My Meandering Thoughts

2007-09-19T06:09:00.000-07:00

Alone

I stand alone again
Cut off from others
Who have crowded
Around me in myriads

A single drop which
Looks like every other
But stands out when
Others try to be one

Not deliberate, not intentional
It is something innate
Which has always kept me
Aloof distant and solitary

Neither is it my own wish
For I have often tried to merge
To share the soul, gain the energy
But never have I succeeded

In unifying with others
In new place I gain a newer solitude
I try very hard not be lonely
But something deep down keeps me away

From the mingling crowds
Stopping me from getting washed away
In the sea that’s around me
Something tethers my stance

And so however hard I try I am left
On the shore seeing waves after waves
Leaving satisfied and in company of something
That mattered to them and may not even

But I remain petrified polished and immovable
Like a rock in a sea touched by every wave
Smoothened and pulled by every new gush
Only to leave it alone, solitary and single as it was.

2007-08-03T04:44:00.000-07:00

The Mid Lecture Hunt

In midst of another boring lecture

After the first forty or so minutes

When the first head starts drooping

With eyes full of sleep and slumber

Faces start turning around,

In search of the savior

Nods are acknowledged

And hissings are passed on

To the most probable ones

But even after shared glances

And a few passed on messages

The eyes are still looking for

That wink of solidarity

That nod of confirmation

From the person who

Always had earlier come up

With the solution to this

Perpetual mid class exploration

Suddenly someone stoops

And faces light up in hope

Of finally making the catch

After the long non verbal hunt

It appears at last from under

The bench held furtively by

The same hand that has always

Brought the half empty water bottle.

2007-07-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

New

New people in
The new places
Make you crave
For the old faces

The alien wind
Its new touch
Has a drab feel
Pinching as such

Making aware
Of the home left
Family and friends
Lost in some theft

This sun too has
A different tinge
Here As I sit
Lonely and cringe

From indulging in
The new ways
Trying to hear
What the past says.

But mincing steps
Have to be made
For what you left
Has to fade

So open up and
Soak the sensations
Indulge in those
Forsaken temptations

Try and live up to
The day at your steps
Grow in stature after
The days at the preps

2007-02-11T04:32:00.000-08:00

A lone ray

A lone ray from a tiny creak
Trying hard to fight the dark
All its resources at their peak
A pioneer in some alien park

It burns a path of radiant strand
Into the belly of the black room
Dust shining in every band
As they move hit by its broom

Another ray charging in to help
From another crevasse in the wall
To see a muffling of their yelp
In scaling that obstacle tall

With more warriors flooding in
Every nook with blazing beams
Cutting to pieces the darkness’s kin
As the place now magically gleams

The sun now can make a snort
At the shadow’s hasty retreat
From the garrison and the fort
Spurned by a lone ray’s beat

2007-02-10T03:01:00.000-08:00

When did you

When did you last stop to look
At the leaves falling from above,
The gushing water in some brook,
Inviting you to some unknown alcove

Free from the routines and rush
Of a trifling struggle you indulge in.
And stopped your perpetual push
Into the path of the original sin

Seeking what seems the eternity
To the eyes that see nothing else
Other than making that serendipity
In every heart beat and pulse

Blockading all sights and visions
Of a nature which also exist
Beyond the walls of prisons
Made by your mind egoist

When did you last have a moment?
To spare listening to a bird’s chirping
In this world where every second is lent
By some deadline or projects’ timing.

When did you last hear the beating
Of your own heart with so much pain
At making for yet another meeting
In hope of getting that eluding gain

So stop, hear, look, sense and feel
Everything you took for granted
To be useless and waste like a peel
Of the fruit every one always wanted

2007-02-05T06:27:00.000-08:00

Let’s Dream

Let’s dream of a world sans fences
Where motion had no barriers
No diversions in path and no trenches
To keep at bay the various carriers

Of joy, love, care and human touch
Flowing from soul to soul freely
Not only when need arose as such
But as if by gravity pulling gaily

A world where happiness is contagious
Enough to spread by a single smile
To even a person highly tenacious
In being sorrowful mile after mile

A world where giving is valued
Above par with aimless accretion
Of the junk which gets glued
In search of that vanity accreditation

A world favouring generosity
Towards every deserving soul
Without calling it charity
For achieving some great goal

A world where expression is free
On all matters that affect the masses
Bringing in sorrow reducing the glee
Of the person over whom it passes

Let’s strive to create this world in here
Where we sleep, wake, loose, win, live, and die
And if it needs a conscience much more clear
Then at least dream of it until we begin to hie.

2007-02-04T02:23:00.000-08:00

No need of Words

Words are never needed
In a world where love is felt
And emotions are heeded
Like snow which could melt

Words are for the weak
Negating the power divine
Which needs no one to speak
Out feelings yours or mine

True love flows like water
Down the plains on its own
To the rightful quarter
Where it’s coming was known

For love creates its own maze
And makes its own puzzles
Woven through its blissful haze
Spreading down its glorious aisles

Testing all but the true spirited
With a pure heart and clear vision
Of the path since long lighted
By an inner strength in every season

If it need be spoken then
It would be forcing its way
Into some secluded den
Even if on Valentine’s Day

2007-02-02T01:53:00.000-08:00

Future Vision

The line of my future vision
Neither straight nor askew
Has no destination or mission
Other than being with you

You are to be my way
And also its very end
You will only hold sway
As I turn and bend

Around those obstacles
Placed along the road
Leading to the spectacles
In every phase and mode

But still I would turn
To see the greatest sight
That would lay by my side
Exquisite, fragrant and bright

You all along by my side
Holding hands and hearts
In silence, taking pride
In being one since the start.

2007-01-26T07:39:00.000-08:00

Let’s Walk

Let’s walk these ways slow
Leaving every one else while
We let our feelings flow
In traversing mile after mile

Soaking the sun and feeling
The winds in our faces
As visions keep on reeling
With every step, at all paces

The hearts loosing a few thumps
To keep beating in resonance
A new sensation giving goose bumps
In this mystic aura ambiance

Words need not be spoken to talk
As thoughts flow through the hands
Held all along this celestial walk
Magically by a wizard’s wands

Not looking for a destination or end
It’s the walking which is the prize
Be it one of the straights or some bend
Falling at times only to be able to rise

Will love walking on and on for eternity
In Company of your exquisite presence
Only the binary of us and no trinity
As far as our eyes can see and sense.

2007-01-01T08:04:00.000-08:00

New Year

Same day and the same night
Nothing seems extra bright
In the year that has come now
For we remain same any how

New resolutions come along
Clamoring bells going a gong
With cries of imminent change
Of ways that have been strange

Had mere taking them changed
Features that no one harangued.
Upright and reasoned would be
Each of us for the world to see

Note the mistakes of the year gone
Forsaking them when the sun shone
We always grow most by correction
Rather than piling on further addition

Hope is a tool to rekindle life
In souls that have always been strife
Remembrance always shows the path
That has the least resistance and wrath

So look back and attain growth
Run fast shun being a sloth
Keep the days gone by as a guide
Success will then fight on your side.

2006-12-17T20:38:00.000-08:00

Frosty Struggle

On a cold frosty
Winter night
He sits huddled
With his plight

Of faring the still
More freezing days
Under the broken shed
In this blinding haze

A daunting task
For a man of few means
To keep alive while
Death nearby gleans

The others who
Lay under the stars
Without any wounds
Cuts or scars

Another war he, will
Have to fight
To stay alive to
See next day’s light

Some how or other
He still manages
To stand firm while
Life still rummages

For weaker souls
Who never struggled
Never bore pain
Always wriggled

But he will have
The same struggle tomorrow
To hold back life
When death begins borrow.

© Ritu Raj
12/17/2006 11:52:38 PM

2006-10-12T08:20:00.000-07:00

A Lonely River

A lonely river in a dusty plain
Making a pattern of watery chain
Goes on for as far as eyes can see
For eternity into the distant sea

Does not know the very banks
Protecting it with supporting flanks
Even the lone companion is unknown
The sun who has come and gone

Without any words or even a salutation
In the long journey of its salvation
To its lord the mighty sea
That blesses it with gratitude and glee

On completing the journey alone
Without any help or a guiding stone
On and on for years at times
Fighting solitude, silence and rough climes

The goal was worth the arduous trail
The shores washed in the Holy Grail
Welcomed it into its mighty fold
To live there for ever and never get old

Ritu Raj

2006-10-03T09:12:00.000-07:00

Rain

Bathing the trees drenching the earth
Washing Sarcasm bringing in mirth
In the long dry days of simmering heat
Here comes the rain to the clouds’ beat

Blinding the sun with a dusty gale
A prelude of vitality to things went pale
Riding on the backs of tumultuous clouds
Some times alone at time in crowds

Starts with a gentle drizzle pampering the plains
The drops cleansing the summer stains
Many a things died waiting for the show
But still others receiving the energy to grow

With the stout clouds blockading the sun
Rain keeps pouring and brook start to run
Quenching the thirst of the dry parched land
Floats in gaiety even the last grain of sand

It pours from the sky and they grow from the earth
A new ring of life a lively nature’s girth
Life flows in rivers in form of the waves
And he will grow greatest the most who saves

2006-09-20T11:20:00.000-07:00

The gentle breeze

The gentle breeze silently blows
Alone for miles as the sun glows
Doing whatever little it can
Cooling the masses’ burning tan

Bringing relief however small
On its path of perpetual roll
Receiving a gift of sweaty beads
In lieu of its cooling deeds

Never feels ashamed or frail
In walking the scorching sunny trail
Or taking on the mightier rival
Even taking with it a path of revival

Of life drying and dying in the heat
Oppressed and fallen bound by a cleat
A small speckle of life it brings
The last drop from the last wring

Carrying a hope of resurrection
Even in midst of the destruction
Has lessons, for many to learn
Of how to stand even in a churn

Of never getting bogged down
From the shine of the opponent’s crown
Doing whatever it is destined
Small, big, askew or aligned

2006-09-17T09:37:00.000-07:00

Celestial Battles
Hurriedly came the gasping night
After the day long arduous fight
To overpower the glazing sun
In the end of this daily run.

It’s reign now very imminent
Over everything vague or pertinent
Overcoming the fatigue of the acclivity
It overpowers all in its serendipity

The sun now hides below the seas
Its actions and attack in the freeze
Taking a rest between the blows
While the opponent rightly glows

The night rules supreme now
Darkness and silence coming in tow
The masses oblige to this dictate
Silent spectators of this change in fate

But still pockets of resistance remain
The stars the moon hard to refrain
Show the mettle of their worth
That, not all surrender on the earth

The day stealthily creeps back
Mounting from distance a new attack
And witness to this new battle
The birds announce in their tattle

That soldiers of the day quickly grow
Piercing the night with its deadly prow
The commander now appears, proud
Driving away the few opponents crowd

The night retreats back to its shell
Some anonymous cell in a faraway dell
The earth has now come a complete circle
Bringing balance to this majestic chronicle.

2006-03-17T14:20:00.000-08:00

Went on walking

Days of solitude
days of pain
miles to walk
in hope of some gain

A distant sun
with slanting rays
behind daunting clouds
Stands in new ways.

A gentle breeze
scattering the leaves
making new patterns
in designs it weaves.

No one in sight
for miles at stretch
A single man walks
lonley silent and wretch

With no goals
and no mission
goes on walking
as a submission.

He went on walking
on and on.
For longer miles
he still was gone.

2006-03-02T07:07:00.000-08:00

A Girl Stands

• A girl stands for courage
To face all evil
• A girl stands for creativity
To make life fresh
• A girl stands for vigor
To keep things moving
• A girl stands for direction
To guide frail steps
• A girl stands for strength
To drive away fear
• A girl stands for charm
To bring in happiness
• A girl stands for beauty
To light up things
• A girl stands for truth
To keep us aware
• A girl stands for passion
To rekindle the fire.
• A girl stands for care
To cradle the life.
• A girl stands for compassion
To raise the fallen
• A girl stands for candor
To maintain righteousness
• A girl stands for justice
To unite us together.
• A girl stands for vivacity
To drive away numbness
• A girl stands for fragrance
To make life sweeter
• A girl stands for symphony
To bring coherence
• A girl stands for harmony
To maintain the balance.
• A girl stands for dedication
To keep revs up
• A girl stands for love
For having started it.
• A girl stands for treasure
To the one, who has her.
• A girl stands for pleasure
From the sheer sight of hers.

2006-02-14T00:49:00.000-08:00

Valentines Day

You love one, love two, even love three
Whatever the number but is it free?
Bound in chains or fenced in walls
Can it go on its own to take its falls?

Love should flow like a river in a plain
Meander it should without seeking any gain
Its turns and twists should be its own
Unique it must be, never a clone.

When it tries to copy any previous form
It is then that it ends in a storm.
Never dictate it terms or conditions
Move with closed eyes without any premonitions.

Until the essence sinks into the heart
Dead it remains not trying to start.
Let love float seamlessly in the air
Do not offer it a house seat or chair.

Radiant you become when it is found
It creeps unknowingly without any sound.
And you don’t remember March, April or May
When you engross the elixir of Valentines Day.

RITU RAJ

2006-02-14T00:13:00.000-08:00

Hi guys I am starting my blog from the day of love valentines
day. So to start Here I present a Poem of mine

Valentines Day

You love one, love two even love three
Whatever the number but is it free?
Bound in chains or fenced in walls
Can it go on its own to take its falls?

Love should flow like a river in a plain
Meander it should without seeking any gain
Its turns and twists should be its own
Unique it must be, never a clone.

When it tries to copy any previous form
It is then that it ends in a storm.
Never dictate it terms or conditions
Move with closed eyes without any premonitions.

Until the essence sinks into the heart
Dead it remains not trying to start.
Let love float seamlessly in the air
Do not offer it a house seat or chair.

Radiant you become when it is found
It creeps unknowingly without any sound.
And you don’t remember March, April or May
When you engross the elixir of Valentines Day.

RITU RAJ

2006-02-11T12:06:00.000-08:00