Seventeen Dreams, One Heart

Seventeen candles glow tonight,

It’s seventeen dreams that take flight,

and somehow you shine brighter still

than even last year’s moonlit light.

From your tiny fingers holding mine

to hugging gracefully and smile divine,

from falling asleep on my shoulder

to finding your own way back home,

I have watched it all, every moment, every phase,

my little girl growing is the most cherishing in every beautiful ways.

Each step you take is steady and true,

but now there’s a depth I see in you;

every choice you make amazes me,

always leaving me wanting to see more of who you will be.

In every laugh, I still find my pride,

my joy, my heart right by your side;

and as your world keeps growing wide,

I know how high you are meant to rise.

You are still my strength, soft, strong, and kind,

but now even wiser, with a brilliant mind;

a beautiful soul, learning and free,

becoming all you are meant to be.

And today feels different, I must say!

for the first time, I am away;

no quick hug, no smile to see,

no birthday cake to enjoy or lighting your birthday candles with me.

This time, I can’t even surprise you like I always do,

nor those simple or little plans just for you,

and that is what I miss the most today,

those simple joys which keep me delighted in my own quiet way.

But sweetheart, love does not fade with distance or time,

it travels softly, it will always be mine;

through every mile, it finds its way,

to hold you close in my heart, even today.

I look at you with so much pride,

yet still see the child deep inside;

now standing at a brand-new start, 

Soon seeing you growing into a beautiful, strong heart.

So here is to you, my shining light,

the one who makes my world feel right;

even from far, I feel you near,

in every thought, in every prayer.

Happy 17th, my dearest and worlds best daughter,

keep chasing dreams, keep becoming you,

forever cherished, my sweetest gain,

my love, my pride… always the same.

Loads of love, wishes and blessings ❤️

Turning 16

Sixteen candles, sixteen dreams, you shine pure and way brighter than moonlit streams.

From tiny hands to graceful grace, from sleeping on my shoulder to resting your head on my back - I have seen you grow from a cute baby to a gorgeous fairy tale.

Each step you take, so sure, so true, with every choice, you have kept us wanting for more! 

In every laugh, you try to be my pride, my joy, my heart and I am sure it shall rise more.

You are my true strength - soft, bold and kind,

And of-course a wiser soul, a brilliant mind.

I stand in awe of all that how you have grown,

Yet still the child I’ve always known.

So here’s to you my guiding light and ever lasting  smile, who makes my every wrong feel right.

Happy birthday Daughter, today you reign,

Forever cherished my sweetest gain 

Loads of love 🥰

Unsung Praise

My eyes twinkled, with the dawn of sun,

Realised that it was the first day of my holidays

I was happy and joyful to the sound of birds,

When I strolled by the boulevard of roses at my place.

Picture Courtesy - The road less travelled

Cheerful composers welcomed me, by merrily playing their song of nature.

Was mesmerized to hum, sing, and dance,

When they played the Mozart - Sonata in F and other tunes to capture

It was the best musical extravaganza I had ever experienced.

The old harpsichord was spellbinding as it could be,

which ceased my attention completely, and I got engrossed to hear him play.

My compliments made him blush… seemed like,

In the harsh thankless world, mesmeric pieces of art like these, go always unappreciated.

The Rainy Day

Poetry is written by Aahanna (my Daughter)
when she was 7 years  

Rain Rain... Come right away, light up the day,
With your raindrops sparkle my day today.

With your little drops of rain, you shine the day,
The plants are happy and so are the farmers who are delighted and gay.

When it rains heavily, the plants take shower,
Staying happy they gift us a garden full of flowers.

I am happy today as it is a rainy day,
Thank you, God that you made it rain today.

Hollow Pretence

Several faces in this world we see,
Some smile, some laugh and few are happy.
Some are sad, some are gloomy,
And few have never cherished and submerged in dismay.

Thy person who is sad and thoughtful, seldom has a mask,
His feelings are pure as white, and transparent as water.
Often the secret horror lies behind the laughing souls, perhaps unknown to mankind,The secrets are a lot more abrasive, hidden behind that laughter.


Largely it covers the emotions - which are mostly distressing and seldom happy.
Being a hypocrite seems helping the survival of thee today,
The pleasure of being one seems to be reaching a new high,
As even the person I truly love, feels it’s the traditional flair of my life.


Reunion with a lost love is always the happiest moment in one’s life,
But Alas! It’s heart breaking when even this relation corresponds only to be one sided and a mockery.
Soon the life seems to tie a knot and calls it an end,
The worth of living with someone you truly loved I guess is now just a pretend.

YOU...!!!

As I close my eyes, I see a world around

In that world, I see the amazing gorgeous and the most beautiful… YOU!
You have always conquered my dreams and every thought which have wandered

Sad or happy it’s always been you who has first made its appearance

 

It has always begun, with that amazing laugh,

I can barely forget those pleasant curves around your cheeks

The twinkle in the eye, the sparkling smile

The thoughts of which can always get anyone rejoiced

 

With you around, the clock seems to have stopped!

Always felt like I should keep looking at you, listening to you, feeling you and more and more loving you

You came into my life and changed the reason of living

Living with you has now become part of my sun sets and its rise

 

You have always been so caring, the care which makes me feel so precious

You’ve loved not just me, but just everything around

I have often heard the clouds, the trees, the birds and everyone surround

Trying to speak to you and at times whispering ‘I love you’

 

You’ve always had the charm, the warmth and the love to woo any living being

You are the ocean of happiness spreading smiles everywhere

As your hair spreads the warmth of affection, solace and peace

Your tears, the purest stream of water, spreads life around

 

After I open my eyes and as I walk out of your world

Missing you has now become easier every day

Because even though it's one day further from the last time I met you

It's indeed one day closer to the next time I will see you again!

A Promise kept... forever

Thoughtful I was, depressed I became, 

From the state of extreme sadness, I turned numb. 

Even my guess work had given up on me, 

When she was lead into the theatre for an operation.

I closed my eyes, and let the seconds pass by. 

It ticked and ticked, and the time dawdled through.

Every second made me shiver and mindlessly tremble. 

Tears started dripping slowly, as my depression grew. 

Engrossed I was completely, 

Unaware of what was happening around, 

Longing to see them both, coming out together, 

Craving to talk to her and hear my baby’s first sound. 

Finally the glory is bestowed, the rays have crept in, 

The voice of an angel signs the beginning of a new thrill.

It kick starts the smashing smiles, flashing on everyone present,

When that amazing sight of that extremely gorgeous face is unveiled.

Behind her was towed, my beautiful lady,

With all smiles, as she had promised me, 

In all excitement she said ‘Sweetheart! I am back…. Just for you.’ 

I burst into tears, & whispered ‘Babes… Thanks a lot…. I Love You’

Is that you?

Here I seem to be away... away from you, and from the whole world I know
Nothing seems to match - neither the time, nor our feelings, and about anything I try to show
I am out here... all alone in this race now
But every time I wake up... I tend to shout - Sweetheart, is that you?

Missing is what I initially thought it was,
But you are my necessity... I need you, more than just miss you
You complete me, not just through my thoughts but just - 'everything'
I know life is tough, have to take care, but without you even that's not there

My heart doesn't beat without your name,
My mind doesn't begin thinking without you in the beginning
Started to feel you in every corner i cross now
Just want to be back, don’t know when I would reach that tomorrow.

Holding that smile all this while, afraid of the mocking world out there,
Have been holding my feelings, my tears, and my sorrow
Just want to take you in my arms and let that drops flow,
Want to love you and keep loving you, a lot more than even before

These days it's so tough to even close my eyes,
You seem to have haunted my sleep too...
Don't want to end my life, as I want to live it with you.
Darling... you there? Are you listening to - - what I just said to you...??

Novel Acquaintances

Every relationship narrates a tale of its own,
Every new friend marks the beginning of a new story
Would that transform into a special relation – that’s unknown
This increases my belief that, every relation has an exceptional reason to carry

My story had a smashing beginning,
Hoped it would reach the highest heights,
Building trusts, feelings, friendship & understandings
Avoiding the sour phases of controversies, grudges & fights

Frequent conversations brought us closer & closer
With the words we exchanged, her new identity was painted in my mind
This is the time where crushes & infatuations are bound to happen
Most of them fade out, but few transform to love of a different kind

Have surpassed the age where I would be infatuated or have a crush with anyone,
All new introductions tend to rebel against me these days.
More fingers point at my status than me now,
Accusing me guilty of lies, and always bound to betray.

These days friendship starts with preconceived conditions,
The relation which had no boundaries, now has restrictions,
Staying aloof seems like the best choice to me now,
As every new relation ends up in some kind of a new friction

Top Entrecard Droppers in October, November & December

Hi all,
Its been crazy these 3 months. I didn't get time to update my posts or even thank my droppers. Now that I am back, I would first like to thanks my regular dropper's who have been consistently dropping entrecard's on me even when I was away.
Finally its time that I thank the people who have been regularly visiting my blog and dropping their cards. Even this time I have got a lot of new blog readers with same niche as well as different and some of them have become regular readers and regular commentators. I thought to give some link love and publish their entrecard as an appreciation for being the Top Entrecard Droppers.

Top 5 Entrecard Droppers. for October:
Dropper ----------------------------------------------------------------# of drops

Money Saving Pro---------------------------------------------------------22
(Special thanks to you for the highest drops on me, till date. However, I guess you have deleted your blog)
Weather for Headphones--------------------------------------------------9
Wanderer Thoughts---------------------------------------------------------8
Caught In The Stream ------------------------------------------------------8
West of Mars - the Meet and Greet --------------------------------------- 7

Top 5 Entrecard Droppers. for November:
Dropper ----------------------------------------------------------------# of drops

WordWebbing----------------------------------------------------------------13
GreenRose---------------------------------------------------------------------6
Weather for Headphones-------------------------------------------------------6
The Truth About Lies ---------------------------------------------------------6
PlotDog Press WOOF Contest --------------------------------------------------5












Top 5 Entrecard Droppers. for December:
In December I just one dropper who has dropped Overwhelming 20 entrecard's on me. She is Blanne online and Anne Marie Gocotano offline. I didn't get any other drop's which went beyond 2 in this month. Therefore, the credit would go to hit or miss only.

Here's her Entrecard -

Thanks a lot to everyone listed above... though not regularly, atleast you did visit my blog and dropped your card occasionally. And a special thanks to Money Saving Pro; Word Webbing & Hit or Miss for being the top dropper on my list.

Too many entries left 'eternal depression' depressed.

I entered the woof contest again this week. With my poetry the The Eternal Depression.

But this time there were too many entries - much better than mine. This made me realize that - I need to improve more on the way I write and put in some strong feelings in my poetries like the winners did.

The details of the contests and the winners are -

WOOF Contest – Top Picks:

About Writing
Lisa Alber - “What I Will NOT Do in the Next Few Days” - How I met an anthology deadline in under four days.
Poetry
Chungyen Chang - “when birds breathe” - Visual verse on flight and despair. Please read from the bottom-up.
Robert Bourne - “The Middle years and My Paradoxical Soul” - An inner reflective poem,
Fiction/Prose/Artistry/Monologue
Puneet Kaur - “Standing still...” - The post is a simple painting that has many colours, many shades... time, music, ecstasy, hope.... life in general.... the course that life would take..... and much more!!
Jennifer M Scott - “495 to Baltimore” - Two monologues about illicit love.

Brought to you by PlotDog Press with the Serial Thriller "Dead Play"

Raised Aspirations

Glimpses of the next era are felt,
We are moving to the next level.
Feelings of dismay are overruled,
I am dancing to the tune of the moon.

Eyes of light have finally opened,
Hopes of joy have just begun.
Feel like the happiest of all in this world,
With no sorrow to follow and bad times decreased to none.

It’s the time when someone raised aspirations of coming in this world,
It’s the time when a new born has shown its first presence.
It’s the time when we both have glittered in smiles,
Now our relation would finally make some sense.

Disturbed and imputed mind would finally be no more disturbed,
Troubled smirks would finally reach giggles and laughs
Life would take a new turn on its own now,
It’s the introduction of that all awaited special one.

A new kin is going to be added to our life,
I would be answerable to, and noticed by someone now,
There will be someone awaiting for me at home in another few months,
Who, along with my better half, would complete my whole world.

Delusionary Departure

Wandering over the thoughts I started receiving,
The good times we had, and the best days we spent together
It made me smile and wanted it to last long,
Till this painful thought pinched me to bother.

Among all the sweet thoughts, was this one which haunted me,
Haunted me till the dawn and the days thereafter,
Didn’t leave me till the time I started to cry,
Wept, regretted and my feeling started to shatter

The thought which disturbed me so much,
Was that you would leave me one day or give me a divorce,
It left chills and vibes all over my body, that
I would have to end my love, when I actually started to want more.

I Love you Sweetheart! And don’t want to end this relationship,
Want to see you and my love, grow old together
Having no end to it, and only unbounded love,
No hatred or any other bad feelings, but just the relationship that would matter.

Finally Poetic Architecture wins the "I love your blog Award"

Yesterday, while scrawling through my comments I noticed a comment from Kavita (My Top & The best commenter) which read –

“Hi Sanjay, I gave your blog an award, come pick it up at my blog.”

To my surprise my blog received the same award - I was craving for from so many days. I used to see this on every other blog, but always thought that my blog wasn’t worth it yet. Kavita did made my day, further she also described my blog in the most amazing words ever. You might want to check it out on her blog - A little of this, and a little of that.

Poetic Architecture. Sanjay an excellent poet, displays his written talent in a well put together poetry blog. Labeling himself as an optimist, his talent shines through his words. Take a peak, you won't leave once you do!

Thanks a million Kavita, you surely made my day.

Not to be mean enough, this award comes with a rule “You submit an award to seven blogs: If you receive an award, you do the same, and send that reward to at least 7 other bloggers. So go ahead, spread the love, and make somebody smile. :)”

Therefore I spread my love and would like to reward the following:

Style Unlimited: One… most extremely catchy blog which would catch your eye the minute you log in. The icing is the posts she writes. Vridhi, a Fashion Designer, details all her designs and the fashion tips. She endorses to have worked with couple of reputed designers. Walk in her store (in the form of her blog) I am sure you would love what she has to sell (though she doesn’t charge anything in exchange, except time).

Craving for Fun: The first time I read the name, it gave me ideas as - do you need fun, come over, the next minute it changed my perception as the author craves fun. The magic of this blog is spread only once you read its posts. Raj, patient and optimistic, loves to talk about his past experiences. He sometimes makes them sound funny and sometimes pitiful. Take a look to know more.

Way to Jobs: One blog which believes in the philosophy “sharing knowledge is comparable to sharing your lighted candle”. Aditya believes in “Help and Get Helped” while he writes about the openings he has come across the company. Take a look who knows you might find a right job match for your career.

Holy Trance: This blog features her personal feelings in the form of poems, posts and what not. I always thought she was a cheerful girl who always took things so jovially. After reading her blog (from the post 1) now I know Asha who is “Always Smiling...” does also have some feelings and is surrounded with some really painful past deeds. Take a peek to have the same consensus.

Ramblings from my wandering mind: Shilpa, one of my old pals, labels herself to be Impulsive, obstinate, opinionated, completely crazy and confused! Her writing basically runs around anything that holds her attention, Yes that surely means ANYTHING. But she always writes her heart out. Go ahead take a look and you’ll agree too.

Cherrie's Blogs: Amrita, a great writer, can describe even the smallest event to mean the world. Her writings contain the magic to grab your attention and to ask for more. Take a look at her writing to know more.

Trying my best, not to Bullshit: Already been part of one of my posts earlier, this blog steals the show by introducing two budding poets (Amir & Pragnya) who are actually breaking up. The conversation and the sad feelings undergone are all seen and felt. It just has a single poetry, but is in itself worth an appreciation.