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Knots and Ties A quilt of Love and
Relations
Sanjana Butala
EDUCREATION PUBLISHING (Since 2011)
www.educreation.in
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This book is dedicated to all the people behind my success -
My quilt of love and relations - Knots and Ties
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About the Author Sanjana Butala
A blooming bud amongst the vast society of poets.
Sanjana, now aged 15 yrs., was
born in New Jersey, U.S.A. This
upcoming poetess has been
writing poems since age four.
While in New Jersey, at the age of
6 yrs., two of her poems were
published in the newsletter of
Mar-tin Luther King Jr. School, Edison, New Jersey,
U.S.A. She spent her first 7 yrs. in New Jersey and
then due to parental divorce case came to India. It
was difficult for her to adjust to the new changes and
writing poetry, earlier her passion, now became a
way to express her emotions. She started
participating in online international poetry contests
where she received star ratings for some of her
poems. Her poems can still be found on
voicesnet.com, poetry4kids.com, etc. She has also
received several accolades in poetry recitation and
poetry writing competitions in her school.
Recognizing her as a good poetess, in 4th
standard, a panel of judges chose her poem to be
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exhibited in the science exhibition conducted in
honor to welcome former president, Shri A.P.J Abdul
Kalam on 1 March 2011. She also wrote a poem on
Marathi film actress, Samira Gujar-Joshi, and
presented it to her on the occasion of Women's Day.
Fascinated by her poems, her music teacher,
Shrikant Chauhan chose two of her poems that were
composed into welcome songs for the annual
gathering of her school in December, 2012. She
wrote poems for the school year book in six
languages i.e. English, Hindi, Marathi, French,
Spanish, and Japanese. Five of her Marathi poems
were published in Urja magazine Diwali Edition
2013, the magazine compiled by Dr. Mohan Doshi.
This encouraged her and she composed a book
especially for the young Indians to learn about the
divine soul in a poetic form.
Sanjana Butala is presently studying in grade
10, Omkar International School, Dombivali (East),
Maharashtra, India. She has excellent academic
records and was lucky to be selected as the youngest
school news reporter in Thane District, Maharashtra,
for Times of India NIE (Newspaper in Education) in
grade fifth and has been writing for this newspaper
since then. She has successfully published her first
four poetry books-'Hindu Deities', 'Maa...', 'Life
Insights' and 'Knots and Ties'. Supported and
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motivated by her mother, she is also working on her
next planned poetry book, titled 'Giggling Geese'
comprising the poems that will ache your stomachs.
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You can learn more about Sanjana Butala by visiting
her blog at sanjanabooks.blogspot.in
You can contact her at [email protected].
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You can also go through her YouTube Channel-
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To My Love and Relations
p The one thing you need to live,
Is not a meal, not a drop of water, not even a single
breath,
It is a person,
Whom you can call your own
People come and go in life,
But the person who breathes one breath with you,
Is found amongst,
Life’s rarest few gems
Peace within is the soul’s greatest desire,
Why deny it when you can find it?
For it is within the person,
With whom you can see eye to eye
The world turns into a paradise, only when you
know,
Who it is who gives you the strength to live,
For even a million dollars, a large mansion and the
largest feast,
Cannot satisfy the aspiration of the soul
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There is only one hunger for the soul,
There is only one thirst for the soul,
There is only one eternal craving for the soul,
A person, whom you can call your own
- Sanjana Butala
Life is not what we live but about how we live. It is
not just about what relations we make, but also about
how we sustain them. God gives us most of our
relations, but what makes a difference, is how long
we can endure them to love us.
Man is a social being. He has an ardent need for love
and affection. There is no other yearning for man
than love. In fact, it has been scientifically proven
that babies who were given love and care and those
who weren’t had greater chances of surviving or
being fit than those who weren’t give any affection.
Even water shows positive changes in its molecules
when it is cared for properly. Nature itself showers
love on us in its own way and so does life. We need
people not just to talk to but to love. Humans have a
fervent need for attention and care. They need
someone to pat their back when they’ve been well
and a shoulder to share their sorrows. But with the
increasing need for adoration and lesser time for
gratitude, our relations are breaking up. We want
more than we can give. Think about it, in this way -
if we have a bank account in every relation, and each
time we love someone we deposit some good points
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while each time we rebuke or don’t appreciate
someone’s affection, we cancel our good points.
Taking this into consideration, we are always
cancelling our virtuous points, without actually
creating any noble points. Eventually, we have
negative points and our relations fail, and we move
about thinking what wrong had we done for our
relations to break up this way.
It’s quite difficult to build relations and even more
difficult to sustain them, especially since life is a
quilt of love and relations - Knots and Ties.
If you have ever sewn a quilt or ever even seen
someone sewing one, you might have realized how
difficult it becomes to get the other knots straight if
one goes out of order. Sometimes, even if you spend
several minutes trying to undo the knot, you just
don’t seem to find the right thread to pull out and
undo it. Now envision that you have made a
hundred such wrong knots. What would your quilt
become? Wouldn’t it be a disaster? Some knots you
may have made knowledgeably or ignorantly, but
that each one has together contributed to this
adversity. Even our relations are like that. One
wrong mistake and our bonds start to shatter.
Imagine hurting that person a hundred times,
knowingly and unknowingly, decisively or
indecisively; your bond is bound to break someday.
And then there will be no point in ruing or repenting
over it. You can still make a new quilt, but you can’t
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get back relations. You can’t mend broken hearts.
You can’t make childhood friends again. First love
can’t happen twice. Death cannot be reversed. Now,
it’s up to you to decide for yourself, how you want
your quilt of love and relations - Knots and Ties.
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A Sense of Obligation p
This book is not my only creation. I would like to
thank many people for this book, my fourth
consecutive poetry book. In particular, I am
grateful to:
1. God, for giving me the skill, ideas and
opportunities to write.
2. My mother, for her constant guidance and
support, without which I could not have come
this far.
3. My dearest brother, Siddharth Butala, for his
moral support in writing this book and for
always lending me a hand whenever I needed
one.
4. My maternal grandparents - my grandmother,
Nilam J. Doshi and my grandfather, Late.
Jayant C. Doshi, for showering their love and
blessings on me.
5. My maternal uncle, my mama, Rohan J.
Doshi, and my maternal aunt, my maushi,
Pravina N. Mehta, for constantly supporting
and encouraging me to write.
6. My maternal grandfather’s brother, Dr. Mohan
Doshi, for giving me a stage- the Diwali
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Edition of Urja Magazine, to publish my
Marathi poems.
7. All my relatives, who always embolden me to
write and frequently call to ask about my
wellbeing and what I am up to.
8. Manasi and Milind Sahasrabuddhe and their
daughter Priya Sahasrabuddhe, our family
friends, for being the first to review my first
book and to encourage me to keep writing.
9. Mr. Ajaykumar Patwa, Officer, RMD NIE, for
offering me unique opportunities at NIE
(Newspaper in Education), Times of India.
10. Late Shri Surendra Bajpai Sir, eminent
educationist of Dombivali, for all the love,
applaud and praise he has given me.
11. My school, Omkar International School,
Dombivali (E) Founder Member, Mrs.
Darshana Samant, my principals, Mrs.
Archana Parulekar, Mrs. Aparna Wagh and
Mrs. Anuja Naik for their patronage and
benedictions.
12. All my teachers for being there for me always
and showering their love and blessings. I
would specially like to thank Mrs. Gautami
Bharmal, Mrs. Seema Bhoskar, Mrs. Rohini
Naik, Mrs. Anita Nagpal, Mrs. Jayashree
Balkrishnan Mrs. Swati Singh, Ms. Swati
Kadam, Mrs. Parvathy Parmeshwar and Mrs.
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Usha Ravishankar. They will dwell in my
heart and in my life forever.
13. Mr. Rohit Mane, national sports athlete and
Mrs. Inamdar, principal of Shivai Balak
Mandir, Dombivali for their constant backing
and the many opportunities that they have
provided for me to bloom.
14. All my friends, especially Swamini Gandhe,
Bhargavi Taralekar, Hrithika Madhu, Nandini
Patil and Yadavi Shetty for always being
enthusiastic for my further books and
enquiring about them, now and then.
15. Vrinda Kulkarni, my mother’s lawyer, for
always bolstering me to keep writing. I also
exceptionally appreciate her efforts behind my
success as well as giving me the opportunity
to enact my poetry book ‘Maa…’ for a
program conducted by Rotary Club of
Dombivali.
16. Pawan, Deepa Sawant (Bagde Stores) and
Maya Shintre Madam (Samarth Book Store)
for being one of the first people who agreed to
keep my book for sale, giving me a market for
my books, with a lot of love and enthusiasm.
17. Late. Shri Mangesh Padgaonkar, renowned
Marathi poet, for his blessings and inspiring
words.
18. Mayuresh Kelkar, music director of Marathi
movie Chaurya and Razakar as well as for
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Marathi album ‘Maay’, for his
encouragement, motivation and guidance.
19. Notion Press for being the publisher for my
first two books—
Hindu Deities and ‘Maa…’
20. Finally, Educreation for giving young,
budding writers like me, a platform to publish
their work and show their latent talent.
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A Scroll of Stuffing p
S.No. Poems Page
1.
Come, Take Me Away 1
2. Why Can't You 3
3. Hearts are Doors to Love 4
4. Love 5
5. I Can’t Wave to You! 7
6. What is Love? 9
7. No Matter What You Say 10
8. Every Human is a Symbol of Love 12
9. The Love of My Soul 13
10. Devoid of Love 14
11. A Valentine’s Day Gift for a Girl? 15
12. Her Lips Awoke the Sleeping City 17
13. I Fell Prey to His Love 19
14. I Can Wait No More For You! 21
15. My Love 23
16. My Dead Love 25
17. You Have Lost 27
18. How Should I Tell You? 30
19. It was My Heart… 31
20. Love and Time 33
21. You and Me 35
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22. Love on Facebook 37
23. The First Time We Met Each there 39
24. Why Can’t I Forget You? 41
25. What is True Love? 44
26. Parents…you are 46
27. Siblings 47
28. Family 50
29. I Love To Walk With Grandpa 52
30. Each Easter You Come to Take
Me 54
31. A Kitten 57
32. A Relation That Is Worth Millions 59
33. Diaries 62
34. The Tree of My Childhood 64
35. The Magic of Friendship 66
36. Rough and Tough; Tall and Bold 68
37. Books 70
38. Roommates 71
39. Bachelor 73
40. Boss 75
41. Colleagues 77
42. What Do You Need To Live? 79
43. The Day Has Come 81
44. The First Rain 83
45. Forgive Me! 85
46. I Love Them More than Anything 88
47. Bizarre Mothers-in-Law 90
48. Daddy… 92
49. Living for My Angel 94
50. Lost Time 96
51. Two Foes 99
52. Lost Forever 101
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53. Life before Computers 103
54 Maso-whatever 106
55. When I Grow Up 109
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Knots and Ties
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Come, Take Me Away
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I am drowning in the ocean of darkness,
Come save me my cherished,
I cannot strive anymore for you,
Without you, my life will never be flourished
I don‟t want to be your stranger anymore,
And quietly seek your love in my fate,
I crave not to be a lonely soul any longer,
I wish to acquire my life‟s mate!
I desire to live my life for you;
I yearn to get your affection,
I am ready to cross out my likings,
To be your only passion
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I am longing to be the princess of your dreams,
Come and take me away,
I desire to melt into your love,
And nothing shall come my way!
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Why Can’t You?
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I have trust in you, why can‟t you?
I have faith in you, why can‟t you?
I believe that you shall succeed, why can‟t you?
I know that you are kind, why can‟t you?
I have recognized your honesty, why can‟t you?
I support you in everything, why can‟t you?
I judge you more than a true friend, why can‟t you?
I can forget all your sins, why can‟t you?
I can forgive your hatred, why can‟t you?
I can love you beyond myself, why can‟t you?
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Hearts are Doors to Love
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Open up your heart,
I fill all my love,
For hearts are doors
To special love!
If one gives love,
And the other returns,
Then there won‟t be on earth,
Sensations that burn!
When love reaches you your hearts should be open,
So that love can easily enter,
For hearts are doors to
Special Love-centers!
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Love
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Love is like drops of tears that we flow,
Love is like a stream,
It is like the happiness of a child,
It is a beautiful goal and dream!
If we flow in it, we need someone to help us,
If we become attached to it, we need someone to
express,
If we are going to enjoy it, we need assistance,
And if we have decided to achieve it, we need a
person, we must confess!
Love isn‟t single; it is in multiples that its true form
is revealed,
Love is not just caring but even old memories can
be healed!
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Love isn‟t a crime; only I must say,
That if we aren‟t dishonest to each other it will
increase day-by-day!
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I Can’t Wave to You!
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I can‟t wave to you,
You have been so near,
My eyes can‟t even bear,
The absence of you dear!
I have you in my heart,
And now I must say,
“Bye! Bye! Goodbye!
We shall meet some other day!”
This isn‟t possible,
I can‟t wave to you ever,
Don‟t leave me my darling,
Your absence should be never!
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I can‟t wave to you,
Please cancel your flight,
I can‟t leave you,
Don‟t leave me in this plight!
I can‟t wave to you,
Never say my love „Bye‟
Our relationship is,
An ever-lasting tie!
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What is Love?
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Love is a bond that shall never end,
It lives on within caring and sharing,
It is but grace and respect for others,
It is the mere feeling of relating
Love is a deep but light emotion,
It is a sensation that you belong to someone,
Love is a knot that lovers unfold,
It is a royal emotion for the common
It is the gentle breeze on the quiet pasture,
It is the bright moon on a starry night,
It is but the presence of one another,
Love is but a rarely understood trite!
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No Matter What You Say
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My heart has been pierced, no matter what you say,
Its tenderness has been taken for granted, it tells me
everyday
My love has been cheated, no matter what you say,
I can‟t forget it, as time sways
My trust has been shattered, no matter what you
say,
You have changed my life, leaving me in disarray
My dreams have collapsed, no matter what you say,
They can‟t be remade, they aren‟t made of clay
My life now lives in despair, no matter what you
say,
I cannot accept your apologies, even if you beg or
pray
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