I found a verse on a throw away bus ticket
My voice hasn't reached you
I understand as we are too close.
Once we departed that echoes
If you feel alone and friendless.
*[ Written in a crowded bus while seated close to an attractive Nun.]
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Winterer
Would this tropical seed grow in this rich soil
And become a Wintergreen one day
Or it may be winterkilled some day?
When I was watering to the rose bush in the morning
I deeply thought of myself.
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Burning fragile souls
Fire brigade trucks fly on the road in breaking rules
And making an unpleasant noise.
There must be a fire somewhere?
Do they ever trace a human being's fire in the soul
Without a flame and smoke?
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The Mammoth Power Station
Beyond that plant you may see the shanties in a row without the electricity
And the poor parents read pamphlets of family planning under the moonlight
While they think of their multiplying children.
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Joyriding
She goes with her new lover.
An unpopular actor
in a red colored racing car.
On the way the police halted them
as it's a stolen car.
The girl still feels it's a movie
until they are taken for custody.
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After the War
A songbird on a decayed pole
shivering and woebegone.
nothing remained
everything has turned to dust
except a pauper's inn.
In the darkness
he was searching out of the debris
Alladin's wonderful lamp.
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A poor Christmas gift for her
She's uneasy and unwrapped.
A feather like Handkerchief
Woven by threads of love.
And she found the colorless stain on it
In the shape of a tiny heart
Like a Watermark in life.
* To my beloved spouse
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A bird flies beyond the sky
This rare bird tells of its encounter
When the Telescopic man gossips;
'I found nothing but emptiness
And I was breathless
Then I *flew downwards.'
* The bird used that instead of declining it seems.
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In a Citadel
Don't share your bed with a stranger
who may looks like an actor?
The movie ends with a tear
and the villain will be friendlier
until the transaction of AIDS is over.
Dedication to the AIDS victims
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Smokers
Though it's a risk to life
People smoke everyday.
Among the cigarette butts
I hear a nicotine stained song
'Cigarette contains carbon monoxide'
And the eternal cry of filters say
'Life is a struggle? '
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