Poem The Armored Sentinel On ancient sands with the tides lowAn armoured relic walked from days of yoreWith ten legs scrambling in a rhythmic danceMoving across the sand with a backward glanceAlso ten compound eyes – complex and brightFor finding its way through the day and night. A silent guest and ageless sentinel of shoresThe living fossil as also […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh May 2, 2026May 2, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem A Fascinating Living Fossil It belongs to a timeless questWithout losing its own identityAn ancient mariner and silent witnessTo the rise and fall of dinosaursIn true sense, it’s the Titan of DeepIn sapphire caves where the currents rest. A relic of old yet remarkably trueScales like armour of silver and blueDwellers of the “Twilight Zone” of oceanA hollow cord […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh May 1, 2026May 1, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem निःशब्द प्रतिध्वनि न मुझे कोई आभास है, अब कोई सरोकार भी नहीं,ये शब्द तुम तक पहुँचें या खो जाएँ हवाओं में कहीं;सत्य एक शिलाखंड है – एकाकी, खुरदरा और निर्भ्रांत,जिस दिन तुम्हें खोया, मेरी दुनिया पर छा गई थी रात। लोग मुझे अक्सर कहते हैं, कि पाषाण सा अडिग हूँ मैंकिसे ज्ञात है, अपनी ही पीड़ा की […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh May 1, 2026May 1, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem A Voiceless Echo I have no inkling, nor much is left for me to careIf these words find your eyes or dissolve in the airThe stark truth is a monolith – sole, jagged and vastThe day that I lost you, the world’s shadow was cast. Now they call me strong, that I stand like a stoneFew know I […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh April 30, 2026April 30, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem The Symbiotic Grace On the white sand where the currents are warmA sessile titan is anchored away from the stormWhat a velvet mantle in turquoise and grey-goldA beguiling tale of solar light, a partnership hold. The giant clam has survived for millions of yearsWith mastery of disruptive colouration and ironiesIt’s no hunter of shadows and no seeker of […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem The Pamban 1976 Where the Pamban span kissed the blueTethering, island to the Mandapam seashoreThe inquisitive student knelt; age twenty yearsTo study what the deep oceanic abyss shares. The local fishermen in patterned clothesWatched the boy from the college booksPresenting a crescent guard of quiet prideTo help him unlock the secrets of the tide. It was neither phantom, […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh April 28, 2026April 28, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Ur-vogel – A Feathery Enigma A phantom on stone from the limestone bedWith the saurian heart and a feathered headThe creature represents popular missing linksIt bridges the gap between reptiles and birds. Believed to be first to claim the Jurassic airWhat a majestic witness of world once thereDinosaur like features teeth, long tail & clawsThen modern bird like flight wings […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Jelly Fish Cosmopolitan in presence worldwideJellies drift upon the rhythmic tideNo scales, no fins yet we call it a fishA drifting phantom, a ghost of the sea. No heart to beat, no bones to breakThe gelatinous walls that pulses makeWith a radial symmetry, simple and oldFiery stinging threads in a trailing hold. A cycle of life just […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh April 23, 2026April 23, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem The Arctic Tern This soul is the world’s ultimate travelerA silver dart as the unbounded skyfarerArctic to Antarctic and back every yearEver chasing the sun in eternal summer. The globe-trotting trek in a hollow boneThrough the arial currents, seldom aloneWith narrow blade and a fork-tailed graceIt ferries the whole world in a tireless race From northern frost where […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh April 22, 2026April 22, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Nepenthes: A Velvet Grave Nepenthes lives in warm and tropical landsA masterpiece carnivore among the plantsA sculpted pitcher swings upon the vineCalling for all with frantic wings like a sirenTo rest a while as well taste a sugary treatOn its painted rim with nectar’s sweet deceit. The hunter doesn’t move, it doesn’t strikeWith a living cup where life & […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh April 21, 2026April 21, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Olm’s Labyrinth Where Adriatic stone runs quite deep and coldIn karst-locked rivers, pretty dark, silent and oldDeep in the dark, where silent waters crawlThe baffling olm abides within its limestone hall. Pale and unpigmented, like phantom lace arrayedA slender and subterranean proteus is portrayedCrimson plumes of lace adorn its sightless headAnd three-toed limbs through silent waters tread. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Malagasy Spear It looks like an architecture of the thorny spiresWith so many branches growing vertical and highTall Alluaudia lives where lands are hot and drySo curiously watches desert clouds go rolling by A role model for the defence and efficiencyIt’s colossal with tiny leaves and lethal spines greyThis wonder water-saving soul is tough and strongA strange […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Twilight Reconciliation Our dossier is sealed, the judgment is signedYou were ever unwavering, I faltered behindAdorned, I wore a crown of flawless mistakeIn return, a harsh winter I caused for your sake..To the eyes of beholder, the palace stands tallBut the shadow in the mirror remembers the fall. No jury could decree, a punishment for I choseIt’s […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Lemur of Madagascar Upon Madagascar’s forests green and wideThe nimble lemur leaps from tree to treeAncient primates’ kin but charted a separate lineIn the family tree, the lemur’s eyes still shine Its bright round eyes adorn a gentle faceWith grasping hands it moves with elegant graceLong tail that balances every agile boundThrough the leafy canopies without a sound. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 10, 2026June 10, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Monolithic Water Tower The monolith relies on sheer mass and storageA mechanism whereby it will survive and thriveWhere dry earth cracks and rivers cease to flow,But the majestic Baobab permits no thirst to grow. Looks like a cylinder of grey and fibrous mightIt leisurely drinks fleeting rains and holds it tightThe trunk swells its massive body with the […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 10, 2026June 10, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Olm’s Labyrinth Where Adriatic stone runs quite deep and coldIn karst-locked rivers, pretty dark, silent and oldDeep in the dark, where silent waters crawlThe baffling olm abides within its limestone hall. Pale and unpigmented, like phantom lace arrayedA slender and subterranean proteus is portrayedCrimson plumes of lace adorn its sightless headAnd three-toed limbs through silent waters tread. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Malagasy Spear It looks like an architecture of the thorny spiresWith so many branches growing vertical and highTall Alluaudia lives where lands are hot and drySo curiously watches desert clouds go rolling by A role model for the defence and efficiencyIt’s colossal with tiny leaves and lethal spines greyThis wonder water-saving soul is tough and strongA strange […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Twilight Reconciliation Our dossier is sealed, the judgment is signedYou were ever unwavering, I faltered behindAdorned, I wore a crown of flawless mistakeIn return, a harsh winter I caused for your sake..To the eyes of beholder, the palace stands tallBut the shadow in the mirror remembers the fall. No jury could decree, a punishment for I choseIt’s […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXV Pilgrimage-I Nearly all communities and religions in the world attach significance to places which have some connection with any worldly or supernatural act(s) or event(s) of the divine (God) or His messenger(s); the birth, enlightenment or death of founder and saints; sites of the spiritual calling or awakening; supposedly a dwelling or living place of […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh October 31, 2022November 17, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Gulmohar Again In a life dull and forlornOwing to devastation and fearCaused by the alien coronavirusAs I venture out after weeksFrom my humble yet safe homeIn this rather isolated yet sheltered lane… Oh! It’s the month of May againThe time for Gulmohar to go greenAnd blooming full swing againIn the lane flanked by umpteenGulmohars forming a canopy […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh May 11, 2021November 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Whose God is This Anyway? God (Brahman) is the highest... Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 24, 2021March 11, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ज्यों-ज्यों बूड़ो श्याम रंग बसन्त विहार कालोनी की परंपरानुसार... Written by Gita Singh February 22, 2021September 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked