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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Nothingness”.)

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 17☆

☆ Nothingness ☆

 

There are so many sentiments-

The feeling of being loved,

The desire for togetherness,

The emotions of hurtfulness,

The longing of your arms,

The sadness on parting,

The glee on arrival;

But everything in life

Has to settle down!

 

Nature is full of entropy

And the most obvious way

Is to tend to move towards nothingness.

 

The questions are-

When do you move towards zilch?

And how do you tend towards zero?

 

Sadly,

For why,

There are no answers!

 

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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Calmness and Strength”.)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 14☆

 

☆ Calmness and Strength ☆

 

When the stream falls down

From the slope of the mountains,

And flows in the plains with pain,

It maintains its calm

Despite the turbulence of abandonment.

 

The breeze, after the cyclone,

Learns to gain back its gentleness,

And silent becomes its tone;

The world gathers courage from its repose,

Reclaiming its energy.

 

The tree, after being wrapped in snow for long,

Removes the frostiness from its mind

And slowly its leaves grow back again;

The world watches in awe its colourfulness

As it waves its branches full of bloom!

 

O Lord!

Let me be the calmness of that river,

Let me be the gentleness of that breeze

And let me be the strength of that tree!

 

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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Autumn and Winter”.)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 13☆

 

☆ Autumn and Winter ☆

 

The absent autumn

Peeps in for a little while,

Vanishing again.

 

You are used to its vanishing tricks,

You are also used to its appearing all of a sudden,

And for the first time,

You don’t get swayed by its arrival,

Your emotions don’t start pirouetting,

And poetry doesn’t pour like rains.

 

You’ve rather started loving

The icy winter.

It does freeze you for a while,

But it’s more realistic

And then, it always lives up to its promises

Of nothingness.

 

When the autumn bids adieu

After its short trip,

You are rather happy,

Since there is no ripple to disturb you

In the sea of your peace.

 

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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “As frozen as ice”.)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 12☆

 

☆ As frozen as ice ☆

 

Sometimes,

The going gets tough,

Your soft feet get brutally exposed

To the harshness of the tarry roads,

The mighty sun of fate becomes fiercer

Charring your parched skin,

Thorns prick your naked feet

And grief pricks the corners of your red eyes,

You run madly

In the rough deserts of your broken heart,

And solace eludes you.

 

During such times,

You think

That you are as frozen as ice.

 

But if you do walk

Those rough terrains once,

You become flowing water

That knows how to carve its own path,

And no future journey is hard enough.

 

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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “A butterfly woman”.)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 11☆

 

☆ A butterfly woman ☆

Let them

Keep looking at your bodily beauty-

The luminous colour of your skin,

The pretty patterns on your wings,

The magnificent gait while you fly!

 

You should concentrate

Only upon your wings

And its innate strength!

 

One day,

You will have touched the sky

And that’s what

A butterfly woman

Is meant to do!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “The blindfolding of Gandhari”. This poem is from her book “Tales of Eon)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 10☆

 

☆ The blindfolding of Gandhari   ☆

 

O lord! I blindfold myself!

That my husband was blind I knew not

Never had I thought of such a union

But together, the destiny has brought

 

O lord! I blindfold myself!

As I learn of my future and fate

What is ordained, cannot be modified

I shall suffer, as does my mate!

 

O lord! I blindfold myself!

Know not what speaks is protest or disgust

My exploitation, I shall not permit!

O lord! Let me disable myself first!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Drona and Drupad”. This poem is from her book “Tales of Eon)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 9☆

 

☆ Drona and Drupad ☆

 

“O Drupad! My childhood friend!

Your promises I come to remind

Do you remember our oaths to share

Wealth of all kinds?”

 

“O Sage Drona! Blessed am I!

My kingdom your presence bestows

A learned man are though

And before thee I bow!”

 

“O Drupad! My childhood friend!

Married I am, and have a son too

Distinguish he can’t between rice water and milk

And I have come to ask for a cow from you!”

 

“O Sage Drona! O learned man!

A cow I present thee in alms

Friendship stays only between equals

To state that, I have no qualms!”

 

“O Drupad! My childhood friend!

It is not daan that I seek or ask

Listen to your heart and the love

In your glory, do not bask!”

 

“O Sage Drona! O learned man!

Pray do not claim cow in friendship’s name

Upholder of Dharma am I and in charity believe

As such, you have no claim

 

“O Drupad! Ashamed I am

I ever called you my friend

One day, greater than thou I shall become

But, from my ideals, never bend!”

 

And thus were sown the seeds

Of disillusionment and revenge

His ambitions soared high and high

Drona had forever changed!

 

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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Pandu’s end”. This poem is from her book “Tales of Eon)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 8☆

 

☆ Pandu’s end ☆

 

A young man that he was

Difficult it was for Pandu to restrain

Tried his best to desist

But could not adjust to a life of pain

 

Life futile made by Kindama’s curse

Roamed he like an ascetic  though

Evening the bearing of sons by Dharma

Could not bring back his glow

 

One day, the stunning Madri he saw

And his vision turned lustful

In his moment of yearn, touched her

And in his arms was his wife beautiful

 

The opportunity to mate had come after long

They caressed each other in delight

Completely lost they were in love

For a moment forgot, what is wrong and right

 

The curse soon came calling

And Pandu was no more

Reduced to flames was he

Who had been the mighty king of yore

 

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Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Pandu’s sons”. This poem is from her book “Tales of Eon)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 7 ☆

 

☆ Pandu’s Sons☆

 

Cursed by Rishi Kindima

Into the realms of the forest, Pandu retired

The news of pregnant Gandhari

In him, the desire to have a son fired.

 

Seeing him desolate and murky

His dutiful wife, Kunti consoled

“For his wife to bear another man’s child,”

She said, “The law of Dharma allowed”.

 

“Let me call a Rishi,” said Pandu

“Let us call a Deva,” Kunti stated

Blessed by Rishi Durvasa, she had a boon;

The knowledge made Pandu elated.

 

Pleased by Kunti’s solution

First to be invoked was Lord Yama

She gave birth to Yudhishtra

Who would be the upholder of Dharma

 

Next to be summoned was the God of wind

Of all Gods, most powerful and mightiest

And thus was born courageous Bhima

Who, one day, would be the strongest

 

And then, blessings were sought

From Indra, King of all Devas, who ruled the sky

Arjuna, the valiant archer was born

He became Kunti’s favourite by and by

 

And then, Kunti could invoke no more

Four were the maximum allowed

Pandu thought for a few days and then

For Madri, his second wife, implored

 

The Ashwini twins were invoked for Madri

The Lord of morning and evening stars

Nakula, the handsomest man was born

Along with his twin, with knowledge of near and far

 

Pandu, thus had five sons

Together, they came to be as Pandavas known

Had the wisdom of ‘King perfect’ collectively

Honesty, strength, skill, beauty, and wisdom they honed

 

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