Hiking Heart-Zones with Haiku

Mary Magdalene - July 26, 2022

Clinging not to memories 
Mary flew mesmerising skies 
Grazing  boundless green pastures!

Rain in the Desert - July 28, 2022

Where rare the roar of rain
Desert we define
We had pined for it to rain
Then we forgot that it could ever rain

But then it came thru darkn'd clouds
Drowning desert in torrents of floods
But, it soaks in pining pain
Reviving gaia in new green sheen

Ignatius - July 31, 2022

A query set afire Ignatius
A fiery spirit ignited
A dreary world steered clear n' conscious
To hear the voice of one's conscience.

Eternity

With awe behold aI

The great souls with whom I vie

To scale their realms high

I yearn for eternity

Long for people to hold me in memory

But find only futility

I yearn to learn n' learn

Then churn out works for all to learn

That I am there with them long aft I'm gone

Or to  thus go - tathagata

As did my Master go

By doing good to all as I go.

Desert

In the urban desert

I live deserted

I feel deserted

I feel I am not wanted

I feel I am avoided

Fear my days go unrewarded.

Never did I have

So much time at hand

But unable to make things happen

Recall I models of old

Who sought deserts hot and cold

In them grew steadily bold

In pleasure before mighty God.

Though in silence did they go

Their lives did rays of hope show

For many to thrive and grow

And in desert Lord let me bloom

As a father for those in gloom

That desert may like garden bloom!!

SMALL ME

At least, on turns

Did I feel I was big

But as it turns out to be

I find myself a prig

Thought I will grow up

And be a world leader

Compared those in power

And thot myself better

But as things did turn

I saw people around

Stars in their domain

Leading teams big n' small

And I find myself 

In my cocoon of self esteem

With hardly anything 

To be proud of ...

August 6, Transfiguration

From my banal smallness 

How I long to be

Transfigured  in greatness

On the mountain peak

In my heart of hearts

I  pine to grow to heights

To write great books

To rule the Church in 'service'

To conquer heights and hearts

At times to write big books

At times to found big institutions

At times to rule the church or others

But then I find the contradiction

Of desiring to be great

And the shortcut Jesus wrote

Of being small, to grow big

But, kaash! if I could only

Set aside these desires

And to follow Jesus solely

Be my heart's desire!

And as on that mount

May I too be ever found

Into the Lord transformed

An' to be there feel good. 

Smiles ... as she thus went by Aug. 12, 2022

She was a long smile

A smile lasting a mile

And in that vanished all wile

As she spread it awhile

Walked she with a smile

Fought she with a smile

And went she with a smile

As I weep over her I smile

How I miss her winning style

How, recalling, she wins over,  while

I am upset by my bile

Alive in me as I forge ahead all smiles

Watch I prayers go up in a pile*

To gods of all hues and smiles  

For victory over all viles

I too can't help a smile!

Though I still weep over her smile!

(After Ananya's - Mrunal Thakur - smile in Toofan;  *prayers by the well-wishers belonging to various religions, typical Bollywood religious amity)

DEATH CELEBRATING LIFE

SHE departs in peace

Sparking a series in peace

Ties gone to pieces now are back in terms of peace

Citizens far and near queue in peace

Peace peace peace

In Wales and England peace

With Scots and Ireland peace

Near and far, in islands peace

In assemblies across the lands peace

Yes she passes in peace

A separation that ties

A parting that unites

And life in death to possess

A somber show but so solemn

And pride in this submission

Young n' old in discipline

Cherishing a moment in memoriam

In state she lies

And behind her the state lies

Putting an end to all lies

In peace her soul flies

Peace peace peace!

 

Sep. 29, 2022 

Turning 2 minus sixty

I still much feel like thirty

Though my legs tend acting thrifty

My heart still pumps blood mighty 

A new year in the desert

Tho Left deserted almost 

I feel equipped to assert

To make life green in desert

Built-in Thermometer

I observe a thermometer 

It works within my body

When change knocks d' door of weather

It turns a note in throat so sour.

I do sense the thermometer

It works all around me

And when on me fall sprays of shower

It alerts me, boy it's summer!

I get alerted by a thermometer

It is coiled inside me

And churns my tummy in torture

And boy, I know its colder, winter!

Oh great this solid matter

A gift of great creator

Who blesses us with senses

To play in tune with nature!

THE BRAVE NEW GREEN WORLD - AS THE FIRE BLAZES BY 

As the fire of the pyre

Consumes the green fighter

In that small patch all clear

In her forest ever so dear*

As the guzzlers go aroar 

In the urban concrete grown  crude

As boom-zoom goes the fire

When guns and tanks groan rude^ 

A blazing fiery summer

In Spain, n' plains Californian n' Ryazan 

Amazonian evergreens afire

And France n' England can only complain

And yet that white fat west 

In tonnes CO2 breathes out

And in the assemblies wealthiest 

Breathes fire of pending dooms out**

And in gratuitous floods^^  of their piling wealth

A Bangla, Pak or Lanka, bereft of their health

A Philippinas,Venezuela, Sudan or Somalia in embrace of death

Providentially  submerging the scum of the earth

Thumbs up for a sustainable and clean, white planet 

With no more South and East

But only North and West

And Pax Occidens, with still lots to eat!+

Ah, a brave new world, indeed!++

(*Meena Menon the Solo Eco Warrior of Kerala, whose pyre was lit in the clearance of her homestead converted into a forest

^ Wars all around, especially Ukraine; ^^ floods of 2022

**Shared global responsibility

+Sustainability with the easily expendable global south

++Aldous Huxley)

TICK TICK TICK THE WATER BOMB TICKS

Tick tick tick does 

the water bomb tick

But busy world runs

as booming bombs click

Kick kick kick the leaders gone sick

With pointing fingers

And acrimonious accusations

It's just noise sans sense 

When Putin is busy 

And Biden is fussy

The world goes to dogs

And lives go to hogs!

പൂവെന്തിന് പറിക്കണം? 

No . No . തലയിളക്കികൊണ്ട്  ഞാൻ പറഞ്ഞു 

മുള്ളിനെ മുള്ളുകൊണ്ട് എടുത്തോളൂ!!

പക്ഷെ, പൂവെന്തിന് പറിക്കണം അതവിടെ നിൽക്കട്ടെ!

കൊഴിയട്ടെ! വീണ്ടും മണ്ണിലൂടെ, വേരിലൂടെ, മൊട്ടായി, പൂവായി വിരിയട്ടെ!

ഒപ്പം മണ്ണിരകൾക്കും ശലഭങ്ങൾക്കും ജീവൻ  നൽകട്ടെ!

(Response to Shaji's haiku: ഇലകൾ ഇളക്കിക്കൊണ്ട് ചെടി പറഞ്ഞു: മുള്ളുകൊണ്ട് ഒരു വിരൽ എങ്കിലും മുറിയാതെ ഒറ്റ പൂവും പറിച്ചെടുക്കരുത്, അപ്പോൾ അതിന് വില ഉണ്ടാവില്ല.)

അപ്പോൾ താനെന്തെടുക്കുകായാണ്?

ഞാനും കൊഴിയുകയാണ് 

ഒപ്പം സടയും ജാടകളും 

മരുഭൂമിയിലെ ഈ തണലിൽ തണുപ്പിൽ 

Heart

When 'He' gets out of heart it becomes art

And when 'art' gets out He becomes artless

Rather, He becomes quite artificial

So in heart, we ought to treat Him with art

And when you 'r' out, it's just heat and no heart!

And heart indeed has an 'ear' which can 'hear'

And it can bring about heal!

What does heart eat; It's nothing but heat

June 8, 2023

Om agni devaya namah

Fire Oh the nature's power

Clear in its trail of terror

Fair to all  men in fear

Fare not does any in 

Fire to lead path to progress

Flavour to food when  it rings

Favour to gods too it brings

For it does away with wrongs

Fire the power of divine

Far not to turn 

And what about that fire my belly

Fire in my heart

Oh how I would 

That I be consued by that fire

That there may no longer remain I

But just FIRE - ever aflame, ever lighted, ever warm

And all purifying! 

Let me be that!