash of time.
Once sighted, woman gets scared and yelp
A chance for the brave husband to help
And to flaunt his bravery and might.
Seizes the broom sitting at the corner
When the brave man comes with the broom
The sly cockroach is already lost from sight
The brave man hits at every nook and corner
Misses the target, and the mission to kill, fails
Leaves his wife in utter despair and anger.
Finds the pest below the cot and hits it hard
The cockroach struggled but did not die
Broom snaps, pest flees without a trace
Nastiest pest, nocturnal in habit
The insect at its best at night
Rarely surfaces in broad daylight
Finds escape routes to hide from sight.
The insect loves and lives in grime and filth
Ill at ease in open space and broad daylight
Always in hiding and retreating to dark
Pale tan , reddish brown, glossy dark to black
Shades of repulsive colours, gross to look
Notorious for infestations and spreads diseases
Now hogging limelight in media discourse.
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Narayan Gadagkar Poem
A stalled monsoon trough over central Nepal
caused continuous torrential heavy rainfall
Slopes pushed up moisture from the Bay of Bengal
The catastrophe was looming large to befall.
Sudden breach of a moraine dam
Triggered Glacial Lake outburst floods
A surge of water and debris devastates
downstream, catching communities off guard.
Landslides continued to collapse slopes,
forming temporary dams that later burst
Steep valleys amplified runoff swift and fast
Flood of fury of all time unleashed the worst.
A compound climate disaster of twin sciences
Meteorology and geology to decipher in depth
monsoon extremes, unstable glaciers, terrain hazards
Perished hundreds of lives and left many homeless.
Sparse sensors, lack of predictive models a curse
Warrant real time glacial monitoring at source
With closely spaced weather station networks
And cross border early warning systems
…….Narayan Gadagkar
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Narayan Gadagkar Poem
Six candles on your birthday cake
We have many more wishes to make
On this day, let there be endless fun
With days of fairy tales creeping in
Toddler to preschooler to schoolgirl
Let the year ahead be more joyful
You are moving ahead with time
I won't get a chance to go back in time
But I swear, to put my greeting in rhyme
I am sure, now you can read and write
Cheer with rainbow colours so bright
From scratches to sketches, you moved on
To draw the figures of your choice
Oh! Saanvi, it is gala time for us to rejoice.
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Narayan Gadagkar Poem
No broken spine, no fractured femurs
No Parkinson, no torn ligaments
Not paralyzed from the waist down
Why this guy needs Wheel chair
Hopefully co passenger’s wonder
I was sitting in numb despair.
For the physically disabled young and old
For super senior citizens week and tired
who needed it the most I used to pity
I never thought I will need it at sixty
My impaired heart made it necessity
Watched those did not need at ninety
Envied them for being hale and hearty.
Alas! now I became an object of pity
All along the corridors in airport
When my beloved walked as an escort
Guilt of being privileged haunted me most
Wheel Chair was my constant blight
Felt public mocking at my plight
Sensed people stare at me curse me
Since I was short circuiting the queue.
Remembered the life of great intellect
Stephan Hawking the physicist, cosmologist
Paralyzed due to motor neuron disease
Who mesmerized with his thoughts on universe
Spent the entire life in wheel chair
What’s so great for me to spend few hours
Moving in airport walkway corridors.
…………Narayan Gadagkar
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Narayan Gadagkar Poem
Oh!, my dear, you hold me so near
Listen to me what I say, and be clear.
I am a tiny organ, just your fist size
Placed within the chest cage
Look at me beyond love and rage.
From a cardiac crescent my journey
as a biological pump took headway
when you were just six weeks old
in the womb of your worthy mom
I keep pumping life fluid the blood
to nourish your brain and entire body.
My valves and chambers work very hard
Millions of beats, gallons of blood
And carry it unflinchingly to each organ
To every cell without distinction.
You know, I don’t rest for a fraction of second
If I do, you would land in cremation ground.
I certainly keep pumping and keep you alive
For that you need to take care of me as well
Eat what is good for me, not the yummy taste
Your tongue relishes that most
Keep away the deep-fried food and alcohol
Don’t clog my arteries with the cholesterol.
No cigar and smoke to keep airways clean
Don’t chock the lungs that feed me oxygen.
Keep away diabetes and hypertension
Don’t worry and say no to stress and strain
and keep tab on level of cortisol and adrenaline
Limit salt, sugar, and saturated fats well within.
once you notice my struggle and thumping pain
sooner without delay, go for preventive action.
If need be, take me to desk of a surgeon
Oust the clog in my arteries with stenting
If you care me, I too will care you for life-long
Let us live in harmony and sing lively life song.
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