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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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Stay in Touch:

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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].

You can leave your comment on goodreads.com,

infibeam.com, amazon.in, flipkart.com,

snapdeal.com, shopclues.com, books.rediff.com,

notionpress.com, etc

You can also go through her YouTube Channel-

Sanjana Butala

You can view her other works by surfing Sanjana

Butala on Google.


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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

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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


Knots and Ties

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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!


Knots and Ties

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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?


Knots and Ties

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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!


Knots and Ties

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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!


Knots and Ties

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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!


Knots and Ties

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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!


Knots and Ties

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Please cancel your flight,

I can‟t leave you,

Don‟t leave me in this plight!


Never say my love „Bye‟

Our relationship is,

An ever-lasting tie!


Knots and Ties

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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!


Knots and Ties

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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


Knots and Ties

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