Nairobi and Niagra
Nigeria Niagra and Nile are near Nairobi
And emperor Nero of Netherlands
Once upon a time a friend of Nebuchadnesar
Pored into the geography and geology
Of N and probed into its cosmology
To discover that violins and musical bands
Could stir the empty jar
Of nothingness
And the Tsar of hallucination was born
Caught in the network generated by him
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Crocodile
I saw a crocodile in the blue deep of the west
It sprang from the alien seas of Antartica
The netherworld seems to be its nest
It was bejewelled all over
I found a lovely lad rushing at it
With a rainbow in his hand
He shot an arrow black and yellow
At the star spangled head of the crocdile
And momently there leaped forth a fountain of light
That flooded the world of sight
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Lilac
A lilac looked at me
It was sans honey
It lacked fragrance
But it was dazzling in effulgence
A butterfly rushed to it
And turned into a figure white
But I am all for black
Black clouds thunder and rain
Dark forests dank hearts
That can be ploughed
To sow the seeds of love
When love grows into a wild woodland
That bars the light of civilisation
From touching the breast of earth
Black angels will gambol
In the gloam under the canopy of dark leaves
Of love and ecstasy
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Sleep
He is aways asleep
walking chatting working playing
though wide awake
He does not miss a train
and you cannot outwit him
in conversation or at playground
But believe it or not
he is always asleep
He has two minds one asleep
and the other awake
Or else the wide awake mind is the
isle of Langerhans
in the midst of the mind.awake
The mind asleep is
connected along hot line
with the pituitary gland
which is the point
whence the expanding universe
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Rebirth if any
Rebirth if any
I will not enter into the worldly life
If I remain as poor as I am now and here
I must not see my wife and children pale
For want of consumer goods
Unless God provides us with the tinsels
that are the fashion of the time
Iwill not opt for worldly life if I am born again
Oh I want tinsels and not gold
I will exchange gold for tinsels
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She
She has gone away
I wanted that.
She has gone away
I am left to myself and my cooking gadgets
If she were there the house would seem to be crowded
I am scared of a crowd
I want to be left to myself
I enjoy to be alone
She has gone away
I miss the crowd in a sunny street
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Beauty
There is a beauty born from the calyx of ugliness
Whose eyes are cauldrons of deceit
Whose apparels liken the messiah of democracy
Whose nose has some affinity with the nose of Einstein
The beauty born can be espied in the wars for democracy
and in the war for development
and in the pall of pollution
The Earth will find its beauty at its height
when man will abandon this earth forever
for lizards and snakes and llamas to live evermore in peace
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I sat like a mountain
Yesternight I sat like a mountain
wrapped in a blanket of darkness
The eye couldnot see anything
The ear could hear the sound of silence
And my head seemed to be drugged
deeply plunged in some sensation
undisturbed by the world of getting and spending
I felt a sense of totality where there were no words
When i awoke from the reverie
I learnt that I am a living entity
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The lotus eye
A lotus is born in muddy water
You cannot grow lotus anywhere else
A sage is born in a decadent world
Jesus never comes during any golden age
He came in an age harrowed by humbugs
A lotus has eyes
They are enamoured of the Sun
Jesus had lotus eyes
They could see the Sun and nothing else
He saw light and nothing else
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I saw a very old man
I saw a very old man very old indeed
older than any man
older than the hills and the seas
older than the planet earth to be sure
and who knows
it was he per haps
who witnessd the big bang
The sun and moon are his eyes
one is aburning in a huff
another is mellowed with mercy and kindness
and the, mans matted hair is hardly visible
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