Rhymes: some rhymes from old times..

I have some fascination with rhymes. If you try hard I think you can write a rhyme for any occasion reflecting any sentiment. It sometimes is very pleasing and satisfying to have expressed a complex idea in some simplest words. We may grow in our respective personal and professional lives but we should never fail to reach out to the innocent,trusting child in us which we were all once. My writing rhymes is one such attempt.

Many of my rhymes are lost and I feel sad for them. Through this blog I hope to give them a little longevity. Here, I recall some of the good old rhymes that I penned or rather tip-tapped on the keypad.Few of these have been shared widely with friends.
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Limericks:

Once in a city much older than France
I got a chance to work in Finance
A tower so tall, I didn't see
A museum so big, not for me
Ahh! This work full of 'sheet' in Finance!

* written in 2007, describes my initial summer internship experience in Paris..bogged with my work and preparation for CFA Level I exams I hadn't seen either Eiffel or Louvre during first four weeks. A sequel and an antithesis to the above written before leaving Paris is sadly lost now... :(

I shall add more to this section as I excavate more from the past!
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Haikus :

I call
You loose temper
I sleep

And this day
Quite to your dismay
I write

Well, Haikus which are three line poems with less than 17 syllables are deceptive in their appearance and the better ones present two contrasting ideas left for the reader to decipher. One of the better Haikus for starters that I read on Wikipedia goes like...

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator
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...And Some Random Rhymes:

One on myself

Once I was a storyteller
a charmer with words
then I lost my voice,
my head,my heart, my hair..:))

..but not one to accept defeat
albeit with shaking feet
I am finding my voice sane
taking heart, yet again!

....and another rhyme dedicated to a 'shy n sweet' friend

Anukriti -- to tell she is pretty
won't be a lie
if u can try
her poems few
And this is how i grew
- fond of her!

Her poems i reject, she writes fast!
Her feelings i respect,she thinks vast!
Her friendship is such,
Things heavy how much,
You can empty on her!

Usually mild, potentially wild
An adult trapping an exulting child
Warm yet coy
I wish her a boy
Who fathoms her heart
Or some of its part
Since grasping the whole
Is a futile goal
That no man should aim
Without giving up on same
- all his life!!

...and the one aching with the longing to be accepted as a friend...

You make me sad at times,
But never it lasts for long;
With all my stupid reasons n rhymes,
I have to bounce back strong.

And then some day;
I hope you will say --

"Well, you win! I give in,
Now both our hairs are grey;
I thought you'd wean, but it's long been,
Now I have something to say."

Such time will come and come it must,
For your fears and reasons to end,
To not to forgive, and not to trust,
And not to accept me as friend.