Granny's Babe

Waiting good tidings
Praying for ease
Ready to be teased
Grandma you've become

The bundle on bed
Asleep in warmth
Welcome son said
Babe pink and red

Father believed
Mother relieved
Gods wonder
Babe's here

The clutching fingers
Long eyelashes
Eyes do linger
Multiple sashes

About to cry
Mother's sigh
Don't ask me why
Tender a sight

Grannies around
Fussing about
Tidying around
Smiling about

Generation leaps
Passing the keep
Time to reap
Heaven's sweets

Babe awake
What lustrous eyes?
Straight in your eyes
Again I sigh

To hold you child
Tender and mild
To be by your side
A heavenly ride

May not a tear
Your ever be shed
Your enchanting smile
Call us from miles

Grow babe grow
To the whole world show
Your love and goodness
This world a test

Love you dear
Though not near
In my heart you near
My babe my dear

Daughter,Sister, Mother, Woman

How many times a woman is humiliated
How many times her tears be shed
How many times her soul being tortured
Before you give a hand..soothe her ..and fight for her

No one around or around and deaf ears
Again she is abused and beaten and beaten
Again and again and again and again
Till one day she screams for help

But listen you say it has been going on for years
You must be used to the people by now
She cries in anguish and ask God for help.
He alone then clears the way he clears.

Testing he was the people around.
Respect women else fear Gods wrath
Love woman as thy self
Son, Brother, Father, Man..........

Our School - Convent of Jesus and Mary

1.   Convent of Jesus and Mary, New Delhi

School days, those days
Flew past, we parted ways

Best Convent in the town
Many went, from all around

White uniforms with red buttons
Red socks and races to be won

School days, those days
Flew past, we parted ways

2. Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi

Enter Cathedral with solemn prayer
Walk in line, bowing everywhere

Rushing fast, its assembly time
Listening news and stand at ease time

School days, those days
Flew past, we parted ways

3. Our Dear Teachers

Then to class, while music played
Shoes not polished, hope not caught

Late night party, homework not done
Mrs 'Gopalan present, now what to be done

School days, those days
Flew past, we parted ways

Desks banging, chairs pushed
Books on table, Mam enters...shhhh

Little Women, chapter six
Please you read and words not mix

School days, those days
Flew past, we parted ways

Break time, and sticky chips
Push harder, hear our shrieks

As the swing goes higher and high
Merry go round, goes round and round

School days those days

Flew past we parted ways

SUPW class is next
Then back home, earned our rest

Bags packed, desks banged,
Bye miss,  'afternoon Sis

School days, those days
Flew past, we parted ways

Towards the bus for a seat
To waiting cars, on the street

Now on Facebook, meet our friends
School days, those days............

                               In my heart you will always dwell.......

                              Sisters, Teachers and other Staff too

    
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Dear Friends.......

Years roll on, but memories fresh.......

Of the magical past, with smiling tears

Oh my friends, I miss you so..........

Please think of me, wherever you go

Picture source
1, 2, and 3 http://www.cjmdelhi.com

Chill Thrills

                             

1. Earth's movement around the sun

Earths movement, seems sun treks

Down under, then summer becks

Up above, winter chill creeps

The poor and weak, only weeps

Cold and rain, then shiver reigns

Logs and coal, and cold be tamed

Summer golden and winter white

Man grumbles, nothings right

Peanuts for sale, bonfires ablaze

Long nights and smaller days

Bundled folks and huddled all

From the cold, try make a wall

The morning fog and late sun shines

All the street dogs, loudly whine

Slow sales, shopkeepers complain

Today, tomorrow, all days the same

Around the corner, festival lights

Will beckon many in woolen tights

Christmas here and hopes abound

Carol singing, amid clapping sounds

Wish you all, A Happy New Year

And may this year, You shed no tear


Love You Folks.........................

PS  :- My Dear Friends...................

         From north, south, east and west

         You are here, to take some rest

         I wish you all the very best

         Season's Greetings for every Guest

Picture Source:-

1. sciencythoughts.blogspot.com

Convocation Jamia Millia Islamia

1. Love You Jamia

Passing years and falling tears

Smiling dears' 'n shiny wears

Here a friend and there a foe

Now all do smile with not a woe

The power of youth

And hopes abound

Hugs and pats, 

Hand shakes and aches

My, you have grown

But memories sown

We wish you well

So we may tell

To fresh ones 

Of how you won................

And May God Bless Each One

2. And  Delhi, My Home

                                Time and tide wait for none

                                Is what we have heard from everyone

                               So please do wait and tarry for a while

                               For this too shall soon pass in a while

Ps:- The key to success lies in you book
       Turn every page to have a look

Pictorial sources:-

1. and 2. Picasa Web Albums People n Places

By the Grace of God......................Toufel

1 JNU, New Delhi

Ten whole months he took to be born
And eyes wide open when he was born

The biggest pram we bought for him
But that too was very much small for him

An early riser, morning walks he took
For which his old grandpa eagerly took

Spent his childhood with horses and guards
Romped on the grass in the campus which they guard

Centre for Russian Studies* was its name
Where he played, with siblings, many a game

Then to Mahanadi** we had to shift
The view from there was a perfect gift

Getting lost in a maze of green
In the hostel only married couples to be seen

For kindergarden he went to KV***
Well dressed he was all could see

2 Bluebells School,  New Delhi

Then to Bluebells for further study
Scholar he was and not a penny paid we

Darling of the Principal, pet of the Teachers
For competitions he went with Sir's

After middle he went to 'Doon
To Grace Academy, but not to Doon

3 Grace Academy, Dehradun

There too he excelled in all that he did
Soon a scholar due to the hard work he did

Then back to Delhi for higher secondary
There too studies was not one bit secondary

4 St. Stephen's College,  New Delhi

Then marched to Stephens's full of pride
Soon he became Stephen's pride

Then to Shirala as a manager**** he went
Where I too went to get him a home on rent

5 UPSC, New Delhi

4rth May, 2012,  a day for the family to remember
Toufel***** cleared UPSC and God to be remembered


Note:-

* In Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU), New Delhi
** married students hostel in JNU
*** Kendriya Vidyalaya School
**** In Union Bank, Maharashtra
***** In Arabic Toufel means 'By the Grace of God"

Pictorial sources:-
1 article.wn.com  JNU
2 bluebellsinternational.com
3  graceacademyindia.com
4 ase.tufts.edu
5 upsc.gov.in

Titanic

1. Titanic that day 100 years ago

It moved me to tears to read that day
What happened to Titanic while on its way


I huddled in a corner and cried and cried
What has besotten you my mom did sigh

2. Passengers strolling on the top
 deck of the Titanic ( 1912)

3. The Promenade Deck of the Titanic,
 located underneath the top deck (1912)

With two thousand plus passengers both rich and poor
Titanic of Belfast shipyard was lowered


From Southampton to New York it was to sail
But iceberg struck and  all around mournful wails


A record of speed and size it was,
But a record of biggest disaster it was


Musicians on board played "Nearer my God to thee"
And then truly nearer were they to "Thee"  


Millionaires Widener and Harris put their wives in boats
And Straus and wife perished than be split


What a gory night it was, when the ship was doomed
Though near the moon, but still no moon

I huddled in a corner and cried and cried
What has besotten you my mom did sigh


Then years later the movie made
On screen then Titanic we all did gaze

4. Movie  "Titanic"

1912 alive again, the rushing, the hugging, the touching Adieu's
And costumes of the period we all did view


Now Balmoral enroute again
On 14th and 15th in Delhi it rained

5. Passengers are photographed in the 
MS Balmoral Titanic
Memorial cruise ship, prior to the gala dinner
in the Atlantic Ocean, Tuesday, April 10, 2012.

Seemed nature too was giving homage
A century gone, but I read the page**


With tears in my eyes and a heavy heart
Resolve to begin with a Holy New Start


Love, Peace and Joy I will give to all
Then only can I live and stand up tall






Note:- 
* Captain Smith
** Newspaper Report in "The Hindu",  Sunday, April 15, 2012.


Pictorial sources:-
1. www.wikipedia.org
2 and 3. www.history.com/
4. telegraph. co.uk
5. www.huffingtonpost.com