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Novenary

Her rage in thunder echoes long and loud
Like dark clouds turning day to night
The lightning flash evident of her vigor
And her aspirations taking flight

Her initial rage passes with time and calms
Her bounty showering in the gentle rain
The earth no longer dry and parched
All creation does she now sustain

With the mingling of her numerous hues
Her sky is now an artist dream
A slice of life painted overhead
Carried along a joyous stream

Nurturing all that needs to grow
She encloses all power divine
No one shall ever be kept bereft
This is the power feminine!

Nine days and nights are devoted to
Her She who animates all living things
Her nine hues form the fountainhead
From which eternal exultation springs!!

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The Written Word

Oft it has been repeated, time and time again,
Words themselves can do no justice to the power of the pen!
Kingdoms to be kept or sundered
To the whims and wishes of men
But their deeds fair and foul forever
Enshrined, by the seemingly tiny pen!
All earthly power, all the pelf and might
Cannot hold its own against
The humble black and white
Fiery speeches to rouse brethren
Gentle words of care
Sweet songs, tradition and justice
Would they survive anywhere?
If not for the written word
Which sees them through storm and strife
Their speakers may die a thousand deaths,
But the words, they remain alive!
Who can imagine the puny pen,
Laying waste, the mighty sword
But such is the power commanded
By the written word!

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Freedom

             A place where your own is the earth, sea and sky

             A place where you find your dreams flying high

             Such is a place called freedom!

             A place where you find the spread of your wings

             A place which to your soul peace always brings

             Such is a place called freedom!

              A place where you as your true self dwell

              A place which still holds you however hard you fell

              Such is your place of freedom!

              A place where you find the people all your own

              Where time does not matter, or how far apart you have grown

               This truly is the place called freedom.

               A place unjudging, where no regrets live

               A place never taking, which only knows to give

               Yes, such is a place called freedom!

                Perhaps a place from which I now live apart

                But it still lives on in a corner of my heart

                Know it as my Motherland, my freedom!

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The Gift

A gift is giving good will
With the entire heart and soul
It has the power to mend what is shattered
Making it once again whole!

A gift can mean the world to one
Something which can be called life
Thoughtfully this loving token
Can smoothen many a strife

Many a time a discerning gift
Is indicative of love and care
However tiny, its mere presence
Can say “Worry not, I`m there!”

Gifting can be for reasons galore
And sometimes for no reason at all
Sometimes its so easy to give a gift
And crack the hardest wall!

The Almighty bestows each of us
With some gift to call our own
He lets us to discover and use it
So that life is less care worn

For some, gifts are only contracts
A chip with which to bargain
For some this is what a gift means
It`s true spirit in vain!

Love, kindness, understanding and attention
Make the best gifts, sublime
But remember the one gift which loved ones want
Is nothing but some of your time!

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Growth

 Long ago in a dusty field,
 A farmer wielded his plough
 And as he turned the rich black loam
 He wondered what to grow.
  
 His eye caught by shining pearls
 Of sweetest brightest green
 “ Grapes it is for me”, he said
 “ The sweetest the land has ever seen”
  
 Quickly setting to the task at hand
 He got a bamboo stake thick and strong
 To make a trellis support firm
 Which the weather could do no wrong!
  
 The tiny vine he planted soon grew
 Covering the stake from side to side
 And gazing at the beautiful vine,
 He was unable to hide his pride
  
   The vine was soon covered with grapes
 The sweetest in the land
 And though the bamboo bent under the weight
 It still continued to stand
  
 Absorbing the farmer`s pride,
 The vine thought itself the best
 Smothering the patient bamboo
 Who thought not of protest!
  
 “You live because of me”, it said
 “ Otherwise nothing but a piece of dead wood”
 The bamboo absorbed its vicious barbs
 Swallowing tears as it stood!
  
 Till one day a mighty gale came calling
 Making the bamboo creak and groan
 It put up a valiant fight for its beloved vine
 But from the ground was torn.
  
 Come morn the green and gracious field
 Wore a look of utter despair
 The vine was beautifully green still
 But the bamboo, beyond repair

 With green tears rolling down its cheeks
 It was the vine`s turn to know
 Its growth and beauty were not all its own,
 The bamboo had made them so
  
 The broken bamboo was abandoned
 To a bonfire hot and glowing
 And though the vine continued to live,
 Its death was in the knowing
  
 That it had been nothing by itself
 The bamboo`s selfless care
 Had carried it to the heights it had reached
 And made sure it stayed there
  
 In each of our lives there is one such bamboo
 Ready to sacrifice it`s all
 So that you climb the vine of success
 Making sure you never fall!
  

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Echoes

 Sometimes a smile bright but brittle
 Can hide many an unbidden tear
 Dauntless courage can echo
 With a long buried resurfacing fear
  
 When everything seems to be going right,
 Towards the unknown lurches the mind
 And who knows those hidden depths
 May echo of memories not so kind
  
 Under the veneer of lark like song
 Lies the echo of pain unseen
 The brave face shown to the world
 Looks for a shoulder to lean
  
 Those condemned as unfeeling and cold 
 Hide the warmest of all hearts
 What the world sees as ruthlessly whole
 Is the sum total of broken parts
  
 Those appearing distant and stoic 
 Are the ones who never fail in duty
 Their prickly and harsh exterior
 Echoes of sacrificed beauty
  
 A loud clarion call proclaims itself
 The soft echo always smothered
 Ergo the garish and loud rule
 With the subtle, the world not bothered
  
 So always listen for those hidden echoes
 Before sitting in judgement, pray refrain
 Remember clouds called dark tear themselves apart
 So that the parched earth maybe drenched with rain! 
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Letting Go

 A tiny rill was once born 
 On the cliff of a mountain high
 Which tower`d up with craggy peaks
 And reached up to the sky
  
  
 The rill began its descent downward
 As it was meant to do
 And as it trudged its rocky path
 Lo behold, it grew and grew
  
  
 First a rill and then a brook
 Soon it became a stream
 It raced away from where it was born 
 All to chase a dream
  
  
 The mountain watched it grow apace
 Its crags suffering many a mighty blow
 It stopped the clouds with its tall peaks
 So the stream with the rain could grow
  

 At last the stream reached the plain
 Now a river with a path to make
 The mountain knew it would never be back
 Its heart beginning to break
  
  
 The river now had a single goal
 To find the sea wide and blue
 Far behind, the mountain watched
 All its dreams come true
  
  
 The river found its sea at last
 And was lost in its embrace
 ‘Go my child “, smiled the mountain green
 ‘May you be blest with God`s grace
  
  
 “ No longer can I keep pace with you
 You have grown long and wide
 From afar though I rejoice in you
 Your very being is my pride”
  
  
 I asked the mountain, “ Does it hurt
 To let your little rill go?”
 “Children have to find themselves”, it smiled
 Its tears beginning to flow
  
  
 “ Tis but the natural order of things
 And it will always be so
 WISDOM LIES IN HOLDING ON
 BUT KNOWING WHEN TO LET GO.
 

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