Life is a series of episodes
Not a whole,
Broken and tumbled
Upside down.
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his mystic poetry
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, based in Chandigarh, is an Indian poet and scholar credited with 170 plus books of English literature, philosophy and spirituality. He won great Serbian Award Charter of Morava and his name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He was honored with Seneca Award LAUDIS CHARTA by Academy of Arts & Philosophical Sciences, Bari, Italy 2024. He is Founder President of the International Academy of Ethics and conferred Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by University of Engineering & Management, (UEM) Jaipur. Email anandjs55@yahoo.com
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THE MYSTERY
Life is a series of episodes
Not a whole,
Broken and tumbled
Upside down.
So is joy, an amalgam of
Happiness and pain
Only one season
Cannot for long sustain!
In joy, we think of torturous times
In winter fog, the sunny days
Why is it an all-time craze
Youth and its funny ways?
Life is a broken narrative
In final analysis, a mystery
Fools have established labs
To study its chemistry.
Inscrutable like gods
Is this blessing divine
The innocentia enjoy this bliss
While the ignorantia pine.
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FIGHT-O-FOOD CORNER
(Can you laugh a bit?)
There were times when wise parents
Forbade their kids
From eating anything from outside
Because of its formulation
Which was done with a resistant mind
Everything that was poured into
The dishes made in hotels
And outside eateries
Was meant only to create taste
At the cost of health
Even vegetables which people have rejected
Find their way in a wholesale deal
Into the hotels
Where they are cooked with spices,
And served with smiles
How long can one eat the sugary stuff
Of the outside ‘dhabas’?
Now dhabas have got wheels.
You don’t need go anywhere
They will bring the ultimate taste in.
Now, I have seen people fall ill,
By eating food at home
Or no food at home
At the Fight-O-Food corner at home
Fondly called kitchen.
The food cooked here lacks
The most important ingredient diet
Which makes it worse than
The food we get at
Love-Each-&-Everyone food joints.
The missing element is the
Wish to cook, and the Joy to serve
Both of which are in great supply
On the roadside dhabas
And which are absent
From the Fight -O-Food Corner.
PS
Pehle aap, Pehle Aap
I prefer you over me
Is good every where
Except in the kitchen. Pardon.
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