Author Archives: Arun Bhagat

The festival of colours tells its own beautiful story, It bespeaks a tradition most hoary! It is a token of happy times, With a festive mood it perfectly rhymes! The sinister darkness of ill-will should it dispel, Towards heartfelt  amity and fellow-feeling should it us propel! Let us hope it impels us to fill others’ livesContinue reading “The Festival of Colours Tells Its Own Beautiful Story”

Take it as a challenge when you are in a spot, Do whatever it takes to stem the rot! The rainbow in the distance is yours for the taking, Why an issue of your difficulties are you making? How does it matter If you do not get things on a platter? No one in thisContinue reading “We All Have Our Rainbows To Chase”

Stand with me like my shadow, Be with me without much ado, Encircle me like a protective waist-band, When I am drowning, offer me your hand! In this world filled with anger and hate, Be my soulmate, be my soulmate! When I am parched, fall gently upon me like the soothing rain, Be my healingContinue reading “Write My Name on the Shifting Sands”

Alone we have to fight our battles inner,Whosoever the winner!Alone we have to our wars wage,Even if there are others on the same page!Alone we have to plod our weary way,Whether while doing it we are sad or gay!Alone we have to our formidable mountains scale,Whether we move way ahead or behind trail!Alone we haveContinue reading “Alone We Come and Alone We Go”

Once the tiger of power you moun You find well nigh impossible it to dismount! Power easily goes to your head, It makes you toxicity wed! Your perspective it can well distort, When power-drunk, to every well-meaning suggestion you have an egotistic retort! Your vision it can severely blinker, It can turn your behaviour intoContinue reading “Mount This Tiger With Utmost Care”

Let love be your creed, And like anything you will succeed! Love begets love manifold, Has anyone you this thing told? Love makes your whole being glow, So let the river of love unimpeded flow! When love courses through your veins, You gain and the whole world gains! There is no bigger gift you canContinue reading “Let Love Be Your Creed”

Success is a heady feeling, It can leave you reeling! But when it really starts going to your head, That is the time to see red! That is the time to restore your sanity Lest you fall a prey to insidious vanity And start seeing yourself of all that you survey the master Than whichContinue reading “The More You Succeed, The Humbler You Should Be”

The pandemic so much havoc has wrought, So many invaluable lessons it has us taught, But have we learnt any is a question that is fraught! Are we as a species ready to turn over a new leaf? Have we been sufficiently chastened by our collective suffering and grief? Has our insufferable ego really beenContinue reading “The Pandemic Has Thrown Up Some Questions”

We Are All One We are all entagled, we are all one, Take it as a truth dusted and done! I and you only different appear, It seems that each of us belongs to a different sphere! But what seems is not true, We are all made of the same brew! All talk of differencesContinue reading “We Are All One”

See things as they are,not as you are, Otherwise in the discovery of truth you will not go far! Why should you try to cast everything into your own mould? Why should you everything a prisoner to your prejudices hold? Let go of your egoistic mind to see a thing for what it is, LestContinue reading “See Things As They Are”