*welcome To Two Thousand Fourteen! Poem by Subbaraman N V

WELCOME TO TWO THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN!

Welcome to a happy two thousand and fourteen!
Ensure peace and harmony in the world quite keen
Let there be health and prosperity all through sure
Concern of all should be the welfare of all pure
Oh! Lord! Make the world free from fear and hatred
Make the society respect all and keep love sacred
Every day be filled with great joy and happiness!

Thank God for all what HE has blessed the whole world with
Our great universe to be kept neat and in mirth!

Two thousand years and more have come and gone with the wind
World has seen war and peace, in turn, of different kind
Over the times all have changed – changed for good and bad!

Thousands of years will pass like wind and water
How the people to act and react that matter!
On to peace and harmony, love and respect please
Ultimate aim and endeavor sure not to cease!
Sincerity and loyalty with devotion
Abound towards God and the people in motion!
Never to return to the barbarian days
Doubtless should be the human minds and their ways

Alert to the ways of those inimical to peace
Never fall a prey to their greed that tease with ease
Despicable are the deeds of the devils that never cease!

Farewell to the year gone by with good and bad thoughts
Our attempts to cleanse the bad and nurse the good wrought
Unique thoughts, words and noble- need of the times
Respecting the values and culture at all times
Towards a world full of peace and harmony sure
Ever to brim with joy and strength, heart and mind pure
Excellence to be achieved in all fields vital
NEW YEAR to dawn to bring these and more, pivotal!



(This 31 line verse has 12 syllables in each line following rhyme pattern AB-AB.
First letter of each line when read together will read the title!)

N V SUBBARAMAN