Raksha Bandhan

MINUTES OF GOLD

MINUTES OF GOLD

Two or three minutes-two or three hours,
What do they mean in this life of ours?
Not very much if but counted as time,
but minutes of gold and hours sublime,
If only we'll use them once in a while
To make someone happy--
make someone smile.
A minute may dry a little lad's tears,
An hour sweep aside trouble of years.
Minute of my time may bring to an end
Hopelessness somewhere,and bring me a friend.

Ram Navami

Desert Festival

MY LONGINGS

MY LONGINGS

I wish i were a farmer
Waking up before the sun and the morning
and the friendship of my p lough and burning zeal
Would help me produce life even from the deserts.


I wish i were a scientist
discovering the abode in which the
candle of life swing
and the casual visit of my minds sight on inscrutable.
Would makes me shout
Eureka!Eureka!.


I wish i were a solder
Seizing the lives of the evil does
and just the sacrifice of my body for my motherland
Would force the nation to remember my name forever.

Ganesh

THE MOTHER

THE MOTHER

*) When you where 1 year old,she fed you and bathed you,
you thanked her by crying all the night.

*) When you where 2 years old, she taught you to walk,
you thanked her by running away when she called.

*) When you where 3 years old,she made all your meals with love,
you thanked her by tossing your plate on the floor.

*) When you where 4 years old,she gave you some crayons,
you thanked her by coloring the dining room table.

*) When you where 5 years old, she dressed you for the holidays,
you thanked her by looping into the nearest pile of the mud.

*) When you where 6 years old, she walked you into school,
you thanked her by screaming,"i am not going".

*) When you where 7 years old,she bought you a baseball,
you thanked her by the throwing it through the next door neighbor window.

*) When you where 8 years old,she brought you an ice cream,
you thanked her by dripping it all over your lap.

*) When you where 9 years old,she paid for piano lessons,
you thanked her by never even bothering to practice it.

*) When you where 10 years old,she drove you all dag from soccer to gymnastic to one birthday party after another,
you thanked her by jumping out of the car and never looking back.

*) When you where 11 years old,she took you and your friends to the movies,
you thanked her by asking to sit in the different row.

*)when you where 12 years old, she warned you not to watch certain T.V shows,
you thanked her by waiting until she left her house.

*) When you where 13 years old,she suggested a haircut that was becoming,
you thanked her by telling her she had no taste.

*) When you where 14, she paid for a month away at summer came,
you thanked her by forgetting to write a single letter.

*) When you where 15 ,she came home from work,looking for hug,
you thanked her by having your bedroom door looked.

*) When you are 16 , she taught you how to drive her car,
you thanked her by taking it every chance you could.

*) When you where 17 ,she was expecting an important call,
you thanked her by being on the phone all night.

*) When you where 18,she cried at your school graduation,
you thanked her by staying out parking until dawn.

*) When you where 19,she paid for your college tuition,drove you to campus,and carried yourbags,
you thanked her by saying good-bye outside the dorm ,so you wouldn't be embarrassed in front of your friends.

*) When you where 20 ,she asked whether you where seeing anyone,
you thanked her by saying "its none of your business".

*) When you where 21 ,she suggested certain careers for your future,
you thanked her by saying"i don't want to be like you".

*) When you where 22 ,she hugged you at your college graduation ,
you thanked her by asking whether she could pay for a trip to Europe.

*) When you where 23 ,she gave you furniture for your first apartment,
you thanked her by telling your friend it was ugly.

*) When you where 24 ,she met your finance and asked about your plans for future,
you thanked her by glaring and glowing ,"Much there please!".

*) When you where 25 ,she helped to pay for your wedding and she cried and told how deeply deeply she loved you,
you thanked her by moving halfway across the country.

*) When you where 30,she called with some advice on the baby,
you thanked her by telling her,"Things are different now".

*)when you where 40, she called to remain you of a relatives birthday,
you thanked her by saying you were "really busy now".

*) When you where 50,she fell ill and needed you to take care of her,
you thanked her by reading about the burden parents became to their children.

*) Ans then,one day she quietly died,in addition,everything you never did came
crashing down like tender of your heart.


{IF SHE'S STILL AROUND,NEVER FORGET TO
LOVE HER MORE THAN EVER}
AND IF SHE'S NOT,REMEMBERED HER UNCONDITIONAL LOVE//

Dewaali

Statue

Vijay Dashmi

EVERYWHERE ACROSS THE LAND YOU SEE GOD'S FACE AND TOUCH HIS HAND

EVERYWHERE ACROSS THE LAND
YOU SEE GOD'S FACE
AND TOUCH HIS HAND
Each time you look up in the sky
Or watch the fluffy clouds drift by,
Or feel the sunshine warm and bright,
Or watch the dark night turn to light,
Or here a bluebird gayly sing,
Or see the winter turn to spring,
Or stop to pick a daffodil,
Or gather violets on some hill....
Or touch a leaf or see a tree,
It's all God whispring"This is me...
And i am faith and iam light
And in me there shall be No Night".


By---Helen Steiner Rice

Jai jaganath

Not By The Years We Live But How Much We Give

NOT BY THE YEARS WE LIVE
BUT HOW MUCH WE GIVE

From one day to another
God will gladly give
To every one who seeks him
and tries each day to live
A little bit more closely
to God and each other.
Seeing everyone who passes
as a neighbor,friend or brother,
Not only joy and happiness
but the faith to meet each trial
Not with fear and trepidation
but with an "inner smile"
For we know life's never
measured
by how many years we live
But by the kindly things we do
and the happiness we give.

By---Helen SteinerRice