When My Dreams Say, ' We Are No More There
When my dreams say, ' We are no more there'
I shall sail unto an island far off.
There I shall have the sapling of a dream tree planted
And it will grow.
When my dream tree begins to bloom
I will never pluck its flowers ever,
So will when its fruits begin to ripe
I remain hungry and thirsty there.
I shall lie in the shade of the tree
Without ever dreaming to have a dream for me.
Then I shall climb its branches and see for myself
The vast expanse of water green or blue.
I shall hoot from the top of it like an own
Blind often or blinded by the dreams of the past.
I shall shout unto the skies blue
About having dreams aplenty and not still having them.
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And What Happened To Those Poets?
Where are you all?
The most popular members over here, whom I read with care?
Has the coldest hand gripped them
Nor have they run into the asylum of living the other way?
I remember the other Canadian and
The one from Antarctic Exploration Team?
They were here with a popularity of over
Of amazing 3500 and Plus hits over a week!
Patrick White, the Emo Girl and Nilakshi`s shadow now triumph..
All the best dear poets.
I remember the British torch bearers who stood ever top for long?
But no Indian except Dr John Celes to stay on.
Titanic Yoonoos and a few lot still write here often
But the rest have begun to flee the forum.
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A Reeling For All
My students reel under the burden of new knowledge!
Whereas I stuff their minds with my old fables.
I read out a verse of Auden or Tagore
And begin to think of a great poet remembered.
But my students continue to reel under the Sun
Of new opportunities in the next phase of theirs.
My students of past are now in tens of thousands
Making dollars in the land of the kangaroos below the Indian Ocean
And beyond the Atlantics where the War mongers live in fear.
They reel under the clouds of new packages and amenities.
My voice is down, my energies are fading and
I reel under an agony `WHICH IS UNKNOWN TO THEM`.
My new students take an outh that 'they will not',
That 'they will not reel under the SUN of past'.
They whisper into my ears the glory
Of the emerging India - a new land of newer billionaires
And ask why they should make voyages now
As the new packages and amenities are great in the land of
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The Scent Of Love
It`s not an illusion as some say -
In between the moments of living and dying
Every one feels the scent of love.
But they tell a big lie and begin to feel contented.
How long will one live with that false pride?
I know not.
It`s a scent with thousand hands
Embracing the needy.
It`s a solace with the wings of an angel
Flying unto your moments dear.
Why are you proud of a world that doesn`t smell some love?
I know not.
The scent of love over reaches the borders of a day.
In the small smile blooming on a kid`s face,
In the sweet word whispered into ears by your dear,
And in the speechless closeness of your pet that never writes poems
The scent of a love triumphs
And you tell a big lie.
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The Shaking Earth
You call them Sandy, Andrew, Catherine and Neelam
The powers of the skies and the blue oceans
Have begun to work on the lands you own.
Many Americans thrown into misery and rendered homeless,
The President of the land articulating the power of the Sandy!
Many Philippians and Indians are never defended
And their kings mantle the role of cynics!
As ever and ever before we see the indifference
And unheeding goes the warning of nature.
She has been vociferous of late,
She knows to behave like a task mistress.
Man`s folly of living an intoxicated life
Far from the small woes of his grandfather, the ape
Has begun to show him the door of extinction
Like the dinosaurs and the larva were ever once.
Stop here brother, or else we are all doomed.
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A Face I Know Not
The face of an old man with a colourful turban
At times flashes across my mind.
But I know not the face
Though a face it is.
His eyes are cold and ears are covered most often,
He sees not much but just hears alone,
But now I remember this face!
A Face of all sorts.
12.9 million Faces look up to him now and then
Their tears dry up in the heat of the unkind sun.
Their sighs go unheard as ever before
In the midst of cries.
He and his men are bound on reformations hitherto unheard
‘Making of a future nation it is', they speak out.
Spiraling prices and surging woes
Never deter them a bit.
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The Street Dogs
Every morning we walk and run the streets
And you call us street dogs.
No masters to wag our tails at, no houses to guard over
We are doomed to fend ourselves.
Every now and then we grow in number
And you describe it a menace.
No food to eat, no milk to drink
We are made to dine on garbage.
Every evening we withdraw into our dark regions
To sleep till the next morning descends.
No pedestrians come our way, no motorist spares us
Our carcasses lie in pools of blood.
Every now and then we remember them;
Our brethren living in mansions;
They live a life of no wants; nor of any fear.
That is never our concern though.
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An Ode To The Poet Friends
Note: Please, read this poem only after reading
PLAYING A HOST FOR YOU
submitted by me prior to this. The old GUESTS please, go ahead.
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O poet friends from lands far and near,
I thank you all for having been to my small abode
For an evening`s chat and for smiling at one another.
You have all left for once; not for ever.
You are all gifted with Apollo`s fertile mind and I swear
You are laden with thoughts never ever on the same line made
As your lands and concerns are there much diverse with one another.
Your wet pens now write more often than ever.
O poet friends, read what is writ large on this world`s forehead
And speak out to your friends what we all ought to do now
To save ourselves from the discomfort of alienation of ourselves
And whisper into the skies your dreams cherished.
Each day you awake a little earlier to see the sun surging
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All About Two Friends
Two true friends they were.
A kite and a sparrow living in a tree.
They chit-chatted all day long
And forgot the rest of the world.
None an nothing could separate them
There came a dark and short man once
Who smiled and smiled at the sparrow and
Said aloud, 'It can`t be, how is it that you are here now?
The sparrow turned pale and looked at his friend, the kite.
The little man was looking into a foliage now.
Two true friends they were.
The kite murmered into the ears of his friend,
'Fear not my friend, I shall take you to another tree high and tall
And save you from this dark and short brute..come with me'.
As they flew off unto a far away tree, the'brute'down still smiled.
Two true friends they were.
The kite made the pal sit on a tall branch and said,
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The Teachers` Day 2012
The text is torn and yellowish,
The voice is dull and coarse,
The benches are half vacated too.
Still he teaches, the teacher of 2012
The Indian teacher whom you all may not know.
In the horizon the setting sun bleeds to death
And the blooming Belle Sans Merci begins her dance graceful.
Across the dark sky infinite the winged late fliers fly
Singing a note of the rest imposed.
A night is imposed.
The frail man tries to lay a track
And heaves a sigh of recollections old.
The running feet of boys and girls overgrown
Crush the track and surge upwards for a while.
The clock clicks out a tone coarse.
June to March and Monday to Saturday
The fallen tribe snails on.
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