We Women

We can wear skirts,
flowers in our hair;
Cry unabashedly,
and show we care.
We can cook to please
We can flirt and tease
We can be complicated
with such perfect ease!
We diet with zest
Yet drool over a sundae
Shop, Shop, Shop
Drive into a one way
We can ask for help
It’s ok not to know
We love what we love; hate what we hate
And it’s equally ok to show!
We soar, we wallow
We lead, we follow
Sometimes we’re the face
Setting the pace
Or we’re the hand
With tact and grace
Pulling strings
To get things
Exactly the way we want it
And when we succeed
Loud or discreet
Smugly we love to flaunt it
Yet,
without men, we agree
so incomplete we’d all be
They complement us so
Sure, it’s a man’s world
With a woman CEO!!

[It is Womens' Day after all!! ;)]

I don't know why...it made me happy

When a spark of mischief
an impulse, a whim
took us miles and miles away
from the daily din

When a rash driver whizzed by
forcing us to brake
only to tag an ambling truck
while we overtake...

When the stray brown dog
lying on the road, dead
turned out to be a scrap of
sack cloth instead...

When from the car window
I looked out to see
two girls apart from their group
chatting away happily...

When just off the busy main road
we walked down a rocky trail
to a ragged edge, a winding stream
some old oak trees, a tranquil scene

When three and a half hours later
with a casualness much admired
we returned to work
Refreshed, ready to retire!!!

[Minutes of our 'team lunch' at Mulshi last Thursday!!! :) ]

Love becomes her

The kohl-lined eyes
hold innumerable joys
The fair cheeks flush
with the warmth of a blush
Silken tresses form
an elegant chignon
Two dimples style
a shy little smile
The swish of silk
The band of gold
Celebrate anew
the bond of old.
She walks in beauty; a vision, a delight
She walks in love; in ethereal light...


This is for Vijaya - the victorious one!! To celebrate her engagement on 7th November, when she looked radiantly beautiful and oh so happy, it took everyone's breath away!! Guess that's what happens when your dreams come true... [sigh!!] :)

Have a good day!

It's a normal day
I like it that way
You come with the breeze
flowers and the bees
Hesitant, unsure
of the bright vibgyor
I pause...
and I cause
your interest to wane.
With impatient disdain
you take back all you brought;
and then some you had not.
You turn away with a flounce -
the way you'd come.
In my sky I behold
my extinguished sun.

(Have you ever noticed how Life, Success, Happiness - all treat us this way??? Entice us with more and then take away what we do have! Guess that's how it's meant to be! SHEESH!!!)

Every Other Woman’s Story…

Alright!! I admit defeat
So I got tempted enough to cheat
The heart-felt vows - repeated often
In a matter of minutes - all forgotten

One look and I go weak
Drawn - so helpless and meek
Eyes glaze with a greedy fire
Lips part slowly in desire

I shouldn't, yet I know I will
succumb, as usual, to Evil
It drives all good sense away
Gimme the chocolate,
I'll diet another day!!!


(Another Pri - inspired poem... This is to convince her not to throw out the chocolates we still have in the fridge!!)

3 p.m.

Not a word heard

Nor a single key click

Not a footfall in the hall

Just the clock’s steady tick…

[Professionals hard at work

The screens’ alight alright

The pride of a company

A manager’s delight…]

It’s the call of the hour

No man dare refuse

Stay!! Keep away!!

Employee on Snooze

(When you see my office, it's impressive, very business-like! It makes you believe that there are super brains at work here - people so engrossed in work that's so important and complex... A class apart from the normal office-goers! Watch long enough and through the crack you can see - glimpses of human fallibility!!)

Lost and Found

I lost something precious

A few days back

I lost something dear

To an avaricious attack

Ever since, it’s just been

A phase of doubt and pain

I quell it and it rises

Like a blinding haze again

Hot anger surges

At the unfairness of it all

My strengths now appear

So weak and small

It leads me to question

(as I knew it would)

Am I worth the pride I have?

Am I any good?

Ok! So that’s hurtful!!

But it’s also true

I better start being me

(Only I know how to!)

And if I am what I know I am

Can a little jolt pull me down?

I cry when I hurt, but if you’re alert

You’ll see a smile fighting every frown

So, smile again dear World,

I return sadder but wiser

I lost what I had, But I won it right back

And now I’m so much the nicer J

(My two-and-a-half months old N-73 was snatched from my hand in front of my building at 7.15pm!! It gave a jolt to my warm, safe little world - it was a rude awakening! Fear, anger, pain, helplessness, guilt - i felt it all. I lived it all; actually, wallowed in it. The N-73 seemed to have become a symbol of a personal failure. But a failure I am not. So, I am smiling again, though I'm mourning my mobile, still...)