Shall We Be Still

Shall We Be Still 

• Arvind Shah -

Looking out grim through the tough glass panels

from the waiting lounge of the high-tech airport,

see queues of big winged steel birds standing still

immovable like  dumb model structures.

And here comes the announcement for me:

global software system to run computers,

navigate airplanes and give you any updates

crashed into dysfunction, but the repair work is on,

we will update you as soon as we receive  inputs.

Six hours of stillness, I am  like  the still steel bird

across the wall of the tough  glass panels -

we both, the bird and me are hostage of tilted development 

stuck in useless stillness - the bird wants to fly 

and I too want, not to idle, so try my pen

to tell you -  to beckon you - to question you.

Shall we be still in tilted social development psy

crashed and cracked, losing connect and hold

to go developed into the haze of clouds and dampness #?!

© Arvind Shah 19/07/2024 IGI Airport New Delhi

One Stanza Poems

 My Weekend Poems # 14

One Stanza Poems

Nothing, To Be.

The scattered bits and pieces: collect

assemble the mess leaving the intellect

be  blessed , having all, but no ownership

in and out to become one with " Nothing"

© Arvind Shah 0524

Poetry is silence

The word to lead to say

and lay the smooth way

from sound to silence

poetry is vibrating thence.

© Arvind Shah 0524

Sober Moon 

Oh! rose, bloom in moonlight

decorate the sacred scared sober disc

for it merely keeps pulsating stars 

devoid of any fragrance.

© Arvind Shah 0724

Compassionate Moon

Oh! the Moon though you are not, today

yet! keep alive,  my inquisitive instinct

the urge on me , my hope to meet

gradually compassion comes to light.

© Arvind Shah 0724

Language of Nature

 Language of Nature

Nature, the open book: Greatest

complete in content, and the best

it has everything to teach

and preach to each

the text is simple

with examples ample -

read on every bit – everywhere

in expressions lucidly clear.

The lesson and knowledge -

is  everybody's language

a continuous  expression,  profound

but for the sensitive and concerned 

the communication, for sane

who, keep no suicidal malevolence to tame.

Assimilating nature is an ability plain:

keeping sense to sense real: joy or pain.

Language of nature is flow and vibration

common to all without any restriction:

the flow of the breeze and wind around

move of waters and greens in surround -

the cosmic moves in this existence

in living and non-living substance.

Every movement, a  linguistic system

the man, to survive, has to be within system.

©  Arvind Shah