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ratnakar d mandlik, 21 september 2015
Riding The Waves Of Imagery
Riding the waves of sorrow
Gliding through imagery
In pursuit of salvation
Flies a poet's imagination.
Bearing brunt of the legacy
Almighty's gift in inheritance
Absorbed is the hermit in a trance,
In poverty too keeping him cozy.
Omnipresence through inheritance,
Omnipotent command over words,
The lord in celestial kingdom
Trades dreams to humanism.
Long live the dream merchant
And his fountain of joy to us enchant.
Poet: Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 21 september 2015
The Pause
Cursory glance of a wwilliwy dame
Pierced the heart and it did tame
Embodiment of valour and too brave,
A thunderous jolt to him it gave.
The chieftain ruled over the clan,
Bravery and prudence were the coins
Coveted by him alongwith celebacy,
Acquired from mentor, in legacy.
Service of humanity was his goal,
Strived for the same his inner soul.
Banished he had selfishness and greed.
In service of humanity joy he derived.
Gone with the wind were his resolves,
By her glance and a seductive Pause.
Poet: Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 20 september 2015
Celebrations
Not failure, low aim is crime
Big bangs too produce unique chime.
Blank can not a life,s canvas be
With ample strokes of pains n glee.
Youth may pass nurturing aspirations,
Intensifying in the run all the emotions.
Hard earned knowledge may come to rescue,
Compelling to accept disillusoned ash,s residue.
Joy n sorrow, elation n agonizing pain
In which He has soused life of human.
Birth n death, two definite destinations
Opposite though are their own Celebrations.
Life is worth living inspite of all such odds
For the human, loveliest incarnation of God.
Poet: Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 20 september 2015
Oh Almighty Nature
In nature's guise a deity,
May I call you Almighty?
Embodiment of benevolence,
At times cruelty,s essence.
You are no doubt great,
With forms though intricate,
Master of the universe
With incarnations diverse.
Enchanting your landscapes
Mountains n valleys picturesque.
Embodiment of celetial beauty
You do shatter our vanity.
Oh bountiful almighty
On human have some pity
Since you are the creator
As also their terminator.
Poet: Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 20 september 2015
Aftermath
Discovery of oil stocks in the middle east
During '70, had started beeline in the quest
Of unemployed job seekers towards Dubai
Scums of oil money then flowed in India n Mumbai.
Typists, carpenters, nurses and electricians,
Affording only cycles flew in aeroplanes.
Middle east had been their destiny n work place.
Hutment dwellers too nurtured dreams of palace.
Wealth n it,s swelling started to differentiate
India and Bharat, NRI and RI, it,s affiliates.
Money they remitted to families at home
Upliftment of clans was their cherished dream.
Less fortunate alas, who could not make it
Were the natives who were hardly hit.
Inflation had robbed their earnings at home,
Poorer they became in course of the game.
ratnakar d mandlik, 20 september 2015
Good Teacher
Riding on the waves of sorrow and mirth
Traverses life of human if the sail is smooth.
Hurricanes and tornados with mountainous tides
No doubt to it capsize n it,s doom they decide.
Every human being, being an unique boat
Sails in the ocean as destined since birth.
Joyeous may be the sail or may it be tumultous
Positive approach though can make it picturesque.
Thoughts, if negative make it a trawler
Dragging heaps of grief in it,s net.
Dumping sorrow needs expertize great
Inculcated that can be only by a preacher.
Smooth n meaningful sail of any boat
Ensures good teacher n his radiates.
Poet: Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 19 april 2013
EPIC OF LIFE-3
Scattered on an elevation are the Konkani huts
Adjoining the beach in an elegant resort.
With its "Tarang" the beach restaurant
On a platter natural beauty the duo present.
The divine scenic beauty and its' hypnotism
Spellbounds a spectator n pushes him in bosom
Of the mother nature and he enters a trance
Sitting under umbrella facing ocean Arabian.
Blowing hot air on scorching summer noon
Humid atmosphere soaking in perspiration
Compel even the birds to find their shelter
Leaving solitary ocean with his tides to roar.
Solace could be found from sip through straw
When ambrosia from raw coconut you draw.
That can make you in scorching summer calm
Standing beneath meager shadow of a palm.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 17 april 2013
EPIC OF LIFE-2
Standing in shallow water when it is low tide
Experience one can get there of a life time
When the receding water after a high tide
Washes away sand from beneath your feet.
The surfs hit you hard if to them you stop.
While receding they push you off balance
Pulling you all the while inside the ocean
Narrowing,thus,your life and deaths' gap.
The zig zag line of greenery of hilly terrain
Hiding the beach as also sage like ocean
Even from voyager who has set-in destination,
They guard Ganapatipule like a loyal janitor.
Enchanting is contrast presented by the canvas
Of the silty red soil encircling the beach.
As if they want some thing to us teach
With the green omnipresent floras' expanse.
Equallly breath taking is celestial confluence
Of the deep blue sea with the skyline azure
Where they mingle in union on the horizon
Before the supreme Lord, in obeisance.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 17 april 2013
EPIC OF LIFE-1
The omnipresence of ocean felt at Ganapatipule
The aggression on tides on shore for confluence
Of the sea, ordained by the Almighty, with the soil
Imprints on our soul,oh lord, a sublime influence.
The greyish silky sand with minute granules
Spread on the beach in too thick layers
Housing prawns, crabs n what not in their holes
Shining in sunlight as an expanse of silver.
Life long penance of palm trees on the slopes
Alongwith mango trees guarding the beach
Are also spectators and they set-up the pitch
For galloping tides, in pledging to elope.
Chirping of the birds sets in the dawn
Melody of nightingale reminds night bygone.
The mist shields for a while the vast expanse
Of sea water which may be longing in a trance.
Enticing however is the roaring of the surfs
And the glittering tides in rays of infant sun.
Celestial is the melody produced by the collusion
With rocky shores by thundering surfs.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 12 april 2013
THE BURNING MIND
God calmly sat for meditation once
He decided to incarnate as a poet great.
To be carefree amidst humans and rejoice
Frame he built and for heart used 14 carats
Before inducting life by sprinkling ambrosia
In the frame of poet with a twig of acacia,
God left it in urgency making way for Godess
Who entered there with a can and in a rush.
The God enkindled a lamp on his return
To heat poets' heart and to it strengthen.
Alas suddenly fuel spread on it caught fire.
By a sheer accident the heart was in flames,
Destining it for ever in emotions to burn.
The mind is an enclave of every poet great
Encircled in flames perhaps for enunciation,
To create a delicate bond in myrh and realism.
Engulfed in fire though it is never gutted
Burnt are emotions erupting from poesys' blossom.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 12 april 2013
CAJOLEMENT
You are omnicient and also omnipresent
Still oh God for you we have to build temples.
It is often believed that you reside there
Inspite of being creator of the universe.
You have created nature as also human
Yet you can not put him under nature
And have to face always cajoling men.
Nature you use to suppress them then.
Stern nature brings floods, earthquakes
That destroy then the proud foolish men.
Reestablishing your dominance over them
Inculcating fear once again in them.
Then perhaps to pay his respects or for show
Man builds temples to restrict your power.
Your power works in temples, they believe
And bend before you after committing follies.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 12 april 2013
SYMBOL OF LIFE
The weeping of a child
Every newly borned
Is a symbol showing
A life newly formed
The weeping is greeted
With warmth by parents.
Kith n kin too rejoice
In absence of any choice.
Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 12 april 2013
PAIN IS MY BELOVED
Pain is the companion
Of all my emotions
And it always resides
In my tiny mind.
Its' company I do enjoy,
Charm of life it do enhance.
I do miss it when by chance
Flirts with me even joy.
Pain is my beloved Joy a pal.
Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 12 april 2013
THE KNOT OF LOVE
Sometimes my emotions
Get speedy transactions
And then my little heart,
Forgetting its' own bits,
Entangles fully in thoughts
Of loves' different knots.
A precious knot of love
With the beloved which is tied
After lapse of time gets loose
Sometimes even gets untied.
When the love becomes dim,
In different directions swim
The lover n his once beloved
To become forever estranged.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 10 april 2013
CYBERNETICS AND GENETICS
Information and its explosion
And the cut-throat competition
Generated by it among humans
Has snatched every thing humane.
Money was the real power, once
Before it nothing had any chance
To set terms and rule the world.
It's power was a double edged sword.
Money power is now a back bencher
Power is dominated by information.
One who knows, rules the world
Ignorance is a losers companion.
Now dominates even on genetics
The superb science of cybernetics.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 10 april 2013
AN ODE TO LOVE
East and west up and down
In your search I never found
Any shape in which you were bound.
You too had no specific ground
Though in nature n life you abound.
Fascinate me your manifestations
Espoused with varied intentions
With humane desire of sublimation
As also of cunning intimidations
To project self and it's promotion.
Lover and beloved in this pair
You mask adroitly carnal desires.
Infatuation n longing on separation.
A mastery you show in presentation
In celestial form human relations.
Money and miser in this pair
Of greed you become embodiment.
You are a quantity for a miser
Of money n it's agrandizement,
For which he crosses all extents.
Lust for power and more power
Is your mask with a power monger
You may think then to annihilate
The weak for the conquest ultimate
Of your devotee- the power monger.
Show me love all such places
Where you reside just for your sake.
Where your bonds no one can break,
Your presence creats no mess
And it goes on showering pure happiness.
Which are the forms you too love
Is it compassion! tell me oh love.
Are pity n sympathy your own forms.
I too know all their charms
Tell me if you follow any norms?
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 10 april 2013
AN ODE TO WINE
An universal anecdote on pain
In frustration you are a companion.
In limit an elixir and a potion
A must you are in our celebrations.
Ambrosia secured through churning,
By divinity and demons, of oceans
You are the award to their off springs.
Born you are for the sublimation
Of every thing humane n their emotions.
No poor soul could know truth eternal
Till the all knowing monarch did spell
Notion of producing you from food grains,
Keeping crores hungry for the gains
Of the greedy embodiment of devils.
From elixir, anecdote n a potion
They have transformed you in poison
For uprooting coming generations,
Who could make superpower to our nation.
Omnipresence as base you are in potions
Omnipotence you have for intoxication.
Best friend you are for those in agony
Though deceptive mirth is your progeny.
You in yourself were always fine
When you were only a peg of wine.
The unhappy can forget all the pain
When you take them in your domain.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 8 april 2013
ROMANCE
Romance is an elixir an ambrosia,
A gift from Almighty to flora and fauna.
An anecdote it is a soothing balm
To all human beings attracts its' charm.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 8 april 2013
PHOENIX
Blooming of a bud into beautiful flower
Breath taking hues mingled in its attire
More precious it is than even a sapphire
Bounty of the nature every where appears.
Flower is destined alas soon to perish
Unlike mother India's charm celestial.
Unity in diversity its off springs cherish
No onslaught can push it into grave peril.
Mountains, rivers picturesque landscapes
Scattered everywhere are scenic expanses.
Every thing contributes to it enhances
Abounding scenic beauty of varied shapes.
Like a phoenix it did come out of ashes
Of slavery of centuries imposed by tyrants.
No doubt will come out soon from the mesh,
Quagmire of corruption of own lieutenants.
Sons of this soil by default were innocent
Weight age their lives had for spiritualism,,
Sacrifice was boon for foes of materialism
Legacy of such teachings was too sacrosanct.
Status of diety was conferred here on guests
Forgiving their ulterior motives or quests.
Eternal joy was pursued through contentment,
Infants were fed on this potion by parents.
The tyrrany of intruders had its toll
Deceit was ushered in in place of innocence
Forgetting the morals the place of sacrifice
Our legacy of values too had a back roll.
Concept of globalization tossed by big players
Ensured their feeding at the cost of smallers,
Paralyzing our wisdom though for a while
Definite is our victory in the end on guile.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 8 april 2013
HATS OFF TO THE MAIDS IN PUNE
India's cultural capital n oxford of the east
Is the identity acquired by the Pune city.
A hub of education n I.T. centre universal
Has now become once the Peshwa's capital.
Y2K phenomenon boosted Pune's growth
Pulling talent scattered in south and north.
Rural men n women too came in great demand
To serve the talent and obey their commands.
Rural womenfolk absorbed as maids
Mended the households and cooked their breads.
They were enlightened by power of education
That slowly imbibed slowly in them ambitions.
Mothers in the maaids made firm resolution
To uplift their families and dear children.,
By imparting them best possible education
By investing their own optimum perspiration.
Such maids in Pune toil for prolonged hours
Their struggle to improve lot of their dears
Compells every one, even strangers
To bow before those untiring mothers.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 8 april 2013
ONSLAUGHT OF FAMINE
Marathwada the land of saints
Scanty rains and it's children faint.
Hunger and thurst made them lame
No use on any one to put it's blame.
Fatigue resisting some more toil
Dejection captivating their souls.
With lips parched as the soil
In nomads 've turned sons of the soil.
With empty stomach n empty pitchers
Are roaming in vain for miles together
Men, women and their children
To combat onslaught of the drought.
Poor and weak are the suffferers worst
Ecological imbalance to them hits first.
Sympathy for them is need of the hour
Let us flock to give them from it respite.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 8 april 2013
PENDULUM
Our Kerala tour moved like a pendulum
For a while only at Ernakulam.
Hotel Sunniti suites on highway forty seven
Though gave a feeling that we were in haven.
Life was paralyzed on Feb 20 and twenty one
By the Bharat Bandh called by leftists n CPM.
Lot of fun n frolic we had in the sojourn
Enjoy in the Vihar was the aim of every one.
Torrid atmosphere prevailing at Ernakulam
Was contained fabulously by air conditioners.
Unfulfilled wish to visit unique Kochi harbour
Was mellowed by scenic beauty at beach Kovalam.
Joy n sorrow are perhaps the destinations
Touched frequently by our mind's Pendulum.
-Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 18 may 2012
EAST AND WEST
Volatile values and allurement of glamour
Gifted to the human as boons of materialism.
He has to drift then from ancient spiritualism
And to take recourse to superficial shimmer.
Age old our heritage and ancient civilization
Prided in imbibing values and emotions.
It taught us to be loyal with motley relations
And preserve their sanctity not as a showman.
The bonds of relations, deeprooted and pure
Bind the persons related by blood either
Or by the "Karma" as follower and preacher
Asks for any proof or any show, never-never!
Oriental spiritualism infuses pure values
In absence of display too, emotions are true.
-------Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 18 may 2012
ROMANCE OF AN INTELLECTUAL
Intellectuals are gifted with supernatural power,
Of justifying their espousal even of convienience
Even with ideas n principles they may accept never
And though it may cause breach of their conscience.
Every ruler, may he be despot or gem of governance
Requires his pack of intellecuals to impart guidance.
Thy project the ruler and his system as egalitarian.
Adroitly they can do it by dividing whole population.
As an exception to the rule are diehard intellectuals
Who may prefer extinction for belief and principles.
They are though side tracked by cunning brethren,
Who overshadow them with fractured perceptions.
History has often witnessed intellectuals' pliability
When despotic rules shatter their cherished integrity.
-----Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 18 may 2012
TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY
Human conceptualized the best polity
For superb governance is the democracy,
That ensures for every one equal opportunity
Desisting in any form, rule of any dynasty.
Legislature, judiciary, bureaucracy n press
Are four pillars on which rests its' edifice.
Most sacred sanctum is the parliament
Of its temple n it is not for entertainment.
Honesty, integrity, empathy and sincerity
Be qualifications for a parliamentarian
Not less than a priest to be for egalitarian
Societys' inception and benefit to majority.
A pious duty on every one it entrusts
To ensure the qualities, in him, they must.
- Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 18 february 2012
When Tranquility Rules
One has to play innings of life
Ample joy be there or be full of grief.
As a river flows the life in any way,
Deep n calm or be in a spate it may.
Youth enables to enjoy all the tides,
Captivating life with joy and grief.
Advent of the evening though may chide
Shaking the soul for a moment brief.
Ups and downs faced in the life
Ought to unravel meaning of life
Enabling to take life in its stride
Like a Sthitpradnya and a being refined.
Joy n sorrow then lose their meaning
When qranquility rules over the evening.
- - - - - - - -Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 15 february 2012
Pledge
many a wars the freedom fighters fought
To free you motherland from shackels of slavery,
Displaying rare courage they martyred with bravery
And threw to the wings their dear ones lots.
Significance of the freedom they did know
Gen next inherited it and started to it blow.
Blurring, thus, in slavery and freedom boundary
Making hard earned freedom virtual and imaginery.
For common man freedom has become illusory
Its' fruits were reaped, though, by few coteries
Governed by selfishness and inhuman qualities
Who are ruled by even the setanic mentalities.
We pledge oh motherland on this Valentine Day
To regain true freedom ,for you, in a noble way.
- - - - - - - - -Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 8 february 2012
Compromise
Once I told a cloud
Not to make sound loud,
For it you are not allowed
And in time you 've to rain.
I had to tell too to my mind
Not in the milieu to be blind,
To accept reality you are bound
Letting thy nations to drain.
I had to change the notions
The cloud too had to rain.
The clouds' n mine bargain
Lie bound in a chain.
Joy demands the only price,
Nothing else but compromise.
- - - -Ratnakkar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 7 february 2012
A Burlesque On Liberalization
Long live the freedom newly found,
Far below has been left the ground,
Drinking the elixir of liberalization
We 've forgotten human sensations.
Live n let others live, motto we had.
Our prosperity we often used
For not so lucky, as ordained
By culture n sacraments we 've gained.
Liberalized now is our greed for wealth.
No one is left to repose the faith
In moral values like selflessness,
Really oh God, we are is a mess.
Its time, wake-up for liberalization
From greed, to keep up our traditions.
- - - - - -Ratnakar D Mandlik
ratnakar d mandlik, 6 february 2012
The Chieftain
Neither a soldier nor a sailor,
Not either an airman or a godman.
To no outfit of an army he belongs,
Yet to be called a chieftain he longs.
Neither he is wealthy nor a beggar
His command is full of poor hawkers.
Misled you shouldn't be by his barking
On his charge, while the day is breaking.
Torrents of harsh words as also abuses
Flowing from him may tempt you to guess
Of his nature as a cruel and sadist,
Oh no! he is a noble hearted methodist.
Embodiment of Karma Yogi appears
Performing duties with state of the art,
And the barking a part of his tradecraft
For leading a contingent of hawkers
Who fetch you morning news papers
For a pittance for ages and ages.
He reminds me of the Miller of the Dee
Always doing hard work that too with glee.
Herding his naughtyhawkers sternly,
Even while abusing them he is jolly.
Though a treasure he is of common sense,
He is not learned in the worldly sense.
Master craftsman of inter actions,
A luminary knowing all transactions
Of human mind, he is capable to employ
Them for generating untainted joy.
A lot of money he may not posses
His simplicity rules over the riches.
- - - - - - -Ratnakar D Mandlik
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Jaga
Zwierzęta upodobniły się do koloru otoczenia
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To naturalny suchy i pustynny klimat. I tam są
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Klimat taki, że nie był i raczej nie będzie,
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Kajzerki są przereklamowane ;)
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wielki wypas - był albo może będzie. kto wie...
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sama prawda z tym myśleniem i psoceniem ale
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zastanowiło mnie czy owe cenienie kajzerek wynika
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skomponowane kolorystycznie..
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To co te kozy dziobią i dlaczego? Co na to aktywiści?
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