To My Readers

There was once a Ram­bodoc
Who twisted word and mind
Along came An Unquiet Mind
And soon they were one of a kind

Not for­get­ting her­self, Aika­ter­ine joined
Oemar’s ran­dom mus­ings entwined
Thiru was perched on a spot
No won­der as he was on blogspot

Priyank was fly­ing in the cloud
While Arun thought out loud
Sree’s views, and Nita with her wide angle view
Brought many top­ics in everyone’s purview

Pre­rna loved life and explored
While we all many times deplored
The numer­ous human gaffes
Using philos(ophy) in Paul’s Cafe

Mon­day Morn­ing Power had an atti­tude
Not unlike Har­sha, the gen­tle dude
Ergo with rea­son as his lead­ing motive
Held his blog read­ers captive

On top of all this assorted mix
Was Krish Ashok, a lover of Asterix
Dress­ing it all up with salsa
Using his inim­itable Jalsa

This eclec­tic mix of char­ac­ters
Reminds me of Lagaan
And that’s why on Inde­pen­dence Day
I say, Mera Blo­gos­phere Mahaan!

(PS: For ben­e­fit of non-Indians, Mera Blo­gos­phere Mahaan means My Blo­gos­phere is Great!)

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August 15, 2007 – 11:31 AM | By Mahendra | Posted in Humor, India, My Art, blogging, poetry | Comments (15)

15 Comments

  • rambodoc wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 12:06 PM

    Ah! It was worth the wait of the last few days! :-)

  • Paul Sunstone wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 12:10 PM

    I just dropped by to wish you a happy Inde­pen­dence Day, and now I feel so hon­ored for your men­tion of me. Thank you so much!

  • aikaterine wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 2:44 PM

    Mahen­dra -

    I am snap­ping my fin­gers in true jazz-poetry cafe applause style. That was great.

  • feeling groovy… « forgetting myself wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 3:45 PM

    […] Woke up this morn­ing feel­ing pretty good. Then Mahen­dra memo­ri­al­ized me in a jazzy poem. And I am now feel­ing groovy. Isn’t it great how we can do that for each […]

  • Thiru wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 5:01 PM

    Hey I dropped by to see for any Inde­pen­dence day spe­cial. Wow… you have come up with a unity in diver­sity kind of piece. Thats a nice one for the spe­cial day!

  • oemar wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 5:55 PM

    you are full of sur­prises… beau­ti­ful and cre­ative… and “Thank You”

  • Priyank wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 7:19 PM

    Hey, thanks to you, I have started vis­it­ing your other vis­i­tors’ blogs too. I agree its strange, and I am quite new to it! The com­po­si­tion gets an A+ (since there is no grade above that)

  • Arunk wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 8:27 PM

    I echo oemar — beau­ti­ful and cre­ative are indeed the words that occur to me now. But then I echo aika­ter­ine too — this is indeed a jazzy poem. Thanks!

    PS: When I com­ment in your blog, I notice that there is an empty-line/space on top of the com­ment when it appears. But it is not there in the text-box I am typ­ing the com­ment in now. It is also not there in the com­ments from oth­ers. I won­der why?

  • Nita wrote:
    Aug 15, 2007 at 11:33 PM

    Well thank you Mahen­dra for the men­tion. Now I am think­ing we are get­ting into some sort of clique, the kind Gabriel had mentioned!

  • Paul Sunstone wrote:
    Aug 16, 2007 at 12:11 AM

    Thank you for the link to my blog! You’ve made my day with that and your men­tion of me in your poem! I feel so honored.

  • krishashok wrote:
    Aug 16, 2007 at 9:56 AM

    Stern Teacher: Poetry? The boy wants to write poetry (deri­sive laugh­ter)
    Boy: You bet I do, and Ill post it on my blog, Ill even make fun of you.
    Stern Teacher: (tak­ing cane out to beat boy’s open palms)
    Boy: My friends will cap­ture that on their mobile phones, post it on youtube and digg it. You will be toast if you even think about mind­less vio­lence in the class­room
    Stern Teacher: (stunned into silence)

    We don’t need no edu­ca­tion
    We don’t need no thought con­trol
    No dreary I-day speeches on TV,
    all I want is mahendra’s poetry

    All in all, we’re just..
    Blog­gers hav­ing a ball

  • rambodoc wrote:
    Aug 16, 2007 at 5:58 PM

    Krish,
    Great going!
    What is this turn­ing out to be: a Lost Poets’ Soci­ety? :-)

  • pr3rna wrote:
    Aug 16, 2007 at 7:57 PM

    Thanks a lot. I feel hon­oured that you men­tioned me in your poem.

  • Ergo wrote:
    Aug 22, 2007 at 10:00 AM

    Hey, that’s a lovely, fun poem. I appre­ci­ate your words. :)

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Aug 23, 2007 at 2:43 AM

    To all my read­ers: (well, not all, Sree didn’t respond at all. Har­sha responded not through com­ments but over chat say­ing he hadn’t seen any­thing like this poem before): thank you very much! Other than that, I’m hon­ored that every­one else responded in the comments!

    The thought behind this poem orig­i­nated with the thought of what could I do dif­fer­ently for Inde­pen­dence Day? And I’m glad all you folks liked it so much.

    If some of you may have seen it in our inter­ac­tions so far, I like to bring peo­ple together. The ‘unity in diver­sity’ thing that Thiru men­tioned above is exem­plary of what I try to do. Aikaterene has referred to it in her com­ments on my blog before. That’s what I feel hon­ored about, to all of you. All of you gra­cious read­ers, give me the oppor­tu­nity to bring oth­er­wise non-like-minded peo­ple closer together, and therein lies the great­est joy!

    Once again, thanks so much for appre­ci­at­ing the poem that is ded­i­cated to all of you! Cheers!