!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> A Mama's World: April 2012

Sunday, April 29, 2012

A sleepover

Poetry, music, literature, gossip, children, past, present, future,
ideals, dreams, tears, laughters, anger, hope
love one fears to feel or show,
a heart afraid to open once more,
All moulded in one medley.
A full night chat with the friend - a sister I never had.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Sowsix

Yesterday while playing scrabble, Aarushi made the word 'six' independently from her stock of tiles and by mistake attached it linearly to the existing word in the board 'sow'. Arunav looked and said,"What is 'sowsix'? There's no such word!"

She realized her mistake in placing the word but promptly replied 'sowsix is when you sow six times' :) We are in trouble.

Afternoon

winter turned its back
the morning blue sky
turns to white at noon
white heat, white haze
monotone of the renovating drill
dull news, dull brain
The smile, brightness and
welcome rain.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Moments of joy

Arunav took part in the Spelling Bee equivalent in HK called Spellbulary and he came first in his age group (6-8 yr olds). Last year he got stumped by the word 'souvenir' and came 5th, but he was totally thrilled to get to the top this year. Some of the words in the final round were: scavenger, applying, delicious, straightest, electrical, special, afterthought, strategy (his winning word). He won 3600HKD worth of gifts (mostly books) and a huge book of treasury of stories - so proud of him!

Friday, April 20, 2012

Another Friday

It was 23 March when Aarushi fell and hurt herself and got 7 stitches. It is 20 April when Arunav came out of that room bleeding profusely with a back head injury. Fridays are proving scary for me.

Let them wash it all, let them not pay any more.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

End of day

Ma said,'I have made my peace.' Why does that hurt? Why does those nightmares tell me she is going away. Why should the source of our happiness and laughter make 'peace' at the end of day? The smiles we borrowed, the lives we took, goes unpaid.

The wish

The wish to be popular, the wish to be known, the wish to be praised, the wish to the throne,
Is a costly wish, the price I refuse to pay.
I love the little corner where no one knows I stay.
No one knows how great I am, no one knows how low I am.
No one bestows greatness on me, no one takes the crown away.
The very human soul peacefully lives the day.

A shame

It's the time of thunders and lightnings again. The summer thunders, the summer lightnings. The flash, the roar, the tears, the quiet. Tearing the sky apart, the thin streak of silver -what power - what pride in the power but what a waste of power! A shame a shame a shame. A million should smile off that power, not fear that streak. A shame.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

A glimpse

I caught a small glimpse of your feelings when
you said, sit with me mama
I said, it's time to go, you've got just 4 mins
you said, that's ok mama, whatever time we got.


The little words that slip out
The little glances that look up
The eyes that speak so much
The love that shows.


Those moments captured
Carry me through the day
When you are away.
They shower love on me
They make me smile
They make me feel the sun on a rainy day.

Little thoughts in little minds

Arunav wrote :

My favouite place in the whole world is my bedroom. I see my favourite books, I feel the soft pillows and I hear the chirping of the birds in the early morning.

I loved that - something that did not talk of sword fights or wrestling :)

Beautiful dawn again

Today the thunder lightnings crack through the dark sky,
Yet the dawn is still, the people sleep,
The roads sleep. An urban dawn.
The sky is beautiful,
The feeling of quiet and peace is beautiful.
The germination of a new day is beautiful.

The birds are awake, their twitter eager and excited,
Not calm and peaceful like mine,
They have not been touched by age.
They wake up and bustle with life
While I wait for life to wake up and touch my age.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

A 10 second poem on a solitary Sunday

If I could hold on to time,
If I could let it go,
What difference would it make my dear
When there is no tomorrow?