I am not an old foggy
Well past my prime
I still jog at dawn with my doggy
calling me old is a crime!
All my teeth are in the right place
so what if you call them dentures
My eye-sight is still in the race
after both my cataract-ops adventures!
Did you say, I open the door
only after the third ring
Surely aren’t you sore
‘cause my will leaves you nothing?
I can still button my shirt
and comb my scanty hair
I often follow anything in a skirt
Without fearing a kick in my rear!
Or do you grudge my age
Where I have wisdom on my side?
I’ll always be the rage
No matter how much I age
I’ll never be alone
Though I may have none by my side!
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The copyright of this poem is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan.
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Middle age
If teenage is the silver age
Middle age is the golden age!
When every Romeo becomes a sage
‘Old is gold’ becomes just another adage!
Whether you are above 30 or below 50
you are never under-age or above-age
but properly in the middle age!
Out of your secret book, may we draw a page
To see how we can conceal our age?
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The copyright of this poem is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
Middle age is the golden age!
When every Romeo becomes a sage
‘Old is gold’ becomes just another adage!
Whether you are above 30 or below 50
you are never under-age or above-age
but properly in the middle age!
Out of your secret book, may we draw a page
To see how we can conceal our age?
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The copyright of this poem is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
Friday, 27 September 2013
Sweet Sixteen!
I have always been sweet sixteen
How can I be eighteen?
If anyone thinks otherwise, she’s just being mean
Anyway, I almost never create a scene !
I’m so sweet, I’m just meant to be seen
by everyone, including my college Dean!
I’m mostly dressed in a skirt or jeans
Neither will ever spill my beans!
To hide my true age, I’ll try all means
I’ll never grow up; & will forever remain in my teens
Because you see, its all in my genes!
If my mummy hasn’t grown up yet
I cannot get any older, not yet, you bet!
Hence, I’ll always croon & preen
I am only ‘SWEET SIXTEEN’!
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The copyright of this poem is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
How can I be eighteen?
If anyone thinks otherwise, she’s just being mean
Anyway, I almost never create a scene !
I’m so sweet, I’m just meant to be seen
by everyone, including my college Dean!
I’m mostly dressed in a skirt or jeans
Neither will ever spill my beans!
To hide my true age, I’ll try all means
I’ll never grow up; & will forever remain in my teens
Because you see, its all in my genes!
If my mummy hasn’t grown up yet
I cannot get any older, not yet, you bet!
Hence, I’ll always croon & preen
I am only ‘SWEET SIXTEEN’!
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The copyright of this poem is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
Thursday, 26 September 2013
New blog exclusively for short stories and novels written by me
Dear friends,
From today, I've started a new blog dedicated exclusively to original short stories and novels written by me. I'll be pleased if you could post your comments and let me know your invaluable feedback.
You may also tell me whether the story could've ended differently or if it was perfect!
Please visit http://creativepriyasvision.blogspot.in/ and read my stories. If you like them, you may recommend the blog to your friends and contacts.
The first story is titled The Baby-doll.It is an enigmatic story. Read on to unravel it......
From today, I've started a new blog dedicated exclusively to original short stories and novels written by me. I'll be pleased if you could post your comments and let me know your invaluable feedback.
You may also tell me whether the story could've ended differently or if it was perfect!
Please visit http://creativepriyasvision.blogspot.in/ and read my stories. If you like them, you may recommend the blog to your friends and contacts.
The first story is titled The Baby-doll.It is an enigmatic story. Read on to unravel it......
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Don't be dejected when rejected
A young girl lies on a sterile hospital bed, with bandages all over her body. Only two slits reveal her eyes filled with anguish and rage. She has been victimized by a spurned suitor, who wouldn’t take “No” for an answer and vented his ire at her rejection; by throwing acid on her. He is of the opinion that if she can’t be his, she cannot belong to anyone else, so he has disfigured her for life. A cowardly and dastardly act, but then strange are the ways of the broken heart!
His actions are also misguided as true love goes much beyond the obvious, physical self and is more a union of the minds and souls. He may have scarred her physical beauty, but she can still win over another guy through her intelligence and talent. His impulsive action also demonstrates the fact that he never loved her in the first place! He was only attracted by her physical beauty.
A true lover will never dream of harming the object of his affection in any way and will even sacrifice his love willingly, if she doesn’t show any interest in him. Thus unrequited love, a one-sided infatuation may have serious consequences for the couple, if the spurned person is unable to handle rejection properly. The girl will be harmed and incapacitated for life and he will spend his life behind bars. What a sheer, avoidable waste of two promising young lives!
Another area where people are often rejected is in an interview for a job. Please don’t blame the interviewing panel or interviewer for your inability to appropriately answer their questions or accuse them of bias. This will only prove that you are unprofessional. Accept the simple and obvious fact that you weren’t adequately prepared for that interview.
You must take it in your stride and strive to straighten out your imperfections and brush up your knowledge in that particular area of expertise, for which you were being interviewed. You could join a professional course that will help you in personality-development and business communication. You could even converse later with the winning candidate about how he tackled his interview and emerged with flying colors. If you are brave enough, you may contact the interviewers later and find out about the areas where you were lacking during the interview so that the next time around, you are better equipped to avoid making similar mistakes.
I know a lady who was a Higher Division Clerk in a reputed Public Sector enterprise. She went for an interview to get promoted to the Officer’s rank, but couldn’t answer fundamental questions about her own job profile and about the department in which she had been working for more than two decades. When she couldn’t clear the interview, she was overheard telling her colleagues that the promotions always went to the ones who buttered up the top brass in the organization! She conveniently refrained from telling them about her ignorance.
Thus look inwards and analyze what went wrong and be honest about it, otherwise you will always be stuck in that same rut of narrow-mindedness and ignorance. Misplaced self-righteousness doesn’t get one anywhere but the bin!
Then there are others who keep repeating the same blunders ad nauseum and keep lamenting about their fate. They are short-sighted and lazy. They don’t want to take corrective action and blame everyone and everything for their own inefficiency and inability to learn from their mistakes. It is often said that one may make mistakes only if one makes new mistakes every time and doesn’t repeat the earlier ones!
A very cruel and subtle form of rejection is when a suitor comes to “see” the girl for considering a marriage proposal, in India and rejects her after a prolonged session of interviewing her and her family members and partaking of delicious sweets and savories, painstakingly prepared for that occasion! Why not be prepared for what you really want to ‘see’ in a girl, namely her qualifications and interests and only zero in on an appropriate match, so that this irritating tradition at least bears fruit! I am sure that the young girls will agree with me that their suitors must come armed with a positive attitude, etiquette and charm.
Often, the suitor doesn’t respond at all and the girl’s family has to constantly pursue him or his family for an answer. Well, he should at least have the courtesy to say a polite “No” and explain why he and his family have considered rejecting that girl for marriage.
A girl, who was rejected by a succession of suitors as she wasn’t very good-looking, committed suicide. She had been made to feel ashamed for no fault of hers! God has given everyone good and bad qualities. Hence we must accept our lot and be satisfied. Just because someone has rejected us doesn’t mean the end of the world. Why should the girls suffer from an inferiority complex and take this extreme step?
Here are some practical solutions to overcome dejection after rejection:
Accept the inevitable and move on in life. Other promising opportunities will soon come your way.
Life is too short for regrets. So live it up and put your unpleasant past behind. One song’s pleasing lyrics come to my mind here. “Where’s the time to hate, when there is so little time to love!”
Be cheerful and confident. Just because someone has rejected you doesn’t mean that you are not worthy, it could mean that that person is unworthy of your sincere affection. Pay heed to the wise owl’s saying, “If you truly love someone, set that person free. If that person returns to you, he/she is yours forever and if he/she doesn’t he/she was never yours!”
Make new friends and involve yourself in the pursuit of new hobbies and interests.
Learn from your mistakes and try to rectify them.
It's very important that you don't stop venturing into new areas of activity due to the fear of rejection. You'll never achieve anything if you are so scared to hear a "No" or "Sorry". Respect other people's opinions and views and march on!
Overcome your fears and phobias through counseling and being with optimistic and confident individuals. Their sheen will surely rub on you and make you a better and adjusted person, ready to take on the world with a genuine smile!
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The copyright of this article is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
Dear friends, You may share your experience with me. Were you ever hurt due to rejection and how did you cope with it? Let me know! I am sure that all of us can learn some invaluable lessons from your experience.
His actions are also misguided as true love goes much beyond the obvious, physical self and is more a union of the minds and souls. He may have scarred her physical beauty, but she can still win over another guy through her intelligence and talent. His impulsive action also demonstrates the fact that he never loved her in the first place! He was only attracted by her physical beauty.
A true lover will never dream of harming the object of his affection in any way and will even sacrifice his love willingly, if she doesn’t show any interest in him. Thus unrequited love, a one-sided infatuation may have serious consequences for the couple, if the spurned person is unable to handle rejection properly. The girl will be harmed and incapacitated for life and he will spend his life behind bars. What a sheer, avoidable waste of two promising young lives!
Another area where people are often rejected is in an interview for a job. Please don’t blame the interviewing panel or interviewer for your inability to appropriately answer their questions or accuse them of bias. This will only prove that you are unprofessional. Accept the simple and obvious fact that you weren’t adequately prepared for that interview.
You must take it in your stride and strive to straighten out your imperfections and brush up your knowledge in that particular area of expertise, for which you were being interviewed. You could join a professional course that will help you in personality-development and business communication. You could even converse later with the winning candidate about how he tackled his interview and emerged with flying colors. If you are brave enough, you may contact the interviewers later and find out about the areas where you were lacking during the interview so that the next time around, you are better equipped to avoid making similar mistakes.
I know a lady who was a Higher Division Clerk in a reputed Public Sector enterprise. She went for an interview to get promoted to the Officer’s rank, but couldn’t answer fundamental questions about her own job profile and about the department in which she had been working for more than two decades. When she couldn’t clear the interview, she was overheard telling her colleagues that the promotions always went to the ones who buttered up the top brass in the organization! She conveniently refrained from telling them about her ignorance.
Thus look inwards and analyze what went wrong and be honest about it, otherwise you will always be stuck in that same rut of narrow-mindedness and ignorance. Misplaced self-righteousness doesn’t get one anywhere but the bin!
Then there are others who keep repeating the same blunders ad nauseum and keep lamenting about their fate. They are short-sighted and lazy. They don’t want to take corrective action and blame everyone and everything for their own inefficiency and inability to learn from their mistakes. It is often said that one may make mistakes only if one makes new mistakes every time and doesn’t repeat the earlier ones!
A very cruel and subtle form of rejection is when a suitor comes to “see” the girl for considering a marriage proposal, in India and rejects her after a prolonged session of interviewing her and her family members and partaking of delicious sweets and savories, painstakingly prepared for that occasion! Why not be prepared for what you really want to ‘see’ in a girl, namely her qualifications and interests and only zero in on an appropriate match, so that this irritating tradition at least bears fruit! I am sure that the young girls will agree with me that their suitors must come armed with a positive attitude, etiquette and charm.
Often, the suitor doesn’t respond at all and the girl’s family has to constantly pursue him or his family for an answer. Well, he should at least have the courtesy to say a polite “No” and explain why he and his family have considered rejecting that girl for marriage.
A girl, who was rejected by a succession of suitors as she wasn’t very good-looking, committed suicide. She had been made to feel ashamed for no fault of hers! God has given everyone good and bad qualities. Hence we must accept our lot and be satisfied. Just because someone has rejected us doesn’t mean the end of the world. Why should the girls suffer from an inferiority complex and take this extreme step?
Here are some practical solutions to overcome dejection after rejection:
Accept the inevitable and move on in life. Other promising opportunities will soon come your way.
Life is too short for regrets. So live it up and put your unpleasant past behind. One song’s pleasing lyrics come to my mind here. “Where’s the time to hate, when there is so little time to love!”
Be cheerful and confident. Just because someone has rejected you doesn’t mean that you are not worthy, it could mean that that person is unworthy of your sincere affection. Pay heed to the wise owl’s saying, “If you truly love someone, set that person free. If that person returns to you, he/she is yours forever and if he/she doesn’t he/she was never yours!”
Make new friends and involve yourself in the pursuit of new hobbies and interests.
Learn from your mistakes and try to rectify them.
It's very important that you don't stop venturing into new areas of activity due to the fear of rejection. You'll never achieve anything if you are so scared to hear a "No" or "Sorry". Respect other people's opinions and views and march on!
Overcome your fears and phobias through counseling and being with optimistic and confident individuals. Their sheen will surely rub on you and make you a better and adjusted person, ready to take on the world with a genuine smile!
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The copyright of this article is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
Dear friends, You may share your experience with me. Were you ever hurt due to rejection and how did you cope with it? Let me know! I am sure that all of us can learn some invaluable lessons from your experience.
Monday, 23 September 2013
Be a graceful loser
I watched in horror as a participant of the Indian Idol contest raved and ranted about the judges’ meanness and bias in front of the audience, when he was asked to leave mid-way. Clearly, this gentleman had not been able to take his defeat graciously and was venting his negativity, thus inadvertently showing his lack of sportsmanship!
Winning and losing are two sides of the same coin; hence one must be able to handle both with a smile on his/her face instead of behaving churlishly. It is this attitude of pride and ego that translates into violence, peevishness and sulking. One must remember that there are many people around who may be more talented than one-self; hence congratulating the winner must win over howling and making a scene! Blaming the judges for one’s own inefficiency is a strict no-no.
Indeed, children must be encouraged right since their growing years, to be able to accept defeat graciously. They must be explained the irrefutable adage that, “Winning is not as important as trying to succeed. Try and try again till you succeed!” The winner and loser must shake hands and the loser must warmly congratulate the winner and the winner must smile and say, “Better luck next time buddy. You put up a tough fight! It was a pleasure playing with you.”
One can’t always win in life or even in what one does every now and then! Obviously, someone has to lose for the winner to win! The next best thing that a loser can do is roll up his sleeves, tighten his socks and strive hard for success the next time around. He/she must look upon it as a challenge and overcome his shortcomings and polish his/her skills/talent so that he/she can be in the spot-light as a winner, in future.
I am reminded of my father’s friend who was a sportsman and played several games like hockey, badminton, table-tennis, etc. He was partial to ‘Scrabble’ and just adored the board-game, so much so that he was always rearing for a game or two and on the look-out for new partners. It goes without saying that he always wanted to win and was proud of his prowess with a magnificent vocabulary. The heavens would fall whenever he met an opponent who routed him. He would scatter the tiles on the board and sulk throughout the day. I always wonder, till date, about how he could be so un-sportsman-like. Surely he should’ve had the sporting spirit!
No one likes to lose, but when defeat is inevitable, accept it. The mighty Emperor Alexander defeated the valiant King Porus in battle. He then asked Porus “How would you like to be treated?” Porus proudly replied, “Treat me as you would treat another King!” The Emperor was impressed beyond words and accorded him great respect.
Even if the winner jeers at you and says unkind, hurtful words, never retort like-wise. Show your polite demeanor and make them squirm! You may say quietly, “There’s always a next time.” Thus leave it unsaid but certain that you’ll win the next time.
If you are overwhelmed by your loss and feel like crying, go ahead. It’ll definitely make you feel better and prove that you are human, not a superman or superwoman. Of course, one always admires the brave ones who just stand tall and quiet, composed and smiling as they wave to the audience and take a bow. Look at those elegant ladies who haven't won the coveted title in a beauty contest!
So be a sport in defeat and bowl over the world with your grace!
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The copyright of this article is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
Dear friends, I am eagerly waiting for your feedback. Let your comments flow....
Winning and losing are two sides of the same coin; hence one must be able to handle both with a smile on his/her face instead of behaving churlishly. It is this attitude of pride and ego that translates into violence, peevishness and sulking. One must remember that there are many people around who may be more talented than one-self; hence congratulating the winner must win over howling and making a scene! Blaming the judges for one’s own inefficiency is a strict no-no.
Indeed, children must be encouraged right since their growing years, to be able to accept defeat graciously. They must be explained the irrefutable adage that, “Winning is not as important as trying to succeed. Try and try again till you succeed!” The winner and loser must shake hands and the loser must warmly congratulate the winner and the winner must smile and say, “Better luck next time buddy. You put up a tough fight! It was a pleasure playing with you.”
One can’t always win in life or even in what one does every now and then! Obviously, someone has to lose for the winner to win! The next best thing that a loser can do is roll up his sleeves, tighten his socks and strive hard for success the next time around. He/she must look upon it as a challenge and overcome his shortcomings and polish his/her skills/talent so that he/she can be in the spot-light as a winner, in future.
I am reminded of my father’s friend who was a sportsman and played several games like hockey, badminton, table-tennis, etc. He was partial to ‘Scrabble’ and just adored the board-game, so much so that he was always rearing for a game or two and on the look-out for new partners. It goes without saying that he always wanted to win and was proud of his prowess with a magnificent vocabulary. The heavens would fall whenever he met an opponent who routed him. He would scatter the tiles on the board and sulk throughout the day. I always wonder, till date, about how he could be so un-sportsman-like. Surely he should’ve had the sporting spirit!
No one likes to lose, but when defeat is inevitable, accept it. The mighty Emperor Alexander defeated the valiant King Porus in battle. He then asked Porus “How would you like to be treated?” Porus proudly replied, “Treat me as you would treat another King!” The Emperor was impressed beyond words and accorded him great respect.
Even if the winner jeers at you and says unkind, hurtful words, never retort like-wise. Show your polite demeanor and make them squirm! You may say quietly, “There’s always a next time.” Thus leave it unsaid but certain that you’ll win the next time.
If you are overwhelmed by your loss and feel like crying, go ahead. It’ll definitely make you feel better and prove that you are human, not a superman or superwoman. Of course, one always admires the brave ones who just stand tall and quiet, composed and smiling as they wave to the audience and take a bow. Look at those elegant ladies who haven't won the coveted title in a beauty contest!
So be a sport in defeat and bowl over the world with your grace!
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The copyright of this article is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
Dear friends, I am eagerly waiting for your feedback. Let your comments flow....
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Good Luck!
Does charm bring you good luck
Or do good luck charms?
Do good-luck charms suck
Or work their charms?
Hang a horse-shoe outside your house
You needn’t open the doors for
The luck that is sure to enter;
For, it doesn’t have any option!
Count on your lucky numbers, colours, days
Be sure that it always pays
To be in their good books
And invite all those jealous looks!
Count your blessings, pray for favourable stars
Though good luck needn’t come only from Mars!
For good luck there are no bars
Except good luck to have GOOD LUCK!
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COIN
Toss a coin, get heads or tails
Toss a coin, for wins and fails
Toss a coin, for ups and downs
Toss a coin, for windfall or downfall
Toss a coin, and your life goes for a toss
For, you are no longer your own boss!
Don’t let a coin rule over you
Don’t let a coin over-rule you
You are the master, you are the Boss
Let the coin go for a jolly good toss!
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The copyright of these two poems is with Mrs.Priya Ramesh Swaminathan
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