Little questions

 I had written this poem years ago when i was in sixth std...its all about a child's curiosity...

                                            Little questions

Many questions to ask
No answers to be found
I looked round and round
Whom should i ask


Many questions arise
I should find someone wise
To answer them all..
The questions are but small


How can the birds fly
And why is the moon so high?
I wonder why does the sun  hide
In the hills beside!


Who gave colours to the rainbow?
And what made the nature woe?
Is it because of the changing man
who destroys her whenever he can?


In autumn why the leaves are shed?
Is it because there is none to hear what they said?
Why are tears like raindrops?
And why is man full of hopes?


In spring why flowers bloom?
In winter why they are in gloom?
What made the birds sing
And spread out their wing?


Why does the tendril hug a tree?
And why does the caged bird want to be free?
Is it because freedom is great
And is slavery something we hate?


Who made the life so colourful?
Who made it joyful and sorrowful?
Who made it as fast as light?
Who made it as beautiful as sunset?


There are lot many questions more
To get answers for.
If someone comes to answer them
Im sure he can answer only some..


I will wait and see..
Who comes to answer me...
Is there anyone who can answer all?
The questions are but small!!

REMEMBERING YOU

I remember u when the sun goes down,
When the dark night leaves me alone...
When stars do wink at me and say,
You are so far far away..


 I remember you when the evening paints
The blue sky red and gold and it pains
Me too; to think of you and long gone days
Which fills my heart with evening rays..


I remember you when this lovely rain
Chatter down my window pane...
Down the lane of mind..alone i fidget
For memories are too sweet to forget.!


I remember you when this little breeze
caress me..my hair and forlorn trees
And the fragrance of my jasmine flowers
Bring your thoughts under the summer showers..


I remember you dear as days fly away
Life goes on..But never rewinds a day
I remember you and thats all i can do..
And my silent prayers..my Gift for you..

A PORTRAIT OF LIFE

Some people say life is a game;
But others dont think the same
"Life is a challenge" they may say
Or something for which we cant pay.




"what is life?" everybody asks
But agrees it is full of tasks
We can say life is a delicious dish
Or a race with an unknown finish


With sweet memories and bitter moments
With sugary friends and salty foes
All agree there is gain and loss
And life ,it is so nice...


To astronomers life is as endless as space
Which some people end in a haste..
To scientists life is something new
Which is yet to discover for you..


To an engineer life is a plan
To a doctor it is the service u can
To a musician life is a melody
To a minister it is caring for the needy...


To a writer life is a book of hopes
Whose pages are wet with tear drops
To a poet it is a journey;unknown
Where we meet and part our beloveds and go on..


To a child life is a world of colours
A world of trees and flowers
When we are aged life is loneliness
With none but memories with us...


To a student it is the fulfilling of an aim
to the youth it is the enjoying time
To a mother it is sacrifice and care
to a father it is the moments to share...


Each life has something to tell
Before parting to heaven or hell
A message to us it has to convey
Before we select our own way....




Life is something which we cant predict
Only we can flow with it's current
Don't care about it's beginning or end
Realize how usefully it should be spent!

THE ANGEL OF HOPE

You meet me often with my basket
And i have golden keys to your dream's casket..
I sail through the sky with my basket of hopes
And pour from it..pretty rain drops!!

Why are you sad ,my little human
when there awaits you,the eternal heaven?
Learn to dream,aim high and fly
Let there be no tears left for me to dry.........


Be bold;face life as it is...
Be charming as the evergreen trees..
Never you fret;for life's too sweet to hold
A lovely tale..beautifully told..


Smile at worries coming your way
Shed a tear;but gone is yesterday
sweet are memories....but caress more
The footprints you leave today on sea shore!!


Accept realities before its late
Let there be nothing you ever hate..
For i shall fill your bowls with heavenly love
and  keep you smiling like stars above..


Do to the world the good you can
and you will be the greatest man....
Enlighten your life with hopes and dreams
For the world is not what it seems...

So come ,you earthly thing..hold my hand
As i guide you with my magic wand..
when you have lived this life's  to the fullest,when you die...
On to the heavens we shall together fly..........

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An Ode To Autumn Leaves

   

                                                      Oh!autumn leaves sad and dry
                                                      You weep looking towards the sky
                                                      Shivering on the branches of a tree
Afraid to fall;yet longing to be free....


Coloured with memories old
Alone in the bitter cold
Whispering to yourselves u stay
Watching the day fade away....


When u hear the wind's flute
U suddenly go very mute
Afraid to be carried off
Yet in the air longing to float!!


Many a sunray u have touched...
Much in mist and fog u were engulfed
Silvered by the lightning amidst night;
An adorned bride in morning light.


You have stayed for long
A life as a melodious as a song
Now is to end. as you are off
In this autumn wind u are carried off....


like my memories u fly
Beneath the pale autumn sky
Down here u lie as a heap
From a life so short to a sleep so deep.....


It reminds me of the shattered dreams of man
I know nothing ever can
Bring that green back on ur cheeks of gold......
Here i sat sad, and weak and old


Under this lonely autumn tree
Whispering to her" oh,tree...u are like me"
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The Last day in my old school

As I took the last flight of stairs..
From the past, from my old school.
Tears filled my eyes,remembering my school days
here i m leaving forever,my old school


I felt the laughter in the corridors die away
when  we friends part each on his way..
All in a hurry to colour their undrawn future
Smashing behind them the rich oil-portraits f past


The teachers stood their waving to us
Was there tears behind their eyes
The gentle hands that helped shape us
Shivering due to cold or sadness ; i know not


The same hands that welcomed us years ago
Will continue their jobs to kids years hence
And when they are ready to leave,with a good bye
not caring to thank those hands they step away..




The playground that echoed our shouts and cries..
Lay still...Here only silent good byes
Never will our feet touch that sands again
For time has swept us ahead through many a summer and rain!!


The classrooms that chorused our song
And cheered our achievements all along
The benches and desks which shared our whispers
All lie so cold and abandoned like torn of pictures


The garden trees alone let a mourn very low
They were small when i joined here years ago
And in these twelve years time can change..and we too change!!


Only when its time to take leave of things
We realize how precious they are to us
By that time it will be too late
For we are controlled by invisible hands of fate...


Here in my school I learnt rights from wrongs
Alphabets, words, poems,and songs
Here i developed my mind
And learnt to be truthful and kind


Here i met my friends...those friendships
Which helped me survive hardships...
Oh my school, words are not enough to thank you
For u have given me worlds best teachers too..


Now i leave you forever, my school
stepping to the future, a last glance back..
But your memories  in me will lie
Eternal sweet and pure,till i die.......!!!!