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 

Africans, Americans, Asians, Polynesians,........ Yonder they traveled and still we meet

1. Location of Bostwana in Africa

Africans, Americans, Asians, Polynesians 
Yonder they traveled and still we meet

2. Map of Guatemala

Google and Blogger I thank you a lot
Spread world over wide, but still make the dots


Each new visitor and each recent dot 
Inspires me to write, forever a lot


But with chores to be done 
Innumerable races to be won


Steal a few minutes, to meet my friends
To know where they are from and where all they went


The theme of this post, is to thank you my friends
Who have come from far and made me their friend


Botswana, Tunisia, African Babes
Welcome to this site of innumerable babes


Antigua of Guatemala, a picturesque site
Whose beauty you see, in its colonial might

3.  Calle del Arco in city of Antigua 

Kazakhis of Asia are the toughest ones
For chill they bear, tremendously I swear 

4.  Bab Souika in Tunis c. 1899

5. Inside a Kazakh yurt*

French Polynesia in South Atlantic
The choicest of races here have been mixed




My Father a French, My mom a Chinese
Is only one such I've heard, I do not tease

6. French Polynesia**

7. Tahitian girls, 1860-1879

 
Adieu, Adieu, Till we meet again
Please remember me, whether hail or rain


Pictorial Sources:-
1. www.cia.gov        
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  en.wikipedia.org 

Notes:-

*   A yurt is a portable, bent wood-framed dwelling structure 
    traditionally used by Turkic nomads in the steppes of Central Asia


**  French Ploynesia is made up of six groups of islands. The largest and most 
    populated island is Tahiti, in the Society Islands.

The island groups are:

1. Marquesas Islands

2. Society Islands

3. Tuamotu Archipelago

4. Gambier Islands 

5. Austral Islands

6. Bass Islands 

( en.wikipedia.org )