Sugar candy

Cockroach,Cricket,fly and little Ant were best friends.Whole day they enjoyed and played in their homes.Their movement starts in the darkness of night.One dark night they moved from their homes.

      At first Cockroach reached in the kitchen.Then Cricket came.Both were in search of food.They were thinking about the place where they could get food.In the mean time fly also joined them.They started their discussion.

             “ Friends, on which way we can go today?” cockroach asked.

             “ On that way.”Cricket answered.

             “Oh no, there are only potatoes.I don’t like potato.I want any sweet dish today.”cockroach told them.

            “O.K. then we can go behind that almeerah.”Cricket suggested them.

And all three moved in that direction.They saw the sweet sugar candy kept  there.They were going on the way suddenly two big ants blocked there way.Cricket was afraid.But Cockroach and fly were normal.They decided to face the problem.

           “Please,don’t bite us.We will give you sweet sugar candies.Cockroach tried to brive them.

             “sugar candy---?where is it---?”Both ants cried with curiosity.

             “There ---behind  almeerah-----“ cockroach replied.

             All four of them started moving together.Cockroach was ahead and others were following him.Suddenly Cockroach stopped.His moustaches were shaking.

   “What happened?”ants enquired.The Cockroach replied,”there is danger ahead….a cobweb.”

 The Ants again cried,”now what?How will we get our sugar candies?”

To this the Cricket replied,”apply your brains.Think of a solution.”

Ants suggested that they could jump over the web.

“o…no ..fools if you will try ..surely you will get stuck in the web.”Cockroach told with anger.

                Every body started thinking.The Ants tried to think while rubbing their feet to the ground.The cricket was getting impatient and was continuosly flapping its wings while thinking a solution.Cockroach’s moustaches started shaking.

        Suddenly,cricket saw a broken broom.”Every body follow me..”he shouted with excitement.

         Now all four of them were busy pulling out a stick from the broom.“come on”,”yes pull it tightly”….”little more strength and we will be done.”All were shouting.

   After a while the stick was in their hands.They moved with that stick towards the web.And tried to pull the web down.After two attempts they succeeded in pulling it down.

The spider got scared thinking that there was any earthquake. And she escaped to a hole.

        Now they were all by themselves. All four of them jumped together to grab the candy.

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Hemant Kumar

           

 

           

Teen aged boy

He is a teen aged boy

Waiting to see a life full of joy.

He starts his morning

With a sip of tea

And explores the whole night

Floating on the wheels of

The dense cigarette smoke.

He pumps the air in

Cycle’s tubes

He washes the plates in the road side restraint

He picks pockets in local trains

He blacks the cinema tickets

He plays with a knife

With his wounded fingers

He has blown all his worries in

cigarette smoke.

He is a teen aged boy

waiting to see a life full of joy.

His dreams are compressed in  a

Colorful  balloon

he watches the flying balloons

with his blank and emotionless eyes

some times he watches the

direction of wind

which sends his dreams to

God’s place hoping that

God will return his balloons

Full of joy and happiness for his life.

He is a teen aged boy

waiting to see a life full of joy.

00000

Hemant kumar

Help me…….

                       0 These children are fortunate because they go to school.

0 These children are loved by their parents and society.

0 These children are getting health care from this society.

0 all these facilities are provided to them so that they remain happy and healthy.

Then why can’t I get the same love and affection from the society….why do they disown me???

 Please give me a chance to grow,to live life, to get loved by some one,

to get good health and education,to be happy,…..Please help me…….

…………I hope you will do it soon.

                                             000

Author---Neha Shefali

An evening with Ganges

How beautiful  are

the banks of Ganges.

Usually I sit in evening

on the bank of holy Ganges

dipping my feet in

its clean and deep water

many beautiful thoughts and feelings

come in my mind and heart

with every waves of  the holy water.

I watch the sun again

and  yet again

sun changes into a red shining ball

it takes a dive in

the deep golden water of Ganges

promising to see me

the next morning.

I watch the fisherman’s

clothless kids diving

from heights in the Ganges water

without any fear

as they have faith in the mother Ganga

that she will always nurse them

in her lap.

Children start swimming

like a group of golden fish

some water birds also

follow the kids

tries to

defeat the boats

which are competing with them.

I start comparing their lieves

With golden fishes

And suddenly a train

Starts whistling on the bridge

Telling me

Our life’s journey Is colorful

like the golden gleaming sun,

The blue water,fishes and these children,

We are supposed to

move on and on,

Just like a train.

How beautiful

are the banks of ganges.

000

Hemant kumar

FRIENDS

A big old tamarind tree stood at the outskirts of a village. Its branches were so thick that nobody could climb it. This tree was the house of many small and beautiful birds. Many birds like parrot, pigeon, cuckoo, magpie, golden bird lived on this tree. All the birds were good friends. They always played together, sang together, and made sweet music.

   

      One fine sunny morning all these birds were playing and singing. Suddenly, a woodpecker came and sat on a nearby tree and watched the birds play and dance together. Those birds hardly noticed him. After a few minutes, he went to them and requested, “ Friends, I am alone in this world. I have no home. Can you give me shelter? Can I also be your friend?”

       All birds stopped their game and gathered near the woodpecker. The crow said in his rough voice, “ get lost….we don’t have any place for dirty and ugly fellows.”

       “We don’t need your friendship”, Hari parrot shouted. Ultimately the woodpecker went away from there. He was really upset with their rude behavior.

         Next morning all the birds went in search of their food. At the same time, a wicked hunter came there. He carefully observed the huge tree and thought, “ Wow!! I think many birds must be living here. This tree can surely bring me some profit.”

         He thought for a few minutes and then threw his net on the whole tree and hid in the nearby bushes.

          In the evening, all the birds returned to their homes. As they started sitting on the branches, they all got trapped in the net. The wicked hunter was very happy. He folded his net and went away. At home, he shifted the poor birds in a wooden box and said, “Sweet friends, sleep here till morning. And then I will sell all of you to your new masters.” And after locking the box, he went to sleep.

        All birds started crying and weeping. Hari parrot tried to console them. But none of them listened. At last, he shouted, “Don’t weep friends. Lets try to face this problem with courage.” All the birds nodded. They started discussing the ways through which they could escape.

       Suddenly, they heard a knocking sound on the wooden box. They stopped murmuring and listened. The sound grew louder and louder. Hari parrot asked, “who is there?”

        But there was no reply. And the knocking continued. They got scared.

         Suddenly they saw a very big hole in the wall of the box. And a face appeared there. It was the face of the poor woodpecker. He whispered “Don’t be afraid…I am your friend. I have come to save your lives. I have made a hole in the wall of this box. Now you can come out one by one.”

         All the birds came out safely. They started going out through the open window. The woodpecker said to them, “ ok friends…bye bye.”

        Hari parrot told him,” why bye???? you will also come with us. We were wrong. You saved our lives. Now you will live with us because you are our dear friend.”

        And all the birds flew with the woodpecker as the open sky was inviting them to fly with their new friend.

                                          000

Hemant kumar