I Love You

I learned about love from you,
Watching your caring ways.
I learned about joy from you
In fun-filled yesterdays.

From you I learned forgiving
Of faults both big and small.
I learned what I know about living
From you, as you gave life your all.

The example you set is still with me
I'd never want any other.
I'm thankful for all that you taught me,
And I'm blessed to call you "Mother

Even though i can't see you
I know I am blessed by you
I do miss you
I love you my mom

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She won't cry but...

Her head hung low,
her heart beat fast.
But when he walked out of the room,
She raised her head high.
Maybe she'll get over him,
Maybe she wont cry.

It's been a long time now,
People say she should move on,
But she just can't get over him.

They talk about the time,
When they shared all that love

But nobody understands,
Why she's still in love.

She falls to the ground,
And try's to get back up,
But the fear keeps pushing her down.
Will she ever escape the memory of his love?

Her wings are torn and tattered,
Her aura slipping low.
But they say one day she will rise again,
As only the Fallen Angel can.

Dedicated to my best pal & her audacity, fortitude & valor. God bless her & my wishes come from the core of my heart.

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Still the remedy

You have stolen my being, my identity.
By making me imbibe the wine of love
you have intoxicated me.

With one glance, my free wandering spirit
has been captured by you.

I gave my life to you, my very substance;
you took my tears without glancing back.

You carried the soul from my body
and yet you are still part of that soul;
you inflicted pain, but are still the remedy.

You destroyed the kingdom of my heart
with the sword of coquetry,
but are still its sovereign ruler.

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Can't u come back Mom?

Mom, I miss you so very much
On every night & Day;
& not just then, but every moment,
Since you went away.

You were the center of my life
before your soul passed on;
it’s just so hard for me to believe,
that you are really gone.

My wonderful memories, Mom, of you
are the things that will comfort & save me
I look up at you, sweet Mom,
as you look at me from above .

Now, since I lost my way ,
& it's darkness all the way ;
As I feel abandoned & orphaned ,
Can’t you come back?
& show me the way ,

As I woke up scared ,
Come & hold me close to you;
So many things to be shared ,
All I need is you .

Can’t you come back?

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Free from the bonds of the two worlds

May your charming face ever shine like the full moon;
May you hold eternal sways over the domains of beauty.
By your amorous glance you have killed a poor man like me;
How magnanimous of you? May God give you a long life

Pray do not be cruel lest you should feel ashamed of yourself
before your lovers on the Day of Judgment.
I shall be set free from the bonds of the two worlds
if you become my companion for a while.

By your wanton playfulness you must have destroyed
Thousands of hearts of lovers like that of mine

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I walk alone in darkness

Purity once had a name,
and splendour a face.
Life had meaning,
and I felt content.

I had freedom to laugh
and lived in bliss,
sharing love
with my soulmate;
I felt at home by her side.

But all too soon this ended.
Although her grace and beauty
were all I ever wanted
and I willed our love to last,
Fate maybe had another plan,
or perhaps, another had her love?

My happiness and joy were gone.
All memories of love died away;
now I walk alone with no light
to guide my way in the darkness.

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I still yearn for you

Meeting you
was pure destiny,
You and I
were meant to be.

May be not now
but someday soon,
We'll meet not under the sun
but beneath the moon.
cry, complain & romance till dawn

We'll watch the stars'
till they fade away,
but we won't fade
together we'll always stay.

This is the day
I'm waiting for,
from that day
I'll love you more and more.

I can't wait to watch
the sun set with you,
every sunset from that day
'till the rest of our lives are through.
I still yearn for you.....

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Doon Valley

Doon Valley: My favorite place on globe, here I squandered many years of my existence. This is view of ‘Queen of Hills’ Mussoorie, (Hindi: मसूरी Masūrī) is a city and a municipal board, about 34 km from Dehradun district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand

This hill station, situated in the foothills of the Himalaya ranges Being at an average altitude of 2,000 meters (6,600 ft), Mussoorie, with its green hills and varied flora and fauna, is a fascinating hill resort. Commanding snow ranges to the north-east, and glittering views of the Doon Valley and Shiwalik ranges in the south, the town was once said to present a 'fairyland' atmosphere to tourists.

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Red-whiskered Bulbul

The pic taken at Jim Corbett National Park, Dehradun, Uttaranchal, India: The Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) is a passerine bird found in Asia. It is a member of the bulbul family. It is a resident frugivore found mainly in tropical Asia from Pakistan and India through to southeast Asia and China. It has been introduced and has established itself in the wild in many other parts of the world.

The Red-whiskered Bulbul was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 in his Systema Naturae. He placed it along with the shrikes under Lanius.
Local names include Turaha pigli-pitta in Telugu, Sipahi bulbul in Bengali,
Phari-bulbul/Kanera bulbu in Hindi Several geographic races are named

Description
The Red-whiskered Bulbul is about 20 cm (7 in) in length. It has brown upper-parts and whitish underparts with buff flanks and a dark spur running onto the breast at shoulder level. It has a tall pointed black crest, red face patch and thin black moustachial line. The tail is long and brown with white terminal feather tips, but the vent area is red.

This passerine feed on fruits (including those of Thevetia peruvianathat are toxic to mammals), nectar and insects. The loud and evocative call is a sharp kink-a-joo, and the song is a scolding chatter. It is more often heard than seen, but will often perch conspicuously especially in the mornings when they call from the tops of trees. The life span is about 11 years.

Hybrids have been noted in captivity with Pycnonotus cafer, Pycnonotus leucotis, Pycnonotus xanthopygos, Pycnonotus melanicterus and Pycnonotus leucogenys. and albinism is known. several avian malaria parasites have been described from the species

Subspecies

• jocosus, the nominate subspecies, is found in Hong Kong
• fuscicaudatus in peninsular India has nearly complete breast band and no white tip to tail
• abuensis of northwestern India is pale and has a broken breast band and no white tip to tail
• pyrrhotis of the terai is pale above with white tail tips and widely separated breast band
  emeria of Eastern peninsula and Ganges Delta is warm brown above with a slim bill and a long crest (also introduced into Florida
• whistleri is found in the Andaman Islands
• monticola is found in northeastern India
• pattani is found in Thailand
• peguensis not always recognized was described from southern Burma

Distribution and habitat
This is a bird of lightly wooded areas, more open country with bushes and shrubs, and farmland. Irruptions have been noted from early times with Thomas C. Jerdon noting that they "periodically visiting Madras and other wooded towns in large flocks."
It has established itself in Australia, Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Florida in the United States, and in the Mauritius, Assumption Island and Mascarene Islands.
The Red-whiskered Bulbul was introduced by the Zoological and Acclimatization Society in 1880 to Sydney, and were well established across the suburbs by 1920, and have slowly spread to around 100 km away. It is also found in suburban Melbourne and Adelaide, although it is unclear how it got there.

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