Life - An Imagination

Life सपनों और सच का Mix,

एक थोड़ी Unique सी Creation है,

जिसका हर आने वाला पल,

कुछ नयी सी Imagination है।

परियों की कहानी से प्यार था बचपन में,

राक्षस की Stories नहीं भाती थीं हमको,

डर को देखा कभी नहीं हमने,

पर डर के नाम से भी डर लगता था हमको,

Life हर पल में एक नयी Narration है,

ऐसी ही अनोखी कहानियों का एक Collection है,

जिसका हर आने वाला पल,

कुछ नयी सी Imagination है।

मन सोचे और सपने देखे,

अनोखे सपनों की अलग सी दुनिया,

जहाँ ख़ुशी का Addition & Multiplication,

और हर गम का Subtraction & Division है,

Life की बस ये ही तो एक छोटी सी Calculation है,

इसका हर आने वाला कल है मज़ेदार,

और कुछ नयी सी Imagination है।

'कौन' हूँ मैं ...

अगर रख सको तो एक निशानी हूँ मैं,

खो दो तो एक कहानी हूँ मैं ...

रोक पाए ना जिसको ये सारी दुनिया,

वो बंद अंखियों का पानी हूँ मैं ...

सब को प्यार देने की आदत है मुझे,

अपनी एक अलग पहचान बनाने की एक जिद्द है मुझे … 

कितना ही गहरा ज़ख्म दे जाये कोई,

उतना ही ज्यादा मुस्कराने की आदत है मुझे … 

इस अजनबी सी दुनिया में, एक अकेला सा ख्वाब हूँ मैं,

सवालों से खफा-खफा, कोई छोटा सा जवाब हूँ मैं … 

जो समझ ही ना पाए, उनके लिए 'कौन' हूँ मैं, 

और जो समझ जाये, उसके लिए खुली किताब हूँ मैं ...

आँखों से देखोगे तो हमेशा ही खुश पाओगे मुझे,

जब पूछोगे दिल से, तो दर्द का एक सैलाब हूँ मैं ...

अगर रख सको संभाल कर, तो एक अनमोल निशानी हूँ मैं,

खो दो अगर यूँ ही, तो एक अनसुनी कहानी हूँ मैं ...

Naya Safar...Naye Raaste

Manzilon ki talaash me,

Hum jo tay karne chale safar,

Bhool hi gaye us dagar ko...

Jinse manzil tak ka raasta dikhaya,

Raasta jisne chalna sikhaya.

Jahan jo jab thokar lagi us raaste pe,

Toh apne kadmon ki aahat par vishwaas paya,

Us vishwaas ki binaah par hi toh daudne lage hum...

Bachpan ke sathiyon ko bhool,

Aur masoom shaitaniyon ko bhula,

Us undekhi manzil ko pane ki chaah liye,

Phir udne lage hum,

Badlon se halke pankhon pe sawaar,

Udne lage hawaon ki aashiyane mein.

Makhmale se sapno ka tana-bana liye,

Sir ko uncha kiye, nazron ko jhukana hi bhool gaye.

Hawa se aandhi bane apne khwabon ke peeche,

Bhool gaye ki nazar jhukane se thokar na lagegi...

Ki ye hawa phir jab rukegi,

Woh raaste hi honge haunsla bandhne wale.

Raaste jo mudte hain, judte hain...hazaron manzilon se,

Raaste jahan chalne, ladkhadane ka silsila thamta nahi,

Raaste jin par chal kar hi udna seekha hai aaj hum sabne,

Unhe bhool nahi sakte...

Un raaston pe lamhe jine ka alag hi hai maza hai,

Aaj un raaston pe chalne ki hi meri raza hai,

Sapne dekhte rehne ke liye raaste hi jaruri hain,

Manzil milne pe sapna hakeekat me tabdil ho,

Dhuyen ke gubbare sa fat jayga...

Raaston pe chalne se shayad,

Hamari nazar ka ye dhundlaka chat jayga,

Dekh payenge hum raaston pe chalkar hi,

Ki sapno ko pane se behtar hai,

Un sapno me apni zindagi basar kar lene me.

Is ummeed ko apni muskaan me samete

Aaj phir naye raste pe chalne ka nirnaya lete hain,

Chalo nayi dagar pe chalte hain...naya safar jeene ke liye...

‘Un-friending’ Virtual Friends

Socializing and technology have been the most crucial differentiators that supported the exponential growth of the human race. The merger of these two concepts, resulting from the advent of the Internet, has revolutionized the way people interact and communicate. From chatting with your neighbor to catching up with an old friend living thousands of miles away, online socializing platforms allow users to interact from the comforts of their homes. It will not be an exaggeration to term this phenomenon, triggered by networking sites, as a Social Renaissance.

Facebook, the largest social media community in the world, has more than 500 million active users (as of October 2010). Considering this number, if Facebook were a country, it would have been the fourth largest in terms of population! The online media craze initiated by Facebook has been successfully endorsed by Twitter, YouTube and iPod apps.

Having said that, the real difference online social networking matrix brings to your life is still questionable. This is because individuals typically do not connect to everyone whom they have added to their friend list. The friend list is more about quantity than quality.

Online Social Networking – A Different World

Having a social networking account has almost become a necessity in order to express our opinions, to stay in touch with our friends or to post an alert about trivial actions during the day. But, have you ever given a serious thought to your friend list? Have you ever tried to remove a virtual friend off your list?

Last weekend, while updating my account on a social networking site, my friend list caught my attention all of a sudden. As I pondered over that, I realized that there were some friends with whom I had not had a hearty conversation for a while. These were friends who had either been sent a request to join by me or had sent me a request that I had accepted rather excitedly, thinking that I would converse with them in the future. But when I browsed through the names in my friend list, it came as a surprise to me that the number of actual friends or people with whom I had had a word recently was very small.

I felt the burden of guilt weighing on my heart for not being able to talk to other so-called friends. I say “so-called” because at that time having a friendly relationship seemed so virtual to me. The definition of virtual friends has become something different from the friends I like to hang out with.

There are so many persons like me who have a long list of such virtual friends and who, at one point of time, realize that their list has long gone beyond their intimate friends. It seemed to me that the relationships on such sites have quickly evolved from quality of friends to quantity.

I wondered why I did not eliminate such people from my friend list and why, in the first place, I was so anxious to join them when somewhere in my heart I knew that I will not talk to them except perhaps occasionally.

Obviously, not all of us kept the list so long because we all are smitten by the number mania (the more friends you have, the cooler you are). I think it’s just that we want to avoid the awkwardness of acting completely impersonal by removing people from our elaborate friend list. Just as we would get offended if someone with more than 500 friends eliminated us from their friend list.

I completely understand that selective discretion is crucial to the social networking system. However, even in this virtual environment, deleting friends without any explanation can turn out to be a jarring experience.

For me, this problem is actually too horrible to contemplate. Let’s try to post this on my page and see if any of my virtual friends can come up with a solution for this problem.

You guys get going. Try to unfriend a virtual friend from your list and please also post an alert for me if you know about how to get away from that horrible awkwardness later.

Masoom Boondein...

Sisakte hain, bilakhte hain
Meri aankhon mein jo palte hain
Behte hain paani jaise,
Kehte koi kahani jaise
Meri aankhon mein aankhein moonde-moonde
Palkon par bikhre, jaise oas ki boondein...

Tere haathon ki ungliyon par, kabhi moti jaise
Jab-jab meri sansein hain roti aise
Kabhi shaant se aankhon mein...burf se thande jaise
Kabhi beh jana chahte hain...meri aanhon ke jaise
Kabhi keh jaate hain dil ki baatein poori,
Kabhi jata jate hain meri koi tamanna adhoori...
Kabhi kisi aashaon par, bojh se lagte hain
Kabhi kisi chahaton ko poora sa karte hain...
Kabhi meri aatma ki dhara ko choona chahte hain jaise
Kabhi mere mann ki udaan tak pahunchna chahte hain jaise
Kabhi nirjhar behte hain
Apni hi pehchaan ke liye
Kabhi behte-behte ruk jaate hain
Masoom meri muskan ke liye
Kabhi behte hain toh,
Mere kitne haunslo ko todte hain
Kabhi na jane unjane
Kitne hi rishton ko jodte hain
Kabhi kitni hi tamannaon ko karte hain ravaan,
Kabhi meri tamannaon ke liye baandhate hain sama...
Dhadkano mein kho jate hain
Palkon mein hi so jate hain...
Kabhi meri aankhon ke, sath ye rote hain
Kabhi kitne suljhe toh, kabhi unsuljhe hote hain
Kabhi dhoop se sulagte hain
Kabhi chaaya mein bhi jhulaste hain
Sisakte hain, bilakhte hain
Meri aankhon me ye palte hain...

Masoom Khushi..

Band darwazon me se khushi jhankti hai kahin,

Kholo zara parde,

Khushi ki kirno ko chehre pe bikhar jane do,

Hone do khud ko roobroo us masoom hasi se,

Pyari si muskurahat phir chehre pe khilkhilane do,

Aankhon se dil tak hai jo jati,

Aur phir dheeme se use sanson me samane do,

Goonj uthe woh hasi ki khanak

Pyara sa geet koi phir gungunane do

Meri aankhon se teri aankhon tak pahunche woh chamak

Sare gam bhool jane do

Hath thaam lo mera phir se

Aur khud ko khushi ki dunia me gum ho jane do

Apni khushi se banao apni pehchan nayi

Zindagi ko phir muskurane do....

Reasons...

For what reason, you broke my heart,

Tell me, what reason made you to flirt

With me, my innocent love and soul...

Memories of that love

Moments of that lovely time

Drain out my mind, my thoughts

Drench my heart and soul

Shake my feelings, cut me away

From the world else...

For a moment, made me

Nervous as a whole...

What reasons took you away

What reasons insist you to play

With me, my love and my feelings

Those were not made for anyone and everyone

Those were only for you...

I can't pass them to else somebody...

I cannot, but you may

Think of them as professional dealings

Today in yours, tomorrow in some other hands

I can't sell them, cannot even lend

Pure is my love & so are my feelings...

They were played with

Then hurt and broke...

Now need some pampering,

For they need healing

But they are not changed yet

And can't be healed in a sec

As they are real

And not merely a joke...

But then, my love needs you

To give the reasons

For whatever you did

As for that,

I do not have any single clue

One lie can break our relationship

But, if your love, your heart

And your feeling for me are not fake

Then for once, tell me everything true

As only truth, one truth

Can make my heart and me

To break all the walls in between

And come to you...

To delete away from your love

That 'fake' blot

Once and now, say truth

You really love me or not

Only that can make us truly "one"

And leave no space for fission

But then, that needs, my love

No lie, only truth

Only true and

Some untold reasons....

Tu hai meri.....

Kuch unsune se geet jo rakhe hain tere labon par
Kuch bheege bheege se sapne teri palkon par
Woh tere khwaab, khwaishen sb mere hi toh hain
Jo ab tu hai meri...
Main nazron se door par dil k paas hi hun
Woh teri yadein rakhi hain jo sirhane k paas
Karwat lete hi gale lag jaati hain
Woh teri yadein, tammanayein sb meri hi toh hain
Jo ab tu hai meri...
Khamosh teri zubaan se bhi sun sakta hun aahatein
Aankhon ke aage har roz
Mehsoos kar skta hun teri banti hui tasveerein
Woh teri kalpana, chahatein sb meri hi toh hain
Jo ab tu hai meri...........

Memories

Sitting on the seashore of memories
Ebb & flow of past thoughts touch my heart
Golden moments of passed time drench my soul wholly
And they carry me away...to merge with eternity
Ethical, mythical spiral gyrates of time re-stamp
Time past may never come back
But history has a lesson for us to teach
Our individual sorrows may be Great
Greater still is the force of life
It washes us away to realize
There may be times, when we are selfish...
There may be times, when we are selfless...
Thoroughly mixed is the hued color of life
There are times of tears
And times of sorrow
And times of sunshine too
For life is open-ended
We are mere spectators.......

Standing All Alone!!!!

Roads are narrowing,

Earth with sky’s merging

Standing on this lovely horizon,

I’m feeling alone!!!

What have I gained….

What has been lost by me......

I'm thinking over n over,

Standing on this strange horizon,

For what I’ve been born.....

Passed those days

When with some nice friends

With hands in hands

I was walking for hours

On empty-busy strands

To spend with each other,

Then, we have had ample time…

But, now the time has been changed

Now we all are so-called busy

With our lives....

Or may be struggling

With our strayed minds....

Which is still lost in those memories,

And still wants to roam on....and on

But today, memories are a passé

And feelings have gone

And I am thinking

Standing unconscious on this unknown horizon

Why the stars are dimming…..

Where has the moonlight gone…..

Where the moments have lost….

How can, so fast, the time move on

Lots of queries remaining

But the answers bygone

I can see everything,

But the structure of future, the shades of past…

All of us and the lost lonely path

I don’t know what the next moment is going to be

And what the tomorrow holds for me

But at this point of time

I know the one and only thing

That this horizon is lovely

And this is my companion

That’s why,  with this lonely horizon

Searching for my soul

I m standing here.............. ALL ALONE!!!!!

My Mother

I opened my eyes, while she held me in her arms
I smiled slowly, when she touched my cheeks with her loving palms
She taught me to make home out of a house of sand
I learned to stand still while holding her hand
She taught me to be happy and positive,
Through good or bad times
She is the one who taught me that in any successful relation,
Understanding is prime
I can never repay, from her so much I borrow
She gave me all the joys n kept away the sorrows
She does it all alone, never any help she seek
She held us together working hard, although even when she was weak
Love and only love, never anything else she sought
To make our lives better, very hard she has fought
The nights spent by her in eyes, praying for us
I can never forget
I can never revert as I owe to her a lot
I love her the most in the world
To me, she is like my God!!
She is the most beautiful lady
I have ever come across
Her smile, that takes away all my tensions, is sweet like sucrose
Of all the lovely flowers on Earth,
Only she is my Rose
She is a living poetry and she is my prose
I can never ask God in life, for anything else better
He has made it best for me already
By providing me such a lovely Mother!!
Mom!!I love you and will love you always
This small poem is a dedication to you
From your own Shadow, your daughter......

The Path of Life

When You walk on the path of life

You may be content,

With some of its aspects

And to make some moments fulfilling

You have to strive..

Life may present you

Some turns with tough times,

And at others, with joy...

What you need to do to endure all

Along the entire path

Is to act smart , be patient and enjoy...

As the clock runs at its own pace

The God of Time can gift you

With Hidden Treasures of Happiness

But, at some points

He may also put you

Through the rough phase

Just be self-confident throughout

And never turn off your face...

Just be honest with yourself

And also be diligent

Without making a fuss,

Just try n enjoy every moment....

Time may create

The ripples of distraction

And You may have to work hard

Till that unaltered satisfaction...

Learn from each and every opportunity

Face everything with poise and humility..

Whether the stones may be big,

Hard, and eveytime new,

Just wear the smiling face ever,

And Just Be Like YOU!!!!!

A new me

Standing on the verge of road,

I’m searching for my ground

Trying to look upon my destiny,

Walking alone on this path

Making efforts to solve a puzzle

Listening to the purple sound

Walking past the blowing winds

I’m ready to read my soul’s hints

To search for my path again….

I’m just a little bewildered

By the turns of situations

But still I am what I am

Not losing n going insane

Will make my destiny,

Follow me some day

I still have the spark in me

And with the belief on myself

Will turn the situations around…..

Have taken a lot

It’s time for a return round

I will come back with a bang

Wait for me guys

Try to remember n not forget me

Or you may find a problem

To recognise and accept

A new me……..

The Promise!!!

She dressed in white

With all love and care

Walking down the aisle

Where they last promised to meet

And share their life...

In the hope to see him dressed handsomely in black

Ready to take those sacred seven vows

Dreaming about the day

And the time they had spent together

Time when they started liking each others' choices

When their dreams became one

Thinking about those lovely dreams

Where they thought of a home and a life together

To spend there on...

With all love and candour

And with a feeling that bounded them together

She thought of the white sand

Where hand in hand, they'll walk

Like a beautiful couple

Her eyes twinkled, her cheeks blushed

And her sky turned pink

But, she can saw nobody waiting there

To hold her hand

To share those sacred vows

She proceeded in a hurry

Searching for him in every nook n corner

But he had left her alone...

She tried to contact him by every means

But could not reach him

She felt alone in the world...

The colors of love gone pale

And her feelings had dried

She was deeply hurt, certainly

But her eyes never cried

She thought of those happy moments

Which they had shared together

When she gifted him, her trust and compassion

And gifted him with her soul n smile...

When he made promises, to be by her side

To hold her hand for the lifetime...

But now, she has no one's hand to hold

No one to be with her

Emotions touched her heart

A desolation took over

Her trust was betrayed,

And her dreams were lost

Her heart broke and feelings shattered

She felt strange in her heart...

But stood still there,

Where they promised to see each other

To wait for him to return...

She still trusts his promises, his intentions

Never knowing the reasons for this betrayal,

Having no hopes for the contentions...

Standing on this edge of hope, trust, love & uncertainty

She is still waiting for him, breathless...

In the hope,

That her love can never die out

And it will finally win over them

And win over those untold reasons......

My Sweet Friend!!!!!

With everybody gone I’m left only with you

                                         When nobody standing beside me, I found you

With nobody waiting, I saw you looking for me

Nobody’s hand to hold, then you supported me

You are not my pillar of strength

Not even any inspiration

You are just a sweet friend

Always there for me...

You are a comfortable touch

When I need to hug someone tightly

I need not frame sentences for you

While pouring my heart out

You can understand my tears

You understood my smiles

You can sit by my side to hold me

Or can walk with me for miles

You are not my love of life

Not any divine creation

But a sweet friend of mine

Always there for me....

I can be what I am

Whenever with you

I don’t feel the need to pretend

While talking to you

I may be gone away from you

Someday

Or you may be settled elsewhere

But I can say one thing for sure

You will always remember me

As a nice friend of yours

And I will always hope to see you once more

You are not my lost love

Not any magic or science

But, you are

And always will be

My sweet friend

Always there for me... :)