Something Like A Flying Kiss

Life is a person sitting up there on high
scrunching up these silver paper balls
from mint new cigarette packs and
half-finished chocolate wraps
then throws it down on me when
I least expect-
it's anyone's guess
And I then pelt right back
like this and this and this
something like a flying kiss!

Or else Life scatters crushed confetti
itsy bits of mindless paper or sudden showers
of honey coated ice flakes or simply just
a wake of this and that and other stuff
and then I pick up these arms full of
half-baked fluff and carefully take some
on my open palm and blow it back again
from where it came and in the harmless charming
game-in the bliss of hit and miss- it seems so
like a flying kiss!

Here's to all of us....

If James is pure and James is true
He will be fine and so will you
For James is not just James alone
No more is he a lonely Stone
For far and wide the Net has spread
To all who've heard and seen and read

And The One behind the sprouting seeds?
Of health and hope and happy deeds
Must Sing and clap and dance and breed!
No longer swamped and cramped by greed
Of petty minds and pettier deeds
She shyly seeks her Tribe and Creed-
The Voiceless Weed has now been freed!

( For Lawrence, Jasmeen, Vinod R, Vinod S, Chandni, Juhi, Reshma , Maureen, Ian, Amit, Sumit,Tanya, Vasudha, Vandana, Chetna,Biswadip, Pradumn, Nandini, Deepti C, Deepti S, Aneesh, Habu, Baba, Ma, Max,Nino, Mimi, Avi, Aparajita, Aditi, Shruti and Prasad,Rahul and Shaila, Shailja, Junu, Chaitanya, Bobby, Barnalee, Shyama mama, Apu, Iti, Khushu, Ron Dads, Abhijit, Bodhmayanandaji, Aspi, Yasmin,( their son and daughter!) Mahua, Priyatosh, Toon, Peter the Griff, Samta,Mananjit, Bharath M.,Prasad (early champion of James),Oinky,Shirish, ...may the tribe increase!)

Tis strange/How somethings NEVER change/ Here I am sitting/ Waiting for this THING to move/ And yet/I have nothing AT ALL to prove/ Except this growing feeling/ That tis ALL VERY STRANGE...

(Waiting in those 6 seater thingies which refuse to budge when you want them to..)

Written behind a business card...inspiration Hugh McCleod!)