Thursday, November 23, 2023

 Random thoughts from a pensive soul.

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Life sprouts and smiles its radiating innocence 


Vast beds of lilies appear flaunting their ethereal smile-


The hills are once again clad in velvet green 


And in the dancing giggling mountain streams 


That flash strains of silver merry little fishes flit and dance.


The ancient river of creativity wakes up from her hibernation 


And softly babbles at the fords and we know 


That life is revealing expression through a thousand outlets.


This river flows like a song,it feels its way down like an ancient epic.


The vernal showers become a jocund expression of love 


They become the merry tears of the heavens.


Rains rain like soft whimpers 


They seep our souls like a timeless cadence.


The blades of grass sport pearly globules of water 


That reflect the little work of creativity.


The effervescent wetness permeates the core of life 


And we realize that the caring eternal hand still makes it happen.


The feathery touch of vernal rains coaxes the dreaming buds to life,


And beds of flowers appear like the dreams of the earth.


This vernal showers become a touching lullaby to the fatigued souls.


The weeping thatch eaves remind us a smothering loneliness.


Vernal showers are different,they are ephemeral and occasional 


The earth in its excruciating moment of ecstasy 


Exudes an aroma ,petrichor, the scent of long and ravaging spell of separation 


The perfume that is synonymous with moist vernal dusks.


In fact every rain is a convincing panacea that cures our gore of separation. 


The second rain is a moment of reassurance 


That the antique covenant still holds good.


We are sojourners of the blue planet and we have little span of time 


So............?george of the woods 













 Rarity


The festive moods in life are rare 

The rarities make our life meaningful 

Meanings that we cherrypick out of rarefied moments 

Fill our infinitesimal life with joy and delight

Esoteric nature of happiness eludes the majority 

Seldom we are gifted with the quality of finding extemporaneous jubilation in the torching and scorching moments in life 

Which are multifaceted in the march of time

Life is something which should not be trifled with 

Our perceptions and perspectives make all the difference 

Our frugalities with life make it all the more miserable 

Instead of being jubilant with the unsolicited gift 

Some inadvertently make it a mess  some deliberately without fessing up make life intolerable to others 

Who’s to be blamed we we oft find refuge on the dictum 

“As flies to the wanton boys   we to the gods 

they kill us for their sports “

This ought not to be our cocoon our sanctum sanctorum   break it come out of the lethargy of the lotus eaters

Into a wonderful world of bubbling hectic life 

Enjoy rejoice with a glass full of frothing wine 

Gyrate and swirl like the dancer in a Russian ballot 

For life is short   make it worthwhile be philanthropic be full of love not for vested interests 

But for the sake of anthropodicy not for theodicy 

They are snares to trap individuals misguide them simply to be the mass 

To be a puppet to dance to the strings 

Treat the universe as pantheistic see the lord in everything and extend our arms to hug everything as a sleeping cherub hugs his teddy 

Be innocent purge all spite scorn envy hatred wrath to create a vacuum for love to seep in

Let us enthrone love to reign and in that sway find a regimen for everything 

May our life be full of serendipities. 

George 

 Anniversary 

 Here I stand on the threshold of a septuagenarian 

Holding dearly back a flood of evocative retrospection 

All good till now but what to come everything is uncertain 

Whatever to come is  welcome we have no druthers 

Still more will come and more will go yet the quandary of life remains

Leaving behind the apogee of life a conundrum 

But the debonair of a person etched in the mind of others 

Will last till the end of time. 

Gracias amigos

George 


 Christmas Eve 


Heaven descended down on earth 

In the form of an infant 

In a manger in Bethlehem 

Making the people of the world 

Happy and joyous beyond words. 


A comet appeared in the Far East 

To herald the advent of the Holy 

Guiding the Magi towards the manger. 

Making a long and tedious journey 

They came to pay their tribute to the infant 

Who had taken his birth in a sty 

Forgoing the celestial glory to nothing 

To show mankind the folly of 

Glory,fame and power hankering. 


But they realized the value of love 

So they placed their offerings 

" Myrrh,gold and incense "

Kneeling down at the feet of the infant. 


The shepherds in the freezing cold of the night 

Too were given the news of the birth 

By cherubs and seraphs 

Singing in a joyous chorus annunciating 

Peace on earth to those who are pure in mind. 


The whole world rejoiced in the birth 

Except a few whose minds were 

Envious to retain power trivial.   


We celebrate Christmas everywhere 

In a thousand forms and ways. 

It becomes meaningless until 

The Lord is born in our hearts 

To rejuvenate it with a new life. 


But truly we are afraid for we have to 

Abandon much to receive Him in our hearts. 

But our hearts are full with crude 

And subtle envies of thousand forms

Preventing the Lord from entering. 


First we have to purge our hearts 

Of the various vices they are full. 

Can we ever do that?I doubt 

Let's abstain from vices and abjure 

To welcome Him that we must 

In this Christmas season at least. 

George of the woods 




 Confusion 

I reached a ford totally baffled 

The river was turbulent and furious 

Couldn't find a way to cross 

Woe betided me melancholy weighed me down 

I sat down perplexed and perturbed 

Thinking about the next transpose 

I have to cross the river that was certain 

Quite out of the blue a spark dawned on me 

Why have I to cross to the other bank?

Without even understanding the affairs of this bank 

How can I understand the unknown things of the other 

A really mystifying phenomenon 

I thought that the world was ugly and rotten 

Full of canker and rancid in toto

But the realization as Eos brightens the east

Dimpled my murky mind with clarity 

That myself is malicious and have to be cleansed 

Of a zillion trolls of untidy musings that pall 

The quivering bubble of goodness thriving to surface 

I let the reins go ahah!!! I found myself in a different world 

Of beauty and grace   the prancing lilies 

Sparkling blades of grass  buds quivering to open 

The rays of the early morn that flit and dance 

In the gurgling rivulets and flowers of thousand hues 

The gentle breeze wafted the refreshing fragrance of musk rose

 Twinning ivies in the glens 

Filled the vacuum with bliss , 

pure glee 

Everything looks different beautiful and glorious 

I opened my eyes to enjoy the world 

The Earth does not need man

But man needs Earth for his existence 

When will man learn to walk on earth??

George