When the morning breeze turns pleasant,
gently cooling your cheeks with their presence.
When they blow the hair in your eyes,
making you lift your chin like a happy pup from a car window.
When the sky is turquoise and crystal clear,
turning sunlight into transparent gold.
You know Fall is round the corner,
waiting to mesmerize with its magical powers.
Colours to drench you in, beauty to soak you with.
Autumn, the showstopper amongst seasons!
They reach out towards the blue sky, sometimes crystal clear, sometimes cloudy and sometimes dark in the days like night.
Hold the earth firmly with their roots, embracing mountains. Stand tall at the edges of the roads, winding like a serpent around the hills.
Loaded with beautiful cones hanging from branches like earrings worn by Goddess Nature.
With their intoxicating distinct smell, they embody beauty and sturdiness at the same time.The stark straight trunks of the trees, visually endow strength to the mind and heart.
Pine trees, make one acknowledge how one can brave all hardships and still stay strong, firm and flourish if they have the support.
Support of the environment around them, their soil, their climate, their air, their temperature and how we need to preserve all.
Just like humans, if they have the social support, they thrive, they prosper, they live with better morals, values and stronger character and it all needs to be taught and preserved.
Have visited the Taj a few times, from the time they allowed to visit the real graves to the time when it started turning yellow due to pollution, to the time when Yamuna looks pristine and marble, white. It never stops to amaze, in true sense, you can't keep your eyes off it!
The main gateway in Sikri red stone.
Thoughts come and go like flash of light,
difficult to capture, like lightning crackling in the sky.
Sometimes, you don't even get its meaning,
words, ideas, phrases out of nowhere,evoking memories, faded with time.
They are like dreams that you can never remember ,
but always feel its mysterious effect in the morning.
Thoughts which jolt you out of reverie,
bringing meaning to the moment, giving way to clarity.
Sometimes confusing, sometimes empty,
Sometimes downright idiotic, sometimes just crazy.
Shards of brilliance at times, getting stuck in the brain,
beautiful, like butterflies, right in your face, but flying away.
If you succeed in lassoing them, they are the ones,
which turn into pieces of beauty.
literature, inventions, discoveries.
Resetting the clock of routine, in a village.
Rewinding, revisiting how it used to be.
Childhood memories springing up.
Refreshing walks amidst the fields.
The fragrant smell of wet mud.
Encountering the familiar but forgotten odors.
Greens, till the eyes can see, yellow of mustard like sunshine.
Tall symmetrically planted trees creating fascinating geometrical patterns.
The simple food made with utmost care and love.
Stray pups running in the narrow lanes.
Beautiful calves, staring curiously at the passersby.
Life seems to slow down here, the traffic, the noise, nowhere.
Chirping of birds occasionally disturbed by the sound of tractors.
Time seems to pause here and conciousness of being, jerked forward.
You are on my mind night and day.
Obsessive of your presence one way or another.
Thoughts keep reverting to you in sickness or in health.
In joy or in pain, in happiness or in sadness.
In company or when alone.
Don't want to lose you, ever.
Dear HOPE,
Not just I but we all need you, want you.
Do make your presence felt,
Whether in the form of a little vial or
The immunity developing in our bodies.
Do stay with us forever, never abandon us.
Drench us in the sunshine of positivity.
Give us the courage to feel for others.
The strength to be selfless and empathetic.
Let us transition smoothly from one year to another,
Happily.
Please let us all have a very Healthy new year.
Regards,
Us.
Who do you wish to be?
If not yourself.
Who could you possibly be?
But yourself.
Where do you wish to be?
If not within yourself.
No one and nothing can fill the void,
When you aren't yourself.
