History! a heavenly Super Moon on Friday 13th!

On this day the Friday 13 th

A heavenly supermoon is coming up

Much bigger and closer than the normal full moons

This kind is not due till 2049

Because of it’s low position in the horizon

It appears so big and honeyish in colour

The full super moon like this falls on Friday 13^th

Once in around 14 years, last one ocuured in 2000

Moon in full always a sight to behold and enjoy

More so when appears so big in heavenly hue

A grand spectacle coming on the unlucky 13 th

Making it a lucky 13 for the full supermoon

Stay tuned for it’s rise in the horizon

Take photos stash away for next gen

For us too, to take a look whenever we feel like it

Come supermoon, come Friday 13 th we are in wait

-Mohan Sanjeevan

It's raining, raining, raining!

It’s raining, raining, raining!

Some time before

Sun was out in all in splendor

Overpowering the sparse clouds

In the distant sea ,

a low pressure bay developed

brewingup a storm drifting the clouds inlands

Clouds picked up speed propelled by winds

In no time a cloud cover

Came over  hiding the Sun in full

Turning grey and murky

Droplets came streaming down

Swelling into a full scale shower

let flowing the heavenly waterfalls down,

bathing landscapes, men, buildings, flora and fauna all alike

forcing the men , cattle , pets all indoors

rain is on!  a beautiful display in play!

Thrilling  moments of the honey drops from the skies!

Treat to the eyes, music to the ears,
pleasant aroma to inhale,

Thirst quenching to the Earth

Yea it is raining, raining , raining!

Let go, watch, sing, dance, celebrate!

Enjoy as it lasts!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

I am a spacecraft, I am zooming into space!

I am a spacraft , I am zooming into space

Just a machine ,  no worries to take care

No flesh , no blood

No hunger, no food

I just keep zooming  into space

On and on and on …….

I am a satellite when I go round the Earth

I am a space probe when I escape the Earth

Just enough power to last for decades

Fed into me by the radio thermal isotopic generator

High gain low antennas keep upconnected

Downlinked for me to keep track of Earth

For the Earth to keep track of me

The Science blokes ride into space on me by proxy

Letting me go on and on and on

Derisking from real travel

No worries indeed

still there few things to attend

Shielding me from cosmic ray

Charged particles phantom

Keeping the signals going to Earth and back

Keeping the systems in working order

I need to go on to bring the view of the universe

Into your door steps

Wish me luck, wish me health

Till I fade away into oblivion, into black space

>>>>>>>>>>>>………………

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Picture credit: NASA a common source

Are you listening my dear Coimbatore?

As I touch the city’s limits

The air turns pleasant

Cool as cucumber

Announcing it’s arrival:

Coimbatore!

Take me from wherever

Leave me blindfolded here

Still I can make it

Air whistling through palakkad gap

 Caressing  me soft and cool

The sweet tasting siruvani water

The floating voices

In the local trademark kongu tamil

All announce where I am:

Coimbatore!

Cotton spins into yarn

Yarn  weaves into fabric

Fabric stitches into  garments

And make their journey

Worldwide to be adorned by the

World’s populace

Manchester of south!

Coimbatore!

Metals, non-metals, bolts and nuts

Make themselves into motors,

Pumps, Grinders, mixies , wash machines

Cement, Machines and what not

Tools and dies

Machines and Hands

All combine in their making

 A magic of materials, machines and men!

Latest IT bandwagon too joined in

Enacting the fabulous show in :

Coimbatore!

The bazaar streets

Business edifices, the  complexes

The shopping inmates

Travelling tourists

Visiting workers and blokes

Turn it into a beehive of activity:

Yea a action packed

Coimbatore!

A place of pride for sure

Still the bomb blasts and

The communal killings after the blast

All turned it into a place of shame too

Place of present pride and past shame

That is :

Coimbatore!

Dark sides shadow the Light

Scars mar the beauty like the earth

With the beautiful day

And the gory night

Side by side

A fact true in here too, that is:

Coimbatore!

Roads are barely motorable

Yet not walkable

The narrow streets

Remaining a living testimony

To a city most unplanned

The ever mad population’s quest

To inhabit and dwell

Has cut into the nature’s dwellings

In the periphery and outer limits

A sorry tale to tell about my dear

Coimbatore!

On the Coimbatore Chess board

The population sickness

Checkmates the Coolness and the

Siruvani water’s sweetness

Cool is no longer cool

Sweet is no longer Sweet

With hotness and sourness seeping in

By the teeming population’s expanse

Sad but true is the new face of

Coimbatore!

Yet all is not over for my dear city

A go green campaign

May still weave a magic

All have to come forward

To make this happen

Let us make it happen

Are u listening my dear,

Coimbatore?

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Oh Bangalore I love and envy you!

When I touch the city’s limits

The coolness and comfort

Go several grades up

The temperature dips several degrees down

A pleasant inverse

To traverse!

A city still to be explored in full

What little explored

Enthralls  me no end

A garden city

With a garden adorning each locality-

Is just one special in this

Enclave of specials!

A dress-shoppers’ delight

With myriads of designs

And shades all fitting

Even a shallow pocket

Weight based sales of dresses

Ensure more dresses for the

Same pennies to get a few elsewhere

Making one love a lot

This great Bangalore!

The yummy fast food eateries

The beverage serving pubs

Make it a nice place to toast!

A tasty and yummy

Bangalore!

Once unheard of  Shivaji nagar

Kempe gowda circle,

The famed vishveshwaraya museum

The wonderful lalbagh

The gracious  Vidhan soudha

All get familiar

As I explore and cherish

The joy of joys

That is Bangalore!

A tourists’ delight

Multi-language speaking

Diverse needs catering

All region blokes sheltering Bangalore!

My own Tamil gets common

In chats and trades

Solace to know this is a city

For my own Tamils,

Thank you Bangalore!

A haven for IT behemoths

Heaven for the working genies

A destination to note

On the sprawling world map itself

Salam Bangalore! I love you and envy

I love for your beauty and comfort

Envy for you are not my own city!

A city to be transported to their own city

If only one had the means and methods to do it

Yea, the enviable Bangalore!

Still dark sides cloud and shroud

The dazzling Bangalore

Linguistic feuds 

Centuries old Cauvery water disputes

Putting it’s head to shame

Now and then-

Uncharacteristic for a characterful city

Shake them off Bangalore!

Show to the world

You are as nice as you appear

Making you a more lovable

More enviable Bangalore!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Let's go shopping,go around kid!

Hi my daaling kid!

Come, let’s go shopping

All for you to eat ,see, enjoy!

Come , come let’s go!

Have crunchy chocolate

Have tasty ice cream

Eat burgers, eat pizzas,

Our  own country’s pop corns , candies,vadas, appalams

We go around too

Setting foot on the shopping malls,zoo,

Beach, gardens, theme parks

Go skating,go surfing,

Go roller-coastering,

Play games on the street,

Play games on the grounds,

Basket ball, foot ball, tennis,cricket

All for you  kid to eat, see,play, enjoy!

Yes all for you

All for you only?

Hmmm, ………………..

All for me too!

Yea, Yay!! all for the kid in me too

There is a kid in all,

There are kids of all ages

You are a growing kid,

I am just a grown up kid!

Will I not have the desires as a kid?

So my daaling kid!

Let’s go shopping, picnic,

All for you, all for me too!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Clouds and rain on the day of Agni

Today -

One of the days of AGNI

Sun is supposed to scorch me, you , all

With photonic, titanic , satanic rays

Kindly clouds moved in

Spreading across blanketing the sky

Shrouding the Sun

Sun vanished

Sun light dissolved

Chillness pervaded

Droplets fell

Swelling, thickening, streaming down as waterfalls

Raining, stopping, raining

Now still drizzling

Hugging , soaking the Earth

It’s chill, chill, jill , jill!

I am making merry

Star gazing astro friends are in worry

Stars, stars no where!

Worry not my dear astro friends

Tomorrow the clouds will be gone

Stars will be blooming

Let it rain today

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cooling me, all and you too

A big Salute to the rain

Chill, Jill, Hail the Rain!

-Mohan Sanjeevan