tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11136958936479379822024-03-18T20:19:16.063-07:00Thoughts In My Bubble Today!!!Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-18386295861918063772019-12-07T12:13:00.001-08:002019-12-07T12:13:39.030-08:00Skydive Toronto 2019 - First Skydive Experience in Canada. Beat the Fear!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FGYY3gE4emI" width="480"></iframe>Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-66948962537891224122015-07-21T13:29:00.000-07:002015-07-21T13:30:49.121-07:00Hope<div class="MsoNormal">
Tell me you will remember to remember me <br />
For I won’t be back for a long, long time.</div>
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Tell me you will remember to remember me<br />
Even if the distractions are many and the memories are few.<br />
For I will feel your fragrance in the wind<br />
And wait for the day when the whispers bring me back to you.</div>
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Tell me you will remember to remember me</div>
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For the millions of words are still unspoken<br />
I never thought that I will desire the unsaid<br />
But the silences make me restless and broken.</div>
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Tell me you will remember to remember me</div>
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For that’s the only desire I have <br />
To know that you will feel my absence <br />
When the nights are lonely and the lips are distant.</div>
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Tell me you will remember to remember me</div>
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Even if you do not<br />
For the hope will keep me going<br />
And help me survive one more day...</div>
Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-33989615018687715852013-06-17T10:48:00.004-07:002013-08-08T00:29:41.671-07:00Untitled Poem - Life<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When life is
a mystery with secrets untold,<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">survival
can’t depend on just money or gold!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If time is
an illusion and nothing is certain,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it’s difficult
to measure the loss and the gain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When each
one of us is a prisoner here,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">what makes
us believe we can claim our share?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">If change is only constant, and death, an
ultimate solution,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">forever and
always seem nothing but delusion…</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 18px;">Along one lonely road, you slowly lose yourself,</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18px;">with a desire to earn the mountains of wealth!</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No matter
how hard you try, you will always lose this game,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">leaving
everything you earned - your name, your fame!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the end
what matters is how much you share,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">without a
discussion on what’s yours...what’s theirs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If the
people who loved you are all long gone<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">then, who
are these strangers that call you their own!!!</span></span></div>
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Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-81924711149873438052012-12-24T07:34:00.000-08:002013-06-14T16:59:29.659-07:00Memories Are a Persistent Lot<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment
that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">― Karl Lagerfeld</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is something infuriating about memories and
recollections and there is something “un-put-down-able” about them. However, as
L.M. Montgomery stated in her novel The Story Girl, “Nothing is ever really
lost to us as long as we remember it.” Memories can be a beautiful dream or the
worst nightmare, I chose to pen down the former today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A strong man with a gentle heart and the most charming smile
I have seen till today, whom I always known to be my father, or “Pa” as I used
to call him, is one of the few who makes the recollections even more
effortless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was in my 9</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> summer when he vanished in the
nick of time. Since, I was not old enough to understand much, cry or complain,
I kept mum. The first year without him was about genuinely remembering him and
giving into melancholia. Few more seasons whizzed past and Pa started taking
refuge in occasional references. The suspected well wishers and people in our relation
kept the flame of pathos alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His memories started to fade in the din of growing up. Even
his clothes, shoes, wallet and saved-up coins turned cold and disappeared from
mind’s vicinity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But memories are a persistent lot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The beautiful walks with Pa, narrative nights and Saturday evening badminton sessions are all relived again and again.
Not everything was rosy though. Every Math session I used to have with him
ended in boredom and disgust – a mutual feeling. Mental Math, as far as I
remember, was a complete jerk that tried to create a rift between us. There
were discussions, giggles, lessons and a feeling of protection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today, when I look back in retrospection, the only question
that crops up is why? Why did everything happen in a hurry? Though, I am not
among the ardent takers of consolation, and yet I feel I spend more hours with
him, even when he is not around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from
really losing them.” ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-6144036503998551692012-01-12T12:33:00.000-08:002013-06-14T16:02:26.162-07:00We -The Real Strugglers<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br />Each of us is a Mujahid. A struggler!
Although, terrorism, geographical issues and troubles across the boundaries may
have covered a large space of the empty canvas but a few corners are still left
unsettled and obscure. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">If we look at life and its uncertainties as an onlooker and
ZERO the micro moments, we will find bits and pieces of struggle lying almost
everywhere around us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #999999;">We all are justice fighters. We fight to meet
the targets at office, for that extra dose of blessings from thousands of
spiritual babas, to catch a public transport to reach at workplace, to make a
special place among employees at office, to search friends and the uncertainty
of the future. </span></span><span style="color: #999999;">It is human instinct to fight, to move on with the little
baggage called struggle.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span><span style="color: #999999;">The struggle for a man to keep his kids and
wife happy with whatever petite amount of salary he gets, the struggle for a
girl to look as best as she can in front of her latest crush, the struggle for
a bowler to pitch the ball in the correct place, the struggle for Sachin
Tendulkar to make that “century,” the struggle for a small kid who lost his
parents in a car accident and the chronic struggle of an old man to recollect
the memories that bring smile to his face can never be gauged. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">It is no less struggle for us to make a mourner
smile and grow up with an insensible heart. The desperate attempt of a deer to
not become a leopard’s prey is more than sheer struggle. Isn’t it horrific to
see a dog walking on three legs? How grievous it is to find a young boy
watching a football match sitting on wheelchair?<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">In the age of technology and competition,
everybody is a freedom fighter. If a kid struggles to free himself from the burden
of excessive homework, the less fortunate fight to free themselves from the
ugly looking curse called poverty. <br /><br />The craving of an orphan to find a refuge
and warm hug when thunder strikes and the frenzied search of a father to
arrange blood for his kid lying in a critical condition are more heartrending missions
than the terror-mongers or Congress and BJP struggling to win the elections. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">We notice an old man’s habit to mumble but
never notice his wrinkles and eyes that crave for care or read the lines that come
from a deserted wife or an individual soon to meet his death. Notice the
forceful submission of a soldier before a fanatic general and a small school
boy who hurts himself while boarding an overcrowded school bus. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Open your eyes and hearts, clear your
minds, purge over your ears and beckon on your power of introspection before you
can mull over this ubiquitous struggle. One really needs to be a struggle
fighter for it. <br /><br />Salute yourself while you survive with a smile even after
constant struggles and remember that life goes on while we struggle to solve
its mysteries!</span></span></div>
Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-49383517593159716812011-10-28T17:12:00.000-07:002013-06-14T16:02:45.910-07:00Delhi: It’s My Way or the Highway!<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">After numerous discussions, views, allegations
and confusions, I decided to begin with the obvious. Delhi is fun to be 'with!'</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I am not saying that because I am born and
brought up here (yes, that too) but because my many years in Delhi have taught
me that the city can be dicey but only when you are not living “with” it. Accept
it the way it is and it can be the best city you have ever lived in/been to. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Board a congested metro train, try “Shamsher
ki Mashoor Shikanji”, allow yourself the luxury of “Chandni Chowk ke chole
bhature” stuff yourself with plum “aaloo gobhi ke paranthe”. No matter how
sophisticated it claims to be, most people here barter sanitation for taste and
it goes well with the richest of them. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Never question obvious things. Why are men disinclined
to leave the seats reserved for women/old? Why do people take jumbo sized yawns
with their hands nowhere near to their “pretty” wide mouth? Why they can spend
thousands on “Dal Makhni and chapti” in Le Meridian but argue with a poor
vegetable seller for Rs. 5/-. Ignore all this and you will be forgiven. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">One major factor that makes the city a ‘must
explore’ metropolitan is its capability to remain mysterious and a stranger to
the majority of people living in it. You will never understand why some people
have 4-5 ACs at home and some can’t even get blankets for winters, why one
feels lonely here even with 200+ Facebook friends and why people get hyper for
nothing! If the nation rues Fiscal deficit, the city is resident to trust
deficit. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">“Sutta” will remain sutta because fag is a term reserved for the 'Elitists' and it does not sound cooool. Carelessness runs
in the family of the car drivers and the “elderly” CM should not be blamed for
any mishap. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">If the traffic jams and the complicated
ways confuse you, ask someone for the way and you will find that his situation
is not any better because he himself is searching for a destination. Soothe
yourself for the things you cannot get hold of. Give time a chance and be
patient. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Stay here for a year or two and you will be
amazed with the kind of surprises the city throws at you and the way it watches
your reactions. It is a homeland for strangers – living life all by themselves,
busy but lonely! </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">The Formula One roads, metro rail all over
the city, the much talked about Common Wealth games, swanky malls and 7 branded
shops in 100 mts radius will tell you how far the city has come and how it has
hugged comfort and convenience but has very little space to accommodate your
inflated sentiments. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">If after all the glitters and discos, the
city makes you lonely and creates a pigeon-hole in your heart, “faluda kulfi”
and “dark chocolate ice-cream” can work wonders. If the search for jobs and
family issues write struggle all over dusty faces of people, just remember that
dust never settles here!<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">The First World stays with the Third World
in Delhi. The maid from Munirka gets AC's chill in a plush Hauz Khas bungalow
and an amateur helper from Okhla manages square meal at NFC’s expensive
condominium.</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Delhi can be a multi-talented crook or a warm
lover, you either get used to it and its ways or you don’t!</span></span></div>
Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-13050747531277580952011-10-10T09:20:00.000-07:002013-06-14T16:59:52.610-07:00Jagjit Singh - A Tribute<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">They say people die, voice remains forever! Same is the case with the ghazal maestro Late Jagjit Singh. There never was and will be another voice like his! The uniqueness of his voice and the depth of his songs will remain forever in the hearts of his fans. He has touched the hearts of several people with his powerful music, heartfelt renditions and live performances, and fortunately, I was one of those lucky ones who got the opportunity to watch and hear him live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Known for his rich baritone and intricate “aalaps,” Jagjit’s voice ruled the music industry and that is reason why he was, is and will always remain “the Ghazal King”. His songs like “Hosh Waalon Ko Khabar Kya” and “Yeh Daulat Bhi,”, teleport listeners to a place of musical nirvana. Here are some of the interesting Ghazals of the King that still provide peace and harmony to listeners.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Tere Aane Ki Jab Khabar Mehke - Jagjit Singh</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Koi Fariyad - Jagjit Singh</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Tamanna Phir Machal Jaye - Jagjit Singh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aapko DekhKe Dekhta - Jagjit Singh (Live)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Manzil Na De Chirag Na De - Jagjit Singh</span></div>
Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-81049968411766896922011-06-21T11:04:00.000-07:002013-06-14T17:42:37.973-07:00My Favorites by RUMI<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A Persian poet and a Sufi mystic, Rumi has always been my
favorite. A poet whose words give peace to my soul. Here are some verses that I
love of Rumi. Hope you like them too!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you<br /> Don't go back to sleep<br /> You must ask<br /> For what
you really want<br /> Don't
go back to sleep<br /> People are going back and forth<br /> Across the doorsill<br /> Where the two
worlds touch<br /> The
door is round and open<br /> Don't
go back to sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull<br /> into a cup for others
to drink wine from.<br /> In this town somewhere there sits a
calm, <br /> intelligent person<br /> who doesn't know
what he's about to do!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Be Fair</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Admit that love has in it all the
righteousness<br /> that we need.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Confess that you're willing to forget</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /> and be numb enough to call some low</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> desire a holy name.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /> Live as evidence that there is a way</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> from wanting to longing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> When I am with you, we stay up all night.<br /> When you're not
here, I can't go to sleep.<br /> Praise God
for these two insomnias!<br /> and the difference
between them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> When it's cold and raining,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> You are
more beautiful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> And the snow brings me
even closer to your lips.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The inner secret, that
which was never born</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> you are that freshness, and I am with you now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I can't explain the goings, or the comings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> You enter suddenly, and I am</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> nowhere again. Inside the majesty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Keep walking though there's no place to get
to.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Don't try to see through
the distances.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> That's not for human beings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Move within but don't move</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The way that fear makes you move.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> There is a field. I'll
meet you there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> When the soul lies down in
that grass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the world is too full to talk about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Ideas, language, even the phrase</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> doesn't make any sense.</span></div>
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Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-89646492227235821422009-07-14T18:43:00.000-07:002019-03-03T19:04:58.323-08:00"Still I rise" by Maya Angleou<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"> You may write me down in history</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">With your bitter, twisted lies,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">You may trod me in the very dirt</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">But still, like dust, I'll rise.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Does my sassiness upset you?</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Why are you beset with gloom?</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Pumping in my living room.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Just like moons and like suns,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">With the certainty of tides,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Just like hopes springing high,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Still I'll rise.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Did you want to see me broken?</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Bowed head and lowered eyes?</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Shoulders falling down like teardrops.</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Weakened by my soulful cries.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Does my haughtiness offend you?</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Don't you take it awful hard</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Diggin' in my own back yard.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">You may shoot me with your words,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">You may cut me with your eyes,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">You may kill me with your hatefulness,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">But still, like air, I'll rise.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Does my sexiness upset you?</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Does it come as a surprise</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">That I dance like I've got diamonds</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">At the meeting of my thighs?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Out of the huts of history's shame</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I rise</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Up from a past that's rooted in pain</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I rise</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Leaving behind nights of terror and fear</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I rise</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I rise</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I am the dream and the hope of the slave.</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I rise</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I rise</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I rise. </span></div>
Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-28130545066380999922009-06-28T19:50:00.000-07:002013-06-14T16:31:00.676-07:00The Will To Win...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">If
you want a thing bad enough</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">
To go out and fight for it,<br />
Work day and night for it,<br />
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it<br />
<br />
If only desire of it<br />
Makes you quite mad enough<br />
Never to tire of it,<br />
Makes you hold all other things tawdry<br />
and cheap for it<br />
<br />
If life seems all empty and useless without it<br />
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,<br />
If gladly you'll sweat for it,<br />
Fret for it, Plan for it</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Lose all your terror of God or man for it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">If
you'll simply go after that thing that you want<br />
With all your capacity,<br />
Strength and sagacity,<br />
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity<br />
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,<br />
Nor sickness nor pain<br />
Of body or brain<br />
Can turn you away from the thing that you want<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">If
dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,<br />
You'll get it!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"> - By Berton
Braley<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-10715846647702118812009-06-28T19:32:00.000-07:002013-06-14T16:32:10.367-07:00I Kept ...<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<pre><span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><i>I</i> keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
<i>I</i> let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views.
I know a person small-
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends'em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes-
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">- By <span style="font-style: italic;">Rudyard Kipling</span></span></pre>
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Sugandha Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839708356870532315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113695893647937982.post-70134020948953318792009-06-27T19:00:00.000-07:002013-06-14T16:32:40.994-07:00Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening...<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">Whose woods these are I think I know.</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">His house is in the village, though;</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">He will not see me stopping here</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">To watch his woods fill up with snow.</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">My little horse must think it queer</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">To stop without a farmhouse near</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">Between the woods and frozen lake</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">The darkest evening of the year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">He gives his harness bells a shake</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">To ask if there is some mistake.</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">The only other sound's the sweep</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">Of easy wind and downy flake.</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">The woods are lovely, dark and deep,</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">But I have promises to keep,</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">And miles to go before I sleep,</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: inherit;">And miles to go before I sleep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #999999;"> - Poem by <span style="font-style: italic;">Robert Frost </span></span></span></div>
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