Illusions

Nature the beauty, rests not from duty,

Keeps all her actions, right in a rhythm.

Blooming of flowers, the appliqué of beauty!

Soon after winter, that gives rest from duty.

All cycles put in, the right way to go well,

Letting all know, that blessed are the lives.

Spring after summer , never before winter,

To make autumn step in, well like the Venus.

All seasons parade, nay nay to besmirch!

Know all are sisters, mother being Nature,

Add beauty always, to all things on earth,

Making it heaven, that holds all the riches.

Same are the things, yet differ in their lings,

As clouds in the sky, are white black and red;

So are the apples, that keep doctors away!

Taste in its stages, sour bitter sweet.

White gowned winter, sweet sight for all,

So is the snow drop, that lies on her breast.

Cruel is the summer, so bright like fireball!

Rage out its anger, to hold all in bare.

Illusions or disillusions, fail never to stare,

Keep a part well stored up, for my pretty ones,

Who with their mother, enjoy well am sure

To keep safe like yolk and white, protected by shell.

Let me sleep

All that glitters is not gold

Is the proverb first I learned;

Was it right or wrong know not

Teacher told me forget not.

Once I got two bits of gold

Proud was always for its hold,

Friends and foes got envied

For my luck that none denied.

Kept them close my heart always

Giving warmth and strength by ways,

Dreaming of the brightest time

Which would bring the happy fame.

Time as usual rolled like flash

Pretty two have grown so fast,

Taught them both to earn their bread

That was easy for their mode.

I with cudgel guarded them

In my wake and sleep as well,

Helping enjoy life in form

In this world of unfair dell.

Nature’s law holds good for all

Young or old has no detour,

Ages seven that shaksphere tell

Sixth now take me in its toll.

Sense and strength stay wide apart

Like the sky and holy earth,

Seem both always stay intact

But they really meet nowhere.

So far did I find no one

In whose hands my wealth is safe,

Know not how long will I search

For my health is heifer’s heft.

Sleepless nights are giving fear

Of uncompleted duties left,

Hopping always had I never

Born to bear this rancor test.

Slumber quitted from my life

Tell me how to get it back,

Or else welcome Thanatos

Who will bless me final sleep.

Bit for the day

Tell me why we disobey

Where we have to just obey,

Taking things in silly way

Mocking others all the way.

Court has warned us more than once

About the use of plastic hence ,

Demo-crazy took it thence

To show that they still run at pace,

Don’t we smell the city bad

Rotting vegs and nonvegs add

(As we smell our ruler’s words),

Rats and dogs are at the jade

To have it till they get jaded.

Once we said to hold legs tight

Else the autos skip thro space,

Now to say, keep mouths shut

Or the garbage make it passé.

Don’t we keep our homes all neat

To make it smell and look so bright,

Why not let our city rest

And make its beauty not be lost.

Impromptu

It is true that the whole world is by way of a tough phase of economic depression which hasstarted distressing global life.The street purveyor to trillion dollar companies started reducing labour as a measure of retrenchment. Here a question arises which needs an immediate answer. Isn’t there a stench of exploitation? Capitalism always had and so has. The prominent factor of this event is opening a path to a system which is, if not equal, much near to slavery. Millions who are thrown out of job became impecunious and many fold in a state of anxiety and mental depression. The ill fated former will be forced to accept other jobs without a think twice or bargain to feed their family. Here booms the possibility of the nasty play of an employer. The victims of the ‘episode’ have to yield to their masters. A well rehearsed and polished slavery. Are the victims harassed physically and mentally? Yes, A guillotine deal! And result is, groveling from victims. Here physical harassment is, working as much as twice their work time, mental stress, instability of job like ‘the sword of Damocles’. The sufferings are beyond imagination. A real echolalia as that of a pronounced ‘Black Warrant’ in wake and sleep. Can’t we think of a solution where all contribute equally and show the willingness to share the sufferings in due proportion to keep the ‘haves and have-nots ‘term out of the doors. Is this possible?

Let us put our heads together and think of the solution which can bring all back to jobs and a universal harmony. The best repentance for the impromptu.

IOTA LUPIN

The roads and the Road Transport Corporation of Kerala are complimentary in ruggedness. The conditions of both reflect the inefficiency and mismanagement of the governments which ruled here after independence. The question for which I never get an answer is, Why India (of which Kerala and other states form a part) has so many political parties and leaders than it can hold? These politicians pretend to be born to serve the people. If so, why not they give their service undauntedly to the people without competing as they do now to come to power. These Garbhasreemans* orGarbhasreemathies*(*One who has acquired excellence right from his / her mother’s womb) form the only class of people who never work, but enjoy all luxuries of life on others cost. Real parasites. Whenever I hear about theft, burglary or cheating my curiosity is to know to which party the thief, burglar or cheat belongs, because he is the part and parcel of this system, for which some of us fight and kill ourselves and our fellow beings in the name of religion, region and party making our country a sepulcher.

Oh! I have deviated from my topic. Recently I had a very unhappy experience during a travel in our state owned bus. I boarded the bus which had come from the capital city. A lady with her daughter also boarded in the bus. The lady seemed very tired. There were no vacant seats. Of the four rows of the rear seats reserved for women, two were occupied by men. The daughter reminded those gentlemen about the seats they were occupying and requested to vacate one row so that she could make her ailing mother comfortable. The occupants turned a deaf ear to the request. Some of us approached the bus conductor to intervene. He brusquely pronounced that it was not part of his duty and added that the women’s seats were in the front rows. One from us asked about the logic of writing right above the seats that they are reserved for women for which he had no answer. The girl led her mother to the front part of the bus. What a wonder!! Four rows of seats there were also reserved for women only in words written above them, but no seat left for them. The occupants refused to vacate on the claim that women’s seats were the rear ones. The driver of the bus added misery to hell by his reckless driving and applying breaks quite often as if he wanted the whole road for his own. The mother and daughter were left to in explainable hardships till they got seat when two of the passengers alighted at the next station which was about 25 kilometers away. The lady really collapsed on to the seat. The helpless tear-filled eyes of the girl still haunt my conscience and reminds me the Greek word ‘IOTA LUPINE’ the meaning of which I explained to my students sometime in the past. I settled my mind with the aphorism ‘ As is the king so are his subjects’. A question to the concerned.” How does this duplication in seats happen?. Is it not a part of exploitation? Who is to settle these types of disputes? Is n’t it the responsibility of the bus conductor and the driver? Why are the law breakers not punished or fined as per rules?

Rules of the road

I was shocked to see the photo of a 26 year old girl whose head, face and body got charred by the acid spilt on her by somebody’s inexcusable carelessness. The girl was returning home from office as pillion rider of her friend’s bike. The truck loaded with concentrated sulphuric acid, in the front of which the bike was stopped at a traffic control signal, had not closed the lid of the container after loading the acid from FACT Eloor. The jerky move of the vehicle on getting the signal made the corrosive acid splash on the poor girl burning her flesh causing severe pain and major disfigurement.
The extent of irreparable damages caused due to sheer carelessness cannot be justified or belittled. Negligence and carelessness has taken the life of two physically handicapped men this week in two different instances. Before getting down, the buses were made to move letting the rear wheels rollover the helpless men killing them on the spot.
I have witnessed an accident six months back which again is a breed of carelessness and negligence. A gentleman with his wife was going on a scooter at a very safe speed. I was travelling almost 20 meters behind them. A luxury coach went past us, faster than the allowed speed. Simultaneously an empty soft drink bottle was dropped from the coach. As it was never expected and was very close, didn’t give time for the rider of the scooter to stop. Letting the couples fall, the bottle rolled aside as if waiting for another innocent victim, could be the ridiculous passenger himself who threw it. The rider got his left hand fractured and wounds on shoulder and legs and the lady got a severe cut on her leg. Why things happen like this? Is it that pleasure is derived from these carnage actions? Abiding law is everybody’s business. Then why these types of wrongdoers are not brought before law and get punished? Everyone knows the answer. Yes, you said it. “Why should I? Let the snake remain there itself.
Some who try to do things to better up society are ridiculed. Can you believe it? Yes, you and I have to. When the first court order came banning smoking in public, we tried to make the smokers aware of it and there by save the nonsmokers from the passive smoker threat. We made some posters written “DON’T SMOKE HERE. YOU ARE BEING WATCHED” with a Jack’s head on it and were put in certain public places with permission. It did wonder next day by changing itself a mock spot. The Jack on the poster with a cigarette in its mouth!!!.
Why is it that certain people always take things the other way. They will start taking in things also through the other way. Those who derive fun from sadism.