Thank You Friends!

This one was written by me as a reply to the poem sent by my friends...

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THANK YOU

I want to thank you
For giving me the best gift
In those few
Lines, you have made a rift

In my heart
And made it split apart
Words flow out of me, I have bragged
That thought has been gagged

By the poem, short and terse
The most wonderful verse
I have ever seen.
I think I have been

Too lucky to have such keen
Friendys right at the end of my teen
Cos I never expected such reciprocation
Writing poems is my vocation

But they never match your clarity
And the sweetness of posterity
And the adorable alacrity
And the unexpected austerity

Which made my heart grow in happiness
Trying to escape from my rib cage
From being a muscle full of emptiness
It's become a treasured page

To record the golden words you wrote
Which is still in my throat
I was blessed more than anyone else in this earth
As you have made me realise that my dearth

Of friends is just a mirage
As was, to the English, Panchayati raj
It was the worst thing created by my mind
I should thank you for being so kind

To make it feel pure love
And bring peace in my heart, like a white dove
I was excited
Cos of you, the numerous things you have cited

I was blessed
Cos you, I possessed
I was honoured
Cos of you, my heart flowered

I was amazed
Cos of you, my mind blazed
I was dumb-founded
Cos of you, my words impounded

I was swayed
Cos of you, the poetic talent you displayed
I was hounded
Cos of you, faster my heart pounded

I was surrounded
Cos of you, even my sharpest feelings have become rounded
I was blended
Cos of you, your affection that never ended

I was dazed
Cos of you, your image that never erased
I was graced
Cos of you, the way my feelings you embraced

I was stained
Cos of you, in my mind your thoughts are forever retained
I was pained
Cos of you, when my heart you slained

I was astonished
Cos of you, in the world of love I wasn't banished
I was stunned
Cos of you, my poems have been gunned

I was caressed
Cos of you, all my worries have been redressed
I was energised
Cos of you, my thoughts have been enticed

I was psyched
Cos of you, my spirits have been hiked
I was enriched
Cos of you, the variety of topics you switched

I was touched
Cos of you, my heart has been flushed
I was bounded
Cos of you, my inner feelings were sounded

I was pleased
Cos of you, the spare time you leased
I was polished
Cos of you, the bad thoughts you demolished

Whatever I conveyed in the past tense
Is valid in the present and the future in each and every sense
Whatever happens, in essence
I thank god with all my heart for just your presence

In my life, and your poetic piece
Has become a disease
Which will never leave this body
Until I become a dead body.

Your poem that you did present
Has made the biggest dent
In my heart, affected by it to a large extent
In my sky of life, you will always be the waxing crescent

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The search has just begun!!! (for something as invaluable to give as I recd)

Oct 2001