My poor Hubby!

A mental break after a long long time! Though I am technically working, i love the non-AC and 'livable' conditions of my home PC, compared to office, where i end up catching cold or headache or stares!

Now my good luck makes me pity some less-fortunate mortals on! So, here is a poem for the long-sufferers, especially my hubby-to-be. May Gods and his bosses be kind to him at least today!

:) Oh i love irritating him:

My smile becomes broader,
can lazy day be any more sweeter?
then i worry about my poor hubby,
who works in the land of mordor.

i am in pure bliss,
can life be better than this?
then i worry about my poor hubby,
will he today find peace?

hippity-bippity bop,
around my room i hop,
then i worry about my poor hubby,
will his drudgery ever stop?

The Pink Tree

Grazing my cattle far from home,
I suddenly snap out of my reverie,
My hands shake and i drop my stick,
looking ahead at the lone pink tree.

I am not shocked by the color,
or that it is the only tree for miles,
A candy floss wrapped in yellowed grass,
it was a sight for sore eyes.

I am not shocked by its height,
or that it grew in so dry a ground.
a leafy lollypop in yellow hands,
nods with the wind making a moaning sound.

I am shocked by its presence,
where last summer, my son was buried,
a flamboyant tombstone marking a buoyant soul,
growing out of an innocent heart-seed.

Stronger and Calmer, I walk up to the tree,
Cheek on trunk, I sing his favorite song,
leafy arms engulf me,
and i hear him sing along.

Not an original post - on charolis and rubaiyats!

4-liners or short poems are a personal favorites with me. I recently got to know of charoli ( 4-line poems in marathi) and Rubaiyats ( 4-line or short poems by Ommar Khayyam. There are some beautiful verses all over the net. "Copy-Pasting" a few here:

Charoli by Chandrashekhar Gokhale:

Marathi

Aata me hi tharavlay

Agdi shahanyasarkh vaagayach

Kunaala kahi dile tar

Tyachya badlyaat kahi maagayach

English

Now I've also decided

To act like a clever person

If I've given something to someone

Then better ask for something in return!

Hindi

Ab maine bhi soch liya hai

Ekdum hoshiyaari se bartaav karna

Kisi ko kuch diya hai to

Uske badle mai kuch zaroor maangna!

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Marathi

Gacch lavoon ghetlele daar

Baher lavlel 'Welcome' ch toran

He kasl daar bandh thevun

Swagat karnyach dhoran

English

The door is firmly locked

A 'Welcome' garland is put outside

What is this, keeping the door closed

And 'Welcoming' custom?

Hindi

Darwaaza kas kar band kiya hua

Bahar laga hua 'Welcome' ka Guldasta

Yeh kaisa darwaza bandh karke

Swagat karne ka tarika?

Rubaiyat by Ommar Khayyam:

Life is nothing

but a dull game with two

sure rewards: sorrow and death.

Is this a game

worth playing?

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I feel young today.

Wine, wine! Its fire fills me.

Any wine will do - I am not choosy.

For even the best wine is as bitter

as life itself.

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How sad, a heart that

does not know how to love, that

does not know what it is to be drunk with love.

If you are not in love, how can you enjoy

the blinding light of the sun,

the soft light of the moon?

English kills the beauty of the original - but thats the only language I understand! :)