If there is a hole in your soul,

To plug it expend your energy whole!

A hole in the soul can cause a lot of trouble,

It can turn your conscience into

rubble!

It can cause mayhem and plunder,

It can lacerate your humanity and it sunder!

It can undermine your whole being,

It can severely impair and distort your way of seeing!

If left unattended, it will grow only bigger,

For unwholesome and unwarranted things it will be a trigger,

And may remain gaping despite all your rigour!

No hole in the soul should remain unattended,

Otherwise the consequences can be grave though unintended!

Whenever you set out to heal your wounded soul,

Rest assured there can be no worthier goal!

Arun Bhagat

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If you love, love some more

Till your love becomes part of folklore!

Love so much that nothing else remains

So that from loving you back none refrains!

Shower love like the gentle falling rain

So that it acts as a balm to every ache and pain!

Let love rule the roost

So that wholesome living gets some real boost!

Let the symphony of love the world permeate,

Let it spread its gossamer wings and its sheeer magic create!

Love is a many splendored thing,

Let it its enchanting song sing!

Let it every festering sore of humanity heal,

Let it all the layers of hate peel,

Let it of peace and humanity the bugle sound

So that the hate-spewing demons no longer us hound!

Arun Bhagat

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Put your soul into your song,

No note of it can then go wrong!

Give all you have to your goal,

Press into service your energy whole,

And find nature waving its magic wand

And lending you a helping hand!

Let your purpose be noble,

Don’t let your resolve wobble,

And all the formidable mountains will be yours to scale,

And to your victory lead every treacherous looking trail!

If you are so primed to blaze a trail,

All impediments before you will quail!

If unfounded fears you don’t let you bug,

The whole limitless expanse of the sky will be yours to hug,

And you will be a triumphant liberated soul,

Every moment you will be on a roll,

That is the moral of the story whole!

Arun Bhagat

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Empty vacuous eyes

That speak of broken ties,

That tell of broken hearts,

That show up all of modernity’s warts!

Money making machines,

The thoughtlessly splurging teens,

People stretching themselves beyond their means,

Living by credit cards,

With wisdom eluding them by yards!

Plundering and brutalising nature,

Losing their own moorings and stature,

Greed and naked lust blinding their eyes,

Holding them in their grip that is like a vice!

The virtual world driving them crazy,

Making them dumber and mentally lazy,

Touch with reality they lose,

That is how they cook their own goose

And sink deeper into an escapist morass of their own making

From which there will be no easy waking!

The super rich and the impoverished stand out like thumbs that are sore,

Can of an unjust world there be indictment any more?

Benumbed by their toxic lives, as for a way out they fumble,

They can hear an ominous rumble

That sends down their spine a shiver

As the hour of nemesis draws near!

Arun Bhagat

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Happiness is largely a matter of choice,

Let me lend weight to this thought and give it voice!

Choose always to be happy,

Don’t be needlessly surly or snappy!

You are here to spread sunshine and cheer,

Not to belittle someone or at someone to jeer!

Don’t spread unhappiness, hate or gloom,

Who has asked to be an agent of doom?

Happiness comes from a sense of gratitude,

Put an end to your litany of woe, don’t give it any latitude!

Count your blessings and all around you will find beauty,

Let it sink in that to be happy is your profound and sacred duty!

Let happy thoughts always you surround,

Let your happiness radiate out to and envelop all others around!

If over unhappiness happiness you choose,

You will gain and gain and nothing you will lose!

Arun Bhagat

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Omicron, the newest avatar of coronavirus, is knocking at the door,

A purveyor of terror more and more!

We are getting our just deserts

As many of us are nature’s culprits, moral cripples and perverts!

Doesn’t it serve us right

As we took lightly mother nature’s might?

Steeped in our hubris and ignorance, we are not willing to turn over a new leaf,

Why should nature then hold for us any brief?

When even today we are not ready to make amends,

When we have no intent of changing our ways and trends,

When we continue with our callousness and our policy of thoughtless drift,

We should know that the punishment is going to be relentless and swift,

As what we do, to us comes round

Which people down the ages have found!

As in nature everything turns on its head,

As one calamity another does wed,

We find ourselves hurtling towards own doom,

And for escape there is hardly any room!

Howsoever much we rant and rave,

Only true contrition and a complete change of heart can us from self-destruct save!

Arun Bhagat

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हो एक व्यापक दृष्टिकोण,

सोच न संकुचित हो, न हो गौण!

सागर सा हो हृदय विशाल,

न कोई द्वेष, न मलाल!

जीवन के प्रति हो उमंग,

मन में उठती हो तरंग!

दामिनी की भाँति धमनियों में दौड़ता हो रक्त,

आभा ऐसी जिसे लखने थम सा जाए वक़्त!

जीवन मूल्यों के प्रति हो अपार निष्ठा,

जिससे सहज ही बढ़ती जाए प्रतिष्ठा!

मन हो निर्मल, अंतरात्मा हो शुद्ध,

जैसे भीतर ही विराजमान हो गए हों बुद्ध!

प्रेम पथ सतत विस्तार हो,

जड़ चेतन के प्रति श्रद्धा अपार हो,

स्व:जीवन प्रेरणा का स्तोत्र हो,

ओज से ओतप्रोत हो,

संतुलित विकास हो,

दिव्य ज्ञान का प्रकाश हो,

प्रखर ललाट हो,

बुद्धि के खुले कपाट हों,

चरित्र अविस्मरणीय हो,

जीवन अनुकरणीय हो,

गुण हों अपार, प्रतिभा विलक्षण,

यही हैं उच्च जीवन के लक्षण!

अरुण भगत

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Keep the child in you alive,

Let it flourish and you drive!

Let its spontaneity enliven your life,

Keep intact its innocence at any price!

Let its honesty your life mark,

Let its tinkling laughter be a ray in your life dark!

As life batters you, only the child inside you will keep you alive,

It will enthuse you and will make you thrive!

It will add life to your years,

It will lay to rest your nagging fears!

It will not let you into the sea of cynicism drown,

It will transform into a beatific smile your every stormy frown!

It will the nerve-wracking tedium of your life relieve,

It will not let your ego bedevil you and deceive!

It will add infinitely to your charm,

It will keep the cockles of your heart warm!

Nourish the child inside you and keep it alive,

Cherish it and to its rhythm jive!

Arun Bhagat

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Beauty resides in a heart,

A heart that knows no wart,

A heart that like a glow worm shines,

And draws no narrow constricting lines,

A heart that is all light,

That like the moon illumines the dark night,

A heart that goes out to others

And is as large as that of all mothers,

A heart that with the milk of human kindness does flow,

That in giving others happiness does glow,

A heart that sings a mellifluous song,

That just can not anyone wrong!

Such a heart is the abode of beauty

As it sees doing good by others its sacred duty,

As it dances to the rhythm of the rain

And looks upon loving others as its absolute gain!

It does so freely and with gay abandon give

Because it knows that that to feel love and to embrace all is to live!

Arun Bhagat

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I left because you never asked me to stay,

I realised that I had to find my way!

It dawned upon me that in life you are on your own,

So the mantle of self-reliance I decided to don!

As I gathered the courage to go my own way,

I was mesmerised by the splendid

hues of the unfolding day!

As the adventures of the journey beckoned to me,

I opened out my arms to them with glee!

It seeped into me that my destiny was my own to make,

The plunge into the seeming abyss was my own to take,

The seeds were my own to sow,

The boat of action was my own to row,

I had to push myself to be a person on the go!

With you gone, my God showed me the way,

His presence showed up as a luminous ray,

I went ahead knowing that He watched over me,

And would always be there to resolve my every dilemma and hear my every plea!

I left because you never asked me to stay,

But it proved a blessing as It helped me find my own way!

Arun Bhagat

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