Rhyme with No Reason: Nature, God & Magic (A Collection of Poems)

By Alisha K. Bhatt

A collection of poems written straight from the heart.

Looking at life with a child-like perspective, with simple and thought provoking rhymes, the author draws our attention to how much we take for granted in our lives.

How much, of what we already have, we can enjoy and appreciate if only we could drop the boundaries weve created in our minds.

Ever since she was a little girl, the author has tended to write in rhyme.
Most of these poems were written by her between the ages of 9 to 18.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jun 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482841466

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Copyright © 2014 by Alisha K. Bhatt.

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CONTENTS

I.    A PREFACE TO LIFE AS I SEE IT

II.    LIFE THROUGH POETRY

1.   Two Faces In The Glass

2.   Life: A Virtual Reality Game

3.   Colours of the Rainbow

4.   Life Isn’t Wholly in Our Hands

5.   Nobody’s Perfect

6.   A World Without Magic

III.    MY FIRST EXPERIENCES OF LIFE AT HOME

7.   Music

8.   Little Tommy

9.   Misunderstood

IV.    GROWING UP WITH SIMPLE JOYS OF LIFE

10.   Kite Fight

11.   Jet Skiing Fun

12.   One of a Few

13.   The Fair

14.   Kool Kids

V.    NATURE – THE BEST TEACHER

15.   Nature’s Cry!

16.   United We Stand

17.   Sea for all to See

18.   Camera

19.   Wake Up Call

20.   Dooms Day??

VI.    THE VALUE OF FREEDOM

21.   Drink Up

22.   Exams

23.   Thanks Again

24.   Photography

VII.    DREAMS

25.   Dreams

26.   Rolling Dreams?

27.   Celeb. Interview

28.   Candle In The Dark

VIII.    IMMORTALITY

29.   Nine Lives !

30.   Definitely… For Sure

31.   Never Too Late - To Make It to the Front Page

32.   The Gravedigger

33.   Old Age

34.   Origin

35.   Radiance

36.   When Things Seem Upside Down

37.   Upright

IX.    VALUE & MEANING OF LIFE

38.   Looking Back

39.   Two Elements

40.   A Lesson That Can’t Be Erased

41.   Attitude

42.   The Club

43.   Action Replay

44.   Fiction or Fact

45.   Phony Unprivileged

46.   The Thief Who Found His Grave

47.   The Drug Addict

48.   Time - The Turn of The Wheel

49.   Don’t Judge Me

To the Children of the World

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank:

My parents for always being there for me.

My sister Simran for being a part of the best memories of my life.

Uncle Sundar (Dr. Kalyanasundaram) for all his encouragement and support.

My cousin Insha Ummehani for all her dedicated help in painstakingly designing and working on the illustrations.

My extended family and friends for being a part of my life.

And last but most importantly, my publishers ‘Partridge Publishing’ for their patient follow through and support they gave me, in publishing this book.

I.    A PREFACE TO LIFE AS I SEE IT

Down Memory Lane- A Teenager’s View

Life & Death

T he earth is a sneak-peak preview of what heaven and hell are like, that’s what I have always believed. Well, at least from the time I learned about people dying and what it really meant..

When I was little my mother read me a story almost every night and invariably every story concluded with the same line and they lived happily ever after….. As a child I believed that we would all live forever, timelessly, like the characters in a fairy tale.

It was only when I was about four years of age that I learned that life would end one day for everybody. At first I was unable to accept the fact that humans pass away. As I grew up I began to think:

The world is filled with happiness and sorrow,

You can never tell what’s in store for tomorrow;

All you can do is enjoy today,

Get the fullest experience that comes your way.

Spread joy all around,

Wipe away that ugly frown;

Thank your lucky stars,

For all the blessings, the countless showers

That have been bestowed upon you;

Cherish the fact that you’re one of the few

Who have been able to

Absorb the positive light -

The rest will simply be alright.

‘End of a life’ to me seemed like the biggest lie I’d ever heard, but gradually I began to get used to the idea that all creatures had a life-span, just like every story has