Poems 2007

You are my world!

a globe on my palm is how i can charm the entire world and with you by my side i can view my entire world! a single word brings life near a single smile puts away my fear thus with you by my side i can view my entire world! all the years that have...

Only friends discover life!

Let us travel together Not just on the roads that are But also where the weather Has beaten and left a scar! Such places where we discover Soft edges to all sharp stones, Wipe the dust to then uncover All the friendly ghosts and gnomes! All the twists and all the turns We shall make...

There’s something in real you

images have more colour aromas can have power but unless my fingers touch i just remain incomplete! must you be so near yet far? must there be so many blocks? must holidays block your words? must everyday end so fast? even when i hear your voice even when i read your words virtual worlds i...

I am not a poet by profession!

Even poets never say They are poets first They ever prefer to be, stay With their social thrust This then is the simple fact Not intuition, but just tact! Simpler are the birds we see Those that sing, just sing. [Arvind Passey] [2007]

life never ends!

not every moment comes laden with you. so, are not the trees in autumn happier? not every moment comes laden with you. every prayer said is not for the Gods. so, earthy wishes will they not be fulfilled? not every moment comes laden with you. moments from the past are no longer here. so, will...

Eight short poems in Hindi

<one> sab karvaan bhikhar jaate hain, pal dusre palon mein mil jaate hain parantu pal rehte hain woh jo kuch kaam ki baat keh jaate hain! <two> yeh silsila to yunhi chalta rahega har rah mein haan aur na ka aana jaana bhi unthak behta rahega arre, shabdon ko bhav ke bahaav mein daalo tabhi...

Thrill of a conversation

Conversations and all the rest That any day in office will Strive to fill Will yet an emptiness behest Despite the glamour and the frill And until Rising above the clamour, din And pretensions to be a thrill Floats at will The sound of temple bells. The yin And yang of life enters at will....

The truth of creation

The search for sights and insights too can take one far away… though, what appeals and what is true will simply stay or stray. And some will stay and some will stray but all will pose as new: thoughts too will change their garb and way and that don’t, will rue! [Arvind Passey] [2007]

Connecting with the spiritual!… three poems

Poem-1 A day after and a day before… Let them sleep, let them snore It is here and now and you And life and world that is new Where the tech and the spirit Meet and mate and simply fit! ____________ Poem-2 Do everything and still let go — That is the way to get...

You know

You know that the warmth of my touch has not changed You know that the warmth of your touch is still the same You know that I still search your eyes for sparks that have not aged You know that you have in your eyes the sparks that I search for You know that even...

Evolution of an abstraction

[“Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine” – Paulo Coelho] ‘I’ starts a conversation with an image in the mind sometimes getting prodded by the eye, for only images don’t age, intoxicate like gin in a virtual world of dreams and when a human heart accepts and is hopelessly helpless, ‘imagine’ becomes...

Conversation

Baat-cheet karna is our karma, ji Words fortunately come for free! In speech, on paper our ‘dil se’ thoughts Are ever ready to come tumbling in lots. Keep them within and you are at risk So send them across, burn a disc. Share them humse-tumse and you will gain And will relieve the tu-tu-main-main pain!...