Back to Nature ( Bhatta Fall, Mussoorie )

Bhatta beckons one and all
To see its enchanting waterfall
Short mountain path leads us down
Or the winding road takes quite a round

Eating berries along the way
Picking flowers in the month of May
A thorny bush in the path
Move across or be caught

Further down, deafening sounds
Make us cautious of other hounds
For all is peaceful with not a soul
Bhatta Fall for us alone

Walk had made us pant for breath
Dive in water for our health
Although hot, but water cold
Make me come out for a hold

Warmed by sun and back in water
Made me long for children's laughter
Life of old age has to pass
In this world so very vast

With hubby dear along my side
Fun filled will be the ride of life
For heaven is here when all is bliss
My children then, I will not miss

Back to nature I want to go
Leave this city with all its woe
Dreamt of future as said above
Please make it true, heart says, as I bow

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Notes:-
1)  The background image is that of Mussoorie from mary's archive
and yonder is the Bhatta Fall.
2)  Bhatta is a small village around 6km before reaching Mussoorie.
It boasts of a tourist place-namely the Bhatta Fall, which is obviously
more famous now, but not then when the poem was written.
3)  This poem was written somewhere around the year 2000 when
the kids were all less than 13. And now the youngest one is 13+.
                       Thanks be to God for Everything

Part 1 - Hounded by Cancer, Blinded with Pain*...............Yet, Your Will be Done on Earth we Pray

Let us Pray **
 I need help Lord, and in You alone I seek my refuge. 
I ask You for help in times of trouble, small or huge 

A grieving heart
A heart wrenching thought
A painful sight
A mournful voice

A babe in pain
All effort in vain
A helpless father
Well wisher's gathered

With sorrow, mother's heart laden
Destiny written with what a pen
No more dancing, n singing no more
No further chatting, n laughing no more

Pain is what now Maria has
Though she longs to be a lass
We ask for mercy from the Lord
Do take away the sorrow, God

Please make the child healthy again
Let the parents now smile again
And laughter fill the home of love
Golden girl,  a harmless dove

Your will be done on earth we pray.............
Yet still we plead for sunny days
May life live and death be stalled
I sincerely pray, do listen to my call


                                                         On the eve of Children's Day*** 
                                                         We ask you Lord to show us the way                                             

With Kids Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru****

Now on our knees and head held high
We cry to you Lord that let not it be a bye

But still now with bowed heads
We fear for what lays just ahead
We know You are our only help
 And so we pray together again

                   
                      "Your Kingdom come 
                        Your will be done 
                        On earth as it is in heaven"

                                                                   From the Lord's Prayer

Note:- If you want to know more about Maria, check out Part 2 of this post dated
           exactly one month after...........That is  13 - 12 - 11 

*       My darling niece Maria struggling with cancer
**     telling-secrets.blogspot.com (pictorial source)
***   Children's Day is celebrated on 14th November in the loving memory of 
         Our own Dear Chacha Nehru (Chacha in Hindi means Uncle) and Nehru is 
         of course the famous Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of
         Independent India who had immense love for children from all over the world.
**** dipity.com (pictorial source)

                                         Years will pass n changes a plenty....

                                         Yet we will love our dear friends.......

                                         No matter the wrinkles ...........

                                         And no matter the stumbling gait.....

Aces and Races, People's of Places, Camps been Set Up, Loosen Your Laces

1. Aces and Races,  People's of Places

Many an ace have come to see

What a race, they clap in glee!

Here we find all together in arms

Read together for see no harm

An Asian, three Africans n Americans eight 

Three Europeans too, have entered the Gate 

Guyana, Libya, Namibia bold

Costa Rica, Jamaica with sunshine gold

2. Listen to Harry Belafonte
 Singing
"Down the way, where the nights are gay......."

Alpine baby, Austria dear

Carpathian kid, Slovakia near

Thanks to each, each one of you

Here's a tilak*  for each of you

3. Puerto Rico

In Spanish, Rich port, is Puerto Rico,

If not for Spaniards many lands not known 

I Salute to Indians of Trinidad Tobago

To all these places we surely must go

4. Bedouin Caravan Riding Through
 The Sahara Desert,
Near Merzouga, Morocco

Bedouins of Morocco, what a race

Belly dancers, we love to gaze

Yonder Portugal, whose men did sail

World over wide, they surely trailed 

5.  Cyprus Countryside  -  A Picture of
Environmental Preservation

Cyprus isle, Mediterranean babe

Caribbean hugs as Honduras shrugs

Although Paraguay not a coastal home

Yet it surely has a way of its own

I thank you all from north and south

For stopping a while at Mary's blog

Please do rest and read a while

For life will stretch from a mile to miles.............

                                    ___________________________________

6.  Applying tilak* (red vermillion mark)
On the forehead of Guests  

Pictorial Sources:-

1. quotesbank.org     

2 .whoisgsx.com 

                "Down the way where the nights are gay, 
                 And the sun shines daily from the mountain tops,                               
                 I took a trip on a sailing ship,   
                 And when I reached Jamaica I made a stop". 
                                    ( Dear Friends, please do not forget the golden days gone by........)

3. destination360.com   
4. allposters.com 
5. cyprusq.com
6. inimitableindia.blogspot.com