Panic Button

Panic like mountain heights
Goes on rising higher
As we reach the peak
Leading us into tough fights
Filling us with a fire
So that we do not feel meek

The after effects are very like a fall
As aloud we call
Our victory to announce
And walk with a flounce
Our blood stops boiling
As we end our toiling

Glance to the skies
To see it as the bird flies
That we had forgotten existed
When we had our wisdom resisted

Hobbies

Hobbies are the desires of our heart
That help make us smart
And pass our time with joy
Without using any ploy

It opens our minds
And helps us find
The colours of the rainbow
When we are feeling low

It enhances our personality
With the stamp of exclusivity
Giving us a topic to converse
Without anyone being averse

Bring in some cash too
From the world we call a zoo.

Filial Ties

Ties bind each to other

Ties of blood
Ties of friendship
Ties of love
Ties of belonging

 Some bad some good
 Some constricting
Some empowering

Its true ties bind
Without them we would find
That we live in solitude
Without much fortitude
Whiling our life
Without much strife

Pining for the same ties
Before each one dies.

Words or Sound

What do we hear

Words or tone sound?

 

What brings fear

Birds or hound?


Sound / tone changes the words we hear
To mild,harsh, rude or angry
Making our audience love or fear
As the brain & ears decipher
Leaving them in a quandry

Soft tones befit gentleness
Harsh ones are a virtual slap
Why then don't we use softness
And give each other communication claps?

Generation Gap

You just don't understand me!
Is oft heard in our homes
Parent to child & child to parent
Each keeping to his own dome

Forward or backward
 Each wanting to go onward
 Not realising each is but a reflection of the other
 Each has a uniqueness of his own
 With a common thread

The truth that seems hard to grasp
Is my dear that
No one is too old or too young
To learn from the other

Danger Zone

"Danger Zone " to my daughter was where her father was relaxing

 To my grand daughter is where her father is working at home
To our country men is the border of our country
To the blind its the oncoming fast traffic
To the animals its where the hunter is awaits them

Is the danger really there or are we making
A mountain of a molehill
Seeing it in whatever makes us uncomfortable?

If there is can we overcome it?
If not can we resolve it?

For is a sense of fear what we want to leave as our legacy?

Personalities

Sanguine,Choleric,Phlegmatic & Melancholy
Are the broad categories of human personalities

Sanguine loves to have fun all the time
The life of the party
Choleric loves to be the boss & have the last say
Its my way or the highway
Phlegmatics love their peace & will avoid confrontations
Letting everything slide as long as they get peace
Melancholics look to the detail or are perfectionists
Are very organised & love things to be in their proper place

The great thing is - all of us being different is what makes it interesting
We all have strengths & weaknesses for which we need each other
If we got married to someone like us we would have the same strengths & weakness
And be left feeling incomplete & wanting.
What are you? & what is your partner?
Have fun learning & live a full & fruitful life.

Relationships

We are always in a tizzy about relationships
How to build it,maintain it,nurture it,make it last
In this we forget about friendship in relationships
And how they help us to hold on fast

Are relationships really so complicated?
Or do we live in a world dilapidated?
Where all we see are people inundated
With rigid views & ideologies consolidated.

We love to crib,to cry & grumble
About the what- ifs,the wherefores & hypothetical troubles
We forget that Time & Tide wait for no man's foibles

Relationships are our water holes
Granted by the Lord to make our life-journey
Full of sugar & spice & all that's nice
Before we reach our goal.

Whats here now is gone tomorrow my friend

Its time we enjoyed today with its vagaries

And let tomorrow take care of its mysteries

Smartness

There was a guy with no hair.


He’d shaved it off on a dare.
His wife threw a fit
And said, "This is it!
Grow it back, or I’ll have an affair!”


He thought he looked "cool"
so decided he would fool
he called her bluff
And wore a hairy muff


But girls are more smarter
she fooled him with flatter
And pulled on his pate
Revealing her brains to her mate

In Sickness & in Health

Promises promises--Promises?
"In Sickness & in Health",we say
Thru rose tinted glasses
When we sway

How soon then do we forget
Like politicians who don't regret
Raising our hope
Filling us with dope
To get what they want without fret


Are we any less self centered than them?
Don't we too forget like them?
We give a lot of hope to help our partner sway
when we too want our way

With the first brickbat & stumble
We run so fast that we tumble
We fall, we hit,we hurt
Ourselves & others as we blurt


Shouldn't we wait for the shadow to pass
Or give it a push asif it was a useless mass
For hadn't we promised to love & support
Till we from life deport?

Narcissium?

 What is Normal?

Some would say – that which is not Abnormal

O.K then what is Abnormal?

Thus we go round & round in circles,

But no one can give a straight answer
For each of us is normal & abnormal

Which is which is decided by us according to our situation at that time?
Convenient isn’t it?

To prove to ourselves that the others are abnormal

But We oh! no We are Normal

Why?

Becoz everyone is besotted with himself in some form or the other

Their looks, principles, ideas, thoughts, ideologies, desires whatever…..

Not unlike:

Narcissus, in Greek mythology, a hero renowned for his beauty. In the various stories he is exceptionally cruel, in that he disdains those who love him. As divine punishment he falls in love with a reflection in a pool, not realizing it was his own, and perishes there, not being able to leave the beauty of his own reflection.

The delicate narcissus flower too seems to look at itself & hence its name.
Don’t we too disdain the opinions of others, their ideas, thoughts, and emotions?

Thinking ours are the best

Do we want to end up perishing like Narcissus—because all we can see is only our needs, wants, desires?
Forgetting that others too are equally human like us & can be right too

Is there no way mankind can come to realize this simple truth before it makes itself extinct?

God sent or Man-made natural disasters

I’ve heard a lot about how each thing

Hurtful, bad, harmful, painful—are sent by the Lord

As punishments for man’s actions

Are they? Really?

If man cuts down trees
 And the climate becomes unbearably hot

Is that done by God?

If factories spew out chemicals

And deplete the ozone layer

Melting the ice land to bring us Tsunamis

Is that done by God?

If unhygienic living

And adulterated or lack of medicines

Brings the Plague or epidemics

Is that done by God?

If depletion of forests

Destroying arable land to built high rises

Brings floods & famines

Killing uncountable beings

Is that done by God?

If manufacturing nuclear play toys for each country

To present themselves as super powers

Brings death and destruction

Is that done by God?

You tell me if a God who

“He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities:

The chastisement of our peace was upon him;

And with his stripes we are healed.”

Would send

Hurtful, bad, harmful, painful occurrences

As punishments for man’s actions?

Limericks

I met a girl named Kim

Who was oh so very slim

She ate some fast food,

And was in a bad mood,

Cause she had to go to the gym.

When Bill went to Spain,

He saw a lot of rain

He was very cold

Because he was old

We think he went insane.

There was a boy named Rick

Who was as tough as a brick,

Once he fell down

And had to wear a gown

That’s when he became very sick.