i love being caught this way !!

·       I Love Being Caught This Way   .

Many a time,

I tried to swallow

Some insult of time, some pain, some tears.

Alone, alone, just, just alone

So that not to disturb my dear.

But every time

You came to know

By your own sweet little efforts:

Out of concern and love for me.

And then, I bowed in front of you;

My head downwards, for the mild scoldings.

Those were nothing

But showers of love

And I love being caught this way.

Can a heart conceal

Aught from the beats ?

Can a body ever keep,

It’s soul in dark ?

So, vain, foolish efforts of mine

To cry alone

Was never a success.

I was caught and got, every time,

Lectures from you,

From your sweet, sweet tongue.

How lovingly I wish, thus

Always to be caught

As I love being caught this way :

To bow my head in front of you

For your sweet, sweet scoldings .
           # Rajesh Pandey

I WANT TO BE A POET

Let my patriotism:
Burn the blood of the soldiers
In the frozen borders
And  make the guns roar
On the enemies
With redoubled force,
Let my lines be stuffed
With such gun powder and fire.

Let me be cheery
With my little gains
So much ; so that
The gloomy babe
Should be washed with hope
In the shower of the lines
From my heart.

Let me rhyme my passions
In the moods romantic
So, my Love should feel
While reciting , line by line
As if, I am unbuttoning her
One by one.
Let my words
Tingle her nerves
With sweet sensation.

Let me cry
From within my chosen few
Whenever nailed
By the thorns of life
In my dejection.
Let them be too week
To hold this book.

I want ;
This magic in my poetry,
This touch of witchcraft
I want to be a poet,
But only this way.
         # Rajesh Pandey

What for?

We lack nothing in this material strife.
All we miss- is but a touch of life.
For which we are dying day by day.

Relations caked with calculated gains;
Feelings tinctured with pragmatic pains.

Emotions bandaged with worldly comforts.
We lead a life of caged birds.

However hard we are forced to connive;
But we miss that touch of life;
For which we are dying day by day !!!!
             # Rajesh Pandey