Mirages

Dinner chit-chats often drift
To topics wide and deep
Solutions to worlds’ problems
Truths, core inner beliefs
That makes every person tick
And ones’ life worthy to live

Most spoke of principles, rights
And, of course wrongs
Like these were set in stone
Reluctantly I spoke of inner courts
Where final summary judgments
Need to be really and truly won

Indistinguishable grains of sand
in a concrete mixer universe
We know not why we are here
Or for certain what future holds
Strange then how deep beliefs
Succumb to rote societal divisions

… In towering mirages of wonderland

STEM Concepts: Creation

Modernization..

Waiting patiently in the airport for my delayed flight
WiFi free, confounded stress ends its iron-clad strife
Tired yet not sleepy, mind soars in leisurely delight
Its gates open to a world shun by fast-paced life

Quiet moments, forced time-out, room for quiet solace
From life’s marathon struggles, reflecting joyful past
Ah! brief respite to rich and colorful memories embrace
Soon forced to embark on endless runs to nowhere restart

Why has life become onerous to savor such sublime joys
Why the world so engaged with such maddening rapid pace
A heart never content, over-winds your life without rejoice
Simple truths, by tech-forced respite from the rat race

STEM Concepts: Life

Life

Where ever I go I have heard
Wants far more than a meal or bread
Wants from my fellow human kind
Wants that have driven existence blind

I have heard wishes for shiny gems
Or their fancy for luxury whims
Wants that seem to have no end
Wants that many a life succumbs

Rarely have I heard wishes to share
Rarely have I seen people not compare
Not yet seen someone wish for hunger
Or pain and sorrow to help become wiser

How could one know, feel and savor?
Days and nights without cyclic wonder
Such is laughter and pain to one another
What's life worth.. if death never lingers!

STEM Concepts: Life's Beauty

Cognitive Dissonance

Wings of dusty fire, infinite icy cold tail
Instill awe-filled fear, brilliance to behold!
Always in haste, galloping at a quick rate
Wishful lovers delight, celestial wonder sights
Out from unknowns, delivered life to earth
Timeless secrets buried, deep and impervious
Lessons for mankind, in your flashes delivered

Rare comets of the mind, fire sparks so bright
Virtuoso wow insights, a heartbeat from thinkers
Minds’ innate beauty, tested and nature-verified!
Cognitive dissonance.. like cosmic perturbations
Spurs inquisitive minds, spiking dazzling insights
Split-second brilliance, sink bubble-thinking drones
Plutocracy and one-upmanships, never good harbingers

Yet, adrenaline-driven wars, for morsels insignificant..
Bureaucracy-infested world, tears drown have-nots
Capitalism-driven famines, future burdened
Like a pebble before the eye, basic needs’ gone invisible
Lulled mediocrity, fueled by pandemic complacency
Blinded… by blunders of collective human stupidity
Slowly, surely sunk by narcissism of small misunderstandings…

Floated by interminably unrelenting brouhahas…

STEM Concepts: Our World

Valentine Day Message

Churned into living together among the milky white seas
Shaken up ferociously by strong passionate jet winds
Some trapped in highlands, while some to oceans descend
Some forgotten for eons buried in vast galactic deep freeze

Together we controlled the destiny of living things entire
Now human-kinds’ follies help us reconnect with lost relations
Yet our eternal separation helped rich and diverse life sustain
Why then do they dismiss ominous signs as works of satire?

Let today be when the warmth of love begins in earnest to diffuse
The maddening shift towards the inevitable wrath of destruction
Send with those sweet kisses a note calling your valentine to action
Make them stand up and the might of numbers to this cause infuse!

STEM Concepts: Global Warming

God's World?

If god had created the world
I think he created two
One.. our mother earth
For the disliked wife.. by presto

And another.. that takes all his time
For the debauchery filled second
So he never comes around
to see peoples' misery here.


STEM Concept: Eradicate Human Suffering

Pawned...

..
Beyond being engaged..
Professed proclivity
History lessons relearned
anew everyday
Existence enslaved to automation
No time for reflective insights
Persistence?... to outrace hype
Dogged perennial chaos
Illusions of invincibility
Sarcoidosis of the soul!

A moment disengaged..
World drifts at a distance
Relief from maddening chores
Reluctantly relax and relent
Time to stop and ponder
Fallacies of human civilization
Vanishing strands of humanity
by extreme
Wind tunnels of expectations
Reflections of a laid back soul…

Yet... balance fuels fears unknown
Heart yearns 'in'! Herd-like..
Momentary solace.
Yet silence is deafening
Evolution… leading us down
Hand in hand.. comforting
Walking down the pathway
Like wings on termites
Fatefully destined
Gregarious obliteration.. Enmasse!


STEM Concepts: Fool's Paradise