Lonely Stranger

I was returning home

With lot of thoughts in mind

As I walked past the temple

I casually looked at an old abandoned building

Expecting no surprises

As it remained closed for years

Even before, I moved to this locality

Once it was a home to sports and arts club

Now just a reminder of the past

I noticed a voice from inside

I slowed down to see who it is

I looked through the opened windows

I saw a strange old man with long grey beard

Sitting on the floor

With an apple in his hand

He was immersed in his own world

Talking to himself in some strange language

Or rather singing

I wondered who that stranger is

I’ve never seen him before in my locality

I think he may have lost his way

And chose to rest in that unoccupied building

As it has been raining for many days

As I walked past the building

I kept thinking about that old man

I wondered where he did come from!

May be bit curious about the story

Behind a lonely stranger

Even then, he was talking loudly

As if there are many people sitting beside him

Twitterland

There used to be one exotic place on earth

Switzerland, the queen of Alps

Draped over with fluffy snow

And wooed by the naughty chilly winds

Always enticed the honeymoon couples

Or those who wished to ski down the curves

Of a marvelous beauty

Or for the greedy rich men who looked for

A safe haven to hide their riches

But this is a new virtual haven

For those who want to be free

For those who want to express their views

For those who want to know what others think

Those who build a tent in twitter land

 Mingle with the strangers across the world

Sharing their thoughts on countless topics

Sharing jokes and news and whatever possible

Even the constraints of 140 words doesn’t stop anyone

Some people live a parallel life in twitter land

Tweeting everything, they do live

Some just follow the celebrities and other famous people

To read their insights and controversies they make

Some just immerse themselves in following countless people

Or making countless people follow them

It’s fun when every other thing in life is boring

A world to set fire without taking matchbox

Just tweet some words

The fire will just catch up in countless minds

Then it just sparks debates

Some just like re-tweeting what others say

It’s an info highway

Where countless active and lazy people

Spend their time to spread info and get info

With mobile twitter, tweet freaks are online from everywhere

This is an obsessive addiction

That keeps many lives transparent

This is a volatile wonderland

That can change the lives

With the 140 words they use

Some gained accolades

Some lost their image in public

After waging wars against rogue elements

Many lost their little empires of power

After chasing down enemies in public

There are many romances

There are many breakups

This is a quick route for many to show their discontent

Easily infuriating the bosses with mocking

And getting the pink slips to go for some other jobs

It’s a hangout for gangs of friends

To tell and ask anything and everything

It gives the sense that you are not alone

No matter where you are, someone is with you

Following you to know from you

Now it has become just a marketing media

For all ambitious businesses

Tweeting links towards anything on the web

They are just driving people towards products

Building traffic towards the websites

And reaping the countless dollars from thin air

But everyone love twitter land

As somebody is tweeting something right now

And someone is waiting there to read that and reply

This is going to last longer, until something better emerge

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.

Wings

Give the wings to a butterfly, which lost its wings

You will see it slowly trying to rise up and down

Trying to learn to fly again to see the world once again

As it has got in its mind, the images about a garden

Where there are beautiful flowers with exotic aroma

The wish to taste that sweet honey once again

The wish to fly with bunch of other butterflies

The wish to pollinate the countless romantic flowers

The wish to contribute its part in this world

These wishes are powerful to push it higher towards sky

Then will free its new wings to breeze through the wind

Waving back a grateful smile for letting it fly again

That smile is priceless and that joy is unforgettable

Give wings to dreams of someone and let them fly

You will get that beautiful smile full of love