Happy New Year :)

January enters with a bang
tickles our senses deep within
gives us new dreams and hopes
and new challenges in life to win

February brings along the craze
Prompts to hold someone dear
Valentine season and mushy scents
To love fully and live in cheer

March brings the breeze so fresh
New leaves and blossoming buds
Announces arrival of days of spring
and grace our life with flower studs

April starts with playing pranks
Fooling pals and having fun
Fasting lent and Easter mass
Filing taxes and bathing in sun

May teases the sun to grin
Shine and spread around its glow
Rejoice in love and express it aloud
Unfurl the secrets and let them know

June flags and flashes the note
Barks aloud that summer is here
pledge to retain the natural beauty
And global warming to re-engineer

July begins the second half
Tells that time is ticking away
Its still time to make your resolve
And employ fully each new day

August brings the colors of fall
Reminding us the circle of life
What grows and lives finally rests
So live each moment in love not strife

September marches kids back to school
For lessons to learn and practice along
make them humble and make them wise
better the guild to which they belong

October declares this quarter is last
To trick or treat or work more hard
To believe the fact that good prevails
And evils perish and are caught off-guard

November brings the reason to meet
Families unite and together they dine
Festivals of lights and hugs to spread
To share and care and not to whine

December bells the message of hope
The star is shining and path is bright
Another year is waiting for you
To embrace and cherish, and make wrongs right.

-- KHUSHI

Trust only Hope !!

Don’t depend on others
Your hopes shall stem
You'll lose their sight
When you most need them

They'll be with you
When you are full of glow
The first dapple of dust
They exit before you know

There might be a lesson
But what should I infer
Stop trusting friends?
My heart doesn’t concur

My view is hazy in mist
Not transparent as a glass
Every day brings a hope
So I'll let this night pass

-- Khushi

Proposal

He took her by surprise
To a paradise near the sea
Gathered all his courage
And bent down on his knee

He held her hand to say…..

In your embracing arms my dear
Forever I want to be
Wanna grow old with you
Your 'Yes' is all I plea
I'll be your shield always
Till Lord sets my soul to free

Bedazzled as much as she was
Could hardly express her glee
Paved his way to her heart
He had found the master key
He set her emotions ablaze
And afloat his loving spree

Her lips were numb and silent
Eyes spoke the bliss of thee
Paramount was his exuberance
for in love with him, was she !!!

-- Khushi

Choices

You were so naïve at 4
So could not have a say
Dad signed you in that school
To study and play each day

Almost out of teens
You stepped out of that door
Was time to choose a career
And leap to rock the floor

Your trodden path from here
Was not forced on you with glue
Your first decision of life
Your heart prompted this to do

Not once but at zillion moments
You chose what you felt right
Stumbling and stepping all along
Take pride you soared this height

It’s not only your ambition
That gets you to the divide
How to pick your soul-mate ?
I wish they printed a guide

Life is full of choices
Let me put you on the spot
Your pick defines your spirit
So hit with your best shot

Your angel is missing in action
Or by a sway of wand she’d show
The sparkling image of your mate
Who’ll cause your life to glow

The pressure is again on you
And toughest choice to make
It might turn up a gamble
With your emotions now at stake

Would choose the temporal beauty
That vanishes with the skin
Or would you see the heart
And the love that’s there within.

Don’t be a prey to influence
Good luck for what you decide
A life later when you look back
Hope you cherish the lovely ride.

-- Khushi