Aha! Sun is raining!

Close to Himalayas, Chilliest  wintery day

First streaks of light comes piercing the darkness

Clouds obscuring, hiding the Sun have sped away

To far off places swept by the winds

The Red ball of sun rises peeping over the horizon

Ascending , ascending into a golden ball

It’s golden rays bathing, raining over flora, fauna

Men and materials in all splendor

Shrouding fog and dew melted away

Photons striking the skin with cozy warmth

Eyes open I drink in the sight , eyes closed I feel the warmth

It feels heavenly out here on a bright sunny morning

Sun is shining , raining with showers of golden rays

A welcome relief from the spine chilling cold

A Godly, nature’s blessing countering the winter day

Love the Sun , it’s magnificence felt more than ever before

Thank the wind for washing the skies off the clouds

Thank the clouds for speeding away to clear the skies

Before the darkness , fog and dew come settling in

Make the most, go round, enjoy the scenery

Wash the clothes, hang dry to use them over again

As clothes never dry when it is cloudy and chill

Enjoy the food, enjoy the cozy shelter, enjoy the day

Rain on Sun, Shine on Sun come again all winter morrows!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Jaiho youth! Jaiho rural India!

Hello, Charming youth,vibrant youth!

Out here, out there, out our whole of India!

Come on! Educate, empower yourself

Stay put in your villages, villages need you

Educate , empower others in your villages,

Bring schools, colleges, hospitals,banks, shops

What so and what not to your village folds,

Think alternative, think livelihood methods to

Support ,supplant agriculture

Let there be holy cow farms, bee keeping,

Cobar gas plants, common ponds to pool

Harvest rain water, learn do carpentry,

Energy efficient buildings, go solar, go windy

Reap solar, reap wind energy,

Link upto the world with internet, communication

Hello, my dear outside youth too

Move to villages, villages need you too

To imbibe fresh thinking, fresh blood

Into our body of agriculture

Get settled there to make it grow

Form week end teams to volunteer in villages

To enrich, enlighten the soul our rural India

Uplift, long live, Jaiho youth, jaiho rural India!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

P.S: Poem is part of presentation on the eve of National Youth day Jan'12th in memory of Swami Vivekananda

       Jaiho means let victory be yours in Hindi

Why earn money?

Why earn money?

Dollar, ruble, rupee, peso, euro

All money, all honey, all to buy food,dress, shelter,

communication,entertainment , transport  and what not

No money no life here!

Money flows ,changes hands

Making pockets empty ,making some pauper

Flowing to select few, filling their coffers

game of money blessed or cursed by Goddess of money

Goes about all through the life

 A never ending search to buy

Material wealth, pleasure , comfort bay

even a false love, false lover  falling for money,

search ends lovely, just enough, futile ,frustrating,

with scales of success in earning the coveted money

Love, happiness , peace

remain elusive on the money’s buyable list

yet the search goes on to earn just to make a living

till the journey ends, closing the traffic ring

greedy ones pursue to amass oblivious to the end

Earning money to spend on essentials is mundane

Earning to spend on others good cause is noble

Earning by troubling to trouble others is wicked

Stay mundane, stay noble say no to wicked

That way money is well earned ,well spent!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Happy on the first day, happy all through the year! Happy New Year!

Bells toll there announcing arrival of a new year

Reminding one more rotation of our blue marble

Around our star,  the grandeur Sun

reminding me, you all have aged by a year

still an occasion to celebrate , be happy

Why celebrate a new year? Wishing all happy one?

A shrewd question to ask for sure

celebrating happy ,being happy

On the first day with fond hopes of being happy

Happy on the first day, happy all  through the year !

Hope is eternal , new year hopes are still more so

Let the hopes continue wishing all a happy new year,

Happiness all  through the new year

Let the hopes materialize into real happiness

Yea happy new year! Have Happy days ahead!

Please jump not from Earth to sky in celebration

Remain grounded on Earth

Think of the under privileged seeking a living-

Whether  shine or rain. Do something for them

Making it prosperous to all !Happy New Year! Amen!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Hahaha! Laugh O laugh, this is cinema!

Hahaha! Laugh O laugh this is cinema!

A celluloid world where the evergreen hero

Dances with beauties younger than his daughters,grand children

Fights with tens, hundreds  more powerful men than him

Demolishes the citadels of the enemy kingdoms

Turns savior to the poor and needy
He is a he man, super man, spider man, all man, hmmm!

All in the celluloid film, hahaha!

He races, he flies, he runs

All in a jiffy faster than the fastest

The lyrics writers vy with their talents

To portray him on top of the world

A dashing conqueror, a  swashbuckling conjuror

His feats scaling the mount  Everest

His name is forever, his deeds hover over

All in the celluloid film, hahaha!

Cinema comes alive on the celluloid film

a shadow basking real and true

a bamboozling, hoodwinking mirage

fixing the love, ending conflicts,winning enemies

all in a matter of three hours of the film’s run

all so tough are so simple and easy in here

Ya, Cinema O cinema, laugh O laugh,Hahaha!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Age doesn't matter .... yet age does matter

Between he and she as lover, soul mates

Age doesn’t matter

He superfit despite aged more than 15 years than she

Ravishing , good looking, above all when she needs

Some one as protection at this stage of life

When younger ones not available to her

Or refuse to take her despite being young

Citing money, no beauty , ill health et al.,

Then age of he and she doesn’t matter

Age difference doesn’t matter , Period!

Long live those he and she well and good             

When she has choice of young ones,

She being beautiful, wealthy, healthy

All enough or just enough

Then age difference of  he and she matters

Age difference does matter there too

Let he be prudent and let a younger she

To go for a younger partner, to stay together for life

Is the logic and solution to the age question

Agreed? Let all such he and she keep in mind

To act according to the choice and need

Act on! best wishes, all he and she!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Journeys in a grand journey

Journeys are pure thrills, adventures

Pilgrimage seeking isolation, solitude excepted.

Journeys are to see new places, new faces,

new cultures, eat new local special food,

sleep, walk, run, drive, tour in the new world

Journeys are special days to remember

etched in memory, cached in brain

take pictures for sharing in the social media

with friends, the world, for posterity

Journeys are welcome break from monotony

Journeys are just for the sake of journeys too

to pass time, to bridge over the interregnum

Journey to near journey to yonder all to ponder

Journeys are to make the most of the time in joy

In the grand journey between life and death, enjoy!

Make the most of it , taste the whole of it

share, cherish,make them stand in the grand journey!

Backpack. Trek, motor away in great style

Journeys beckon , times to reckon- Journey ahead to

nature, country side, metropolis, what not, see you there!

-Mohan Sanjeevan