Snap n Sing

Something to snap and sing:

Rocky Rhymes

The distant snow, the white under the blue sky

The end of the green, the rendezvous of stars

The rock undulating rhyming the song of joy

The cloud's gone for ever, just say a loud wow!

Dusk, Dream n Dark

Here is the charming body of the sky

Seen through the holes of the cloud attire

Lo and behold, the shining sequins terrible

Its velvety gown is torn to shreds.

 

The Rainbow

Today through the window  of my kitchen

Something big and bright is seen,

All of a sudden the rain has come to halt 

For a vividly valid reason,

Now is there bodily and now gone forever

It's master of its whims,

Soon will resume the rain and it's end of the game

Come running home and come back now.

The Sunny Ecstasy: The Ridge

There's nothing to fear now, the day is for you,
The sun is guarding the sky

Run and gambol, eat and drink, ride and hide
Until you've not spent your lovely little pie

The Ridge--it's not a place for the lazy
Even the old monkey is hyperactive

The clouds gone to the plains, for something urgent
It's just sunny for a fortnight.

 

Fined and Prohibited

Teacher! Teacher! What sort of English I saw

Right there you should go now,
Leaving us alone for our game

The poor little painter knows little of grammar

But remember,
He'll pay no fee of yours

And it'll just be pro bono.

 

The Fluffy Cloud

This is a big cone of ice-cream

Not of butter-scotch, nor of vanilla 

But just a scoop of strawberry

Ah! The blue sky is greedy 

And for ages ravenously hungry

It'll lick the cone in minutes

Unless hidden somewhere behind.

The History of Happiness: Shimla Agreement

History has happiness hidden in it

It depends on what we learn

Let peace n freedom prevail for ever

My prayer is for the subcontinent.

Make Hay When the Sun Shines

The valley I see before me has a value attached to it

Not in its cedars--they don't resurrect once they die

But in its verdant grass growing year after year

The food of the quadrupeds that live for others.

Good! Humans eat apples but not grass

A blade of grass has life greater than the cedars'.

The Self-image

An idle fellow looks at the mirror

Who says it--A mirror is not a liar?

It can pamper a lot, it can mislead till last

It just tells the beholder
Aha! You're the best.

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By

A N Nanda

Shimla

3-4-2013

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