Enjoying the thrilling moments of the New Year!

A new year dawns each  year

Reminding  a  revolution around the Sun

Starting January 1 to December 31

To arrive at the New January 1

Riding  piggyback on the shoulders of time

Cherishing , enjoying , expecting

the nearing  hours to Midnight

Getting all ready for count down to catch the moment

Of the stroke of the second after Mid Night

Yay! A new year moment is to be born!

When the moment is born

Hugs, kisses, handshakes of dear ones , pals

All break out sending the whole atmosphere

With shouts and greetings of New year,

The party ensues whole night and beyond

And rolls on to the first week of the year too

Happy New year! Happy New year! Happy New year!

Cell phones and tvs join the party and fun

Messaging and displaying greetings to dears and onlookers

A grand new year has arrived

Yea a brand new year!

Was there, were there no new year/s before or ever?

There was  and there were new year/s

It ‘s  time to move on hopes , expectations

Of brighter days than the year that rolled back into the past

filled with glory or misery

A new year is new year no beating it!

Let your lives prosper, let your dreams come true,

Let the whole world and universe prosper sinking all differences

Between peoples, places and nations

Come on , come on , come on!

It is new new new year, enjoy, celebrate in full!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

She is an angel who came as a storm!

She is an angel

Who came as a storm

Taking my breath away

Sweeping me off the feet

Stealing the heart

Still Nothing hurts me

All falling on me as fragrant flowers!

Her presence exhilarates

Filling her memories

Into my soul, heart and whole being

Her absence leaves a yearning

Squeezing my heart and soul

Yet I feel them all as travails of sweet love!

She is a magic

Weaving the web of magical love

I remain blissfully entranced in it’s hold

Savoring the moments of a lifetime,

Time after time , day after day, year after year

The storm rages on

Still swaying me as a gentle breeze

In it’s everlasting spell , Amen!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

A thriller called Comet Ison!

Comet Ison with ice on!

An on-going cosmic spectacle

Came from the cold ,

from the far most  layers of the solar system-

the oort cloud – the residence of left over icy

left overs of  the solar system formation

one light year away,

after thousands  of years in orbit

started off a Sun bound journey

tugged by the pull of  nearby stars

Taking it’s name from the telescope

spotting it in 2012 at 6 millions away

it made news into astronomy circles

and public domain as the comet of the century

for it gave rise to hopes of a bright display

as it neared the perihelion the closest

approach distance to Sun

it’s icy content vaporized by scorching heat of Sun

offering also hopes of studying origins of Sun,planets ,

origin of life on Earth if it is to survive sling shot past Sun

As the world and observatories and telescopes

Watched with ever-growing interest

it conintued it’s march towards Sun

Generating hopes and hype

Of a cosmic spectacle for it had the right size

and distance to make it a survivor of the rendezvous with Sun

Sure the Comet wonder lived upto it’s expectations

Brightening as it approached Sun

Rising also were the apprehensions

The comet may suffer the fate of some

ill-fated  Comets like Love joy being completely

obliterated on brush with Sun

On the day of Perihelion round the Sun

It did appear  obliterated as no signs of it

In the solar dynamic observatory tracking it

It seemed the comet was devoured by the fiery Sun

An ode to the Comet Ison  seemed in order!

There came the thriller –

Emerging out of the other side of Sun

With atleast some small nucleus intact

Ensuring the resumption of the on going

Cosmic spectacle and raising the hopes

Of study of origins of Sun, planets and life on Earth

Comet Ison!  Just Go on!

The world is full of glee to track your journey

May you attain immortality!

Throwing clues at the mysteries of our solar system

Yea , go on , on and on!

Let  the thriller continue!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

When the guns will fall silent?

Heartless terror machines
with rounds and rounds of bulletted machine guns
alighted the ship 
onto a way-laid boat
claiming their first victim-
the hapless boatman
who propelled them into
Indian waters-
for heartless was the way they set upon
breathing terror, eating terror
is the way they lived-
 
The terror machines with machines in hand
flopped onto the shores
of the commercial capital
with intent to strangle the commerce out of it-
When everyone dropped gaurd
unexpecting the descent of
a terror brigade it mindlessly barged in
 
waylaying motorcades
to drive into the sprawling
commercial kingdom-
breathing terror,  speaking terror
through stoccato gun fire
tada-tada, tada-tada, tadadada dud-
smashing lives out of  
the ill-fated innocents
at the ill-fated Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminus, Taj and 
Nariman House- 
blood dotting and streaming down floors 
to tell the tale of the gory act.
 
Terror machines continued to strike
at the counter acting brigade
snuffing out the last of
One Hemant Karkare
One Unnikrishnan
and many innocent victims
 
Battle between terror and the nation raged-
The nation agonisingly watched sleeplessly
the 72 hour ordeal
with bated breath
The Nation won the terror
proving the dictum-
the bad gunners will be slain by the guns.
 
Hail the matyrs! Hail the innocent vitims! Hail the nation!
Keep vigil against the terror machines!
Nip the diabolic intentions in the bud 
to silence the guns forever
Jai Hind!

 -Mohan Sanjeevan

The mountains are forever!

Snaking the way up, round the bends

Soaring high on the hill

The spirits soar still higher to the skies!

Feeling buoyant, walking tall,

Getting bubbly, moving free!

What makes a mountain special?

What makes this mountain so special?

Shunning vehicles we trek to the top

On a mountaineering bid

Like the mountain engineers!

The thrill-

Unfathomable, unmeasurable,

Grandeur in fine detail

The embracing chillness reminds

It’s nature’s air conditioned territory!

The snow-clad peaks,

The mountain-touching clouds,

The breath-taking valleys,

The cascading silver falls,

The icy-water filled lakes,

The down-sloped gardens.

The nice blooming flowers,

The colors-sprayed environs,

All announce it’s ever-green speciality!

Yea these are what make

The mountain special

And this mountain so special!

A nature’s abode found at last

By the nature seekers!

Long live the mountains

Unspoiled and unharmed

To make us live long on

The elevated heavens

Taking a welcome break from the

Hells down below the hill!

-Mohan Sanjeevan