My school poems...

When I was in school, I used to think I could write poetry. Think?? I used to actually write stuff and blatantly call it poetry!!!

There are these five lines that Robert Frost once wrote, that I used to scribble on the first page of my school diary every year.

The woods are lovely
Dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep

'Inspired' so to say, by these, I wrote a few lines of my own. Though, when I read them now, I dont find them as extraordinary as I used to, back then. But they remind me of my school days, when the world had only 600 odd people and 'complicated problem' meant 'how to put chalk powder in the class teachers hair?'.

Since I haven't posted for a long time, I thought I could post my old antics... uh... y'know... the 'somethings-better-than-nothing' senario. Here goes...



Distant Lands

The sun rolls down like a tear in the sky
Another day has gone
As I lay myself on my bed to rest
Red skies shall arrive soon, with the dawn.

For I know I have to leave here
For a distant land, unknown
I shan't be lying in this bed very soon
And I will have to go alone.

Without family and friends - how will moments fly?
I wonder, is it wiser to stay?
But I think of my dreams, still silent, untouched,
Then again, I should go away.

Stop me not, dear mother, for I'll be fine
And I promise, I'll be back someday,
The sun rolls down like a tear in the sky,
Another day, passes away.





Had enough? Not yet? I have another one! Haw haw haw!



The Red Rose

Out in the garden,
In the warmth of June,
I see new blossoms of roses,
Some orange like the sun,
Some as white as the moon,
All stand in graceful poses.

They lie in wait,
For someone to come,
And make them love's first gift,
Alas! Little do they know,
They will whither away,
In their blossom's very first silt.

For only one will be picked,
The reddest of them all,
The deepest of red, red rose,
As quickly as life's chapter has opened,
As quickly life's chapter will close.

Depressing? Phew! I think I have only had enough... baas... bye.