Govind, has been patient with his words in verse
Generous, quietly motivating making muses traverse
In a canvas of feeling, and gratitude, this is immerse(d)(Cant even hold the rhyme consistently like he does!)
Many a verse, he gifts
And my spirit, it always lifts
Be it in humour, in jest
Or the topping, the crest
As it were, I sure have been blest
PRG, sometimes Govind he signs
His words, in verse, those lines
More precious than diamonds from mines 🙂
This wee bit of studied rhyme
All shoddy, but in good faith, and solid chryme
Is yours, Govind, and to keep-it’s not worth THAT dime 😀
And here’s the list of your gifts to this page
All of which this rambler has decided to cage
In here, as wisdom from a sage
No less, for me, as I guage
Gorge and deeply assuage
The arrogant muse within 🙂 🙂
(See, I cannot even keep up that shoddy rhyme
Now that is nothing less than a crime 🙂 )
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Govind’s words on Writes Here :
Life again:
“The seed always lies dormant
in wait for a suitable agent
to make it grow lively & vibrant
and bring forth flowers so fragrant”
And he inspired Salil to write this in:
“Love, I have experienced,
But never have I, like you, articulated.
Cloak of love, each of us wears,
Taking for granted, as we go on with our daily chores.
Cheers,
Salil
PS : My feeble attempt inspired byPRG ” aka Govind Ramachandran
“You always excel in the art
of writing about matters of the heart
while some pierces like a dart
the rest soothes like symphony of Mozart. “
In Reassurance:
“Even when YOU are ‘within’ ME
and trying hard to let me be
you’ll fail for there are strands you can’t see
to which this soul clings unwilling to be free.
Usha, just beautiful! ”
glad you’re back from the self imposed exile
now we can be treated to verses so virile
the mark of the inimitable usha’s style.
Welcome back.A`very apt verse for the occassion ”
Usha, your heart is as deep as the ocean
in your wonderful display of your affection
I wish I was worthy of at least a fraction.
Just beautiful Usha. Welcome back in case you have missed my comments for your earlier post.”
with thoughts that are so very dazzling
and arcs over synapses forming lightning
It is you that should be threatening.
Usha just beautiful. We only wish we get more of this. ”
with offerings of verses that endear
the beat of the heart is so crystal clear
‘we want more’ we say who hold you dear
In the world of poetry you have no peer.
Welcome back. The wait was very much worth it. ”
like peeling off layers of an onion
to get to the bottom of the ultimate union
the master and the minion meshed by a pinion
each word written is worth a million.
Usha,need more of this ”
but it is our ego that is limiting
or maybe what is known is comforting
and what we are unaware terrifying.
Usha simply wonderful. I was in Myanmar when I read this on my reader but couldn’t comment as we can’t access blogging sites there. ”
Or wordlessly into each others eye they stare
Vying from their partners for love and care
Enamoured they say LOVE is in the air. “
Whereas your poetry brings to its readers joy as would a flock of songbirds
though some of them would sound so cryptic like the clues of crosswords
Most of them that come straight from your heartwould pierce ours like swords.”
some of things which we can never desist
and a few of them that will never be missed
God surely has not surely written such a list
everything is important that’s life in a gist.
Very beautifully written Usha. ”
Of Time and eternally bow to its demand
as it shrinks & expands in it’s own command
we can only be as if acted by a magic wand. “
and we can’t lodge a complaint
for we haven’t read the fine print
no siree we didn’t.
There isn’t a single deal or a relationship which is unconditional. “
about your Haiku I can only rave
How do you make the words behave
as if they are your own slave?
Simply Superb Usha. ”
competing against trillions to become me
A criminal goes back to the crime scene we see
but will a victor go back to the scene of victory?
“From the maturity of perfection in creation,Do we degenerate into the immaturity of a life?”. Usha very profound and how very true. I feel jealous at your ability to constantly come out with such gems. “
joining together and without a seam
like ripples in sunlight they gleam
makes one wonder if we are in a dream.
As usual fantastic Usha. :)”
who’s there when you reach heights so giddy
or when you are beaten and come back all muddy
who will appreciate your work even if it is shoddy
the all knowning one who’ll walk the holes with you like a caddy
however old you are you are still his kiddyand in the whole world bestest of best buddy.”
a post I couldn’t but adore
though it is time for them to soar
your love and care they’ll never ignore.
Are their characters based on their zodiac signs. I would love to meet the Geminian for obvious reasons :))”
helping each other, the challenges to weather.
A relation that caresses like a feather.
Golden wishes to your father and mother.”
of a heart so tender
Fire leaping out from the cinder
and was love acting as a tinder?
Beautiful! ”
makes letting go a difficult chore.
Buried thoughts from the times of yore,
germinate from within as if from a spore.
Beautiful. Just loved it, especially the pun with “Period” ”
or because she was flirting with danger?
or may be due to the fear of losing her?
or the frustration that he is no longer younger?
Red with anger, green with envy, yellow with fear and purple with frustration. Beautiful. ”
the tears leaving not even a speck dry
so too when love flows through the eye
there is no limit not even the sky.
Rain on more such poetry Ushs. ”
or of someone whom you want to glorify?
Or of woman who will willingly die
to be with the one she can always rely? “
so too love, on life. causing a mighty spasm
and at the same time bridging a chasm
for wounds of time offering a healing cataplasm.
Thanks I learnt something new today teacher. 🙂 “
than being a willing prey.
Whatever anyone may say
I just love yesterday.
A paradox, into the past by forgetting the past.
And finally I could resist. Paul Mcartney’s YESTERDAY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwS_YDzxH3M&feature=related “
filling up rapidly the in between space.
Changing the ever contorted face and the grimace;
into something so beautiful and so full of grace.
Running eternally in circles to find some solace
here at last I chance upon the much needed peace.
Usha just wonderful. Hope you will get more time to write such soul stirring verse. ”
when it is for me they somehow always slip through the finger
as if in revenge and veritable show of its anger
unable to balance the credit and debit in its ledger
eternally indebted will I pass away with unsatiated hunger?
Usha, beautiful verse. ”
giving warmth of a cosy fur
contentment of a cat’s purr
and I do concur
that thoughts do blur
when love does occur.
I was reminded of this song when I read your verse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7aUNZQVpQ ”
as it will grow again very soon
and you will be granted a boon
for your love will hear your commune
and a butterfly will emerge from the cocoon. “
Edited to add, on 1 August, 2011
Govind’s response to this write:
“Thank you for painstakingly putting my comments in a chain,
though to be witty, wise and clever they try to feign,
like the mushrooms that come with the rain,
what I write was also dull and so plain,
but as the string by the flowers they tie, fragrance attain
so too my drab verses in the bargain
of being in your blog, immortality gain
For letting me encroach upon your domain
I have to thank you again and again.”
it perhaps lets it to be more brighter
for definitely a little more longerthan if it were to detach and wither.
“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn’t matter much to me.
Always know sometimes think it’s me,
but you know I know and it’s a dream.
I think I know of thee, ah yes, but it’s all wrong.
That is I think I disagree.
‘The Beatles’-“Strawberry Fields Forever””
and be careful when you air your views
for we don’t know who might peruse
and understand that it is an abuse
then there are the appraisals and reviews.
I guess an equally erratic rant.”
when from your grace did I fall?
All I remember are the times that did enthrall
when did our love run into the wall?
please tell me, for your call wait I shall.”
save me from these
choppy seas
I long for some peace
and in you me sees
a cure for my disease.
Hopelessness and hope in a single verse.A wave that tries to drown you also brings you up for some fresh breath. Beautiful.
Like a lovely rose cleansed with the dew,
another year comes all bright and new
Let happiness and joy be with you all through,
and may whatever you strive to do,
make your mother proud for having a son like you.
A belated birthday wish comes your way. As I once told your mother, maybe I am 363 days ahead to wish you for your next birthday. Hope you had a good one.
A mother like Usha there are only a few
and all I can say is ‘Lucky You’
As you start another phase of life anew
I wish you happiness through and through.
Happy Birthday.
that binds the beggar and the Pope.
People lose it and in darkness grope
and some who are unable to cope
go searching for some magic dope
or go scurrying for the rope.
Don’t worry, all that seems lost will come back- HOPE.
We should have a silly rant contest.
if you imply that your readers are a pain in the neck
if you did you have made my ego a wreck
what was once bloated is now just a speck.
are perhaps eyes at the back
then we could tighten things that are slack
correct course and move to right track
and at life have a fresh new crack.
and what of the pain, am I missing anything at all?
To be alright soon pray I shall
to get up and give us more verses that enthral.
All the unwanted things we can remove from our gene
and from all those undesirable habits,we oourselves can wean
Oh, once again a case of ‘if only it had been….’
that it has no limits
in the language that it admits
nor does it need any affidavits
or require you to reveal your deficits
as without any sound it visits
not waiting for any permits.
Beautiful as usual. Can you throw more light on Aleph?
may joy and health you have in excess
sadness and troubles a little less
with many more years of happiness
to you,let the ALMIGHTY bless.
Happy Birthday Sashu. Have a great day and a wonderful year ahead 🙂
a mind that works on its own is mine
and so you want catch me whine
to be me it suits me just fine.
Usha, Rebellio-U-s?
from hatred it sets me free
peace in this earth to be
tat-vam-asi.
I have written something on these lines.But not as crisp as you have. Don’t know if you had read it.
http://satmuse.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/naan-kadavul-i-am-god/ 🙂
though unbounded love is rife
focus is always on the strife
over flowers the choice is knife.
When really will we understand life?
“when mirrored hearts unable to take the screaming pitch of untold grief simply shattered……”
Simply superb.
and take away be it meek or vain
surely it doesn’t have much to gain
than give support for this terrain
dying,unable to immortality sustain
Death!Can we really arraign?
It sounds so cool and so soothing
you know you don’t have to go fishing
Into the bucket they are ready to be jumping!
Great work teacher! 🙂
to negate the familiarity caused contempt?
If so you shouldn’t voice them and tempt
the adversary and make him ready for a preempt.
Took the bait. Your diction gives me a complex.
there’s nothing that is not needed
and for it to go unimpeded
nothing should go unheeded.
Beautiful. Especially liked ‘In gleams of warmth
Like embers coated in ash
That, with breaths of love
Glow, in anticipation.’
Conjured up a beautiful imagery.
and remember not to be too stiff and taut.
Love and respect they say can’t be bought,
the way your wards HAVE you, they must love you a lot.
52??? Usha you deserve a Param Vir Chakra. 🙂
is so beautifully compiled
though the world looks so bad & wild
the way you want,life, can be styled.
Ashwin, all the best to you
and to the mother too. 🙂
to express one’s thoughts
with just sixteen words
No foreplay,no afterplay.
A Quest on Overdrive ... :) 
July 25, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Thank you for painstakingly putting my comments in a chain,though to be witty, wise and clever they try to feign,like the mushrooms that come with the rain,what I write was also dull and so plain,but as the string by the flowers they tie, fragrance attainso too my drab verses in the bargainof being in your blog, immortality gainFor letting me encroach upon your domainI have to thank you again and again.I thought this deserved more than the usual 4 lines. 🙂 Thank you.
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July 25, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Wow.. all these 4 liners are amazing.. Govind Who I don't know To Your words, I take a bow..
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July 26, 2011 at 2:25 am
This string of verse, Govind, bears a fragrance sweetBecause they all, the muse in here greetWith resonances and ruminations, in verse, so hard to beat :)There, most certainly, is more in your verse, than the eye does meet!Thanks again, Govind!Sunitha 🙂 Do read from his blog; his prose in which he writes there is captivating. 🙂 Thank you for your couplet too!
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August 1, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Comments shouldn't be said to be only 'comments'. dry and sundry a word like this needs replacement after this 🙂
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