Jacaranda

This poem is about an evening which i really enjoyed (unlike my other works this doesn't have a great plot but is my attempt to best describe a scene poetically, with a little use of imagination)

today i lay on a bench under a tree
trying to set my wandering soul free
taking back from the world, what its taken from me

then, a thought ran across my mind
and i forgot what i was there to find
as if all anger and stress was left behind, when

I looked up and saw the wind blowing through the leaves
putting the ever standing tree at ease
i started wondering "why is the tree so much at peace?"

like a damselle who enjoys the attention that she gets
the tree was overflowing with joy and mischief.
Mustering up courage i managed to ask "By what name are you addressed?"
"Jacaranda" she said, hearing which I was mesmerised.

Next to her stood another old tree
she introduced her to me, as her granny
who, on me greeting her, waved at me

the wind then gathered pace
she moved like a melody in perfect grace
the quiet girl had gone, leaving no trace
and there stood 'the lady in green' in her place

When i took my eyes off jacaranda to gaze at the moonlit sky
i broke her heart in two ...... and it was as if she was ready to cry
but she didn't................ and gathered herself back
as she knew that she had to get my attention back.

suddenly i heard the giggling of jacaranda and her granny
who had been through these situations, when she hadn't grey hair any

the trick encapsulated me like an insect in a jar
i had to take my eyes off the crescent moon and twinkling star
and give her all the attention that she deserved

having got my eyes on her she now swayed like an orchestrated symphony
with every single movement selected very carefully
the giggle now taking the form of a shying smile
generating excitement both in the audience and the performer with each passing gaze
i felt i could spend years sitting at the very same place

i could sense the granny getting tensed
wondering whether Jacaranda would be able to maintain interest
but like a pro, she rose to the ocassion
and outperformed all expectation

Oh! i wish i could have spent some more time with the lady in green
but was abruptly interupted by a friend who couldn't stand this flirtatious love affair
so he called out for me from where he couldn't be seen
and i had to leave the place in utter despair.

Obama Gets Sworn In

I know that this particular topic is a bit too late for me to talk on but this was amongst one of the things that I had up my mind and wanted to talk on the same.

When was the last time that such hue and cry was made regarding any election campaign anywhere in the world (leave alone the elections happening in our 

motherland). Yesterday when I saw that prime time slots on news channles were crowded by the pictures of dignitories that visited the presidential ceremony, one 

thought ran across my mind "is all this shit worth it?" Then i realised that 'buttering' others is so ingrained in us that we cannot get it out of our systems even if we 

want to. We have this state of utopia for USA and feel that US is the panacea for all our miseries.

I bet when we would ask who is the President of India atleast half the population would not be able to answer that, if not more. The question that is raised many a 

times about news channels is that, "if people are not interested in the news then they should not watch such channels thereby not support the lame cause of the 

channels" Here I would like to make a point stating that what is one supposed to do when all the channels adopt the same strategy?? Besides sometimes the channels 

are watched so as to see the live updates (breaking news) which the channels would go ahead and consider as the broadcast is accepted by the public, indicated 

through TRPs.

This shows that data can be manipulated in whichever way desired and then these channels come up with claims like the best news channels in its category, best live 

coverage etc. It is time that the channels stop feeding crap to the country as everyone is tired of it but the channels support their cause by showing the TRPs. All in 

all, I just want to say that it is time that media realized that the audience has had enough and they should start behaving more responsibily.