The famous American
Writer, Napoleon Hill
Once said:
What the mind of man
Can conceive and believe,
It can achieve.
So can I achieve
A win over you,
Or have I already
Won over you? :)
Some People
Some people
If you talk to them
Once, you don't
Feel like talking
To them again
And some people
If you talk to them
Once, you feel like
Talking to them
Again and again
Time and again
Forever again...
Daily
Not a day
Goes by
When I
Don't say
To her that
I love her...
'Cause
I feel so
Blessed
To have
A daughter
Like her
(People may find it funny and may even laugh at me but the bonding that I share with my daughter makes me feel so much Love for her that for the past many years, almost every morning and every evening begins and ends with the words love you from me to her - she's lost count of the number of times I've said this to her and even I have ;-)
Kulbir Ji
Kulbir Ji,
You write
So well
As if
Your
Words
Flow out
Of a holy
Well :-)
To cast
On us a
Magical
Spell :-)
(Theme: Appreciation, dedicated to our dear old Kulbir Ji, many a composition of his has made it to my Ed's Choice collection of Boloji Poetry as he writes too good)
Peerless
Seeing him
I don't know
Whether to
Smile or cry
Oh God,
Why did you
Make him die?
You should have
Made him Amar
The Immortal One
For he's the
Inimitable One.
None of those
Singers can
Replace him
Not a single one
He'll always remain
The Peerless One...
(dedicated to my Beloved Kishore; wrote this poem while seeing one of his songs, sung and enacted by him)
Gossip
It's so
Easy
To write
So much
About the
Dead -
'Cause
About them
Whatever
Is being said,
They'll not
Come to
Refute it
'Cause
They are
Dead.
(Theme could be Rumour / Slander)
Wrong or Right?
There was a
Time, whatever
You did -
You always thought
You were right :-)
And now here
Comes a time,
When you think
What you did,
Was it wrong
Or right? ;-)
(Theme: Hindsight)
Today
Today
Someone
Called up
His voice
Was so
Like yours
All the
Memories
Flooded in
I became
Again yours
(Theme: Nostalgia)
Talk
The widow
And the
Widower
Talk to
Each other
Hoping that
One day
They would be
Together
(Theme: Hope)
Life
As the
Years
Go by
You realise
That you've
Been delving
Deep into
Yourself
Than into
Others
Your
Journey
Of life
Finally
Becomes
More about
Yourself
Than about
Others
(Theme: Realization)
The Internet
The internet
Has got
So much
To teach
That I find
One life
Too short
To learn
As there
Is still so
Much...
Out of
Reach
(Theme: Learning, dedicated to all those numerous websites that have a wealth of knowledge to share with us, and the more we absorb from them, the more they exceed us)
In Love
In Love
You can
Never
Plan
Ahead
Why?
'Cause
By the
Time
You've
Planned
Ahead
Your
Heart
Has
Already
Raced
Ahead
And
Foiled
All your
Plans ;)
Easy
Monologues
Are easy
Dialogues
Are hazy
Your self
Will always
Agree with
Whatever
You say
Others
May not
Agree
To what all
You say
Talk to yourself
And see if you can find
Any clarity in what I say
;-)
Walk
With his
Hand
On her
Shoulder
He goes
For a walk
Seeing
Them
Together
I go for a
Mind-Walk
Seeking a
Poem to
Write on them
Till they
Come back
From their
Weekly walk
(Theme: Walking, written after seeing a young couple who live near our house)
So Late
If you
Marry
So late
And have
Children
So late
When
You'll
Go to
Pick up
Your
Children
From
School,
Instead
Of a
Parent
You'll
Look
Like
A
Grandparent
;-)
(Theme: Parenting, written on seeing the increasing trend of men and women having children so late that many of the parents who come to pick up their children from schools, look like grandparents)
Garage Man
He spends
Most of his
Time in his
Garage,
Looking
After his
Cars,
Bike,
Scooter
And cycle.
His wife and
Son longingly
Look at him,
Waiting to see
When he'll be free
From this dragging
Routine of his
Vehicular cycle
(Theme: Observation, written after observing one of my neighbours who spends more time with his vehicles than with his family)
Suddenly
Suddenly
The Sun
Goes down,
Suddenly
I start
Feeling cold
Reminding
Myself that
Youth -
Eventually
Leaves us
And we all
Grow old...
Did We?
Did we
Leave behind
Our lust
While
Copulating?
Did we
Leave behind
Our love
While copulating?
Did we
Leave behind
Our pain
While
Copulating?
Did we
Leave behind
Our pleasure
While
Copulating?
If the answer is No,
Then how can we
Expect our progeny
To be devoid of
Love, lust, pain
And pleasure..?
Because he is
What we had ventured to be,
An amalgam of all the feelings
That led us to the processes of
Impregnating and procreating...
(Theme: Continuity)
All Poems © Aparna Chatterjee 2014
Photo of Napoleon Hill sourced from Wikimedia
