Osama bin Laden* ( Riyadh to Arabian Sea )

Journeyed from  Riyadh to Arabian Sea Laden
What all he did and what all he gained?

1. Riyadh - Where money speaks and love peaked

Siblings a plenty, multiple links
World at home and all at ease

2. With Siblings 

What is it that made him leave ?

From serene hearth to rocky terrains

3. Afghanistan 

Then on wards to an earthly haven

Where nature's magic left nothing barren

4. Road to or road from Abbottabad
 Land - I have not been, but yes it is green 

5. Town  Abbottabad 
 No mad crowd , no dense settlement
Where people not violent, but peaceful I read

In troubled waters danger lurked
Yet He walked from vale to gale ?

6. Churning heaving, Arabian Sea

From mother's lap to abyss wrath

From alpine home to watery trails

                                    Its time we thought of things like these

                                    In order to have in world, more peace

                                                                      

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6. varfalomeeitopoz.blogspot.com

*  Place of birth - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Place of death - Abbottabad, Pakistan

My Arms Spread Out To Welcome My Friends

1. Paradise on earth- Switzerland

My arms spread out to welcome my friends
Who have come from world over wide.

Not everyone's mother tongue I do know 

But a smile and a laughter and twinkling eyes 

Is enough to convey that I love you all 

My prayers for you that each may stand tall

2. Finland me,  Please do see

3. Parkano Church of 1800's, Pirkanmaa Region,  Finland

3. Parkano Church of 1800's, Pirkanmaa Region,

 Finland

4. Downtown Reykjavik ( Capital of Iceland )

5. Poland Tours

Switzerland, Finland , Iceland, Poland

Each blessed with heavenly cold

When sunrays seeps into our pores

We rush to your welcoming doors

6. Penny in sand - EGYPT

Egyptians and cotton, Gift of the Nile

In sand and mud all your treasure lies

Hungary reminds me of my CJM* days

Edith,  I hope we cross our ways

7.  Budapest ( Capital of Hungary) 

Argentina, Romania, Georgia, S Korea

Pampas, Gypsies**, Iberians*** and movies see ya***

8. Pampas grassland of Argentina*****

9. Romanian Gypsies

10. The Brotherhood of War (2004)

11. The Classic ( 2002)

Belgium, Bahrain although small you both are

Your wisdom and oil on us you have showered

12.  The town of Brugge Belgium

13. First oil well in Bahrain******

Land of wine, and of prose,

Land of poetry and of rose

Land of fashion and of fame 

Land of beautiful pretty dames

14.  Cottage in St-Jean-du-Gard  ( France )

Yes it is, France it is, who else 

Can be the owner of those dells

Please do pronounce me Sheelay

Though I am spelt C H I LE each day

15. Chile 
Capital - Santiago

Swanky males and brown females

Muscular bodies and historical tales

Ecuador, with Spanish history in Quito

And to glimpse the Pacific all must go

16. Fun loving Ecuador people

To each of you my heart welcomes

To each of you my humble thanks 

To come this way and be my friend

I pray you too may have innumerable friends

Kind words and warm smiles is all that we need

For us to carry on with speed doing good deed

For body to work with God has given 

An inspired soul, a peaceful heart too weaven

Wake up my friends and pick up your tasks

Work too can be fun and then you may bask

In warm sunshine in severe winters

In chilled waters in blistering summers

Good lord we thank you for this bountiful world

All colours of rainbow now with me 

My arms lengthened to hug my friends

Whom The Heavenly God alone does send

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12. gentbelgium.ca 
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14. homeaway.nl  
15. geographic.org 
16. garyascott.com  



Notes:- 


    * Convent of Jesus and Mary

 **  The Gypsy peoples originate from Sind region now in Pakistan.

    Their Rom language is close to the older forms of Indian languages.

 *** Iberia was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli (4th         century BC – 5th century AD), corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia. And thus people of Iberia were called Iberians.


**** Korean movies don't we all love to see - My Sassy Girl, Seducing Mr. Perfect, A  Moment to Remember , The Brotherhood of War, The Classic etc etc. 


*****Have you heard this song........................My heart is in Rosa Rio
 ( If not, you must, you will not regret I promise)            Under the Argentine sky
                                                             There with a beautiful lady
                                                             With dark and sparkling eyes..........   
                                                                       (Rosa Rio by Jim Reeves)   
                                      

 ****** The Kingdom of Bahrain is known as the “Pearl of Arabian Gulf”. Bahrain, which means ‘two seas’- the salt and sweet- consists of 33 islands, with a total land area in excess of 700sq.kms.  

First oil well in Bahrain as its name suggests, is the first oil well in the Gulf. "Spurted" on 16th October 1931, the well finally began to blow heads of oil on the morning of 2nd June 1932. 

Campus Scene - Jamia Milllia Islamia

Admission time what a hustle..................................Students upset minds puzzled.................................

1. Administrative Block, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Trimming trees and watering lawns
Birds chirping and other sounds

Is nature's music at no cost
For all to be drawn and be lost

A gardener at work with hoe and spade
Two here gossiping in friendly ways

A cyclist comes and joins the group
Fresh talk then soon  springs anew

An Ac* nearby hums away
Do make no sound it does say

An officer is at his work
After  a long break can he shirk?

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* Ac- air conditioner


Pictorial source:- 
1. jmi.ac.in

Kalka Mail Tragedy ( Sunday, 10th July, 2011 )

1. Kalka Mail Tragedy (India)

2. Location Map

Sunday afternoon, 10th July
Kalka tragedy and many died

Howrah to Delhi rushing train
Schools reopened with the coming of rain

Malwan near Fatehpur accident site
Coaches mangled, a horrific sight

3. An Extremely  Sorrowful Day In Malwan  ( It is 35 km from Fatehpur, UP )

Rescue operation locals began
Army, Air Force with tools they ran

Cutting metals with gas cutters
Flying injured by Air Force 'copters

City hospital could take no more
Shagun Marriage Hall opened its door

Thanks to Hazi*, his hall turned ward
Supplied food and water,  Bless him Dear God

Private doctors too did their bit
Stitched and bandaged those badly hit

A silent prayer for all the dead
God alone consoles one's who are left

To pick up their luggage
And carry on with life

The goodness in humanity was seen that day
May not such a disaster come in anyone's way




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Notes:- 


The drivers of the ill fated train were A.K. Pandey and U.K. Yadav.


The first offiicial to arrive was Akhand Pratap, Station Officer of Govt. 
Railway Police at Fatehpur.


Army teams came from Allahabad and Kanpur. Air Force Helicopters 
were used to fly the injured to Kanpur.


* The owner of Shagun Marriage Hall, located opposite City Hospital, is Hazi Raza Mohd.
   This Hall was opened by its owner as an extension to the Hospital. More than 120 
   patients were then treated in this Hall on the night of 10th July, 2011. Hazi provided food 
   and water to all admitted in his Hall. The City Hospital sent antibiotics and injections,
   and Private Doctors from the city too helped and chemists  kept their shops opened
   all through the night. 


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1. todays24.com
2. palashbiswaslive.blogspot.com
3  thescape.in

Triplets: 1) Reflections On A Rainy Day...................2) Lark In The Park...................3) Monsoon

1) Reflections On A Rainy Day

1.  Green Maharashtra after monsoon

 Can I Count the movies I have seen

Can I count the places I have been

Can I count the books I have read

Can I count the kind words I have said

Can I think of the times I have been good

Can I think of the times I should have stood

Can I count the days I have been on leave

Can I say all the thoughts I do believe

 Can I count the people whom I have met

Can I count the days that have been wet

Can I count the tears that I have shed

Can I count the time I should have led

Can I count the times I have been bad

Can I count the days I have been sad

Can I count the praises I have won

Have I thanked God for all He has done

Its time I knelt and bowed my head

And asked for forgiveness from the only Head

Do keep me safe I cry and pray

Good Lord above please show me the way

                               
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 2)  Lark in the Park*

2. Rather the birds woke me up!  (Maharashtra)

I wake up in the morning

And hear the birds singing

I take a walk in the park

And hope to see the lonely lark

It had lost its friends on its way

And had come to the park yesterday

There it was all drenched and wet

I longed to keep it as my pet

But thoughts of its friends waiting yonder

Made me to sit awhile and ponder

Where is their home, for all I see

Is the shrinking greens and increasing we

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 3)   Monsoon*

3. Monsoon, India's Boon

June 1^st, monsoon hits coastal Kerala first

From there it trudges slowly to the north

By the time sun reaches the Tropic of Cancer

Lo! behold the winds are not far behind

Gushing and puffing its journey not yet done

Northwards it rushes, but humbled by the Himalayas

And the fiery Thar has for its feast warm moist winds

The former drenched in rain and the latter still parched

The call of the Thar is monsoon in India

Yet all over it rains ,but for Thar and Coromandel

Beating the retreat it does soon after the sun** to equator it moves

Tamilians now cooled to their hearts and tis time to bid

Sun and monsoon farwell till the next year is here again

4. Earth revolving around the Sun giving us seasons
and rotating about its axis and giving us day and night

5. Monsoon magic paints green

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*    Both the poems, Lark In The Park as well as Monoon were  written for the
      sake of school kids, one from Delhi and the other from Simla.




** The apparent shifting of the sun though of course it is
     the earth that revolves around the sun

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1, 2 and 3 - mary's archive
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5. amitkulkarni.info