शुक्राना अता करना (giving thanks)

कुछ तो ऐसा कर चलें, ये ज़िन्दगी रोशन रहे

इन्सान का इन्सान से, इक राब्ता क़ायम रहे

प्यार दौलत मुफ़्त की क्यों ना इसे बाँटा करें

रास्ता बदले  भले,  दिलसे दिल मिलकर रहे।

ज़िन्दगी एक नज़्म है, क्यो ना इसे गाया करें

रब की है बख़्शीश ये, क्यों ना इसे साझा करें 

कमतर है उम्र इसकी क्यों ना दुआ माँगा करें

अपनी ही  हमराह ये , क्यों ना सरगोशी करें।

हमनवा बनकर रहें , क़दम  क़दम ऐसे  चलें 

हमदमों का कारवाँ , दम ब दम मिलके चलें  

साँस के आने से ही तो , चल रही है ज़िन्दगी 

है साँस बेशक़ीमती, हर साँस को गिनते चलें।

रिश्ते तो  क़ायम  रहेंगे , सरहदें  बदला  करें 

हम न बदलेंगे कभी , मौसम भले बदला करें 

वक्त काफ़ी हो चला, इक बात कर लेते अभी  

फ़िर मुख़ातिब हो सके, शुक्राना तो अता करें।

राब्ता=रिश्ता। नज़्म=poem. हमराह=co-traveller.

सरगोशी=काना फूसी करना। हमनवा=हमदम=दोस्त।

दम ब दम=पल पल। मुख़ातिब=आमने सामने।

शुक्राना=शुक्रिया। अता करना=देना।

ख़ुशआमदीद ।

अजित सम्बोधि

thanksgiving

Wait is over , today is thanksgiving 

Best time of the year , for  bonding!

Let us wipe all the old slates clean

The time is ripe for bridge-building!

Let each of us hold an olive branch

So it  looks  like  it is an  avalanche!

We  don't  have to buy it, you  know

A smile is a  powerful  olive branch!

Let each one of us  proffer a smile

Not a contrived smile , a real smile!

You can always tell the  real  smile

It's sweet & goes more than a mile!

Here! here! thank  you  all, buddies

Yes, we're no brown study buddies!

Give a vigorous clapping, all of you

After all , we are no fuddy duddies!

Thanks for making it a success!

Hare Krishna!

Ajit Sambodhi 

soul moveth on!

The march goes on , perpetually 

Brooks no break , moves silently!

Spite, hubris, rage, stand  agape

As caravan  builds up  invariably!

It is a march of the  soulful soul

The truthful , solo & benign soul!

It is single and total, at one time

For, soul is goal and goal is soul!

Soul doesn't tire , it  marches on

Soul doesn't  depart , it lives  on!

There's one truth &  it is the soul

All else drops by, soul moveth on!

Let  rapacity  and cupidity  drool  

They are from a different school!

So let them manage a huge pool

Soul is adamantine as also cool!

Do  whatsoever  to paint it  black

No one can  ever make  it smack

of infringement iniquity injustice!

It shall never be  one of the pack!

It will  always  scintillate  brightly

And sing  sweet  songs  soulfully!

It is the eternal &  the everlasting 

It'll reshape landscape , blissfully! 

Love is  driving force  of the  soul

Empathy its shadow and flagpole!

Love knows only how to shell out

With compassion as its maypole!

Soul does not eye brownie points 

For it's truth alone, that it anoints! 

It's the warp & woof of life energy

Fall in  line. It  never  disappoints!

Soulless ones do typically sputter

See them putter around & splutter!

Marching warrants loads of starch

Invite for a march, they will stutter!

Their thurst  is on comfortable life

Not on malaise free, ennobling life!

Soullessness is bed-mate of ennui

Marching invests in the soulful life!

Energy flows from the inner spring

Soul is  the  wellknown  wellspring!

Other powers  are  like lame  ducks 

Soul is our penultimate mainspring!

Ravish says to Dinesh, in  New York 

We are standing  in front of Reebok 

It’s so cold, you walk without shoes

Dinesh says: if soul strong, can walk!

As long as Rahul walks, I shall walk

I cannot go to India , so  here I walk

I ain't a congressman. I'm for Rahul

He loves everbody , barefoot I walk!

Be a somebody, you're deadweight  

Be nobody, you shine as soulmate!

To attain to the soul, be full of love 

Free of ego trips, and, free of hate!

Om Shantih 

Ajit Sambodhi 

anisha turns sixteen!

She  looked over the  shoulder , and  found

Fifteen, fourteen, thirteen , on  the  ground

Then she looked  ahead of her , to  discover

Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen! spell bound!

Teens at the front, teens at the back

It's teens teens teens, what the hack?

On the  pathway of  the teens

In  the  medley  of  the   teens

Stands    tall    and    majestic

sweet sixteen, queen of teens!

Happy birthday to Anisha!

Happy birthday to Anisha!

Let's make it a  day

Like    it   is    May

albeit it's november

Winter is on holiday!

Sun shines bright

Wind doesn't bite!

Happy birthday to Anisha!

Happy birthday to Anisha!

Those who are in the wings

Waiting    for    the    swings

Your     time      will      come

When you will be  on wings!

It's once in a lifetime  event

Time   for   us   to   reinvent!

Time   is    what   we     make

Singing to Anisha is our take!

Happy birthday to Anisha!

Happy birthday to Anisha!

May God bless you!

Nana

and shells we gather!

Shells we admire and shells we gather!

Shells we talk of , of shells we  blather!

We give to our shells , the best we can

How concerned we all are  , altogether!

Out of love we pay to them, more heed

Ply them with foods , they do not need!

And habits , that they'll regret , later on

And pills, they otherwise wouldn't need!

God has bestowed upon us, this trophy

Which abounds in,  mysteries  uncanny.

It thrives best when nature nourishes it

You are right , I talk of this unique body!

We can make it good, better &  the best

On the flip side, bad, worse & the worst.

Choice is ours, we have all the freedom

To reach sublime heights , in this quest!

Don't you  say , muscles are the answer!

Show me a  muscle that  doesn't pother!

Muscles are dumb, dry, deadened wood

Meant typically to fuel an invented war!

Muscles get lifted for war, pain perdures!

Moola's sucked into war, penury endures!

Where is Plato's Philosopher? Eh , where? 

Obtusiveness is all here! Misery  obdures! 

And war? Does anyone  ever need a war?

And how can a human being talk of war?

Who wins a war? Everybody loses in war!

Humans got to be inhuman to win a war!

All we need is to synchronize with nature

Moon and sun, sky and earth, and, the air!

They cherish us, nourish us, keep us alive

We've forgotten nature , our sole nurturer!

Revive squatting for all the buzz of nature

You shall roll back ill earned ills of future!

Nature didn't send you with an appendage

I know my voice pricks ye like it's a suture!

It is stupid to think we've won over nature

Let's forget trying to be smart with nature! 

Our smartness rests on  money & musket 

Our smartness makes the marts  smarter!

Markets boom, space loses all its silence

Faces turn haggard and lose all brilliance!

Progress doesn't look like  making sense

Shells become drier and lose all essence!

We need to be reverential towards nature!

Body is two third water. Water is nurturer!

Further, water can read our thoughts also!

So let us beware and seek water's favour!

Shells tick by the light, of the sacred one!

Which is thin as air, hence visible to none!

Humans do crystallize , this angelic light! 

And one who does so , is the ecstatic one! 

Om Shantih 

Ajit Sambodhi