TO FLOWERS’ TRUE HUES

To flowers’ true hues, prayers I offer,

All natural in grace that I prefer,

They shine like glows of rainbows beautiful,

Unlike fancy shows, make-ups deceitful,

Artificial in tincture I scoffer!

On all its honeyed treasure, I confer,

Praises as it excels, all that differ,

From the taste of sugarcoats untruthful,

To flowers’ true hues!

Flowers, truths to enshrine books in coffer,

Impossible for words of a loafer,

Truths in sweet tunes, unheard to be blissful,

Sermons in joys to flow in hearts brimful,

Lessons in service for man to refer,

To flowers’ true hues!

Published: Metverse Muse 

84th to 87th Quadruple Issue.

Dec 2023

SELF-SACRIFICE

Society for sure solely stands on the pillars,

Of virtues, certainly meager in numbers

Remain to support though unrewarded,

And be on the alta though unrewarded.

A candle burns itself ever, never for itself,

But shelters darkness, sheltering an elf,

And ignites its other and spreads its charms,

For the face so far in glooms to glow in gleams.

A tree with no aim on its part only to win,

Bears stone-pelting at its fruits by an urchin,

Waits no second presenting man for pleasure,

Offering cool shade for him to relax in leisure.

The boulder invites path-makers and builders,

For the break of its sweetheart only for others

On a mission for erection of bridges over rivers

With a vision for cozy shelters for all dwellers.

A flower, plucked to own for its rich beauty,

Sprinkles fragrance and charms in bounty

And offers honey par excellence before its fall,

Its all is not for itself but it’s only for others all.

Published: Metverse Muse 

84th to 87th Quadruple Issue.

Dec 2023

LOVE IN FLOW TO GLOW

Gem to shine when there is light,

Or it is something worthless in darkness,

Or it is a pebble at the bottom of river flow,

It is light for sure to show its brightness.

With the sense of its love for delight.

Sunlight turns leaves green in sheen,

Oxygen exhaled offers life to creatures,

Light in glow is love in flow for greenness,

Shattered are the evils of dark features,

Founds for all, the blissful scene.

The lotus in the pond in love smiles,

Opening its infinite petals in full grace

When the moonbeams are in clouds shine

A feast to the onlookers in life race,

The glow of love all the miles.

Tender rays of the sun eager,

To eye the lily bloom in grace for bliss

That scatters lovely charms in full radiance,

That all onlookers never fail to miss.

Love glows in smiles on lips linger.

Published: Metverse Muse 

84th to 87th Quadruple Issue.

Dec 2023

METVERSE MUSE TO AMUSE

(Villanelle in Pentameter)

So great Metverse Muse sans contradiction,

Structured in verse to reflect the inner

Unrivalled thoughts in unequalled diction.

It’s truth and beauty, preferred to fiction,

All poets crown it the topmost winner,

So great Metverse Muse sans contradiction.

Promotes poets’ skills of thought projection,

Breathes life to meters as per its planner,

Unrivalled thoughts in unequalled diction.

Those dead in honor for its conviction,

Its customs excel to be the finer,

So great Metverse Muse sans contradiction.

All applaud it, feeling benediction,

Editor Tulsi, its success banner,

Unrivalled thoughts in unequalled diction.

Muse is pleased by its meter-addiction,

Well-known are its special style and manner,

So great Metverse Muse sans contradiction.

Unrivalled thoughts in unequaled diction.

Published: Metverse Muse 

84th to 87th Quadruple Issue.

Dec 2023

NATURE IN STATURE

(Villanelle in Pentameter)

Nature is the wonder of all wonders,

Of the supreme creation, the sense fest,

All creatures on earth love nature’s splendors.

The school with the syllabus for readers

Students to pass the essential life-test,

Nature is the wonder of all wonders.

Nature is mother, the chief of feeders,

Fruits and roots and all, offered to the guest,

All creatures on earth love nature’s splendors.

Nature, the best teacher, to be leaders.

Birds on trees build their cozy home, the nest,

Nature is the wonder of all wonders.

Nature teaches to be art contenders.

Dance like peacocks, sing like cuckoos in quest,

All creatures on earth love nature’s splendors.

Busy like bees, toil like ants they’re leaders,

Lessons on life to the humans, the best

Nature is the wonder of all wonders,

All creatures on earth love nature’s splendors.

Published: Metverse Muse 

84th to 87th Quadruple Issue.

Dec 2023

TIME

How you stepped into this world is strange

Your endless flow is bound up in mystery.

Your galloping speed for incessant change

Left imprints in ever living history.

The milestones mark your age on the milky way,

It’s race on wheels at a high pace,

A wayfarer’s journey without stay;

Yet, no trace of weariness on your face.

You manifest eroding powers in all circles,

Even pliant limbs and sharp mind grow decrepit,

The petal-soft countenance carves wrinkles.

The sculpture in a quake breaks into many a bit.

You resemble a river in its ceaseless glide,

Your resolve is like the planets’ orbit,

You look like an eternal traveler in his ride,

And travel like the flash of light brightly lit.

Five senses, in strict governance of the mind,

Fail to unravel and charter your powerful role,

Mysterious are your ways to humankind.

Everything manifests under your iron control.

Published: Metverse Muse 

84th to 87th Quadruple Issue.

Dec 2023

DEMOCRACY TODAY

Crowns all, democracy even today,

All rights without prejudices anyway,

Enfranchise, the best instance to quote,

All are welcome with a currency note to vote,

The voter is reminded of his active role,

And of his status as the king of poll,

The most welcome guest to drink to the brink,

Till there dries the mark of indelible ink.

His face blooms the flowers of better future,

In the sweet garden of hypocritical nature,

His innocence sings the song of exploitation,

While rocking in the swing of intoxication.

The moment next, this one-day-king,

Without any crown appears suffering.

Published: Metverse Muse 

84th to 87th Quadruple Issue.

Dec 2023