WORD STREAM: WORD STREAM (36) The New Year

WORD STREAM: WORD STREAM (36) The New Year: WORD STREAM (36) The New Year ************************************* Zero-zero hours-the fixed time, His visit- expected, certain,...

WORD STREAM (36) The New Year

WORD STREAM (36) The New Year
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Zero-zero hours-the fixed time,
His visit- expected, certain, annual,
Clock stops,he peeps inside my home,
Yes,that is He-who has come as usual.

I try to see him,a bright figure,
He is shivering in cold breeze,
 I raise the curtain,as he comes,
And greet him-Welcome please.

He is shining, innocent, new year,
Who enters my dwelling place,
The radiance of divine light,
Glitters  on his childish face.

He promises,assures, all heaven,
Only to follow him behind-
All happiness, pleasure and joy,
Golden moments-that I rewind.

Depression,,grief,misery and pain,
Calamities,sorrows, of wide range,
 Promises to erase-only one question,
"Can yourself in YOU will change?"

My guest has sorrowful smile on his face,
"You search me in party, drink and dance,
You pretend to enjoy,dip and merge thyself,
 Arrest moments,that slip, without chance."

You try to stop, speed, or revert time-wheel,
To get rid of present, future, and past worries-
Past, past, past, and new,and new moments,
Forget one thing,time-wheel crushes centuries.

 The birth of YEAR- twenty centuries passed,
HIS divine message is so simple and clear,
Have you learnt the message of humanity?
Or you only add one new number every year?"

I ignore that difficult, unsolved question,
Changing oneself ? Too difficult-not a game,
New year says,"Then I am only change of digit,
Then old and new year is the same."
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                                                        (C) keshavdubey
                                                          31-12-2018
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WORD STREAM: WORD STREAM (35) The Joker

WORD STREAM: WORD STREAM (35) The Joker: WORD STREAM (35)The Joker ********************************************** The traffic signal is red, He stands in corner of street, ...

WORD STREAM (35) The Joker

WORD STREAM (35)The Joker

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The traffic signal is red,

He stands in corner of street,

Looks at long,long distance-

Endless road is laid to greet.

He is shunted out from play-house-

"-Children in 'Humpy-Dumpy' like logics,

You are useless for modern children,

They don't attract towards your tricks".

" B'Day parties have dance,music,movies,

Dishes,dinner,chats,games for the child,

Who looks at painted, drum-like joker?

Children self- pose as ghost, or animal wild".

Painted face, Mister Joker is now on the road.
Sweating,kicked out from his sixteenth job,
Losing his eighty rupees per day salary,
Honorary, senior P.G. member, of jobless mob.

A car stops near him,before the red signal,
One child waives hand, peeps out of window,
Child shouts,"See Papa, our joker uncle here"
He tries to escape,hide,run,but no way to go.

His painted face,his whole being is shocked,
Desperate,helpless,full of pity for himself-
He tries to control his emotions and tear,
Whispers,"No- joker"-meaningless in itself.

Traffic moves ahead ,the green signal glows,
Ninety second episode ends,full of hoke,
Nobody pays attention, metro life is robotic,
He tries to laugh,"No joker-I am a JOKE".
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                                                       (C) keshavdubey
                                                               2/11/2018
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