Why it’s so only to me?
Why it’s so only to me
I was getting ready
To go to office
Dressed up
Reached dining table
For breakfast
I heard my wife
“The milk got spoilt
The bread got charred
Why it’s so only to me? ”
You were telling something
I asked my wife
“Just thinking something”
She said, making me realize
That I am now blessed
With the power of
Hearing what others think
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Life a school, learning the living
Life, a school
With no class rooms
With no black boards
With no one standing before you and teaching
With no tests
With no exams
With no marks, ranks and promotions
With no books
Life, a school
And you are in the same standard or class life through
Who is teaching, but
Everyone you come across and
Everything nearby
From just born to the one waiting to depart
The leaf dancing to the tunes of the wind
The car that is speeding by your side
The plane flying up in the sky
The water flowing gently in the stream
The stars twinkling in the dark sky
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Experiment with truth, now with instrument
Experiment with truth,
Now with instrument
A TV programme is
Presently being aired
Where telling truths
Will help a person
Win rupees to the tune of a crore
Truth is here defined
As telling what is there
In the thought
Truth is sharing your thought,
Which most of us
Will not like to do
As many of us
Nurse bad, wild and ugly thoughts
This programme
With the award it projects
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Tribute to J N Tata on his birthday 3 Mar 2011
Business is meant for
Wealth generation only
This deep-rooted adage
Was shaken and thrown off gear
This day in 1839
When Nusserwanji Tata
Was born in Navsari of Gujarat
It was a differently bright
And quite a colourful dawn as
It marked the beginning of
Socially-considerate
Industrialization in India
The country leaders were
In a struggle for political freedom
At the time when Tata grew
And was mature enough
To take a lead
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Romance, Love, Sex, Dislike and Dispose
Romance is a fascination
For a person, normally of the other sex
Expressed or otherwise
Irrespective of the other person
Having a similar emotion
It remains often gentle
Waiting for an occasion
To demonstrate the passion
When given a green signal
Romantic expressions surface
Which need not be anything material
But just can be a word, wink, wave of fingers
And a similar lot subtle things
Which only the partners understand and enjoy
Romance can even be maintained
Between people unmet
Exchanging these signals remotely
With no one else knowing what is on between them
Love follows romance
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
A troubled mind - 2
The female mind in me, recently in the limelight for wrong reasons
It took about twenty years of twice-married life
And about seventeen years of widowhood
For me to understand
That the femininity in me
Is still dormant and has the
Potential to strike me
Not that I remained free of
Physical intimacy with men
But, I was on the look out of a person
Who will be a good father
Of my only teenaged son
I exercised all cautions in deciding
The so-called life partner
It is also my understanding and felt-experience
That sexual desire gets kindled in me
By the looks and gait of the men I used to come across
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Memorable Cries of Mine
We cry
When we are in pain
Pain can be physiological
Pain can be psychological
As the intensity of
Physiological pain abates
It is likely
The cry associated with it
Dies down
At a rate similar to the
Rate of abatement of pain
As we mature
We develop the tact of
Bearing a pain
Practically not crying over it
Psychological hurt
Stays long
As an emotional scar
And has the power to
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Fathers’ day
Fathers’ day
I was greeted by my children
I looked back as to
What I have done to them
Nothing much
Or more than what all fathers would have done
To their children
They greeted me saying
That I am a great dad and what not
To what extent I deserve this
As far I know
I have not demonstrated
Any unique signs of love
I have not, of course,
Disciplined them nor
I have given them specific
Instructions
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Observations of an octogenarian
Observations of an octogenarian
An octogenarian, aged eighty seven
Physically in some discomfort, but mentally strong and even
Has been striving to keep his living space a heaven
Has a number of things to say,
Which, when practiced, will our living soften
He is none other than uncle R Mahadevan
Listen to him in his own words
All your intensions good or bad, are subject to criticism, objection and observation.
Your attitude determines the altitude.
Ignorance is pardonable, negligence is negotiable, but deliberation is punishable.
Doctors are supposed to treat the ill, but not to extend ill treatment.
Your destiny will lead you to your destination.
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Awaiting the bullet
Awaiting the bullet
It all happened like that
I finished my graduation
Not able to convince any of the employers
On my employability
And was roaming the streets
Of my small town
Got introduced to a boy of my age
Who said opportunities were there
For the youth
Provided they prove committed to
What the employer wants them to do
I was sure of convincing any one of
My commitment to duty
Thought it would not be a loss
To give a try
And accompanied my new friend
[...] Read more
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!