WHAT IS IN A NAME?

Inspired by a work by the same title “What’s in a name?” which can be found on: http://scribblezpad.blogspot.com


Ever wondered what is in a name
as without it, life wouldn’t be the same.
Apart from being the source of one’s identity
it has a lot to say apart from the pedigree.


Ever wondered what is in a name
as it could be a passport to eternal fame.
It may be due to what one has done as a deed
which to move ahead in life, they may need.


Ever wondered what is in a name
sometimes it could be a source of shame.
When people do such things deemed as ignoble
it is doomed that their lives would end up terrible.




Ever wondered what is in a name
as once kept, we’ve no one to blame.
This is the only way who know us can cite
so that in future, eulogies they can say or write.

I WANT TO SEE YOU IN EVERY MOOD..

It is known that you have a real short temper
that doesn’t need a season, be it January or December.
Even if you, towards me, think to act really rude
i wont mind as i want to see you in every mood.

I always want to see you beaming a smile
so that in it, I can forget my worries for a while.
For you, there mustn’t be a single reason to brood
and hence i want to see you in every mood.

Issues or people may not be up to your expectation
and this is bound to cause you a lot of frustration.
How much ever you think situation was going to be crude
end of day, I want to see you in every mood.

In future, if we decide to go ahead and keep the next step
how much we understand each other, will be off great help.
If you deem that forever to you, it is I who has to remain glued
remember now onwards, i want to see you in every mood.

POSERS and a FEW ANSWERS:

POSER to Shreya:

It may appear really very strange.

that though we write of different range

online friends, through our poems, we cant be

and in each other friends list, cant we see.

Hope you don’t get at all offend

by the friend request am out to send.

By this, poems let us collaborate and write

though we may not be in each others sight!!

ANSWER by: Shreya

The poem was a real wonder
it gave me hues of thunder.

Though would love to be on your list
but sorry, i don't add strangers to it.

I know, everyone is stranger in beginning
but i like the way things are already happening.

No more I want to trust anyone, anyhow,
I'll be happy with what i have, I have taken a vow

POSER TO CHANDANA:

A question's answer, at night, I sat to ponder
and hence I thought, I must send you this poser.
Once, to Bangalore, am back
what, to write new poems, time i lack??

So, since I whacked my brain and didn’t get a single clue
of what and how if themes, to come, weren’t to continue
as we, in our poems, we regularly exchange
whatever it maybe of different style and range.

Another thing was how you would be able to react
if for some reason, we aren’t able to keep in contact.
Coz, maybe I won’t get that amount of time
to be online or sit to write a single rhyme.

So, my dear poetess, these are the questions I ask
as to you, in a poetic manner, I ask you about this task.
If you call yourself unique and prudent
lets see in what way your answer will be different.

ANSWER by: Chandana

How do I tell you, my dearest dear friend.
Just one of, this is, life's twists and bends.
If for a while, lines, you don't comprehend.
Better works, later we'd get, from you, I can portend.

Your rhyme got my face, a mile's smile, I swear.
Felt so nice to know, of all this, how much you care.
Everything seemed, so well, from the bottom of the heart.
Do i have to name this, a skill? Or an art??.

You just called me, prudent and unique.
Forgetting that, as a poet, I've grown, with your critique.
I pen this verse today, with loads of love and affection.
Have a nice holiday dear, while we await, the poet's resurrection.

POSER to Anu:

You have been like a long lost friend
friendship has grown through the scraps we send.
Your poems and communities have been a pleasure to go through
for sharing it with me, thanks is what i can think to tell you.

But since you are someone far and not in sight
something was in my mind which i thought to write
as after spending two years here with some satisfaction
it may be that very soon that I go in another direction.

Wherever I’ve been, different people, life is out to show
and some of then, as good friends, them I’ve got to know.
Hence, I feel that it would be, for me, some sort of a treat
if one day, before I go, I get to see you as well as meet.

This is what, through this work, I wish to convey
and hope i get to hear about this you've to say.
So I await to see what is going to be your answer
to this, of mine, that I call as an unique poser!!

CROSSROADS IN LIFE (Suggest a better title)..

Something being alive seems to be such a bane
how to thread on in life, there is no such lane.
Yet one is still expected to remain sane
and keep hopes intact without allowing them to wane.

One does not get to know what went wrong
and whether our intuition, with us it belong(s).
The times sometimes extends so very long
that you’ve to wait to hum a happy song.

In us, it would be some sort of a genuine need
as intentions would never have an iota of greed.
Yet, our fate lines, sadly none can sit and read
so that accordingly, our lives we can plan to lead.

Alas, it is everyone’s biggest limitation
that we don’t have this unique benediction
so that we can do some sort of a prediction
and be ready to face anything with anticipation.

For everything to happen there might be a reason
or an intention to teach us, in life, a valuable lesson.
Just like comes, like always, the spring season
there would be something there beyond our vision.

All that we can do is to keep ourselves agile
and be patient even if it takes a lot while
for us to start regaining our lost smile
and a lot of time, we may have to while.

Apart from being, as expected, joyous
one should learn the lesson that’s precious.
What we do henceforth is by being sagacious
and not deem life before for being obnoxious.

CHRISTMAS

Has arrived that time of the year wherein one doesn’t need a reason
to enjoy oneself, with family and friends, to the hilt in the season.
It is widely known universally that this festival
has its own importance and cant be called trivial.

To all those people who call them as a CHRISTIAN
I thought I must greet in a way I would to my brethren.
So a small verse, I thought I will ink to say
my wishes for the season as it makes its way.

All around the world they would be so much festivity
that off happiness and brotherhood, there wouldn’t be scarcity.
Amidst all this which makes it appear so very joyous
its time for all turn a little extra pious.

As the New Year slowly by itself its out to usher
one must bear a thought that for this, Jesus Christ had to suffer.
So all you keep this in your mind for at least a little while
by which all of us today can happily let out a smile.

I pray that everyone’s dreams and wishes comes true
and go away, from their lives, all the cry and hue.
Towards the end, let the festival show
to one and all, a happiness rainbow

EVERYTHING WOULD SLIP AWAY.

To write, as I sat, I didn’t seem to’ve a single clue
of some issues,in my mind,were their though few
as though it were to come in life and were to stay
and before no time, everything would slip away.

A treat to the eye,at dawn is the dew drop
like a butterfly from the grassblade,its out to hop.
But once were to rise the sun and come a ray
in a jiffy, everything would slip away.

After a turbulent time and a black cloud
life would continue and once again one would mould.
But what would be done up with brick, mortar and clay
by the coming of the hurricane, everything would slip away.

Things dont,once again,would never look the same
for the wrongs,even if one is willing to take all the blame.
There would somethings that one would wish to say
alas,before that itself,everything would slip away.

March of the day to the week to the month would be so slow
and what future,the year has in store,one wouldn't get to know.
All one can do and hope is for a new start, try and assay
and hopefully, the negative,everything would slip away.

IN EACH OTHER’S LOVE, WE WILL ALWAYS BASK..

PS: The line “Even if we drink our beverages from a different flask” is used to indicate all the differences that may exist between partners..Thankfully,could use it as a rhyme!!

Since we know that our love is unconditional
it is sure that our behaviour will always be natural.
So, we will never have to think of wearing a mask
whenever in each other’s love, we will always bask.

Though our tastes and preferences are different
we are ready to accept them by being prudent.
Even if we drink our beverages from a different flask
still in each other’s love, we will always bask.

Each of us, we know, has to really take time and understand
though quite a few things and issues are known beforehand.
To each other, “thank you” and “sorry”, we’ll never have to ask
despite the fact in each other’s love, we will always bask.

All that we both need, to face life, is a lot of courage
as problems will surely come that now we cant envisage.
Yet nothing for us will ever remain as a formidable task
because in each other’s love, we will always bask.

MONEY CAN,BUT IT CANT....

Money can claim to make one cozy
But it cant also make one equally lazy
Money can claim to lead a joyous life
But it cant be the source of one's strife.


Money can claim to buy all that one needs for luxury
But it cant help when one is going through penury
Money can claim to make one look good by the apparel
But it cant help when it has got one into deep trouble.

Money can claim that a lot of new friends one can gain
But it cant help whn old friends think that one is acting vain.
Money can claim to keep in touch with all,buy the latest cell
But it cant help doing anything when nothing is going well.

Money can claim to be always around when good is the time
But it cant help when one has done a henious crime.
Money can claim to buy for, the unwell, the best medicine
But it cant help in any way if one has commited a lot of sin.

Money can claim to make one eat the best of food
But it cant help when the heart of the person isnt good.
Money can claim to provide for the best bed to sleep
But it cant help when worries and guilt starts to creep.

MUSINGS OF A SMOKER..

As last night I sat and lit my fag
and slowly to savour it,took a drag
thought that I write about many a bloke
who like are obsessed to smoke.

It is known that if one,this doesnt kick
he is bound to've ailments and fall sick.
Even thoguh there is awareness printed in the pack
it looks like that it draws only flack.

Initially, one would pick this to show he is a dude
and by his actions and ways, that he can be shrewd.
Ome wouldnt mind incurring a huge cost
as without it, mind would seem to be lost.

Craving wouldnt be there for any sort of food
as hunger of any sort would've left for good.
Even if inside, there is a feeling that is rough
enjoyment would be there in every single puff.

As day and night, month and day,this were to continue
how to leave it,looks like, none has a clue.
Even if there is scarcity, there is always an answer
as any friend is always there to sponsor.

As i notice that a cigarette is out on share
I think,for once, i write on what i should beware.
Since being someone who has always beem passive
by writing,I thought,how it would be, if active

YOUR LOVE HAS LEFT ME IN A DAZE….

I always thought that love, for me,wasn’t meant to happen
as for some reason, my life was never to get enliven(ed).
So till now, my life, I had left it to laze
and now your love has left me in a daze.

It has been like an unexpected surprise
that I could get someone truly wonderful and nice.
Everyone, I bet would sit and be really amaze(d)
but for me, your love has left me in a daze.

Both of us know that our feelings are genuine
and want our lives to be forever sanguine.
Whatever comes our way, we can bravely think to face
but for now, your love has left me in a daze.

About us, let people sit back and wonder
and may even try to our relation to asunder.
Though we may have to endure many a maze
it’ll be possible as your love has left me in a daze.

The bard’s confession to a poetess….

Only for a brief period, you, I knew
still I wonder, how our friendship grew.
Guess you were someone really special
as in your approach was something magical.

I remember when we used to have a chat
that too, literally, at the drop of the hat.
A whole lot of things we used to discuss
and by then, about you, I had got impress(ed).

Hope you remember when our contacts we managed to exchange
and you told me to call you whenever I need, a voice, change.
Little did I know that, with you, a single conversation
would end up as a sort of an incurable addiction!!

Before long, for each other’s voice, we began to yearn
and life was though it had taken a complete u- turn.
We had become in life, so fast, really inseparable
that if we didn’t hear from each other, it was really terrible.

During all this, I came to know that you couldn’t wait
which made me realize that I shouldn’t be too late.
So, somehow, on that day, you, I finally met
and that moment, I still cant think to forget.

Now, to each other, we are no longer new
and has come the time, certain things we renew
If we, in our lives, we have to move ahead
certain things should be told that were unsaid.

But a few things, I want to confess to you today
that in the past, in some ways , I’ve gone astray.
Many gals, like and unlike you, I’ve been with before
and had relations with them that now have turned sour.

In love, in this lifetime, I had lost my complete trust
and hence had started to turn my interest towards lust.
Many things, by myself, though I managed to learn
despite my fingers had, in many ways, were to burn.

Though I knew that It wasn’t something very nice
I still have my share as what one may say as vice.
Though money and health, I were out to loose
seldom I cared as by living, I didn’t see any use.

But now, I seem to have found the essence
as somehow I see the purpose of my existence.
It has given me a reason for me to let a smile
and about the future, I can think for a while.

You have been someone really genuine
by which can become my life, really sanguine.
Of your life, I wish I could become a part
as I don’t want you, from my life, depart.

Said someone that “to err is human, forgive is divine”
and more than once, I have acted worse than a swine.
To redeem myself, my true love, to you, I offer
so that in the long run, I wont have to suffer.

I want to begin my life with a new slate
and hence don’t want it to be too late.
Since I want it to be a beginning that’s new
I want to offer my feelings that are always true.

All that I can pray is that you give it a thought
so that in an abyss, I wont have to, later, rot.
What all expectations, you have, I’ll try to prove
and what negatives I have, I’ll think to improve.

Hope this confession puts your mind at some ease
one day, my love, I’ll say, by going down on my knees.
It is only you; I am sure, I want, in my life
so that can go away all that there is as strife.

@ SEARCHING FOR A FACE

This is loosely inspired by SEARCHING FOR A FACE that I came across on http://www.manycoloredrainbow.blogspot.com..

It looks like, here, am left all alone
as I cant see anyone whom I call my own.
Fate seems to have brought me to such a place
that I have to search hard for a familiar face.

Iam feeing left out and extremely low
as none care to say even a hi,hello.
Hostility seems to be there in the air
as towards me, no one seems to care.

Oh God, why did you have to bring me here
wherein I leave with worry and fear.
When will I get, a familiar face, to see
so that I can get some sort of glee.

Survival here, I know, will be one task
and courage is what,God, from you I ask.
I can only think that this strife
I must endure as a part of life.

Hope, in the near future, comes a day
someone I know, comes this way.
That day, I’ll understand the value of people
whom, till now, I thought were trivial.

@THE SPELL

Inspired by a work by the same name..
SOURCE: http://scribblezpad.blogspot.com

Those days when I was all alone
and not many people I had known
the feeling of being from all, an isolate
had in my mind, started to create.

Brooding I sat thinking luck was bad
and made me feel miserable and sad.
Till came, a call, an evening, one day
and till know, I don’t have words to say.

Her voice was so very smooth and clear
though she was from a place not near
spoke, we, for a very less time
which itself had some rhythm and rhyme.

Had my face, at that time, anyone seen
they would have noticed an unique sheen
as there was some sense, in me, elation
that was visible after the conversation.

There is one thing for sure, I swear
we, in future, meet or not, I don’t care.
Her voice still continues to give me felicity
and that it’ll remain as a part of my memory.

IN SOME WAY, MY LOVE, I COULD SHOW…

You have been someone like an ideal muse
on whom, verses simply are out to ooze.
Yet this, in a special way, I could make it flow
so that in some way, my love, I could show.

I know not, how your heart I managed to win
and tell you that my feelings have been genuine.
Wish for eternity, I could take some sort of a vow
so that in some way, my love, I could show.

Being with each other, for sure, is not easy
as the path for the future appears very hazy.
Yet for mutual trust, I wish that it were to grow
so that in some way, my love, I could show.

You are truly, among all, the very best
that I got after enduring many a test.
Yet an answer to, I hope, I’ll one day, know
so that in some way, my love, I could show

IAM HAPPY, YET I FEAR…

Iam happy that we are finally meeting.
Yet I fear how is going to be the ending.

Iam happy that we can sit and discuss.
Yet I fear if my thoughts don’t make you impress.

Iam happy that you have decided to give me time.
Yet I fear that you may think that it was baseless without any reason or rhyme.

Iam happy you feel that we can think to move ahead.
Yet I fear that may remain things that are unsaid.

Iam happy if end of the day, you will feel glad.
Yet I fear that it shouldn’t leave me feeling sad.

THIS IS THE LEAST I EXPECT FROM YOU…

Now that we have finally met
for me, it wont be easy to forget.
I want you to be with me though am someone new
as this is the least I expect from you.

Both of us want to bury whatever has happened in the past
so that in the future, in our lives, happiness can everlast.
About certain things, I wish you never knew
as this is the least I expect from you.

It is known that you are an excellent cook
who can do something apart from the book.
Hope what you prepare,someday,I get to chew
as this is the least I expect from you.

Iam someone, who to others, like to surprise
and I wish, by that, you feel really nice.
How you feel, I wish you tell as I cant get a clue
as this is the least I expect from you.

There are certain things that I do as what I please
and about them, your mind, must always be at ease.
Don’t restrict me even though they are really few
as this is the least I expect from you.

My feelings, for you, I’ll never suppress
though in words, I am not always express.
Atleast you be free to take and give love that is true
as this is the least I expect from you.

DON’T YOU WISH…SO THAT…

Don’t you wish that we could stay somewhere close
so that we could anything even if people were to poke their nose?

Don’t you wish that I stay back in a familiar city
so that whenever we wished, we could have felicity?

Don’t you wish to take you around, I had a bike
so that if you wanted, somewhere, I could hitchhike?

Don’t you wish that like your favourite star, I shine
so that I could be assured that you’ll always be mine?

Don’t you wish, of mine, I had a little more money
so that I could your wishes, I could fulfill, little or many?

Don’t you wish that somehow I could make you proud
so that along with you, I could move around in the crowd?

Don’t you wish that when we are together, day mustn’t end
so that for some more time, we could still think to spend?

Don’t you wish that we could be together in life
so that could go away, what all we have as strife?

FROM MY LIFE, I WONT LET YOU GO…

In your eyes, love I have seen
and your face has such a sheen
that one thing, I want you to know
that from my life, I wont let you go.

I still don’t have the slightest clue
as to how, I got love, from you, so true.
A day will come, the same, I’ll show
as that from my life, I wont let you go.

By your presence, I get to see only bliss
and you don’t know, how much, you I miss.
Though the heart more fonder it must grow
I’ve decided that from my life, I wont let you go.

Those three magical words, one day, I’ll say
and see to that you remain happy and gay.
Forever in your eyes, if I want to see the glow
I’ll ensure that from my life, I wont let you go.

IT IS YOUR VOICE I WOULD WANT TO HEAR…

For that moment that we have been waiting
is, in a few hour, will be soon coming.
When it happens and you are to me near
it is your voice that I would want to hear.

I have waited for this moment night and day
so that those magical words, I could say.
When you tell me that has gone all the fear
from your voice that I would want to hear.

While we are out to make this time memorable
we know, how much, to each other, inseparable.
I want you to realize that I want to be your dear
that too from your voice that I would want to hear.

Even if fate wants to take us away farther
it is for us to plan our lives step by step further.
To what all you say, I’ll lend a patient ear
as it is your voice that I would want to hear

MY FIRST ACROSTIC...:)

Time we had known each other was very less.

Hardly had I imagined that my feelings to each other, we would express.

Another person would not have been so very kind.

Night and day, whatever it maybe, I keep you in my mind.

Knowing you, I realize, has been such a pleasure.

Yardstick I can never have, for it to measure.

Onus is on you, how much me, you trust as someone sincere.

Until I die, to leave you, I will think at all never.

JAB WE MET-A BARD’S RENDEZVOUS WITH HIS FELLOW POETS

Online we may meet people with a similar passion and is nice to receive from them critical appreciation. It is like that each of us are, to each other, special just like their unique feedback, to write better, vital.

One hopes that there would be some endeavour
so that the interaction brings out a distinct flavour.
Hence, it is everyone’s wish and kind of a treat
when someone from the forum, one day, they meet!!

So, this time, to Bangalore, when I happened to go down
there were few poets, whom I had got quite well known.
Hence, for me, it was a sort of an unexpected treat
when beside them, myself , I could, myself, seat.

Hey all, to confer with you, was a real pleasure
the happiness I just cant ever think to measure.
Apart from being someone so very hospitable
you also showed how you could be so affable.

One and all, by your works, you’ve managed to impress
and managed to garner your share of fame and success.
It will be, for me, a sort of a wish and a dream
if with all I could write a work running into many a ream.

May you be blessed with an unending quill
that makes you write whatever you will.
Since both belong to the same poetic breed
my wish is that I can, your works, always read.

ODE TO UNCONDITIONAL LOVE...

They say that when one takes an effort that is hard
surely will be sweet that one gets as the reward.
But one may never get to sit back and reflect
on what is one, in life, is destined to get.

Even if anyone said it was a risk that I took
of falling for you, even without giving a look
I know that I will never regret it for sure
as else I wouldn’t have got someone so pure.

Though we have known each other for a while
it is known that if we have to go the extra mile
must be endured what all one faces as a tribulation
as in each other, we have many a limitation.

I have told you that a person without any glam
which may make you to accept me as I am.
But in all ways, I can assure you to be honest
so that you realize that I can be someone earnest.

Never I wanted you to have the look of a beauty queen
as the talents that you have, give you an unique sheen.
In your face, I see my whole life and the entire universe
that how much ever I say or write, it’ll still remain terse.

I hope I can see the night turn into day by your side
and in each other’s heart, we can always reside.
Our love for each other, may it always be true
so that we can bravely endure any cry or hue.

I WANT YOU TO BE CONFIDENT…

Darling, I want you to be confident
so that you take decisions that are prudent.

Sweetheart, I want you to be confident
so that you realize that you are effervescent.

My love, I want you to be confident
so that you know, from others, you are different.

Baby doll, I want you to be confident
so that you can fulfill your wishes that are latent.

(Name withheld on request), I want you to be confident
so that we’ll be for each other when things go turbulent.

CONTEMPLATION- WITHOUT POETRY..

Life seems to have come to a stand still
and would have gone away all the thrill
if a day comes when one cant think to rhyme
and the mind would be restless all the time.

Oh, what if Iam not allowed be creative
and whatever I want, iam unable to perceive?
Iam sure that there wouldn’t be any sot of peace
as one cant think to do what one were to please.

For those who call themselves an anytime BARD
without having to write, would hurt them real hard.
Similarly, those who call themselves as a POET
they would feel like their works are out to get a reject.

Few may think about what all people do to humiliate
and may think that their creativity may get mutilate(ed).
Even then, what to write on, if they sit and continuously think
they would not mind using all their blood as the ink.

Ideas may drop in the mind just like the rain
and if one wants to continue to remain sane
the panacea is to somehow and a work, to write
so that one can continue to be cheerful and bright.

Hope does not come at any point in life
without poetry, one may have to see strife.
Thoughts may it come to the mind and make it sway
and by our works, lets always remain happy and gay.

YOU HAVE TAKEN MY BREATHE AWAY..

You may not want, at all, to react
even knowing that it is the fact
that I want to frankly admit it today
that its you who has taken my breathe away.

I promise never will I look at any other girl
as like you, she wont be able to make me whirl.
I know that I will never go the wrong way
as its you who has taken my breathe away.

People may try their ways to do their destruction
and may term our feelings as mere infatuation.
But I will proudly step aside and continue to say “AYE”
to vouch for that its you who has taken my breathe away.

I want to be there as your only and eternal dear
wth whom I can see my days turn to many a year
so that I can always admit every night and day
that its you who has taken my breathe away.

I WISH THE DAY DID NOT HAVE TO END..

I wouldn’t mind coming from many a mile
as on your face, I always want to see a smile.
Even if the entire time,with you, I got to spend
I would still wish the day didn’t have to end.

We may just sit and between us, talk
and plans of what to do, we may not chalk.
Still I wish that somehow it could extend
as I would wish that the day didn’t have to end.

People may think that we are really STUPID
and what he has in the mind, for us, cupid.
But still I feel for some reason, to me, he has send
which I could tell if the day didn’t have to end.

Even if you were to feel, at any time, weary
I would make sure that you, somehow I’ll carry.
My shoulders, for you, I wouldn’t mind to lend
and always wish the day didn’t have to end.