Kerala

Kingdoms of cultures

Entwined in perfect harmony

Reached out to the continents  

Anchored by spices and resources  

Land of hills, beaches, backwaters

Adorable paradise like a romantic girl

Lightning Mystery

A lightning struck my lonely hear

Though, there were no rain clouds around

I wonder where it came from!

I wonder, what is happening with me!

I saw the ever-blue canvas of vast sky

Filled with stars, asteroids, meteorites

Planets and their countless moons

Right through the goggles of sunshine

Sun dwarfed all of them

With an attitude of an emperor

I saw the pride of a mighty ruler

While shipping back to my curious heart

I found some pockets of mystery

Left behind by that surprise lightning

Am I confused or uncertain?

Am I excited or shocked?

I am bundled with countless questions

An aura of blind hope

It has swamped over the rest of my heart

I can’t understand this feeling

Something new, but not unfamiliar

I feel, I am ready for an adventure

I don’t know where it will lead me to

I am touched by the gracious prospects

Sometimes some risks are worth

More than money, lust, and emotions

As there is a heaven of serene life

Awaiting amidst the clouds of anxious hearts

As i rewind that lightning again 

I am finding some intimate response

Emerging from those mysterious pockets

Well, I need to solve this mystery

I don’t know what is there awaiting

But, I am liking this sweet little

Mystery lightning somehow

After all this heart thrives on the mystery.Well it is a good thing to have in life at times.

Water Highway to moon

Every where there is concern

Climate is becoming weird day by day

Countries are blaming each other

For the green house gas emissions

No one ready to accept their faults

Nor ready to come up with solutions

Everyone on street know the solution

But governments endorse economic growth

Over emission cuts that could bring down

The monster of global warming

Kyoto and Copenhagen

More summits will follow with same results

With negotiators stage-managing the drama

One day they will have to act

When they finally see their cities submersing

Now they fend off the Greenpeace activists

With the iron fist of law

But, one day there won’t be a place to hide

When thunderstorms, floods, droughts, tsunamis

Earthquakes come with vengeance

With the silent permission of Mother Nature

To reclaim her pride, marred by greed of humans  

We are experts in dumping all the wastes

Wherever possible on earth and space

It’s the time for us to think,

how to flush out the excess water from the oceans?

Before we are forced out from our homeland

To some hostile planets where we have to fight

Every moment with forces there to survive

Where we can’t walk nor breathe freely

Let’s build a water highway to the moon

Piercing channels through the space

Pumping out water molecules with escape velocity

And then pulling them towards the craters of moon

With the gravity

Then filling them with the virgin water from earth

We can use this water to feed ourselves

As we want to have colonies there

To launch our quest to conquer this universe

To find the aliens and other living organisms

We can recreate oceans at the barren lands in moon

We can even create artificial atmosphere

With water vapors and other gases

As we are experts

In emitting millions of cubic meters of dangerous gases

We can take space tourists to show them

The spectacular water high way for huge sums of money

May be someday people can undertake adventurous trips

On some space vehicles through that water highway

As long as we can keep the water level down in earth

Any amount spent on that highway is worth a punt

We can have tourists’ resorts in moon

Along the banks of this highway

With yatches lining up for luxury rides

On the water we find as junk on earth

We recreated every monument possible

May be we can recreate Venice on moon

As for humans, “nothing is impossible.”


This poem is inspired by the continuing protest by green-peace activists against the governments for not trying significantly to reduce the emissions.Global warming is affecting our very existence in this planet.

If i become a....

Just woke up

From the long slumber

Forgetting eves, nights and mornings

I’ve been swimming in ocean of dreams

I was wondering

What shall I become in future?

Ive dreamed myself

To be someone

Who could be a welcome change

If I become a salesman

I will sell dreams

To those who don’t have dreams

I will sell smiles

To those who forgot how to smile

I will sell hope

To those who live in tears of despair

If I become a painter

I will paint a new universe

With all the colors in this earth

I will paint the scened of every story

To take everyone to new worlds

Where movies can’t take them to

If I become a rockstar

I will create bigbang natural music

With the mix all earthly sounds

Zinking words with souls of joy and pain

Expressing the emotions of millions

Echoing all the way up to the space

I will try to spread message of peace and hope

Every time I step in a stage

If I become a designer

I will recreate the old marvels

In magical space age mode

I will design things that others wish

With inspiration from nature

Spreading awareness about the green world

Through alternate source and style

For now

I am nothing

Just a zero walking around

With a heart full of bright dreams

Hoping to make it big

Some day ,some how

Piece of land,a beautliful curse

I am fortunate

To live in this gorgeous earth

With ever green forests and grasslands

Deserts , iceblocks and islands

Mountains,hills and valleys

Trenches ,craters,barren and  marshy lands

Surrounded by vast oceans

Cut through by curvy rivers,streams

Ponds ,lakes and lagoons

Like anyother human I have a dream

To own a piece of land

To live amidst the heart beats of nature

Far away from the world of gizmos

Where everything is unreal

Even a smile is faked up as customary

With words weaving nets of illusion to flatter

I am realising that our world has changed

From those neanderthal times

With sophistication of technology

Overriding our emotions

Luring towards products made for producing profits

We use it regardless of its necessity

I think we made our lives complex

Different from the times when they lived

Without airconditioners or aeroplanes

But the greed for land never changed

For centuries men gave up their lives

For their masters quests to capture lands

Millions of kids and women paid the price

When ruthless emotionless conquerors

Butchered and tortured them as symbols of victory

Now there are laws and customs

Nationally and internationally,all botched up

Suiting the policies of those in power

Using the loop holes in the laws

The cunning greedy people keeps siezing lands

Forging fake documents with authenticity

Forcing the real owners out of it

Using gangs of horror

When financial might creates a mountain

Of legal obstacles

Red tapes of government machinery

Entangles the ladders to the olive branch of justice

One realises the fact that land is up for grabs

Whenever someone else have their eyes on it

You can’t do much to stop the inevitable

Unless you have the support from all streams

And money to keep the tie wide open

To claw back the justice to the rightful

When legal drama continues in courts of justice

Loser is only the one who loved and kept the land

As years passes by in front of them

With no possibility to get something out of the land

Only money drains out towards attorneys

And all other arms of justice

The siezers can keep laughing

As they know sooner or later

Opponent will get dis illusioned

That’s the tactics they play to outwit the hapless

It’s the time for authorities to open their eyes

As hundreds of people suffer due to

Law twisting evils who call themselves gentlemen

Who rides their luck on spineless laws

That disputes the status of land

When there is nothing in real

Even I live in agony over one such

Piece of land

As generation changed,the mentle fell on me

It’s a beautiful curse that I want to get rid off

Cos,I am looking for peace

Than a piece of land which offers nothing but pain

Vague Thoughts

To be among these wily-foxes what I should do?

To remain un-shattered,

 Should I keep my mind f rozen-all the time?

To achieve something special,

Should  I throw away,the castles of imagination?

Should i bring  the dreadful experiences back to the mind,

To bear a new torch,

Towards the milestone that I am looking for.

Is it possible to climb Everest

with Himalayas in one hand,as well as Alps in other hand?

May be I can!

As idles have to bear,difficulties overwhelmingly at once!

It is impossible to go to the stars!

But, it is not improbable to dream about stars.

Forces are there,for nothing, for everything.

Boredom is awaiting all the time everywhere.

But pleasant thoughts can help one to get out of it.

Calculations are theoretical,

But, in practice, most of them falter.

Fights are for those who want to prove their grit!

Hills and forests are for those who love,

“The beauty of nature”.

For those birds, life means freedom

As they can fly

For man life means detention!

As they are always in bond.

Can these bonds be broken forever?

Night Rain

its a beautiful night.....

where is the moon and stars?

clouds did u hide them from me?

oh you wind..

why are you waving fiercly?

now that i m listening to u

the tiny miny droplets of rain

how did u learn the music?

love works in mysterious ways and friendship courts the night ... rain

brings waves of cleaning and renewal to the face of life

rain can bring freshness into extinct hearts

revitalising thoughts in a positive way

rain can wash away all those negativeness

just like as if nothing happened ever

oh that wind that drags the rain across the sky

daring all who get near to feel the utter darkness that lies within

whipping the world into a vortex of feelings and emotions

bringing lost and lonely souls to the apex

swirling them in a flow of retrospection

in search of a brighter light of hope

to find ways to escape to a shelter

where peace is awaiting to heal them

drumming rain drenching the world in colors

colors of brite and light matching piece by piece

into the darkness of night ... falling falling

unsure and unattached falling .....

when seen with heart,even in darkness

one can see those beautiful color fall

as if its a heavenly flourishing of blessings

for giving salvation to every molecule of nature

souls peek from behind the fast moving clouds

feeling the rain .... dreaming of life

hope and happiness

may this rain bring resounding magic

spreading waves of happiness all across

changing the way life looks like

a welcome change for the lost souls

This poem is written in association with my friend Katyayani.We had great time in writing this more of an interactive poetry. Images thanks to farm4.static.flickr & ikigaiway

Read more poems of creative poets at monday-poetry-potluck-kings-queens- . Thanks :)

Unseasonal Rain

Life was moving on boring as ever,

With spring gone, beauty of nature too.

With leaves falling and swaying with wind,

Sun geared up to smile on nature,

Everyone were waiting for some hot days,

But ,astonishingly!

It lashed, the rain.

Flash floods ramped across the state,

Roads got immersed under the fury,

Of what turned out to be unseasonal rain!

Rather than relishing the relief,

People emerged out of homes with umbrellas,

Cursing on the rain for ruins.

The days passed on and on,

But the rain that changed the season,

Just kept dancing on the land!

More than excitement, agony creeped in,

Kids just looked at the sky,

Asking themselves ,when will it end?

But, the nature got a refreshing cover,

Greenery surfaced all around,

Cheering the minds, cooling the agony.

The cold winds, which accompanied rain,

Became an ecstasy for many,

Those who loved the rain walked through it,

Dancing with the rhythm of the raindrops!

Dampness remained in surface for long,

But it didn’t dampened the spirits,

Everyone knew the unwelcome guest,

Will just vanish as if nothing happened.

But the unseasonal rain was a hit,

As it challenged the weather predictions,

“Proving all the science wrong”!

Showed that “Mother Nature” can surprise,

At her will any time, with unseasonal rain,

Reiterating herself as “the queen of earth”!