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Kani Aug 2024
Pragya Bhagat's Poem:
this poem isn’t an answer
it’s a question
how do we become the stories we tell ourselves
how do we become the stories we tell
how do we become the stories
how do we become
how do we
how

My response:
Answer Can Be

Or rather the stories become us
Perhaps no becoming
Perhaps they just are
As they wait for expression
Hidden beyond sight
The first piece is a poem by Goa-based poet, Pragya Bhagat.
The second piece is a response poem I wrote to her words.
Hope you enjoy it.
Candolim Beach, crystal-clear waters 
Pristine, sandy shore, it offers 
It has water sports like waterskiing.
The perfect place for sunbathing
The long coast line used by the walkers 

Leisurely spent time is what matters. 
Calmness and beauty are its factors. 
It was so pleasant and refreshing. 
Candolim Beach 

Too good a place for beach explorers 
Fantastic location for filmmakers 
In North Goa, it's best for site-seeing.
Pleasantly so mesmerising 
Known as the best beach for foreigners 
Candolim Beach
PRIYANKA BHAGAT Aug 2024
On this day of pride, we gather 'round,  
With cupcakes bright, where colors abound.  
Orange, white, and green they wear,  
A sweet salute, beyond compare.

Saffron swirls like morning's dawn,  
A vibrant hue, where hopes are drawn.  
In every bite, a promise new,  
Of strength and courage, tried and true.

White cream peaks with peace in sight,  
A symbol pure, of truth and light.  
Each tender crumb, a gentle nod,  
To harmony's path, where all may trod.

Green icing dances, fresh and bold,  
A future bright, in tales untold.  
With every taste, we see the fields,  
Of dreams we sow, and harvest yields.

In every cupcake, a story lies,  
Of freedom won, beneath the skies.  
On this, the 78th year, we cheer,  
For India's spirit, ever clear.

So take a bite, let sweetness flow,  
In each delight, let freedom grow.  
For in these treats, our hearts do sing,  
Of India's past, and what tomorrow brings.
Independence Day, twenty-four 
Thursday, August 15, 2024
It's a day for celebration. 
Commemorates liberation
From the British for evermore

I thought of the freedom fighters once more. 
Their sacrifices were done for 
Is remembered by the generation's 
India's Big Day

Its seventy-eighth independence, therefore
Full of tricolours everywhere, fly for
Remembering Air Force operations 
Independence Day preparations 
I salute the tricolour from ashore. 
India's Big Day
Will you be forgotten?
Will love spread?
As a shadow I will come beside you
Will you fall as fresh rain?

A love for you
N heart song
Falling slowly
In the moon of colors

Darling in your memory
Just like Moon
Am I gone?
You remember the way you came
Will it spread in my soul?

Like a river
I will be filled
You are a picture
Will leave me

You are wet
It will fill the eyes
A look is enough
To fill the heart

Darling in your memory
Just like Moon
Am I gone?
You remember the way you will come
Will it spread in my soul?
new poem ...after a long time
Ashwin Kumar Sep 2023
There was a time
When I used to be proud
Of being an Indian
However, that feels like light years ago
Since then, so many things have changed
That I wonder sometimes
If this is indeed the same country
Where I was conceived
Imagine surviving a plane crash
Only to have your face charred in such a way
That it resembles a piece of barbequed meat
And thus even your own mother fails to recognise you
That is the India of today
A democracy only in name
Where the gap between the rich and the poor
Is even wider than the river Nile
The way in which the so-called upper castes
Treat the so-called lower castes
Is even worse
Than the way in which the Nazis used to treat the Jews
Nearly a century ago
Not to mention, to insult a cow
Is considered nothing short of ******
However, harassing a woman
Especially a woman from one of the underprivileged sections of society
Is treated, in the manner in which a simple traffic violation is dealt with
That is, all you have to do; is pay a fine
And you are free to go about doing whatever you were doing
Including harassing more women
Then we come to the small matter of mental health
If you are undergoing therapy or counselling
Or if you are meeting a psychiatrist
As you pass people on the way
You might hear a lot of whispers and murmurs
Making it sound as though you were dying
Or worse, on the verge of insanity
Therefore, whenever you air your views publicly
The chances of people taking you seriously
Are even less than that of Netherlands winning this year's Men's Cricket World Cup!!
It may have been seventy-six years
Since we gained independence
However, the reality is
We are as much independent
As Salman Khan knows how to drive a car
Without killing people in the process
As I mentioned earlier, I used to be a patriot
However, when I think of India now
I feel a remarkably similar kind of shame
That I used to experience during my Engineering days
Whenever I failed in a subject
After all, when your country's international image
Takes precedence over the living conditions of your people
Then it is only a matter of time
Before you are headed down the path of the Nazis
Yes, I am an Indian
And difficult as it sounds to believe, I used to love my country
However, my love for its people
Exceeds that by thousands of miles
A rant about how I used to be proud of being an Indian earlier and what has changed since.
Àŧùl Jan 2022
In Bhaarat, the Lok Sabha
Requires a 10th attendance
To function.

Yet, they hardly work,
But they consume
Our resources.
My HP Poem #1950
©Atul Kaushal
Daivik Aug 2021
On that August day
From heaven the martyrs cried
Their dream
Their struggle
For which they died
Was finally realized

The dawn was breaking
It was history in making
The charkha of time had turned
After so many years
A nation was waking
Up
The Unknown Nov 2020
Funny
They can tell
When my
liver's working too hard
But they can't tell
When I'm on
Drugs

Funny
They accuse
me
of mischief
and mayhem
but they don't know I'm high
till I tell them
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