I dreamt for a time
got up after some time
found nothing in rhyme
Truth is bitter and sour.
Speaking it needs power.
Talking straight is never
a habit in the cover
demanding sincerity ever
Lies come in a clamour
Facilitating them with glamour
has become a passionate amour
bringing with it an exercise of grammar
elaborating with feign demeanour
Truth is slow and is a struggle
With an initial setback and bungle
it falters in every possible juggle
then gets ahead deliberately in a snuggle
never pushing in a through a smuggle.
Lies are quick and shining
coming in tens and hundreds in teasing
as one lie leads to another in piling
setting the stage for rigging
culminating in an illicit trafficking.
With that lies being an easy format
men chose to go by that stat
gaining in terms in no mean brat
while truth is no mean doormat
fighting a very difficult combat.
As such the eventual lies live short
with ostentation and glory bought
but with truth being caught
by jugglery and manipulation of sort
has a life long-standing above all thoughts.
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The choice is classic
looking very chic
with the outer frame not thick
while the inner look is sleek
grand and great it seems
lively and cheerful it beams
shining and twinkling it gleams
as it expressed a poetic seam
delightfully outstanding
an artist who has to be honoured.
Crosswords take the mind off
letting in a concentration in a laugh
where the focus is on solving
as the puzzle goes on prolonging
pushing one to resolve fast
have to possess patience to last
accomplishing the task on time
requires great skill and rhyme
which is not found in many
with only a few having any
love and desire to indulge
as the work needs a grudge
and grit to win over straight.
Life being a crossword
with happenings wayward
the competition being heavy
and the challenges in levy
few walk out with bowed head
while the rest camouflage instead
posing they have achieved great
but in truth they are below the rate.
Calling for water
queuing up in roads for water
walking miles for a pot of water
has become the way in charter
seeming like a barter
not a worthwhile carter
as primarily water
has become a matter
that strikes with a clatter
the scarcity is not a flatter
it is a real shatter
converting the land to a totter
and the people to chatter
about the pernicious slaughter
of the environment to a disaster
making it unfit to live hereafter.
Barring a few
the rest in the long queue
got impatient with the procedures new
which seemed to be without clue
have to wait with tolerance in blue
grumbling and mumbling in rue
Well. that has been the way in true
as one has to go with in diligence
due
giving merit to the rules through and through
as a rush would bring a break and a slew
ransacking the whole issue in a violent brew
delivering the result in a doleful hue
converting it into a programme to sue.
The song was scintillating
went through the heart
leaving the mind in tranquillity
being sung with such fervour
that the raga Mohana
kalyani descended
as an apparition from heaven
a combination of two ragas
exciting the ears that listened
enhancing the spirit that got mesmerised
as the rendition on the high scale
was a rhapsodical delivery
blending of the two lovely ragas
one in the ascending scale
with one in the descending
raising the lovers of music to ecstasy
above all levels of human strain.
Reaching out to all
should be everyone’s call
going by the natural fall
have to get into the interacting
with a lively and involved reacting
getting straight into it without faltering
hastening to meet people in the run
moving close to them not for fun
but with an intention to turn
the society that has gone astray
has become unruly in a way
impeding the progress in the fray
and suppressing the prosperity.
The reach here comes into the count
with the mission to dispel the stunt
saving society from the deadliest brunt.