AN ANGEL OF MUSIC

  AN ODE OF TRIBUTE TO THE INDIAN SKYLARK

 Music has a charm that melts even the hardest of human emotion,         Oozing the flow that invigorates the audience in rapt attention,               Our Nation, a bliss in Carnatic music, for generations did it instill,             Here is one maestro who captivated the  nation to a  standstill.

 An arduous beginning, her ascent to the throne by her sheer skill,             The mellifluous voice reverberated over hills and valleys in full,                  For four scores of years, the nation rejoiced, humming her score.          Won many a laurel, accolades began to crown her in endless pour.

 Song stirred the nation after the defeat in war, a  heartrending feel           None can forget the soulful Aye Mere Watan ke or the scenes in reel       Sending the Premier into tears, the whole nation in a pall of gloom           Her voice won praises from the victorious enemy, ironically in zoom.

 An iconic remark, ready to sacrifice Kashmir for this singing skylark.       Aptly conferred Bharat Ratna  for her monumental musical task               A Colossus had  many glorious summers, now she calls it a day,               Queen of Music left us for a Heavenly concert, orphaning us this day

  

 THE APPLE EFFECT 

  When we change the way we look at things… 

 the thing we look at change, ….. Wayne Dyer

 Apple, the red colored fruit enjoys, the pride of place ever in revelation,                                             Mankind reveals its effect as this fruit of thought is in its revolution,                                                   Its name also carries many facts, mostly known and more unknown,                                                 Golden one unfolds the myths of the Trojan war, the history hath seen. 

This Forbidden Apple tempting Adam and Eve, for a momentary façade.                                          The birth of the mankind from this set of the fabled fruit, alive till date,                                              Many a saying in galore to praise the apple, truly in our daily converse,                                            An apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, this compliments the childcare.                                          

Apple a day, keeps the doctor away, Oh! speaks volumes of its goodness,                                            Apple of the eye, this upholds the exalted cynosure of one’s greatness.                                                Apple and Oranges, this compares, weighing the merits of performance,                                            The Tenth apple effect, oft speaks about the saturation and endurance. 

The ongoing pandemic, an eye opener to our many unhealthy practices,                                            Untouchability, was a crime enforced before six decades, the law states,                                      Now the distancing even our neighbor, or a meet is too enforced by law,                                            The new born inhaled the first air, as everyone was applauding the show. 

Everyone afraid to breathe the same air, fair and unpolluted, now in fear                                  Never covered our faces before, to reveal our expressions, true and fair,                                    Mask, the rule of the day to filter a fresh air safely, an irony or an artifact.                                        This burning fear of the spread and fatality, rules our crippled mindset.