करोना-करोना-करोना किती

करोना-करोना-करोना किती

(करोना-करोना-करोना किती

आता झाले बाई अ~~ति~~~)²

(कुंठून गेली माझी मति)²

भय वाटे विचारांती

करोना-करोना-करोना किती....

प्रथम चरणी,

(प्रथम चरणी, वाटले मज)²

वेळच-वेळ बहु किती

(कामे पेंडींग घेता हाती)²

नाकी रे नऊ येती

करोना-करोना-करोना किती....

जाऊन आणली 

(जाऊन आणली, खताणी माती)²

"लाऊ गं झाडं किती"

(पुसता-क्षणी येती हाती)²

"कुटा या कांद्याच्या पाती"

करोना-करोना-करोना किती....

वाचू म्हटले

(वाचू म्हटले, ज्ञानात भर)²

घेतले पुस्तक हाती

"(विसरले का ओ नाती-गोती)²

हा घ्या सेलफोन सांगाती"

करोना-करोना-करोना किती....

पाहू म्हटले

(पाहू म्हटले, जरा टीव्ही)²

घेतला रिमोट हाती

("चला उठा, हे घ्या ओ")²

आला झाडू-पोच्छा हाती

करोना-करोना-करोना किती....

आवर घातला 

(आवर घातला, माझ्या मनी)²

घे ना रे 'छंदा' हाती

(विसरू नको, रे गड्या तू)²

"तू-च तुझा सांगाती"

करोना-करोना-करोना किती....

(* "कठीण-कठीण-कठीण किती" Kathin_Kathin_Kiti या मराठी गाण्याच्या (Marathi song) चालीवर वाचल्यास उत्तम)

Catch a Butterfly

The activity teaches you ...

To focus ...

To meditate ...

To catch a moment ...

To catch an opportunity if you can ...

To be ever ready since opportunities keep passing by ...

It's a hard and smart work ...

Patience ...

An eye for detail ...

The beauty around ...

To use senses ...

To be sensual ...

(Above all) To Be Happy ...

To make a story that each picture tells you ...

The Butterfly is in search of her need Just-In-Time (JIT)! JIT when she is hungry! 

Nothing more, Nothing less, Nothing to hoard!
Unlike a HUMAN ... (what else do you need for) BEING ...

Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder: Please do consider leaving a comment or sharing this post.

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Eternally Happy! 
In-a-problem? No-problem! Dwell-a-while! 
I am afraid ! What do I do !! 
Fearful-Of-Death-of-Birth
Take Habits For A Ride 
Happy-Birthday-to-Youooo
Do You Celebrate Mean-or-Green 
Big-Be Or Bug-Be ! 
Raam or Krishna-Shyam: Tell me Hey Raam! 
Are You Good If Others Are Bad?  
Want Need-Or-Want 
Love is Care.. Care is Love !  
Deity is in the eyes of the beholder 
Success-or-failure! What-do-you-like?
Ball-Basin-Team Combine !  Maketh The Smile Divine !! 

Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation

रॆट-रेस चे साईड इफेक्ट्स्

A string of standalone as well as interconnected Maiku³ Poems² in Malwani¹ language on: Rat-race that's rampant around... and it's side-effects.

On Rat-race ...

काऊचो नाय चिऊचो
ध्यास सगऴ्यांका मोठया घासाचो
विषय चिंतेचो पण फरक पडता कोणाक त्येचो

Encroachment effect ...

ट्रॆफिक-फुटपाथ-इकाॆनाॆमी जाम
केल्यानी पब्लिकचा जिना हराम
गुमान रवतत कसे 'हे' हजाम?

Our indifference and internal fights ...

चलात; नाय जरी मिळाला माका
देयन एक येळ तेका
पन आयशप्पथ; घालूचय नाय तूका

What Opportunistics want ...

करीत रवतले ते तूका-नाय-माका
लाटूया तवसर आम्ही तेंका

अर्धा माका, अर्धा रवांदे तूका

Public surrenders passively ...

मार पडलो पुढच्यार
सावारलो मधलो लय-हुशार
चुलकोंबडो-शाणो मागचो आघीच पशार

True Need is... Cleanup act by everyone ...

उचलूक कोण नाय, करूक सगऴेच घाण
काय फायदो नुसताच वाटून ग्यान
पडतलो देश तो नक्कीच ग्हाण!

The Transformation ...

टाकूक कोण नाय
काढूक येतंत सगऴेच घाण खरो तोच देश महान!

And Leadership ...

कंस हयसर इतके बेफाम
थंयसर थंड रामाचा काय काम
टीकतलो तो फक्त राधेचो श्याम

Haiku³ is a poetic expression in few words in three lines leaving it to the reader to develop his own thoughts or paint a subject out of it.

Each of it in Maiku³ form may also be used as a riddle (उखाणा in Malwani¹ language).

Footnote:
1/ Malwani¹ is a version of language of Konkan region of coastal India. English version of this poetry is available on corresponding links.
2/ These were presented at state level conference of poets sponsored by "Sharda" Publishers held on 16th January 2015 in Thane.
3/ ©MaiKu Is My-Haiku

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Some Moron ! Some Great !!! 
Fearful Death-Of-Birth !
http://care-is-cure.blogspot.in/2013/12/encroachers-own-open-land.html 
ABCD of India Shining
What do you do when a dog barks at you? 
Spare-A-Day On Sparrow-Day !
Shining On Farmer's Suicides!  

Pray-for-drought-ridden-villages

Make It Simpler, Rest Will Follow 
How To Make A Difference 
Big-Be Or Bug-Be ! 
Treat Root-causes, Not Symptoms ! 
Nauseous Communication Gaps 
Do You Cleanup-After-Crisis 
Raam or Krishna-Shyam: Tell me Hey Raam! 
Will It Work Here?  
Some Moron ! Some Great !!! 
That's How Morons Work 
You seem Reasonable if you appear Un-reasonable 
Smart-Moron Who Breaks Your Glass  
WOW Work-Culture: By Telling or Selling 
Suggestions On-Sale, None-To-Buy 
Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
Ridiculous Poison-culture versus Maverick Kaizen-culture 
Tolerate Once, Twice, Thrice? 
That's how some business partnerships work 
Taken-For-Granted ? You Deserve It !! 
Technology in-place, security dis-placed
IQ-EQ-or-SQ: What-is-more-important?
Do you know a Best-Career-Plan 
Customer or Custo-Mer?  
Experienced A Delightful Payment ! 
An Experience of Heart-and-Soul 
Less With More And More Gets Sore 
Should one care for value?  
ABCD of India Shining
Beware Of Political-Presentations 
Do You Cleanup-After-Crisis 
Hoarders Of Filthy Hoardings

Rise-n-Fall in the Rain-Fall

It was a beautiful rainy morning. A message on social-media triggered a Maiku: My Haiku poem. 

A Maiku: 

A message on social-media I got 

That I 'ate' as food for thought 

Whata realisation it brought

The message as follows stresses the need for various Gurus (coaches) in one's life. Guru: the one who helps sailing smoothly on the path to self-actualisation.

We need...

An ELECTRICIAN, to restore the current between people who do not speak to each other anymore.
An OPTICIAN, to change the outlook of people.
An ARTIST, to draw a smile on everyone's face.
A CONSTRUCTOR, to build a bridge between neighbours.
A GARDENER, to cultivate good thoughts.
And a MATHEMATICIAN, for all of us to re-learn how to add love and sympathy to our relations.

Highest form of self-actualisation though is the realisation of the Guru in 'The-Self': The one who has maximum influence, responsibility and accountability in leading one's own life! It offers a lot of opportunities in the form of difficulties to shape and improve self if one believes in 'The-Self'! 

It's a matter of right-choice of the role-play!

This thought triggered a Haiku Poem in me.

Here are more MaiKu© poems on the subject: 

Maiku-2:

Wow..! G-O-D in the Rainfall ..
'The-Self' has them All ..
Just a matter of taking Right-Call !

(* G-O-D Generator-Operator-Destroyer)

Maiku-3:

Nice learning from One-n-All.. 

Rise-n-Fall in the Rain-Fall ..

Choice decides, Rise-or-Fall !

©MaiKu Is My-Haiku
Freely ideate it's poetic rhymes
Any objective topic it chimes

Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder:

Overworked? Tension? CPU of the mind hung-up? 
No Time? Micro-Meditate!  
Talk In Order To Listen!  
Poverty-to-Power of Poetry 
©MaiKu Poetry Is My-Haiku
Eternally Happy! 
Do you exercise your choice meaningfully
Success-or-failure! What-do-you-like?
कधीतरी सापडेल का शोधता-शोधता ? 
IQ-EQ-or-SQ: What-is-more-important?
Taken-For-Granted ? You Deserve It !! 
Tolerate Once, Twice, Thrice? 
Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
How To Make A Difference 
Ridiculous Poison-culture versus Maverick Kaizen-culture 
Am I 'Short-sighted' or 'Long-sighted'? 

Business Eco-rgonomics

10 am to 6 pm they run from one bus to other bus under the scorching Sun.

Running from passenger-to-passenger they end up earning Rs 200 maximum. One of them shared his plight.

Purchase price of water bottle 16.
Selling price 18.

He had to swap the load off from his head on to his shoulder supporting it by one hand (and back again) a couple of times within a minute. Why because it was unbearably inconvenient to rest there for more than a few seconds at one place.

That's all the margin? I  exclaimed.

Yes sir!

These shops on bus-stand have monopoly. (This story is about the Swar-gate bus-stand in Pune India.) They get water bottles for Rs 6. They earn Rs 10. We get Rs 2 after all this (he wiped his) perspiration.

They hold licenses. We don't get hawking licenses to sell anything inside the stand because of lobbying by the shops. Police drives us out or puts us in custody if we try to sell.

In fact if we get the bottles directly at Rs 6 we can sell them at 15 so that end customer gets it cheaper by Rs 3. It's the middleman who makes it expensive to end consumer.

Commonsense economics of demand and supply!

He went on to narrate story of the 'corruption in the supply-chain': Result of a nexus among government officials, state transport officials, police and the traders/shops.

The 'hawker' who tries to unite against this practice is forced out of the supply-chain by 'divide-and-rule' policy.

And we can't afford it. I have been doing this for last two decades from the age of nine. I'm from landless farmer family with old parents at home and brothers, sisters. I'm not married. Who will (marry me)? Don't know what to do.

(By the way) Have you taken our pictures to publish in newspaper?

No. Actually I had thought of writing about economics and lack of ergonomics in your business. Now I'm going to write about your entrepreneurship and smile on your face in spite of your hardships.

I patted him and bought a bottle. What else could I've done accept for promising him to write (so that some people in power read) this.

Lost in thoughts I boarded my bus to Mumbai.

Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder:

Discrimination-is-Cremation of Law-&-Order (Part-1) 

Discrimination-is-Cremation of Law-&-Order (Part-2) 

Discrimination Cremated! But How Long? 

Make It Simpler, Rest Will Follow

How To Make A Difference

Raam or Krishna-Shyam: Tell me Hey Raam!

You seem Reasonable if you appear Un-reasonable

Smart-Moron Who Breaks Your Glass 

Tolerate Once, Twice, Thrice?

That's how some business partnerships work

Taken-For-Granted ? You Deserve It !!

कधीतरी सापडेल का शोधता-शोधता ?

Eternally Happy!

ABCD of India Shining

बॉसचं मोठं, तूझं खोटं !

This poem is about paradigm shift on an eternal fight between a Boss and his subordinate.

Marathi Version

बॉसचं मोठं, तूझं सारंच छोटं
त्याचं १००-नंबरी, तूझं खोटं
येणार उशीरा: तो रूबाबदार बॉस
लवकर येणारा: झाडूवाला खास

त्याचं सोन्याहून पिवळं
तूझं डांबराहून काळं

बॉसचं, कॅरट चाैवीस
तूझं, चारसो बीस

बॉसचा मसल-कॅच मोठा
तूझा हार्ट-अटॅकही खोटा

बॉसचं पब्लिक पण प्रायव्हेट
तूझं प्रायव्हेट पण पब्लिक

सायकल पंन्कचरला त्याची दांडी
तंगडी तूटली तरी तूझ्यावर अंडी

बॉसचं सारंच मोठं, तूझं छोटं
त्याचं १००-नंबरी, तूझं खोटं
नको करून घेऊ उगा त्रास
'तूच' खरंतर तूझा मोठ्ठा बॉस

'तू' is the G-O-D (Generator-Operator-Destroyer) in you.

Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder:

Rise-n-Fall in the Rain-Fall 
Overworked? Tension? CPU of the mind hung-up?
No Time? Micro-Meditate! 
Talk In Order To Listen! 
Poverty-to-Power of Poetry
©MaiKu Poetry Is My-Haiku
Eternally Happy!
Do you exercise your choice meaningfully
Success-or-failure! What-do-you-like?
कधीतरी सापडेल का शोधता-शोधता ?
IQ-EQ-or-SQ: What-is-more-important?
Taken-For-Granted ? You Deserve It !!
Tolerate Once, Twice, Thrice?
Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
How To Make A Difference
Ridiculous Poison-culture versus Maverick Kaizen-culture
Am I 'Short-sighted' or 'Long-sighted'? 

Daddy! बा: तेव्हां आणि आता !

तेव्हां, "डॅडी-डॅडी!" काय करताय. "डॅडी!" काय करताय.

आता, का(sss)य करता(sss)य (हे?) !

(तेव्हां, द्या आणा. मी करू?)²

आता, झाले का तुम्ही  (परत) सुरू!

(तेव्हां, डॅड्डी डॆड्डी! कुठ्ठे जाताsय!)²

आता , बरं येs-ताsssय (ना)?

(तेव्हां, डॅडी-डॅडी, मी येऊ)²

आता, मीच का म्हणून येऊ?

(तेव्हां, अरेरे पडलात? देऊ का हात?)²

आता, अssरे घालू का पेकाटात..

(तेव्हां, झालं इतक्यात! जेवलात!)²

आता, आटपा आता! किती जेवलात?

(तेव्हां उचलूनच आणले त्यानी, खेळण्याचे अख्खे दूकान)²

आता, त्यांनाच नाही, रोटी-कपडा-मकान

(तेव्हां मात्र, "ईस्ट-टू-वेस्ट, ही इज दी-बेस्ट")²

आता, धिस मॅडी इज् अ शिssअर वेस्ट

(तेव्हां पूसती सारेच: बायको-सून - नातू-अन्-नात)²

आता, कोणीच नाही! गेली ती साsssरीच बात!!

(तेव्हां, सेन्टली (saintly)हॅपी: होते सारेच डॅडी!)²

कोणी केले त्यांना ¹सेन्टी': आता-एव्हर-सॅडी?

This poem is about feelings of a typical father's ward. 

It's about pushing oneself to think how to make-a-difference.
It's about how a person's behavior changes over a period of time, from being a child to an adult to a parent, sometimes forced by circumstances, sometimes by loss of patience, sometimes due to lack of tolerance capability, sometimes by choice.

About how a saintly-happy person is forced to become sad-and-sentimental when gets Taken-For-Granted.
About how equanimity gets challenged by emotionality.

About how a goon can also become sentimental, searching for an answer after dwelling in a self-talk.

Soon the poem will be available in English as well as MaiKu Is My-Haiku version also.

Footnote:

1¹. Sentimental

Happy-Children's-Day

November 14: The Happy-Children's-Day!

I wrote a small poem on this 'Day'. But I forgot to publish it on that day.

My concept of celebrating days is living-them each day. In other words celebrate a bit of the so-called 'day' on possible moments of each day as it progresses.

I don't believe in breathing only on a 'Breathing-Day'.

Why should you be a happy-child and child-like only on a Happy-Children's-Day?

Actually there is a child inside every one of us that manifests in the form of a child-like behavior but at wrong time. And there is a reason to it.

The reason is the parental-attitude in the language of Behavioral-Modulation-Technique (BMT) or Transactional-Analysis (TA).

It's the adult-attitude that can bring out the child inside us at the right time in the interest of all.

A short poem that I wrote to express this is actually a combination of two Maiku's.

Maiku-1

Actually the Child inside us never dies
Every now-n-then it fights, teases-n-cries
Happily throws tantrums and then sighs

Maiku-2

Its the Parent inside us when nighs
That the child inside us vies
But not always...find out when dear guys

MaiKu© Is My-Haiku
Freely ideate it's poetic rhymes
Any objective topic it chimes

Whatta Mood... 

Whatta Mood...

Chilling there in dusky evening you dude ..

Feel like flying, Yes I should ...

©MaiKu Is My-Haiku
Freely ideate it's poetic rhymes
Any objective topic it chimes

MaiKu Is My-Haiku

Haiku, the smallest poetry form in the world, is a Japanese form of poetry. It means the "beginning" without any end.

Hence it is also called as "unfinished" poetry that is left to the reader to finish based on his or her own understanding, feelings or emotions in reaction to the imagery or the dream that it creates. In that sense, it involves the reader to create his own extraordinary-experience-from-the-ordinary.

I am not even worth the salt in light of the subject of Haiku. But still the self-proclaimed experimental-unreasonable me dared to create a version of Haiku called Maiku© with some inherent advantages that I thought of. I found it very useful for my own self.

Here is a MaiKu on the original Haiku itself.

Haiku: An IQ¹-picture painted 

With suggestions in few words, well-laid  

Create thy meaning beautifully heeded

Here is a MaiKu on My-Haiku.

MaiKu Is My-Haiku
Freely ideate it's poetic rhymes
An objective topic it chimes

The second one captures Maiku's essence as brought out here-under while comparing it with the characteristics of a typical Haiku that the first one captures.

Differences between MaiKu and Haiku

While one may find a lot of literature on Haiku, here's how a Maiku differentiates itself from a HaiKu.

Haiku is usually communicated in a single breath.
MaiKu may be broken preferably in not more than 3 logical pieces in order to communicate it's construction.

Haiku is 5+7+5 sounds or syllables.
MaiKu is an interrelation of (preferably) not more than 3 small rhyming-phrases without restriction on words though. 

In order to provide for the continuity of the dream or story the author may have in her mind, she may write a number of Maiku's in sequence. But at the same time each one should be capable of being standalone to catch a couple of breaths of.

Haiku recommends imagery. 

MaiKu prefers to have an image or sketch of its source of inspiration.

Unlike Haiku, MaiKu may be used to quickly freeze a topic of interest, complex or simple, particularly when a poet or even a writer is hard-pressed for time to express her thoughts elaborately.

Relevant subject can be expanded and developed as an article later on when time permits. In fact, MaiKu is a smaller poem or a micro/tiny tale that may potentially contain a larger poetry or a larger story that can be subsequently expanded. In that case the phrases in Maiku may necessarily contain key words freely flowing (like the freaking trouser legs in picture) on the subject under consideration.

In fact, this blogpost itself is the sequel to the Haikus that I wrote here.

Call it a MaiKu or a Haiku but do write it. 

It's very useful to express oneself and gain audience that is busy enough to consume anything more than a few Tweets.

So interesting it is that it instantly generates pleasure and happiness while writing it. 

It helps you to stay positive by engaging you in subtleties of each moment. It doesn't give crying people an opportunity to cry if they fall for it. 

It also might relieve you off fear or tension if the situation is dissected looking for positives in it and then expressed in lighter vein in the form of a MaiKu or Haiku. I just freak out the word 'tension' for instance by a Maiku: 

Shun the tension! 

Look at the free-flowing oxygen,

Exchange greetings at muscle's junctions!!

Footnote:
1. Here the IQ actually represents IQ+EQ+SQ: Intelligence Quotient, Emotional Quotient, Spiritual Quotient

Bird that just chirped

Bird on toilet window, just chirped

A blissful meditative moment creeped

Didn't allow it to get slipped

© MaiKu Is My-Haiku
Freely ideate it's poetic rhymes
Any objective topic it chimes

Eternally Happy: परमानंद

There is a quest that most face sometime or the other.

Should one succumb to desires seeking pleasure?
Or should one strive for happiness or still higher order for bliss ?
How does one resolve these queries ?

I have no doubt to express that I am not competent to answer above questions. But in order to quench my own thirst, I do try to find answers in my own ways.

Until more enlightenment dawns, I go by a concept that I read somewhere: GOD is a beautiful flower that created so many noses (in the form of life in material-world as also in the form of the infinite-n-infinitesimal Universe) to smell itself and enjoy!

What does one do on seeing a beautiful flower?

1/ Some don't have time to see them at all.
2/ Some pluck it in order to create creative displays on head, or shirt, or in a vase.
3/ Few others gaze at them, analyse, submit reports and go away.
4/ Very few cajole them, nurse the plants that sport them with fertilisers and water. And their journey is likely to graduate and go "beyond-them".

First one is short of time perhaps because of her busy-ness in earning money (material resources).

Second and third types 'like' the flowers. The last one 'loves' them. But the first one probably seems very busy in "Me-Myself-Mine" to know about both the 'like', 'love' and beyond.

For the last one perhaps the thought that "Me, Material-Universe (the flower and the plant, etc), and Lord (G-O-D: Generator-Operator-Destructor) of the Universe are no-different" gives a blissful feeling.

For the rest, if the otherway-round-thought gives a blissful feeling then they are the lord-of-themselves: free to choose their own option. Ultimate need actually is to enjoy while seeking answers!

Hereunder is a poetic expression in Marathi language (Devnagari script), a version of the original poem in English already published by me earlier.

Part-1: The Journey: Wants-to-Needs! Extrinsic-to-Intrinsic !!
एक प्रवास: इच्छांकडून गरजांकडे, बाह्यसुखांकडून आंतरिक सुखांकडे !

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; असेतरी काय हा परमानंद ?
                                       
बागडे ते भूके-बालक मिळताचं चरमरीतं खाऊ 
अटेन्शन-अन् थोडंसं-प्रेम, 'टेन्शन'-ताऊ-भाऊ-ही करती या...हू

बालके होता पालकं, गरजांच्या होती इच्छा-रूक्षेच्छा 
होताचं सीनियऱ-बालकं, इच्छा होती कल्पव्रुक्षेच्छा
छत्राऐवजी घर, घराऐवजी मोठे घर, हवे त्याहूनही मोठे घर
बस-ऐवजी कार, तद्-नंतर लागे लक्झरी-कारची घरघर.      =1=

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; काय असावा बरे परमानंद ?
सुखात दडती इच्छा-स्वच्छंद, परि प्रेमात दडे आनंद !

इच्छा होता फुलाची, नाहीका वाटत फुल तोडावं रे ?
परि प्रेमापोटी फुलाच्या, देशी खत-पाणीचं फुलझाडा-रे

अखेर इच्छाच त्या, आगंतुक शरीर-मनाच्या इच्छाच-रे
अप्रमाणित-अगणित, करिती "म"-मजसी अगतिक रे
विनाश काले करिती भल-भल्यांचीही बुद्दी विपरीत रे
ओसामा-वा असो-सद्दाम, इंद्रसत्ताही कूचकामी ठरे
अरेरे अरेरे, उद्दामांचाही उद्दाम-"मी" संपत्तीसंवेचं मरेरे
तयापुढे तर विग्यानही नमे-रे. ओ-माय-गॉड्, खरंच तू ग्रेटरे.    =2=

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; काय असे बरे परमानंद ?
जगद्-इच्छेत भासे सुख, तर विश्व-प्रेमात गवसे आनंद !
निर्भेळ-निरेच्छ-निर्मळ विश्वनाथी-प्रेमात पऱि परमानंद !!    =3=

Part-2: The Journey: Body-to-Mind-to-Soul ! Happiness-to-Bliss !! 
प्रवासाचा एक मार्ग : शरीर-ते-मन-ते-आत्मा ! आनंद-ते-परमानंद !! 

(FORTHCOMING. You also may visit English-version already published earlier.) 

Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder: Please do consider leaving a comment or sharing this post.

No Time? Micro-Meditate!  

Overworked? Tension? CPU of the mind hung-up? 
Do you exercise your choice meaningfully 
IQ-EQ-or-SQ: What-is-more-important? 
Eternally Happy! 
In-a-problem? No-problem! Dwell-a-while! 
I am afraid ! What do I do !! 
Fearful-Of-Death-of-Birth
Take Habits For A Ride 
Happy-Birthday-to-Youooo
Do You Celebrate Mean-or-Green 
Big-Be Or Bug-Be ! 
Raam or Krishna-Shyam: Tell me Hey Raam! 
Are You Good If Others Are Bad?  
Want Need-Or-Want 
How To Make A Difference 
Love is Care.. Care is Love !  
Deity is in the eyes of the beholder 
Success-or-failure! What-do-you-like?
Ball-Basin-Team Combine !  Maketh The Smile Divine !! 

Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
Functional-Aesthetics
Rat-race 
Who Comes First: Consumer Or Customer ? 
Beware Of Political-Presentations
Want Need-Or-Want
Listen To The Iceberg Beyond Tip

Do you know a Best-Career-Plan

Be a Politician*!

Minimum qualification.. 1-year probation with an in-famous Goon.

Experience

1/ At least 1-year jail-term completed for criminal charges such as corruption, attempt to murder, molestation, etc. 

2/ Must have shined with a couple of Fierce-Fights inside the jail).

Special-Skills needed

1/ Muhmein-Raam, Bagalmein-Choorie (Sanely-outside, Insanely-inside). 

2/ Must be able to 'Shine' even with black-deeds and black-face. 

3/ Should be able to arm-twist in order to create and manage vote-bank, manage Bollywood artistes, as well as businesses in order to generate money for elections, birthday hoardings, festivals like Ganeshotsav, Navratri, Dahi-handi, Marathons, etc. 

Personal Assets And Investment

Income-tax returns should be 'white' although 'black' should be available for elections

Portfolio

1/ Spending crores worth national wealth (down-the-drain preferred) with 100% Authority, 0% Responsibility, 0% Accountability. 

2/ Amass illegal wealth. 

3/ Upset law-&-order frequently.

4/ Do nothing while in-power. Harm everything while not-in-power. 

Package

1/ Inflation-adjusted 365-Paid-holidays with self-managed attractive perks. 

2/ 5-Star food @5-coins (Default allowed). 

3/ VIP Tavel-&-Stay for kith-n-kin included.

How do the 365-Paid-holidays count?

1/ ^ 304-days # No-work. VIP-tourism with unofficial Tension-to-Nation. Ribbon-cutting ceremonies.
2/ ^ 60-days # Give Tension-to-Nation officially with 0-Tension-work such as Declaring  subsidies, Fights in assembly houses, Damage national property, Walkouts, Pass bills-n-ordinances with vested interests.
3/ ^ 1-day # Attend at least Independence-day or Republic-day in pure spotless-white-starched khadi (not expensive-silk). On this day, free to behave in whatever manner in order to express independence.

(* Tips: Let's not do as above if we want to be-Happy in our career! Those who seriously wish to be, be a Good-Politician exactly opposite the above thoughts but with Lord-Krishna-kind of qualities!! Others: let's do our job the best whichever profession we are in. Mother nation and this planet needs us to do so urgently!!!)

Happy-Birthday-to-Youooo.. 

Lyrics for all the Birth-Dayees in running year... HaHa!
Look for fresh New Lyrics in the New year... HooHoo!
  
हम भी अगर बच्चे होते
देर बहोतही सोते रहते
काम न करते, सपने देखते
मुहमे रखते लड्डू
और गाते रहते.. हॅपी बर्थडे टू यू

Hum bhi agar.. bacchhey hotey.. 
Der-bahutasey sotey rahetey ...
Kaam na kartey.. Sapney dekhtey..
Muhmey rakhatey Laddooo.. 
Aur gaatey rahtey.. 
Happy-Birth-Day-To-Youooo.. 

दिलके इतने अच्छे होते
कि सारे देख भाई वाहवा करते
खेलते खाते सबको खिलते
मुहमे भरते चिक्कु
और गाते रहते.. हॅपी बर्थडे टू यू

Dilke bhi Itney aacchey hotey..
Ki... Saare dekh-bhai Wah-Wah kahtey
Kheltey-khatey.. sabko-khilatey..
Muhmey bhartey Chi.kkoo.. 
Aur gaatey rahtey.. 
Happy-Birth-Day-To-Youooo.. 

सच्चे मनसे भारी होते
फिर भी कच्चे जरा ना होते
नाच जो करते, नचया भी देते
मूहसे करते भोपु..ऊऊऊ
और गाते रहते.. हॅपी बर्थडे टू यू

Sacchhey toh Maansey bhari hotey..
Phir bhi kacchey jara na hotey..
Naach jo kartey... Nacha bhi detey... 
Muhsey kartey Bho..Ppoou...ooo 
Aur gaatey rahtey.. 
Happy-Birth-Day-To-Youooo.. 

भोपु..ऊऊऊ... हॅपी बर्थडे टू यू
भोपु..ऊऊऊ... हॅपी बर्थडे टू यू
भोपु..ऊऊऊ... हॅपी बर्थडे टू यू

Bho..Ppoou.. Happy-Birth-Day-To-Youooo..
Bho..Ppoou.. Happy-Birth-Day-To-Youooo..
Bho..Ppoou.. Happy-Birth-Day-To-You..oo..o

Sattire Lyrics by : Shyam Talawadekar
Original song :  Happy-Birth-Day-To-Youu.
Movie : Door Ki Awaaz. Music Director : Ravi. Singer(s) : Asha Bhonsle Mahendra Kapoor
Original song's Lyricist : Shakeel Badayuni

Love is Care.. Care is Love !

Love is Care.. Care is Love !

Be it with child, mother, lover, friends, parents, spouses, work and whatever-n-whoever else !!

Love is still Purely-Divine-Love !!!

Good to live it and express it ...
Subtly or abundantly ...

Whenever and wherever possible ...
In whatever mode: A Poem, A Sketch ...
In whatever language and colors ...

Here is an expression in Marathi language ...

नकळंतं 'लव' ते घडलं.. 'बर्डा' न्हाई कळंलं..

एकमेका जे लईदिस न्हाई कळलं
नात्यागोत्या-वाड्या प्रथमेशा 'कई-सदियोंसे' कळलं
'लाईक' झाल्याचं तयाने ते तयासी कळिवलं
चिंतनांती ते 'इलू' ऐवजी 'बघु' म्हणलं
मासभर तिनं ते नकळतंच सहलं-भोगलं
शेवट ते धनुष्यबाण 'लाईक' मेसेजनेच पेललं

इये दिवाळ-सणी आईस ते कपाटीये सहजी दिसलं
तवा काळीज तयाचं काळजीनं थोडंसं हललं
तिनं गलबलंतंच 'बा'स्नी त्याच्या कळिवलं
बा-म्हणलं, त्यात तुझं इतकं का गलबललं
कायबा विचारता ते जराबी ना-हललं-कळवळलं
ईचार मजपेक्षा तिचाच लई-पक्का म्हणलं

'ना-ना-करते' तिनं आई-पा ला एकदाचं सांगलं-कळिवलं
मंग काय, धडाधडा गुगल-नेटाने फोनबी वाजलं-गरिजलं
'इलू-बघु-लाईक' ष्टोरीचं गुपित गुपित-ना-राहिलं
एक-ना-दोन सारे-जना-कळालं-कळिवलं
नमस्कार-चमत्कारांती आई-पा आई-बा आनंदीआनंद झालं

दोही आजीआजोबास्नी कळता त्यांनाही भरभरून आलं
सारं गायलं, आम्हास्नी लई भावलं, एक मिशन गावलं
याची-डोळा याची-देहि ष्टोरी ऐकून सारं म्हणलं, होवो-चांगभलं
इति मंग साऱयांचंच मन निज ष्टोरीत गुंगलं, मश्गुल-जाहलं
नकळंतं सारं घडलं.. बर्डा-न्हाई कळंलं..

Would LOVE to read your expressions on LOVE ...

Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder: Please do consider leaving a comment or sharing this post.

No Time? Micro-Meditate!  

Overworked? Tension? CPU of the mind hung-up? 
Do you exercise your choice meaningfully 
IQ-EQ-or-SQ: What-is-more-important? 
Eternally Happy! 
In-a-problem? No-problem! Dwell-a-while! 
I am afraid ! What do I do !! 
Fearful-Of-Death-of-Birth
Take Habits For A Ride 
Happy-Birthday-to-Youooo
Do You Celebrate Mean-or-Green 
Big-Be Or Bug-Be ! 
Raam or Krishna-Shyam: Tell me Hey Raam! 
Are You Good If Others Are Bad?  
Want Need-Or-Want 
How To Make A Difference 
Love is Care.. Care is Love !  
Deity is in the eyes of the beholder 
Success-or-failure! What-do-you-like?
Ball-Basin-Team Combine !  Maketh The Smile Divine !! 

Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation

Poverty-to-Power of Poetry

Last week I enjoyed reading a review¹ on poetry culture.

The reviewer's declaration, about he being a rare-reader of poems, reminded me myself as a poor-reader of poems. That was years ago as a school-boy. 

Impression that I carried the way poetry used to be taught was that it had necessarily to be grammatically correct, full of flowery verses and stuffed with rich words, etc. etc. Foolishly I used to think that more it is incomprehensible, like some typical paintings of well-known artists that only a chosen few professors or research scholars are capable of, richer it is.

In fact, I was one among the best-poors at being unable to read as well as being unable to understand them. That in no way means I read them a lot now. 

But now often, although in the form of broken poems, I do try to express poetically. Believe me, it gives a lot of happiness and satisfaction out of such creations and sharing them if you get an audience. It is rare specie though.

Now that I got one in you, here is an impromptu expression on 'Power-of-Poetry' that the review¹ motivated me to pen down.

'Pover-ty'-to-'Power' of Poetry

आदीच पडलो आमी माटापेक्षा माट
त्यामंदी दीलायसा टकूरयाला तू कवितेचा शाट
आरं दोस्त हाय तर कायबाय ते सरळ सांगकी
हीतं गुरूजीसंगं सारं काडू राहीलं आमची लायकी

पूर्वी लय वाटूलाय, कवीचा इत्का का दरबारी थाट
समध्या भाषा-तासास्नी लावाया आमची पूरती वाट
आता गेलो लिहाया थोडंबी कायमाय-की
समजू येई गड्या मले तर टायमंच न्हायकी

येळ न्हाय म्हनीत सोडलं लेखांचं डराफ्टावर डराफ्ट
समजंना कोनालाबी व्हावलेच जर लाईनींचे सहस्त्रोव पाट
आरं येड्या, चारोळी कवितेची थोरवी न्हाईरं थोडीथोडकी
समजून घेकी तीज्यासमोर तूजीच जराबी न्हाई लायकी

The English version is as follows. 

'Pover-ty'-to-'Power' of Poetry

Already I was a Damn-Dum..m..mBest-Fool
Then how do I decode your poetry-in-school
Can't you befriend-n-prosaic simply-cool
Else they call me a useless Bigger-Fool

Today although I prose many pages-full
That even a Prosaist can't decode with big push-n-pull
Not even after a lot of time and her effortful
Says ²KISS.....s....s..s..sS, You-Damn-Fool

Now I know why poetry is Easy-Fast-n-Vast to mull
Rhyming-n-versing make it even more beau..uu..tiful

Actually both, the theme¹ in the poetry that was reviewed¹ in Loksatta as well as the way it was reviewed, reinforced my thoughts about 'Power-of-Poems'. 

In fact, poetry has power to conquer ( overcome 'poverty' of) mind also. If one takes them as tips, poetry is truly very 'Powerful', 'Easy-Fast-n-Vast' both to  express as well as to understand. 

Just as a picture has power to contain and explain so many words and thoughts, a short poem like it's modern counterpart a Tweet or like a Japanese Haiku can easily convey meanings of so many thoughts otherwise in-expressible even in terms of vast number of proses. It can speedily and easily communicate a vast subject or experience. Maiku is my version of the Haiku. 

It also gives flexibility and liberty to use  dual-meaning rants using slang-language. To that extent, it makes it easy and powerfullly creative for one to express. Rhyming and versing make it  beautiful and easy to digest.

Unlike a speech that activates 15 to 20% of brain cells, it's a fact that a writing exercise activates 85 to 90% of brain cells. Imagine the power of writing a poem then. 

Footnote-1: Review or you may say views of Sanjay-ji Pawar in Loksatta Marathi Daily about Aa-Sanskriti (असंस्कृती: the lack of culture) authored by Abhinaya Ramesh Kamble.

Footnote-2: KISS: Keep-It-Short-n-Sweet! In fact, poetry according to me is a KISS-language! Knowledge-In-Short-n-Sweet-language, I mean!!