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    Offerings

    By Pushpa Chadha

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    “Offerings” is a collection of short poems. It is a vivid manifestation of the poets love and admiration of nature and identification of virtues with aspects of natural processes. It also demonstrates the poets desire to bring awareness to social issues like “Girl Child” and “Beggar Problem” as well as “Deforestation”.

    Smt. Pushpa Chadha hails from a Delhi based Punjabi family, now settled in Mumbai (Bombay). She graduated from the Isbella Thoburn College, Lucknow, majoring in Philosophy, English and Hindi, She is fond of reading and writing.
    Her poems have been published in various magazines as well as in anthologies published by the National Library of poetry, USA for which she received the Editor’s Choice Award. Smt. Chadha pursued the Manipuri and Kathak style of Indian dancing and performed before select audiences. She also worked with social organizations helping handicapped and destitute children.
    We hope readers will enjoy her collection of poems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPushpa Chadha
    Release dateJan 14, 2014
    ISBN9781311394460
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      Book preview

      Offerings - Pushpa Chadha

      Prayer

      O Blue God!

      Forever fill me with your graces

      Endow on me visions of your varied faces

      Your blessings on me and mine bestow

      Make me a flute that music may flow

      Sweet, deep, enduring, keeping every heart aglow

      Uneclipsed by time filling universal spaces.

      Frivolity

      I do not order muse

      She has her own free will.

      Prancing in and out

      Of mental caves.

      She is bent on playing

      Hide and seek.

      She brushes my waiting mind then

      Slips away. In vain I seek.

      I give up, my thoughts drifting

      Towards barren ground;

      But there she is dressed in

      Pretty words without serious intent.

      I cannot then hold her

      And let her be.

      Musing along while

      Playing her game.

      Dear Pen

      Words are like birds

      They like to fly;

      You my pen are their cage.

      If this sheet of paper

      Be their sky;

      Release them

      To pour their heartfelt bliss

      In songs of love

      As they fly.

      Inspiration

      Wrap my mind with words

      Though unspoken.

      Warm, kind, meaningful

      Analytical, scalpel of a surgeon.

      Let them pour through my pen

      Like a song; deep, divine,

      Streams of beauty, sweet, sublime

      My own pen would I dare recognize.

      My Country - A Vision

      In a glow, bright, yet soft

      Our land - India - in its length and breath

      Stands aloft!

      Of ugliness there is no trace

      Not a blemish on its

      Illumined face!

      Coloured a shade of golden brown

      Boundaries clearly defined

      A halo, God's blessing, it's holy crown.

      Would it not inspire this chosen place

      To spread the edifying path of Love,

      Endowed with divine

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