Words can create magic and I want to get lost in them for some part of each day.

Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts

June 28, 2012

The Psychology of Geology .

If you make your Heart
An Open Cast Mine.
Always digging deep
Trawling,unearthing
sifting and sorting
Motives and Causes
Don't get surprised
when Old wounds surface
or New Ones
Take Root .
The Psychology
Of Geology
kills all that is life-giving
and leaves
scarred landscapes behind .

November 30, 2011

वो प्यारी जगह ...

सुबह के धुंधलके में या
रात खत्म होने के झुटपुटे में ,
नींद और ख्वाब के बीच
डोलते हुए जो जगह है
उसमे  रहती हैं -
कई उम्मीदें ,कई ख्याल
प्यारी यादें ,झिझक  से परे -
निश्चय , और उधेड़ - बुन  से दूर
साहस  और विश्वास 
उस प्यारी जगह
को संभाल कर रखना
शायद सच वहीँ है
जो  हम  तेज़ रौशनी में
और अँधेरे सायों में
न  देख , न  समझ पाते  हैं .

November 2, 2011

Tin Sheds.

Tinsheds
Catch Beams
And Glint
Pretending to be
Houses
But can

Protect Against
Neither Heat 

Nor Cold
Nor Storm
Only Lull
You into

A Foolish
Notion Of
Feeling Safe .

October 3, 2011

डर.

डर  -
मैं  इस  जुमले  से बहुत घबराती थी.
अंधेरों में मिलती थी-
तो सकुचाती थी .
पर आज जो दिन की खुली धूप में मिली -
तो सोचा,
जो नाखून और दांत मेरी बंद आँखों ने , डर पे सजाये थे ,
वो तो मेरी ही  देन  थे .
 मैं ही उसे पाल-पोस कर बड़ा कर रही थी.
फिर अपने बनाये खिलौने से डर रही थी .

August 14, 2011

कविता और मैं .

 पीपल बांहों में चाँद का गोला लिए चुपचाप खड़ा है.
 गए साल इसी हाल में उसने मुझे एक कविता दी थी.
 उस कविता से निकली और फिर और ..
 मगर लगता है
 लफ्ज़ जो साँसों में अटके रहते हैं
 कभी बाहर आने से बदल जाते हैं
 सबसे बेहतर वही कविता रही
 जिसे मैं कह नहीं पायी.
 पर किसी दिल ने फिर भी उसे सुन लिया.

September 10, 2010

सितारे,मैं और चाँद .

सारा दिन आसमान की  टूटी छत
टपकती रही -गुमसुम नज़ारों में 
दर्द भरती रही.
शाम को जब दफ्तर के जबड़े से निकली मैं ,
सर में एक भारीपन था-
 जो धीरे-धीरे उतरकर
दिल में पैठ रहा था.
ऐसा लगता था कोई पेंचकस
ले मेरे सब कल-पुर्जे ऐंठ रहा था.
घर पहुंची तो बूंदे रुक चुकी थी
और तन गया था -
एक काला उदास आसमान .
मुंह  फ़ेर के मैं भी अन्दर जाने को थी ,
क़ि पानी में कुछ चमकता सा देखा -
मैले से बादल से निकलने क़ी कोशिश में था ,
इक  धुंधलाया सा चाँद.
मैंने पूछा- तुम्हें  तो आज न आना था ,
बादलों क़ी ओट में बैठ पुराने ज़ख्म सहलाना था ?
चाँद ने कहा ,हाँ ,पर सितारे जिद पर अड़े थे ,
जुल्मी बादलों से लड़ पड़े थे.
हाथों में हाथ धर बोले -चलो
थोडा जी बहल जाए ,
जो तुम संग आसमानों में टहल आयें .
चाँद ने फ़िर थामा मेरा भी हाथ
और पूछी सारी दिल क़ी बात .
सितारे,मैं और चाँद -बहुत देर चलते रहे.
उदासियों के अक्स आहिस्ता से ढलते रहे.
क्या बोलूँ क्या तरकीबे-ख़ुशमिज़ाजी है?
रगों में ज़ुम्बिश, पसीने क़ी बूँद,
चाँद का साथ,दिल में सुकून.

May 31, 2010

Thoughts on forty!


My hair has gone sporadically white
And my tongue is sharper than my sight.

I  can tell the real from the fake
And I know when and which rules to break.

I still am a learner of the art of tact.
Of handling diplomatically the uncomfortable facts.

I know that living alone is not easier-
Nor living together breezier.

And yet you must take a stand,
Have courage to drop anchor in the shifting sands.

Shucks! Am I doing a retrospective?
By getting all introspective?

Let us talk of joys that nothing can dim,
My children  and my child-like pleasure in the Gym

Sure, I am not the ideal mom nor leaner or faster
But well away from being a basketcase parent or a lifestyle disaster.

Let’s talk of wrinkles: I call them mere crinkles
And my kids love how they define my eyes when they twinkle.

With them I rejoice
Being Forty is rather nice.

May 9, 2010

Love,smarts and Dogs.

                                                             
I have a theory which can be easily validated
Dogs understand love,People are too complicated.

People’s loves are fragile,friable,needing provings galore.
People’s peeves are proliferous,and they always keep the score.

Whereas a dog with the wiggle of his bum,the thump of his tail and his liquid eyes,
lets you know indubitabily and irrefutably that you are the light of his life.

One more thing which is highly pertinent,
Is that a dog responds to your heart and will love you regardless of your being foolish,unsuave,ugly or bent.

People,on the other hand,are more advanced,and respond mainly to external cues,
Fretting over  their  own  and others’  looks,image,perceptions and views.

And,though semantics imply that dogs should be able to bitch,
We all know that,*that* is a uniquely human itch.

As for dogs,their itches are all physical,
And their fights ephemeral.

They fight for fun,and have fun while they fight,
Unlike people’s unenviable plight-

Of sleeping with their grudges and clutching to their pride
Letting their loves wither,not letting hate subside.

This,in short, goes to explain,
Why a dog is savvier about love,despite his smaller brain

May 6, 2010

Kill boredom before it kills you!

                                                    
Every girl needs to giggle,
just as every bum needs some wiggle.
Bums and girls when tightly wired,
become dispirited,dyspeptic and dire.


Every wisecrack needs some banter,
every verse some commenter.
Jokes and verses when alone,
melt in the heat like an icecream cone.


Every important pompous upstart,
every monotonous,boring old f**t,
if they could discover the lighter view,
would spread more warmth,and cause less rue.


Every drudge doing the drudgery,
needs some laughs,all will agree.
Boredom and doldrums,it's very true,
slowly,humdrumly,surely kill you.

May 3, 2010

Suffering from a bad case of niceness!

                                                                            
I really admire propriety and social niceties
Though they make me groan like I have appendicities

I think it is proper to bid teary Goodbye
To someone who had been a stye in your eye.

And I may have disliked but never shirked
The onerous,dreary protocol work.

I know that uttering the Truth
Is socially uncouth.
  
But sometimes I do wonder,what would ensue,if, for example,
You gave the twat sitting across the table,of your thoughts,a sample.

The fireworks and  the violent hiss!
That would follow the balloon prick.

Such idle fancy and pleasing thought
Lives not long and is soon cut short.

When I realize that being nice maybe a hard burden to bear
But other’s ill-considered views about myself I am loath to hear.

Being  compulsively nice to others is a disease
Now be nice to me everyone please!