Stars

Was written for a friend for the wonderful holi weekend spent with her.

Standing in my balcony last night
a few stars came to my sight
wondered why they have so much light
as if they resembled current moments in my life
turned and looked to my right
saw your face shining in the night
thought no wonder they are so bright
and now when you are leaving in few hours
i wish to thank you for those stars

The problem of plenty

Well the time has some ... i can officially say now that i need no more choices .. just let me live .. sooner or later u will also reach that stage ... i don't want to be a consumer anymore.. the consumer who makes intelligent choices ... u wanna know why i am frustated ... well here you go

i wake up in the morning .. i want to brush my teeth ... i see two toothpastes nearby .. one says "refreshing" other says "24 hour protections". Make a choice ... i say come on let me get up first ...

my cook comes .. she asks me what do i need for breakfast ... i say whats there? ... she say omlette, poha , lemon rice .. .. i say omlette .. its always the same .. i always pick the first one ..

i switch on my tv ... its showing 200 channels .. well i swap 200 channels twice .. and then i turn it off ... feeling frustrated ..

i turn on my laptop .. check my mails on three accounts .. check my scraps on one more site ...

its Sunday i have to shop for home stuff ... i go to super market ... i see 5 kinds of apples of varying shapes , tastes (i guess ) .. and price .. i want to make sure i pick up the best .. and that isn't easy

i need one face cream ... i look on the stands .. one says instant relief for dry skin .. one say long lasting relief for dry skin .. i ask my self do i want my skin to feel good right now .. or i want to my skin to feel good for ever and ever ...

its still not noon and i am already sick of making choices .. in the meantime some credit person calls me even i have subscribed for something called "don't disturb me" ... he offers me a lucrative offer .. then i start thinking whether the card i am using currently is giving me the best offer .. well i think what r doing make a logical choice ..

i am so tired .. i go to a coffee shop .. i ask for a cappuccino .. i am asked whether i need choc cream on the top of that .. whether i need cookies with that .. whether i need sugar or sugar free ... well i say to hell with it i don't need anything .. i come back to my home and sleep ..


All these incidents raise a few questions in my mind,
1. do we need to choose best all the time ..
2. do we care to choose best ..
3. are we always more satisfied when we choose best
4. what is best anyways

choose which u want to answer first :P

Bereft

Where had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and the day was past.
Sombre clouds in the west were massed.
Out on the porch's sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly striking at my knee and missed.
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret my be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.

Robert Frost

To rhyme or not to rhyme

Is that the question ... i was reading the poems i had written earlier ... was trying to see how far i have come in mastering the arts .. i discovered i have been using only one kind of rhymes only (other than non rhymingg of course) ... i reasearched (google of course) and found that there a lot more rhyming schemes that are there .. few of them which can be used easily are

End Rhymes

I am a big fan of these. Wroks very well in romantic piece of writing. Here are few examples from my poems

Wondering in the spell i am under
whether you will accept my sweet surrender

Left with no choice
Last night darling i missed your voice

End rhymes can also be in alternating lines ... like following just written

love was what i was trying to find
i closed my eyes
it was you who came to my mind
i loooked towards the heaven
and asked why you have become so kind

Internal rhymes

In this rhymes exist in one line

i am alone, darling please come home

If you remember Rhyme of ancient mariner (Coleridge) he has used commbination of internal and end rhymes so beautifully


the fair breeze blew, the white foam flew
the furrow followed free
we were the first that ever burst
into the silent sea

Partial Rhymes

These are when words do not rhyme perfectly
like

breadth/bread
carft/mast

love/prove (this is what i call paper rhyme, looks good on paper but is not rhyme actually)

But the thing is that i dont think so much when i write a poem .. so i dont know whether i am going to use it or not :)

Egypt

Written for one frind when she was going to Egypt after dreaming about it for a very loong time.
(Although her trip got cancelled after that)

O my beautiful Egypt
only i know how i longed for your visit
And now when the sun shines its first light
you'll be so close to my sight
Oh God! it seems
that I am still in my dreams
but this fragrance in the air
making me feel that i am almost there
Yes, I can feel it
you are so close my lovely Egypt