Poem - All and everything

The scent applied
fades
then disappears altogether

What you learn
goes to waste
With each passing day

What u accumulate
stacks up....
And builds into useless heap

Visions of yesterday
faces today's
harsh realities

So have fun
and forget
All and everything......

© Ratish

Poem - Random definitions..

Faith is like a bait fish nibbles
Before it knows its too late

Love is something that envelops your being
and resides in a fertile place

Time is something that is fictional
A fallacy of the brain

Space is all pervading
The truth behind the maze

© Ratish

Poem - When u get there

You bend your back
you strive too hard
In a rush to reach it

You think of all the
things you'll have
When you finally meet it

With aim in sight
There is no other way....
But to achieve it

What happens when you get there???

© Ratish

Poem - Guise

Jester's smile
is it worht its while?
Fake as it could be...
and so purely faked

The beauty of deceit
that is apparent
And no attempt
has been made to disguise it

Insincerity so sincere
subjugation so blatant
Defiance so subtle
Stare held a moment 2 long

The best of worst
and worst of best
which one will u choose
as your guise today???

Poem - Focus

The beat
repeats
from a distant place

The rythem
slowly
grips your feet

The shadow
reveals itself
In mysterious ways

Shapes form
then merge
with the ambience

Yet,
If you forget
To focus on right things

Clutter
accumulates
Instead of memories

Then abrupt end
of the story
Leaves you unfulfilled......

© Ratish

Poem - The Dust

The dust
It takes over
Everything
eventually ....

Everything on earth that is
So, what do u do?
Climb the skies or mountains
Or hide in deep sea

All the civilization
technology
Shall be covered by dust
eventually ....

You sweep it
it comes back...
from everywhere...
you alos are its carrier

If you try to sanitize
the room
Then u have to gaurd against
your dust from spreading
The dust
you r preventing

© Ratish

Poem - Life & its charms

The moon has descended
upon my window panes
So big, so low
Alone with a faint glow

The night has silently crept
To provide a satin backdrop
And to cover the traces
of teardrops that moon has wept

The breez is crisp & cold
It carries the smell of days bygone -
Thousands of night on which moon has shone
And blew the pieces of million stories untold

The bed is soft & warm
The moon is shining, trees moving in wind
Eyes are blank staring at the void
Thinking of this life and its charms

© Ratish

Poem - The fog

The chill in the air
Envelops me
As i step outside
To face the world

The reality bites through
the protection I have
And my very being is exposed
To the vagries of the wind

The scene arround me
has changed
The street I walk daily
Suddenly is not familiar

The fog transforms everyting
It shields something & reveals something
The fog leaves me disoriented
The fog gives me new eyes.....

© Ratish

Poem - My mouse pointer

U r the mouse pointer of my life
I need u for all the things i do
Well, Almost all the thing i mean!!
I follow u to find the real me

Some times when u r not arround
I feel utterly useless
I can still function, I have learnt that
But not with the same aplomb

Then there is this key pad
U always ask about that
I spend more time
Punching useless rhymes

The keypad's amazing number of keys
Perform innumerable feats
With just a push of a button
It offers instant gratification

The shortcuts
The acquired habits
The proficiency gained
In performing trivial things

Thats why my dear mouse pointer
I adore u so much
U come naturally to me
As I come naturally to u .....

© Ratish

The Dog

The Dog

The cynic lives here no more!! Like everything around, he  too has evolved. 

Stranger still, his own motives are under the scrutiny......

Somewhere, somehow a seeds of idea were sown . Now they are sprouting branches every which way and competing for space. Each plant acquires its distinct shapes and size with passage of time. The dead leaves and branches are shed and the plant adapts to its external environment.

The fort of reason and logic have crumbled. These walls were built to keep things out and give a semblance of security and grandeur.  Amazingly it was not due to any enemy attack, but by a natural process in which the wilderness has taken over. Small growth here and a small growth there, a rock breaks free from its place and gradually the wall gives way.

I may be compared to a hunter who has stopped using his skill to kill for fun.He is assured of his ability to wield the gun, when desired.

  Dog - "the cynic " in me has been relegated to insignificant part and this fact amuses me :)

ciao

 

© Ratish

Thoughts

Feel alive whenever u can. Experience life and imbibe the sorroundings. All the colors, smells and tastes.
How often we block out things and see only what we want from the boquet.....

Thorns are beautiful too...so are blank lines between beautiful verse.

Ratish

Poem - The mountain and me

When I look at the rays of light

Shing bright

From the snow clad peaks

Amid the pine trees

I think of nothing

And simply am

An observer

Do I feel any awe?

Don't think so.............

Me and that mountain

Are like twin spirits

Sharing this same space

Mountain and me

Do communicate silently

Without words.....

And understand

That we exist

To complement each others existace

May be ... May be not

© Ratish

Choice among equals

How hard do u think it would be to chose what you like? I think it is relatively simple to chose between any material stuff. You have your preferences,availability, price and thousand more criteria.

But what happens if u are dealing with people? How do u choose? Or do u choose at all? We r not perfect..... we all know this. And most of all people can learn and change..... This makes them different.

If people can bear with ur imperfections cant u overlook thiers. Why do we give stress on improving others over ouselves..........

Ratish

You are not your mind

How true,
We are not our mind - but this mind is a part of us. So can we blame it for anything at all?

Its like blaming the software when the user does not know how to utilize the features.Rather he is totally unaware that he is operating a sophisticated software.

How ever long u watch it - mind wont dissolve into thin air.Its not the devil we have to guard against, just a tool we got to learn to use.

Definitions can be many. Authous can choose a particular way to describe mind and its woking with relation to everything else out there. So all this string of beautiful prose is it really worth anything???

Its good to read and easier to forget......
Take care
Ratish

Latest retreat into nature made me wonder

Well,
A few days ago, I left my routine life and took a plunge into things I used to do a while back.It really felt great. As if I was walking on some half-forgotten bylane.

When u r in the grind, it becomes difficult to realize that u r in a grind. And a break reorients u. Especially if it leads u to trace path among natural sorroundings. There is nothing like it.The connection is always there but somehow we overlook it.

Sometimes, it becomes hard for us to imagine where a short drive can take us. Ha ha ha... the denizens of the digital world forget how it feels like to have a wind brush across ur face. Or how it feels to look at wild folwers, to hear the crickets make that noise and to smell the fragrance of the fresh air..........

The luxury of sitting on the bank of river with feet dipped in gushing water and the chill that mountain streams alone can provide. The vast sky and soft sunlignt on ur face....

Makes me wonder how long could I have sustained that life ...

Forever... Forever If I could ...

But then againg I am brainlicking back in the digital world :)

Take care
Ratish