You should first know that I am no poet or something. I am a friggin' normal guy with a talent (I don't know why I claim this to be a talent ) of Scribblng words and not making sense. You all know that I scribble a lot. And yes, I scribbled like this in a place where it was actually in a contest and the Scribblification that I did won a Prize. Yes, yes, you can't believe it. Neither could I. I was like "What in the world...?" when it happened.
So, There were many competitions such as English Essay Writing, Elocution, Painting, Drawing, Verse Writing and all such things. I gave my names in all of the writing contest but didin't participate in any except for this Poetry. When I come to the event, I'll think "Maybe we'll participate in this" but suddenly my plan changes and I end up not participating. Even on the day of Poetry I wasn't really in the mood of writing.But yet I sat down got myself a paper from a fellow volunteer and sat there till they gave out the topic. I thought they'd give a single topic but they gave: Global Warming, If my dreams come true, Friendship, Nature and My College Life.
Hmm... Let's see. I can't write about Global warming as I can't write Co2 and all that stuff poetically. Maybe I could have but I didn't choose that. "If my dreams come true" Well, I don't have dreams and if they come true they'll be stupid. So, can't take on that one. "Friendship" If I take this, I'll insert cinema lyrics inside. Creativity can't be maintained. So, NO! My College life. I haven't completed Colleging so I don't know about it completely. But I could've written under this also. I can make it funnier. But I chose the Nature Topic. Yes, I felt like taking it.
I sat there in silence thinking about what to write. Nothing sparkled or came up or Glowed like bulb or snapped into my mind there. So I began with a line the my brother used to sing a song with a wrong lyric. There is a line in one song in Kama Hassan's Vishwaroopam : "I wanna be there someday" and my brother would sing it like "I wanna be the sunshine". I used it because it has sun which is Nature. I had no idea of what to write further and then I wrote like I was in an Examination where I keep a pen and the flow of words comes up like a river. So did the poem develop. And after many childish well-known words and things, I completed the poem.I signed it and gave it for the judgement. I told everyone that it was not that much worth of a Winning poem. But I had my Fingers Crossed if I may say that.
I wandered here and there as I was too, a Volunteer. The judge came onto the stage to announce the winners and instead of announcing it from third to first he decided to announce it from First to the Third. He began." And the first Prize goes to....." and I wasn't really expecting this but he continued "....Raja Guhan". There was applause from the audience. The people to whom I told that I wouldn't win were in a surprise and they were all smiling at seeing my "I won?" expression. I was literally with open mouth when they announced the winner. Dr. Kothandaraman shook my hands. It was an honour. and I really was at sea and surprised at the same time.
My heart bounced with joy. I was really, extremely happy. They called me on stage to read out the poem. They handed me the paper in which I wrote the poem. I was still making faces.Then I began to read with slight mistakes as I am no Englsih person and still trying to make sense and making the poem look like a real poem. You don't know how hard it is to do that. But anyways, my boundary-less brain let out something on a paper and got me an actual friggin' prize. Thanks for that, Cerebral or whatever that is responsible for that.
Read my poem here below. I am saying you, don't have a mindset that it'll look like a Poem if you're expecting that. It's something that came out of a stupid person's mind. So, here it goes...
So, There were many competitions such as English Essay Writing, Elocution, Painting, Drawing, Verse Writing and all such things. I gave my names in all of the writing contest but didin't participate in any except for this Poetry. When I come to the event, I'll think "Maybe we'll participate in this" but suddenly my plan changes and I end up not participating. Even on the day of Poetry I wasn't really in the mood of writing.But yet I sat down got myself a paper from a fellow volunteer and sat there till they gave out the topic. I thought they'd give a single topic but they gave: Global Warming, If my dreams come true, Friendship, Nature and My College Life.
Hmm... Let's see. I can't write about Global warming as I can't write Co2 and all that stuff poetically. Maybe I could have but I didn't choose that. "If my dreams come true" Well, I don't have dreams and if they come true they'll be stupid. So, can't take on that one. "Friendship" If I take this, I'll insert cinema lyrics inside. Creativity can't be maintained. So, NO! My College life. I haven't completed Colleging so I don't know about it completely. But I could've written under this also. I can make it funnier. But I chose the Nature Topic. Yes, I felt like taking it.
I sat there in silence thinking about what to write. Nothing sparkled or came up or Glowed like bulb or snapped into my mind there. So I began with a line the my brother used to sing a song with a wrong lyric. There is a line in one song in Kama Hassan's Vishwaroopam : "I wanna be there someday" and my brother would sing it like "I wanna be the sunshine". I used it because it has sun which is Nature. I had no idea of what to write further and then I wrote like I was in an Examination where I keep a pen and the flow of words comes up like a river. So did the poem develop. And after many childish well-known words and things, I completed the poem.I signed it and gave it for the judgement. I told everyone that it was not that much worth of a Winning poem. But I had my Fingers Crossed if I may say that.
I wandered here and there as I was too, a Volunteer. The judge came onto the stage to announce the winners and instead of announcing it from third to first he decided to announce it from First to the Third. He began." And the first Prize goes to....." and I wasn't really expecting this but he continued "....Raja Guhan". There was applause from the audience. The people to whom I told that I wouldn't win were in a surprise and they were all smiling at seeing my "I won?" expression. I was literally with open mouth when they announced the winner. Dr. Kothandaraman shook my hands. It was an honour. and I really was at sea and surprised at the same time.
My heart bounced with joy. I was really, extremely happy. They called me on stage to read out the poem. They handed me the paper in which I wrote the poem. I was still making faces.Then I began to read with slight mistakes as I am no Englsih person and still trying to make sense and making the poem look like a real poem. You don't know how hard it is to do that. But anyways, my boundary-less brain let out something on a paper and got me an actual friggin' prize. Thanks for that, Cerebral or whatever that is responsible for that.
Read my poem here below. I am saying you, don't have a mindset that it'll look like a Poem if you're expecting that. It's something that came out of a stupid person's mind. So, here it goes...
I want to be the Sunshine,
The big bang turned out just fine.
I see the sunrise and sunset
Adding to mother earth's modest pride mountains!
I wonder how these magics happened
I want to be with, till the end.
Sparkling Springs and marvellous air,
We are just tenants and claim this to be our lair.
Jungles made of greenish trees,
Water that reflects blossoming blue,
Soil that sources the brown,
Flowers that bloom in ecstasy,
I got eyes to feel them all,
This miracle is the power of nature.
So evolved are we? Spoiling the earth's beauty,
Have we lost the trust that even animals carry?
Here we stand arguing about how it all formed,
But we lose to enjoy while we still got time.
Let's get the machine guns armed
To eliminate the harms we do to earth in time!
-R.Raja Guhan
Once again, thanks for bearing with my words.
all d best..
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