अर्ज है...

रंग-बिरंगे, छोटे-बड़े सुन्दर-सुन्दर पक्षी

उड़-उड़ कर विभिन दिशाओं से आते हैं 

दरख़्त पर, अपना समझ कर डेरा जमाने

कुछ एक को छोड़ कर, सब मगर उड़ जाते हैं!

--- स्वरचित --- 

अर्ज है...

न कर बंद अपनी आँखें ऐ दुनियावालों 

कुदरत ने कई बार तुझे ये सिखाया है
एक तू है, अपनी लालच में सब भूल कर
खुदा के अच्छाइयों को ही ललकारा है
खुदा भी मेहरबान हो जायेगा तुझ पर
दुनिया में जी लेगा खुलूस से तू अगर...

--- स्वरचित ---

खुलूस

खुलूस 

बेइंतेहा खुलूस, नफरत का सबब बन जाती है क्यों!

नफरत तो, खुलूस की पहली निशानी होती है 'डी'!!

ये जहान भी अजीबो-गरीब जगह है, ऐ दुनियावालों!

हर शक्श जो है तलाशता, वही बस मिलता नहीं है यहाँ!!

मिलता है खुलूस, तकदीर से ऐ खुदा!

एक तू है, जो मिलता भी नहीं है कभी!!

जिसे मिल जाये खुलूस, वो तो मरने की बात करता है!

जिसे मिलता नहीं, वो तो जीने से भी डरता है 'डी'!!

ऐ खुदा, है अंजाम-ऐ-खुलूस मौत तो क्या!  

मोहब्बत किया था, किया है और करते रहेंगे!!

दर्द और तन्हाई ही तो, बस नसीब होगा मेरा!

खुलूस की ये सज़ा सर आँखों पर है 'डी'!!

--- स्वरचित ---

INDIAN NEWS CHANNELS

They come and go in a flash

Only to be forgotten as trash

Later to be flashed again and again

Increasing viewers unending pains!

Deaths, Rapes, Violence and Political Gimmicks

Are what the channels present as lyrics

Bad, awful, without any substance

There are always topics with really no stance

No authorities have any real stance

As trivial issues are given much importance

Tragedies are sold as hot newsreel

With stupid anchors asking – 'How do you feel?'

Insensitivity and glorifying pains

Have become the rule and mantra for channels’ gains

These news channels have no stopping

One wonders where the world is heading?

Breaking the news is always a break

Through advertisers, channels increase their stake

More than the news there is always a break

With meaningless news, there’s really no take

The channels sell to viewers bunch of cookies

Crime, Calamities, Catastrophes and Celebrities

There are shaddy craps like comedy to irritate

With Commercials aplenty, the channels have saturate

Highlighting violence has become the order of the day

Covering celebrities walking to temples “LIVE”, is joke of the day

With Raja, Kalmadi, Radia & the News Editors scheming

 I often wonders where’s the fourth pillar heading?

Gone are the good old days

When news provided knowledge

And important happenings, all around the world

Today, it has just become the game of TRPs 

I strongly feel TRPs stands for

Totally Ridiculing People’s Sentiments

I am sad about the downfall of news

News today, gone tomorrow, who really cares?

Johnny D

25th September 2007

P.S: From my archive...

did make some latest changes)

अर्ज है...

ख़ुशी के पल आजकल हो गए हैं लापता!

अब तो दर्द में ही सुकून ढूँढ लेता हूँ 'डी'!!

--- स्वरचित ---

LIFE GOES ON AS IF NOTHING HAS HAPPENED...

We wake up only for a while and then go on to the SLEEP MODE

26/11 happened, one day candles burned and then all is forgotten...

Life continues as if nothing has happened...

Ask the people who lost someone dear

Life has changed for them completely though!

Crores and crores are being looted in front of the whole nation...

We talk and discuss for a day shouting aloud

Life goes on as if nothing has happened...

Ask those who are living in hunger and poverty

How do they manage to survive just another day!

Hundreds of poor are dying daily in the nation,

We say oh...so sad as if we are really concerned

The next day, life goes on as if nothing has happened...

Ask those how they are struggling day in and day out

To feed their small-small children by staying hungry!

Only when the rich are affected, everyone wakes up

Discussion will go in length and genuine concern reflected

Government will come in action almost immediately...

Ministers will be sacked and action is immediate

The media will shout aloud on and on....

Remember how Rahul Gandhi visited Mumbai...

CM Ashok Chavan turned Mumbai into a fortress

Just to release SRK’s MY NAME IS KHAN?

While in Tembhali village, a remote village in Maharastra

Tribal villagers are surviving hunger eating tamarind leaves

Oh, we discussed at great length about SRK’s film

On and on... for days, months and even now...

Ask any Indian about Tembhali (one such village),

Getting electricity after 63 years of freedom...

Many will say they haven’t even heard about the village

Yes, few may say they have heard because,

The first UID was given to poor tribal villagers by PM

But are we surprised that villages haven’t seen electricity

In the last six and half decades of Independence

UID or electricity and drinking water are more important for living?

Many haven’t even heard about Bundelkhand

Where farmers had to sell their wives to feed their children

Many will never even want to know too

Those who know are silent because it is too inhuman to talk

Ask those farmers who had no option to be pushed to such an extent...

There are many such realities of our nation

To which we all have shut our eyes and conscience

Poor farmers are dying cultivating food for the nation

While the nation purposely allow food grains to rot in open

Ask those who haven’t seen what is wheat or proper food in ages

Life goes on as if nothing has happened...

Everyone will quote the cliché and then forget

Till the next calamity befall on us to teach us a lesson

With so much suffering in the world all around

The point is, DO WE REALLY CARE GENUINELY?

Johnny D

24^th February 2011 

IT'S WORST, TO BE GOOD!

(Mamman, who adopted me was suffering from Cancer...

She was the epitome of goodness, serving everyone with her

infectious smile... this poem was written when for a moment 

I asked Sai Baba WHY?)

IT’S WORST, TO BE GOOD!

Good people suffers

While evils prosper

O the creator of the world

What kind of justice is this?

Every religion preaches

The triumph of good over evil

But why are the good tested

While evils flourish happily?

Helpless, I often wonder

Seeing good people suffer

How and which way you govern your world?

I am surprised. Yes, I am, O creator!

Seeing evils prosper

I wish I should be evil too!

I would then prosper to enjoy life

Just the way you want evils to!

Johnny D

0400 Hrs

3rd Feb 2007

P.S: This poem is dedicated to all the good souls

who are fighting the war against the system for

the sake of HUMANITY!