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26 December 2016

New Year StrataGEM

New Year GameYet once again
It's time to start fresh game!

Get rid of mental strain,
Wash the anguish from your brain!
Let all the cynicism drain
To feel the soothing rain
On the revived veins.

Yet once again
It's time to start fresh game!

Prepare yourself to maintain
The enlarged domain,
With less of complains
And more of compliance.

Yet once again
It's time to start fresh game!

Protect the self from feign
And let the spirit reign.
The vain must be in rein,
It must be allowed to wane!
You may have to deign,
But remember you'll gain.

Yet once again
It's time to start fresh game!

Away from the customary chain,
Seek a new lane!
Solely with the self campaign,
Bliss is to be attained!

Yet once again
It's time to start fresh game.

~Forum Shah


24 December 2016

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas


Lighting a merry Christmas
Smiling is very must!
Blessings are to be discussed,
Carols are to be listened;
Yummy cakes are to be eaten,
Greet 'N' gifts are to be given;
Santa would be coming
To enliven your living!

~Forum Shah
Christmas Poem



28 October 2016

18 October 2016

regUard

regUard

Regard RespectIn the 'instant' age,
Respect is a pact
Making relations compact
Leaving little impact
As it is not given from heart.
Packed in temporary role,
Respect is a leaf that falls off
During trough.
But regard,
Is an eternal guard
That helps in blissful depart.
It seems hard to give regard
Which erupts from rib cage
And leaves vibrations like sage.

Regard helps generate esteem
That has a focused 'venerable' beam
Which makes respect deemed.

Regards naturally brings respect,
But it becomes vulnerable
When 'venerable' beam gets missed
In showing 'instant' respect
Without any regard.

Ergo Respect gets compact
And stays in graveyard
Making one regret
The experience of illusory respect,
While Regard successfully leaves a visiting card
Which always stays as a guard.

Regards,
Forum Shah




6 July 2016

Beyond Partial

Beyond Partial

'Wants' create more 'wants',
Thank god! constraints exist
To stop feeding such 'wants'.
Wait! Is it these constraints
Which tend to create more wants?
Yes! it might be.

Blockages of constraints open,
Water of 'wants' flows more than usual.
Then a 'Rational'
Might Lose rationality
And consume beyond saturation.
Arrogant rational being
Goes on a binge
Thinking that the new allocation
Would have a wise tinge,
Failing to understand
Systematic error has its stand.
One must learn,
The working
Of System 1 and System 2
To be truly rational!

Let effortful system work to think-
If given initial constraint
Fulfilled desires,
Then how to make optimum use of the bonus?
Whether to keep feeding illusionary wants
Or to create marvels?
Whether to gain wisdom
Or to keep searching
For new satisfaction levels?
Whether to understand the general equilibrium
Or to keep reaching a higher partial equilibrium
Which avoids other sectors
And seems to have a limited hectare!

~Forum Shah




2 July 2016

Outcome ~~~> Event

Outcome ~~~> Event

Probabilty

Outcomes at each stage
Summed up to make an event
Called Life.
~Forum Shah



1 July 2016

'Less of Nature!' Haiku

Less of Nature!


Less Nature Haiku

Both sides of the road
Showcased tall buildings
With hoardings.
~Forum Shah




30 June 2016

Root Haiku


Roots aren't Strong,Get Blown
                                           
When the roots aren't strong,
Be ready
To get blown.
~Forum Shah


29 June 2016

Error Haiku

We reject the truth and accept the false.

Statistics Haiku

We live by
Committing more and more of
Type 1 and Type 2 errors.

~Forum Shah



Scarcity Haiku

Economics Haiku


 There is abundance
When Demand tends to 
Nought.

~Forum Shah



4 June 2016

Living or Surviving

Living or Surviving

Years pass by without expressing
Whether a task gives you a feeling
Of living or surviving.

When one is dealing
It's said that's living,
When one is asked to sit calmly
It's said that's surviving.
In which case are you thriving?

The concepts have changed.
Living became a surviving,
Surviving became a living.

Start thinking,
Are you surviving a living
Or living a surviving?

~Forum Shah




16 May 2016

LEAD in NEED




Lead in Need

Where there's a weed
And a need to remove bad deed,
Plant a seed of good deed
 And Lead.

Why we feed a weed
Just for our greed?
To earn a yield!
Eventually money would yield
Higher rates of return
But quality of life forgone
Would never return.

 Instead of feeding a weed,
Let's lead in need.

 ~Forum Shah





9 May 2016

Disengaged Haiku

Disengaged 

Being disengaged,
Makes the soul get engaged
To set it free from mew.
~Forum Shah

Spiritual Haiku





1 May 2016

Forever

FOREVER

CLEAN forever,criticize never CHANGE forever,coincide never Doing tasks that would reap benefits forever Shouldn't be stopped ever, Then you'll live in the hearts forever The world wouldn't forget you ever. Majority feels they lived forever But they didn't live ever Because they didn't leave. While the ones who themselves leave Are the ones who forever live.
-Forum Shah

Be the change



20 April 2016

माया

माया 

संसार मे डूब कर देखा ,हाथ पकड़ में आई माया। 
छाया जैसी  बन गई माया,यह मिट्टी की है काया। 

पल पल हसाया,पल पल रुलाया,
हर पल सोया,खुद को ही गाया। 
तन भी खोया, मन से खोया ,
कण कण खोया,जग में भुलाया। 

जहाँ  तहाँ  का खाया ,कुछ नहीं भाया,
ऐसा नाट्य रचाया ,फिर तू पछताया। 

अपंग सा तू बन गया ,
जब यम का बुलावा आया। 
अब समझ में आया,
क्या थी यह संसार की माया !

~ फोरम शाह 
Maya





3 April 2016

Pissed

Pissed

Someone insisted the pissed
To face every twist
And never to resist,
In order to exist
One must persist.

One mustn't get pissed
When one's name gets missed
In a list.
One mustn't feel dismissed,
One must feel free
To join a 'Unique Class' list.

Instead of getting pissed,
Let the thoughts get a twist.
Let the mind consist
Valuable thoughts 
Which none can extinguish.

Valuable thoughts would assist
To increase the self worth.
Then the name would never get missed
In any valuable list.

~Forum Shah





24 March 2016

YOU

YOU

Ordinary becomes special
Once it feels You.
Many are in search of You
But You choose to reveal yourself
To a few.
Ones who found You
Can't say they found You
Because the day they felt You
They got lost in You.

~Forum Shah



18 March 2016

Some Time

SOME TIME

There's 'some time' left,
I'll knock around.
There isn't any time left,
In 'some time'
Nothing could be done,
So I'll knock around.
There's only 'some time',
So I'll fulfill my desires
Of grabbing things and pounds.

Then in Mathematics
Integration was taught
And its link with 'some time' was revealed.
'Some time' summed together
Would make up my whole Life!
What I do in 'some time'
Is what I do in Life.
The lesson was forgotten in 'some time'.

When 'some time' was left to fade away,
When in 'some time'
I met my true self,
I realised,
I wasted my life
In useless desires.
I was highly indebted to souls
Who helped me,
Who gave me their 'some time'.
I didn't give anyone 'some time'.
I didn't value 'some time'.

Oh Lord!Please give me 'some time'
To make my life worth.
Give me 'some time'
To thank who helped me.
Give me 'some time'
To help others.
Give me 'some time'
Not to knock around
But to utilize.
At least give me 'some time'
To clear the debts of all times.
In 'some time',
'Some time' seemed to be very valuable.

The way small rectangles
covered the whole area,
'Some time',
covered the whole life.

~Forum Shah


16 March 2016

સ્વચ્છતા અને પવિત્રતા

સ્વચ્છતા  અને  પવિત્રતા 


શરૂ થયું અભિયાન 
સ્વચ્છતા નુ,
જરૂરી હતુ  એક વિકલ્પ 
પવિત્રતા નુ । 

પવિત્રતા હશે તો સ્વચ્છતા રહેશેજ 
પણ જ્યાં બધું સ્વચ્છ દેખાતુ હોય  
શું ત્યાં પવિત્રતા અનુભવાય છે?

 આજુ બાજુ છે બધું રળિયામણું 
પણ મન નથી સોહામણું ,
શરૂ  થયું છે અભિયાન 
પણ માનવ કરે છે દેહાભિમાન ।

વિચાર મા આવશે પ્રમાણિકતા 
ને જ્યોત પ્રગટશે ભીતર મા ,
તોજ ઉજાસ પ્રસરશે જીવન મા । 

~ ફોરમ શાહ 


12 March 2016

Debt

DEBT

( Experimental Micro Poetry )

In the process of falling in debt
And repaying debt Life gets over or begins!
~Forum Shah

(Debt also refers to what you owe to other humans,trees,etc)




8 March 2016

Way

Individual parts,
Then Individual moves
A step forward in queue.

~Forum Shah
All will meet death






5 March 2016

દીકરી કહે...

દીકરી કહે...


દીકરી કહે "ટાટા"         
દીકરી કહે "ટાટા"
સાથે ઉમેરે ,
"પાપા, ઓન દ વે રીચાર્જ માય ડાટા।"

~ફોરમ શાહ



27 February 2016

TEA

TEA

When the schedule goes busy
And you feel sleepy,
You stop being brainy
And you want to feel homely,
Then have the Tea,
To feel free,
To remove laziness,
And gain back freshness.

~Forum Shah
Middlemen being the absentee
From Thorwa
Comes the 'Assam1860' Tea.



20 February 2016

WAKE UP

WAKE UP

You would eventually break up    
Source: Google Images
And leave make up,
When you wake up.

Then you would untiringly shake up
Your mind, to take up
Your thoughts for a take off
That would make
Your surroundings
Experience a blissful get up.

~Forum Shah


30 January 2016

NOTHING IS COMPLETE

NOTHING IS COMPLETE

Life is incomplete
Because Life is Something
With 'Me' instinct.

'Me' is the only One,
While traveling kilometers left was only One.
Till the time its in a state of 'Me',
Till the time kilometer left is 'One',
It won't reach Ultimate One.
The moment One becomes nothing,
The moment kilometer left is zero,
Is the moment of ultimate bliss.

zero is nothing
But zero is complete.
State of nothing
Is the state of being complete.
Nothing is Complete.

~Forum Shah
Nothing






6 January 2016

Seconds



Life_Seconds_Poem

SECONDS



It takes time to achieve success
But few seconds to meet failure.
It takes time to make consistent profit
But few seconds to incur loss.
It takes time to grab things
But a single earthquake to snatch things.
It takes life to make life lively
But in seconds Death snatches it happily.
Too much time is invested
In building a life
Which is always under construction!
Where good things take time
While bad things snatch time
And the last crucial Seconds
Teaches us the truth of Life.
The well-experienced Seconds 
Which could turn victory into failure
Teaches a great lesson of Life
To turn failure into victory.
It takes seconds to gain values that lasts till years,
But it takes years to grab things that lasts for seconds.

~Forum Shah