As a kid I always wished to join the Defence System. But saala height aur weight se maar kha gayi. So I had no option but take up something where my thin frame would not pose an issue. I still harbour great respect for the Defence System and always secretly wish to marry a Army guy ;-)
Anyways back to the poem. We had a subject called 'Radio andTV' in BMM. As a part of an assignment, we were told to make promotional campaigns for any topic that was close to our heart and create a talk show for the topic. Since I am curious about the Defence System and their secrets, I thought of a concept where I would grill the Army officers and others from a particular contigency and get the real story out of them. for this purpose I made this poem and used it as a spot for the publicity of my imaginary show. My professor loved the poem (though i donoo why)...anyways even I was proud of my first poem, so I thought of putting it up on the blog :-)
In snow-clad mountains they fight,
Under a cozy quilt we sleep tight,
When they battle they know no day no night,
As they strive to make our day beautiful and bright,
If for them, every day is a step towards grave,
Then should we not remember the brave?
If dying for the motherland is their duty,
Then in respecting their service lies our humane beauty,
So let’s together hear out the Indian Army lore’s,
As it will be sung by our unsung heroes.
-Gayathri
Gayathri - I love your poem too, though the rhyming bit was a conscious effort :) Thats the discount for the 1st poem.
ReplyDeleteI am falling in love with your posts now - adding them to my blogroll. Don't mind!
~RJ
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hi rj...
ReplyDeleteyou are right...rhyming part was a conscious effort from me considering that i always thought poems need to be rhyming...
and surely u can add my blogs to your blogroll...
i am glad to have found an honest critic in you :)
@Gaya - I could feel or understand that quickly coz' I wanted to be a rockstar in college. Like a rockstar rockstar!! I started writing poems which I called songs, bought a guitar, never learnt to play and wrote about 50 songs in college. It was 6 years back. Phew!!
ReplyDeleteCheck "let's get arty" on the fella bloggers section!
Abt being a honest critic - mein ho bolunga sach bolunga sach ke siwah kuch nahi bolunga. Eeeks - Its Sunday afternoon and I am bored that I hv to go to wrk tomm!!
Keep smiling buddy,
~RJ
@rj
ReplyDeletewah! what a filmy statement: mein jo bolunga sach bolunga sach ke siwah kuch nahi bolunga
as for going to work tomorrow...oh god i just hate getting up early after a lazy, crazy weekend!
@Gaya - Yea, ask me about it :(((
ReplyDeleteI hate Mondays!!
BTW, I am super filmy :D
~RJ