Life

Thru the
Window
Of the
Gym
I see
An old
Woman
Walking

Some years
Down the line
There'll be a
Young woman
In the Gym
Seeing me
Walking...

Theme: Cycle

(This poem came to me today while cycling in the Gym)







There Were...

There were
Three cars
In the house

Must be
People
There too

But when
You ring
The bell
To talk to
Them, nobody
Opens the door
To you

(wrote this poem after seeing someone standing outside our neighbour's door for quite some time and then walking away as nobody answered the doorbell, though I knew there were at least 3 people inside the house as they all have their own cars which they drive out when they leave home; this could be the growing urban trend across many cities around the globe)







Every Day

Every day
I pray to
Get thru
The day
For I don't know
What will come
My way...
Whether it will
Make my day
Or lead me
Astray...






Morning

Morning
Cuppa
And
Cigarette
In hand

Health
And
Death
Go
Hand
In hand

(wrote this after seeing one of my neighbours standing in his balcony, inhaling the fresh morning air, sipping his hot tea and smoking his daily cigar)






You

You
Let them
Handle

You
Let them
Go

You
Let them
See

You
Let them
Know

For they
Also
Need
Their
Space
To grow

(addressed to parents with regard to children)






Living

Living
With
The
Living
And
The
Dead

You
Feel
As if
Life
Goes
From
Green
To red.


The first word 'Living' means 'to live'
The living and the dead implies those who are alive and those who have died but are still alive in our memories.
In this poem, life is perceived as a set of traffic lights wherein the human traffic of this earth begins with green (which is birth) and stops with red (which is death)






Fight

You can
Fight
With
Yourself

You can
Fight
With me

You
Can
Even
Fight
With
The
Whole
World

In your
War of
Words
And Might
You can
Win or
Lose,
Possibly

But
No use
Fighting
Your
Destiny

Whatever
Is destined,
It's bound to be...

(Theme: Destiny)






Having

Having
Treated
Us with
His
Literary
Fest

His opus
Being one of
The best

He's finally
Got a place
To rest.

Amen!

(dedicated to Dr. C.S. Shah who's one of my favourite Boloji writers)






Dreams

The dreams
You dread
Having are of your
Parents dying...
And your wet eyes
That never stop
Crying...


(Theme: Nightmare)

Now that my parents have grown old, I often keep having these sordid dreams that I would never want to have; the fear of losing my parents is very oppressive.


All the above Poems © Aparna Chatterjee 2014

Not many People know

That he's an accomplished artist having had exhibitions of his nice paintings and he used to work in Bank of India before becoming an eminent actor, producer & director.

I've seen many of his movies and I really liked the 'Aam Aadmi' image he portrayed in his films that we all could relate to...

In my teenage years, his TV serial Kacchi Dhoop was one of my favourites.

Recently, I liked his movie Paheli so much that I even wrote a poem on it :-)

http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Poem&PoemID=11704

Twice married, he has two daughters. His first wife was Chitra and his second wife is Sandhya Gokhale.

He talks of himself as an actor by accident, a producer by compulsion and a director by choice.

If you want to know more about this 'Aam Aadmi' actor-producer-director, there is a biography at the end of this playlist that I made yesterday (24th November) on his 70th Birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2Wr4O1JamC9NN3fSGC-nYH5m6qV0Td

Happy Seeing :-) and of course, as always here are some Quotes for you to read and reflect.

These are all from my daily notes that I make from my Favourite newspaper NPPQ :-)

It's easier to make new friends than hold on to old ones. - Malou Gil

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. - Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

If You feel hollow, let Me be the one, who fills You up with Love. Let Me free the butterflies within. Just open Your heart, and let Me in. - Philip T. M.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. - Ovid

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. - Earl Wilson

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. - Albert Einstein

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. - Paul Sweeney

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. - Erich Fromm

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. - Albert Einstein

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? - Erich Fromm

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. - Marilyn Monroe

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. - Dick Armey

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. - Maya Angelou

That's all my sharing for now,

Phir Milenge :)
Alvida, Aparna

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. - Yogi Desai

Gone

They've all
Gone
To the
Cremation
Ground
To see
What
Happens
When
Life
Runs
Aground

(wrote this today after calling home and finding that Baba wasn't at home as he had gone with his neighbours to cremate one of his neighbours)

© Aparna Chatterjee 2014

Songs + Quotes

Today I bring to you a new playlist on one of my favourite film personalities.

He would have turned 70 next year had he been here with us.

He was an actor, producer and director who has charmed us with his good looks, enchanting smiles and superb acting in over 100 Bollywood movies.

He was born in Amritsar in 1945, has married thrice during his lifetime but sadly died of a massive heart attack in Mumbai in 1990 at the young age of 45.

In the 1965 All India Talent Contest held by United Producers and Filmfare - more than 10,000 contestants participated out of which he became the male runner-up and the contest was won by another brilliant actor Rajesh Khanna.

Well, if you want to know more about the male runner-up and how well he acts :-) you've got to see this playlist which takes you to his musical world of movies.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2Wr4O1JamQiMGz-9DL37zJKvAcK4f6

He's given us some stellar performances both as a hero and as a supporting actor.

There is also a bio-video (biography) at the end of this playlist.

Now, as the Title of this Blog goes - Songs + Quotes

Here are some nice, inspiring quotes I've gathered for you from my paper NPPQ

Out of all the 3 papers I have, NPPQ is my favourite because it inspires me every day with some nice, new quotes that I keep adding to my daily notes :-)

The starting point of all achievement is desire. - Napoleon Hill

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. - Laurence J. Peter

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. - Khalil Gibran

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. - Anon

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Khalil Gibran

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. - Marilyn Monroe

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. - Khalil Gibran

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Laurence J. Peter

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Khalil Gibran

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. - Friedrich Nietzsche

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. - William Butler Yeats

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. - Khalil Gibran

Happy seeing and sharing :-)

Love always,
As Ever, AC

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. - Vincent Van Gogh