If I had any learning!!!

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If I had any learning

Of a highway wide and fit,

Would I lose it at each turning?

Yet look at people spurning

Natural use of it!

See how fine the palaces

And see how poor the farms,

How bare the peasants' granaries

While gentry wear embroideries

Hiding sharpened arms,

And the more they have the more they seize,

How can there be such men as these

Who never hunger, never thirst,

Yet eat and drink until they burst!

There are other brigands, but these are the worst

Of all the highway's harms. 

(Lao Tzu)

Autumn in Mosaic!!

Shreds of red n orange, on base very jade

Spread in the yard, winters on the chase

Tangled all the way, dispersal is its phase

Fall on the way, my autumns in mosaic.

Chills in the wind, blowing in all grace

No warmth in trees, no more cozy shades

Saying bye with a hope, then asks to wait

Fall on the way, my autumns in mosaic.

Same were the days

 You by my side and a hint of haze

Lost somewhere, never solved that maze

Fall on the way, my autumns in mosaic.

Come home back to me, you are dearly missed

For world its fall, but my heart’s ablaze

Desires so many, like the buds in Mays

Fall on the way, my autumns in mosaic.

(Samima)

An Inevitable Adventure: Change!

A beautiful wonder known as Change

Alters; once green, dispersed in islets

To polished wholes, in garnered violets.

Was always there, will continue to be

 For a sage, rare cues are enough

But fool assumes, can resist and bluff.

 Whether its a caterpillar to butterfly,

 From sand to pearl, or coal to diamond

The change neither stops, nor stuns.

So learn while strolling  the path of wisdom

Don’t be a frog, thinks no change comes to his well

It’s a route brayed by fools, to live life in a shell.

Remember, Change is absolute;

Inevitability, with many struggles and strives.

An adventure for existence, its synonym is Life.

(Samima)

Power to Choice!!

What is the world about?

Days tearing through drapes of nights

Spring sprouting buds after winter

Or a beacon after a spell of Dark plight.

Is it goodness separating from a vile?

Always a cycle, a circle of life

Circle completes itself, with both its halves

Has no choice, but a constant strife.

Man is here to experience it all

The day is brighter after weary night

The vivid spring, following dull winters

 Evil is disturbing once concerned Uprights.

Freedom feels blessing, in known restraints

 But Man is superior to all voices

 Universe was created for him

Bestowed him, power of knowledge & choices.

Privilege to pick, took him to the top

Such option, not given to anything else

Rest is bound to move in single path

Free is Man, in the rounds of universe.

(Samima)

Peace in Chaos!!

Release the past, Keep your present

Wisdom is to take things the way they’re meant.

Without altering their course

Very pure, very whole, like the source.

Never own, won’t be feared losing

But still would have its presence, very flourishing.

Keep the change, Leave tedium conformity

 Transition brought peace, chaos usurped monotony.

(Samima)

Malala (A poem for The Brave Pakistani Girl)

Little girl, courage so high, even Everest shy

Stood against savages, fought bigotry piled high.

Her philosophy: love, her initiative: wisdom

 Bulletproof are such ideas, World stunned.

She longs peace, the silent warrior of Nation

 Shock enough to move her country’s dormant companions.

May u live long Malala, the purest of souls

On return, will find many with you, in your hard strolls.

(Samima)

Lao Says All!!

Knowledge studies others

Wisdom is Self-known;

Muscle master brothers

Self Mastery is Bone,

Content need never borrow

Ambition wanders blind:

Vitality cleaves to the marrow

Leaving death behind.
(Tao Te Ching)

Life ~ A Potpourri

Life neither pauses, nor stops

Yet continues to amaze me.

Yesterday despondent, without hope

Now glad as light, it’s a potpourri.

Hidden like secrets in layers n folds

Manifested, revealed as epiphany.

Realization is a blessing, a gain for self

Privilege abandoned by so many.

Have the eye to view, ear to listen

Wisdom inherent, in universe abundant n free.

(Samima)

Poem~~

Ripples!!

You can act like a stone  

Riffling water a little, when thrown.

Or a rhythm, generating lasting waves

The message is consistency in ripples one plays.

Though vileness is only ephemeral 

Goodness is that Wind, change courses eternal.

 Without darkness, light lacks its meaning

With no confusion, the clarity stays demeaning.

It’s the vagueness that asks direction

Its nothingness that seeks perfection.

Doubts bring peace & impossibilities many chances

Corruption we thought, but Virtue made advances.

Deceit tries to undermine Faith

Beautiful thing, that a choice we have.

Which resonates with you is the best one

 Ripples reaching corners, like the rays of mighty Sun.

(Samima) 

Let it be!!!

These tiny drops called tears

Came roaring from your inner sea  

Set you free, when wandering in haze

Gazed through time, peace found with glee.

They seek your forgiveness,  from you

 When rugged are the times

Carry pain outside so gently

 Like the harmony wind plays with chimes.

Never a sign of fault or failing

But tells your conscience, be strong & free

A molten courage that reminds you again

Wisdom is…. to let it be.

(Samima)