Sunday, April 25, 2010

The most..........

The most destructive habit - Worry
The greatest joy - Giving
The greatest loss - Loss of self-respect

The most satisfying work - Helping others
The ugliest personality trait - Selfishness
The most endangered species - Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resources - Youth

The greatest 'shot in the arm' - Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome - Fear
The most effective sleeping pill - Peace of Mind

The most powerful force in life - Love
The most dangerous act - A Gossip
The worlds most incredible computer - Brain
The worst thing to be without - Hope

The deadliest weapon - The toungue
The two most power filled two words - 'I Can'
The greatest asset - Faith
The most worthless emotion - Self Pity

The most beautiful attire - Smile
The most prized possession - Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication - Prayer
The most contagious spirit - Enthusiasm

Life ends when you stop dreaming
Hope ends when you stop believing
Love ends when you stop caring
And, friendship ends when you stop sharing

---- Anonymous

Friday, April 2, 2010

किस मुहूर्त में तूने बनाई नारी

हे ईश्वर! है ये तेरी कैसी कलाकारी ?
किस मुहूर्त में तूने बनाई ये नारी !

"ये चाहती क्या हैं?", प्रश्‍न है ये सबसे भारी
"हम किसी से कम नही", समझ गयी जब दुनिया सारी
फिर क्यो कहा "३३ % सीट हमारी !" ?

नित सरदर्द हो पिता को, जब रहती हैं कुँवारी
मनचाहे वर के लिए करती हैं 'सोमवारी'
फिर शादी के बाद उसका जीना कर देती हैं भारी

फरमाईशें इतनी, इनकी भरी रहे अलमारी
आराम की जिंदगी हो, नौकर-बंगला-गाड़ी
देर से घर जाओ तो शक होती है वफ़ादारी
रो-धोकर, चिल्लाकर, चलाती हैं आरी

सुनो ध्यान से, सलाह है एक लाभकारी
यदि खेलना चाहते हो पूरी पारी
पहले शोध करो इनपे, बढ़ाओ जानकारी
तभी कदम बढ़ाने में है समझदारी

पर सब मग्न हैं, व्यस्त है दुनिया सारी
कोई ना सोचे, समस्या ये विकट भारी
इसी असमंजस मे रहे कलाम-अटल बिहारी

यही सोचते बीत जाएगी उम्र हमारी..
किस मुहूर्त में तूने बनाई नारी !

La Belle Dam Sans Merci

("The Beautiful Lady without Pity")


O what can ail thee knight at arms
alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has witherd from the lake
and no birds sing

O what can ail thee knight at arms
so haggard and woebegone?
The squirrel's granary is full
and the harvests done

I see a lily on thy brow
with anguish moist and fever dew
and on thy cheeks a fading rose
fast withereth too

I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful - a faery's child
her hair was long, her foot was light
and her eyes were wild

I made a garland for her head
and bracelets too and fragrant zone
she looked at me as she did love
and made sweet moan

I sat her on my pacing steed
and nothing else saw all day long
For sidelong would she bend and sing
A faery's song

She found me roots of relish sweet
And honey wild, and manna dew
And sure in language strange she said
'I love thee true'

She took me to her elfin grot
and there she wept and sighed full sore
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
with kisses four

And there she lulled me asleep
and there I dreamed Ah woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dreamt
on the cold hillside

I saw pale kings and princes too
Pale warriors, death pale were they all
They cried 'La Belle Dam Sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'

I saw their starv'd lips in the gloam
with horrid warning gaped wide
And I awoke and found me here
on the cold hillside

And this is why I soujourn here
alone and palely loitering
Though the sedge has withered from the lake
and no birds sing.

----- John Keats

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Turbulence

Those silent waters weave for him
A fluctuant mutable world and dim,
Where wavering masses bulge and and gape
Mysterious, and shape to shape
Dies momentarily through whorl and hollow,
And form and line and solid follow
Solid and line and form to dream
Fantastic down the eternal stream;
An obscure world, a shifting world,
Bulbous, or pulled to thin, or curled,
Or serpentine, or driving arrows,
Or serene slidings, or march narrows.

---- From "The Fish" by Rupert Brooke
(Posted in Physical fluid dynamics by Tritton)
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