Memories

 

Leaving your old job and people is not easy-peasy. Certain thoughts rattled through my mind on sudden thinking of Mandlawada. I made an attempt to pen down those thoughts.

A thousand memories

Flashed through my mind

From the moment I departed

A thousand memories 

Memories of laughter, 

Memories of repast

Memories of health yoga

And there are certain memories

That left me aghast

Memories of teaching

Memories of learning

Memories of concern and care

The class, the board, the classrooms

The memories of self-being

Everything  is indelible

All remains pasted to the heart

Everything  gets recorded in memories

Of whatever happened in the past

Though a very small gesture

Yet I'm grateful to all of you

For all the invaluable times

That I spent with all of you

Nothing of new things is easy to imbibe

Cumbersome enough to drill through each mindset

A sudden realization came eventually with Everything new

That how the adventurous and familial times flew

It do pained while leaving all of you

But gleefulness too befalled

With the thought that I'm 

Carrying a box of memories

And a lot to be recalled.

Heartfelt thanks to all of you.

A trip- a memory

 

Me, Suhasini Gupta, Harsha Goyal, and Rani Soni

On 12th May, we went to Bhopal for Document verification of Grade 1 posts. A trip was executed out with (Harsha, Suhasini, and Rani) mam; it wasn't an adventurous trip but a very objective trip, yet it became memorable. In form of a very short poem, I have made an effort to cherish memories of this trip.

A trip with an aim

There all had motives same

A wonderful company

Rani, Harsha, Suhasini were their name

The trip started at exact ten

And soon the first break came

A halt meant for refreshment

Harsha brought lassi to entertain

The car was now in flame

And before the time we reached to play our game

Hitesh, Vivek, and Kushagra were angels there

Succored me with all their fame

Envisaged the countenance of many

Who I knew only in name

Had lunch on the premises

to accompany the driver Basant came

The DV of all was over

And happiness came into the frame

Exited from Venue

The moment to beat the heat came

 

At Sagar Gaire, relished our choices

Suhasini had nothing to declaim

Finally exited from Bhopal

Craving for stimulants came

A mid-way retreat halt

All had their choices by default

A memoir snap and Rani's turn

Beverages were served, but laziness to refrain

 Continuance of the return

With anxiety on faces to exclaim

I got down at my home

And the lovely trip came to an end.

 

Loneliness

Some alone things shine

 Loneliness or liveliness

A confused state of mind

The dusk of life leaves alone

With nobody to find

A beating heart, a thinker's brain

Incites the feeling of being alive

A grope into their vitals

Only emptiness and no one to reside

The gloom, a share of the soul

Anima rebelling against solitude

The vainglory might have devastated me if

The massive effect of perfection hadn't left loneliness to subside

The altruism of the lonely moon

pleases with a brief flash of beauty

The loneliness is not always homely

but now and again maybe a real hot patootie

The moments when the feeling engulfs

That no one truly knows us

A buzz in the air reminds

That loneliness is just an iota away from us

Loneliness is a regretful teacher

Instills an important lesson

All the comforts one is surrounded with

Cannot put loneliness to barren 

The loneliness of some is due to fate

It's unworthy to debate on their state

Though surrounded by masses always

Loneliness is time and again on their plate

Loneliness with time may pare

An illusion happens many a time

The feeling that no one care

Cause loneliness to shine 

I'm not alone but everyone senses

A kind of loneliness in life

Pointing out that no one's soul

is complete from inside

Chalk

Chalk

Though this day, I am a worthless object

Yet been a member of

The plethora of meaningful projects

Driven a meaningful life

I drew the lines for

Memorable history and miraculous science

Brought Arts and Language

To humans conscience

I Had the honor to calculate the math

Through small angles and lines

Draw the diagrams when I was worthwhile

And fell off eventually

As a worthless iron dime

Once upon a time, I colored the rainbow

With seven colors with which I shined

All the colors faded off gradually

And left out a powdery sign

I got compressed by the hurrying feet

Got strewed here and there with time

A teacher's weapon for distant students

The teachers' ally

To make student's future shine

Development took a reverse cycle

From full length to the powder-fine

With time eternal

The significance declined

Gather the finer me

And mold into the original mine

Give me life and a chance

Again to live with a perfect shine

Probably, I'll repeat the history

Uninteresting, but make it exciting

Dwell in more creativity

And make a lot of faces smile

Tomorrow will come

 

Sun will shine again

It is a commonplace maxim that

Tomorrow never comes

But it's a natural certitude

That tomorrow always comes

Use your today in a

Fulsome effective way

Tomorrow will bring

Opportunities to keep one busy all the way

Jobs shelved, jobs pending due to constraints

they will get eventually done

Move ahead with positivity

And with stern optimism

Tomorrow maybe a new day or a new life

But I'm sure it will be mine

Certainly; a day will come

When I will again shine

New dawn, a new beginning

It will surely be a magical one

Tomorrow maybe not be as sad as today

Elated; to think about the time that would come

Leave everything behind, as it is all over.

And march forward to pass into; what you want to become

At one time, it will end a wait for tomorrow

But start craving for the further one

Dissipated in thin air

Fear dissipated in thin air

In the earlier poem I expressed my feelings over the mistake made by the officials ........but unwittingly the fears generated by this small, though crucial mistake will dissipate so easily, is something which I never assumed of.  Thanks to the cooperation, concern, and care of all my new peers.

Doleful at the thought of being a miscast

The fear of instability left me aghast

With the new dawn and peers

The past was fading gradually but fast

Set off in fear and trepidation

Though it means nothing anyway

Destiny was put into question

That how long will I outlast

With head held high and increased palpitation

And trust in divine providence

A new chapter of life was going to blossom

Uncertain moved ahead at last

Aliens will attain the familiarity

There will be solidarity

With hopes, Entered the first room

And fortunately,, it was a blast

The cooperativeness and concern

Of Pachori sir made  forget,

That there was a strange fear

Unnecessarily made in the cast

Krishna liberates one from all the complications

And so was Jagdish Sir, a key to all the solutions

Caliber and indefatigability

Added to personality, hast vast

A gleeful simper in an ingratiating manner

Pleased and Contended, a tree of chanar

Helping hands always at the door

‘Sujata mam’, an epitome of modesty, nothing to gast

In the aide of Ram with laconicism paired

A lot of cooperation, help, and care

The congenial staff and amenability everywhere

The fear and worries eventually

Dissipated into invisible thin air

God is with me alltimes

Through the good or bad, I know God is always with me

 In childhood, the heart was an empty vessel

The existence of God was instilled in me

Accepted it with a blind eye

And continued 

life with glee

So, never I denied the existence of God

But, defied him several times

As Mother taught lesson with a rod

God taught me a lesson to shine

Sometimes I damn the God

Oblivious to the acts that were kind

The idiocy was realized

Of course slowly with time

In the time precarious

His purchase was divine

Smirked to remember, I beseeched him on times

 Crucial to me were they, 

A marvel always awaited me

And, Gradually the worries dwine

Got succored by a hidden force

Not once but all the times

Plodded through ups and downs

Life is an unraveled twine

Afresh with new complexities

But no worries this time

'Coz I know, he has been with me

Not once but all times