It is a sunny day today

Time to keep your frowns at bay

Let a smile light up your face

Let twinkling eyes your face grace

Count your blessings each day

Upto us to be happy and gay

Every time the clouds of gray go

It’s time to find your own rainbow.

Like a child with a treasure found

I with new found pleasure abound

Discover myself and explore new skills

I find peace in my solitude, can’t sit still

With my colours and words

Pictures I portray

With wonders and dreams

I wake up each day

Relaxed I feel and happy too

Great sense of realising my self true

Humming a tune, I relish each day

No longer a burden, my stress at bay

Nothing has changed on the outside though

Life continues to be a conundrum so

Issues many to be resolved

Inwards, I feel a contentment though

Probably, this is the meaning of learning to live

Less to take and more to give

Richness of thought is what you need

Everything else is a myth indeed.

You may your coffers with wealth fill

In your mind, there will be unease still

Further to climb and further the goal

When will you find time for your soul?

What is, isn’t

What isn’t , is

Takes awhile to make sense of this

Neither black nor completely white

A shade of gray always in sight

In this complex tapestry of life

In every mind a constant strife

What’s right for you may not be for me

Let each with his own thoughts be

Each Day is a present

Each day is a present

I wake up and wonder

Just what the day holds for me

Each day is a gift to be opened

To see what’s in store for me.

Each day is but an experience

That life imparts to us

Foolish are we that cling on

To events that happen to us

If we have but learnt from the day

Its time to move on for us

Tomorrow comes after today

Time gallops on but thus

If we cling on to the present

And take no action jus’

Time will change and we’ll repent

Having missed the bus.

Up and down, and round and round

The roller coaster of life goes around

One moment you feel on top of the world

The next you are completely floored

Take the highs with the lows

No reason to feel morose

The attitude is the key, I suppose

To come out smelling like a rose

Darkness comes but with it brings

Hope for better and brighter things

For after winter comes the spring

For flowers to bloom and birds to sing.

Like the two faces of a coin though

Joy and Woe are woven so.

Good times don’t last nor bad ones too

Upto us to understand the nature of life true.

Today is the harbinger of tomorrow

nurture today to build the morrow

Death

Death is certain 

Death is enigmatic

Death is mysterious

Death is unknown

Death is fascinating

Is Death an end or a new beginning?

Hope

Hope the word life revolves around

Hope the word that keeps us sound

Hope for what is lost to be found

Hope for times to turn around

Hope for when we with joy abound

Hope for when our feet don’t touch the ground.

Smile

Smile – the act that lights up your face

Smile – the something that fills you with grace

Smile – something that we must do some more

Smile – to our lives we must restore

Smile – and brighten others’ lives

Smile – in this world of war and strife

Smile – for that’s what we are meant to do

Smile – just do it without much ado

Focus

Focus on give and not on take

Focus on love and not on hate

Focus on life and not on strife

Focus on calm and not on storm

Focus on peace and not unease

Focus on hope and not despair

Focus on future and not on past

Focus on action for time won’t last.

Life - a bed of roses

Who said Life was a bed of roses?

Even if it were, who said a bed of roses would be comfortable.

For roses come complete with thorns

No pleasure comes with pain shorn

The many faces of life

Life is a conundrum – solve it

Life is a challenge – take it

Life is a treasure – find it

Life is a gift – open it

Life is a mystery – unravel it

Life is a pleasure – savour it

Life is a pain – endure it

Life is a battle – fight it

Life is a game – play it

Life is a voyage – travel it

Life is a destination – discover it

Life is a roller coaster – ride it

Life is a meal – cook it

Life is a dessert – enjoy it

Life is a movie – watch it

Life is a roleplay – act it

Life is an adventure – explore it

Life is an anagram – unscramble it

Life is a code – decipher it

Life is a race – win it

Life is life – Just live it.

I like it on the counter

I like it on the chair

I like it on the table

I like it anywhere

I like it in the cupboard

Especially if it’s bare

I know I must seem sloppy

But do I really care

I like it in the bedroom

I like it under the stair

It’s just a matter of preference

I like it everywhere.

Old is Gold

Why is it then that some people talk

with clear intent to hurt?

Is it wise of them to butt in

without understanding the words?

Is it necessary to take a counter stand

to just  a point oppose?

With friends like these, surely,

you don’t need any foes.

Never forget friends of old

I’m sure you have been told.

For new friends are but like silver

But old is surely gold.

The morning after

So we rose to the occasion

And created a night

An event to remember

No dissenters in sight

Interesting to note

That all the critics

Are suddenly coming out with plaudits

Where was this faith when things went wrong?

Now that the world is awed, all are quick to sing a song.

With lessons learnt, I pray we lift our game.

Contribute to the nation’s pride and not it’s shame.

Happy Birthday

Man of principles

Apostle of peace

Humanity his ethos

Approach so novel it shook the world

The father of a liberated nation

Martyr who put the nation before self

A leader by example

Giant among men

A thinker with foresight

Non violence his creed

Did not hanker for power

Honesty his virtue

India’s gift to the world