Dumpling

               Dumpling Dumpling Dumpling                The Noisy Dumpling

It's an offering for Lord Ganesha,

Children fight for it -

Parents make them calm;

Dumpling Dumpling Dumpling 

the noisy Dumpling.

So sweet and yummy to taste and munch,

And one's hunger is pleasantly quenched;

Its exchanged with love and care -

Dumpling Dumpling Dumpling 

the noisy Dumpling.

It helps the national bond of heritage,

And strengthens an age old culture;

And is served with a religious fervour;

Dumpling Dumpling Dumpling 

the noisy Dumpling.

Festivals are the mark of this country,

Which boasts an ancient heritage:

Of valor and wisdom, insight and care.

Dumpling Dumpling Dumpling 

the noisy Dumpling.

Ganesh Chathurthi is so celebrated,

To help in a common goal of fun and fanfare;

The backbone of this ancient country,

Is its spiritual lineage and light heartedness;

Dumpling Dumpling Dumpling 

the noisy Dumpling.

(I wrote this small poem while studying 10th standard, at Tanjore - now a little modified).

Aurora

 Aurora

 

I shot an arrow into the sky,

It went as high as the polar sky;

There it soft landed in the frozen snow,

To witness colourful lights in a cloudless sky !

Reacting atomic particles with the solar wind,

Cause varying colours of many shades;

Weird and vivid are the colours therein,

That twist and turn and flicker and flame !

Wuthering cold nights of scintillating stars,

That dazzles the eye of the reckoner;

In a circumpolar sky of unending patterns,

Underneath occur the Auroral dance !

That which pleases the eye disturb the Earth,

And even affect radio transmissions;

No wonder man worships the Sun;

Praying not for Coronal Mass Ejections !