Listen Please
Let us not go into reasons
I don't keep asking
But the fact is that
You stopped listening
To friends and to the ones
Who talk some sense
But nothing happens
Really, nothing happens
You roll on whimsically
With your old ways
But lo! This has a tag-line
One day stops talking
Your inner voice
That's when starts
The real crisis! !
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Atonement
It was a broad moon light robbery
The theft was notified
The bandit was identified
Alas! Under the Romantic Penal Code
There is no court! No plaint
In fact it is the culprit
Who is loved the most
And the lost gets the nemesis
Of living the life left
In total emptiness
But, no regrets
It is atonement
To be bereft of heart
Sathya….
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Guillotine
Her heart is a guillotine
Once alas I placed mine
Rolled out two pieces anon
Even years after the fatal lesion
Remained the clotted blood stain
Reminding the worst ever let down
Well! Never enough of the learned lesson
This poor heart moaning in pain
Still pines for a love sign
Of what virtue is it’s reckon
Expecting a cloudless rain
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My Laughs And Guffaws
I love my Television
Whenever I want to laugh
I switch to cartoon movies
The antics of Tom and Jerry
Keep on tickling my funny bone
For hours later
When I like to have some fun extra
And want to giggle and guffaw
I watch political news
But alas
The histrionics
Of our leaders
For days together
they keep me dipped in
Pain and chagrin
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Who is less evil?
The Indian moguls
Throw their spit outs
Over their compound walls
For the poor to scramble,
Fight and collect along
With the street dogs
But our Super powers do it wise
They wrap their dregs and debris
In designer packets and sell
In the super markets and malls
Of the poor countries
At prices ludicrous;
Tell me!
Who is less evil?
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My Village
Miles away my village
Through rocky thorny way, yet
I love going there
Across the farm greens
Caressing thin coarse leaves
I love going there
Wading the slimy mud
Slashing in shallow river beds
I love going there
Chasing butterflies
Taunted by honeybees
I love going there
Warbling pastorals
Chartered on a bullock-cart
I love going there
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Weapon
They build arms
To defend nations
They war! To achieve peace
They kill! To save populace
They choose bloodbath
To baptize the world’s youth
These born-bellicose
Are too callous to use
One weapon that can defuse
All the tensions on this Earth
Love! The indomitable means! A boon
The Maker had bestowed on humans
That can conquer any domain! !
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Oblation
Poetry? ! What do I know? ?
Someone unknown stirs the mind
Kneads the thoughts; knits fine rows
Of words and runs my numb hand
He is my invisible tow
Of feel and emotive discord
A good friend and a bad foe
Playing with my passion-world
As if keeping up my vows
Of countless past births’ damp load
To His edicts I kowtow
Offering Him, His own words
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That Is Hope
THAT IS HOPE
Ship wrecked in mid-ocean
Swim unto shore
That is hope
Left alone is hot desert
Drink your own tears
That is hope
Caught amongst wild crows
Keep silent
That is hope
Burning problems
Keep cool
That is hope
Grinding in solitude
Treat your shadow your mate
That is hope
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Friend
An old friend is like a golden trove
Melt him, whenever thou felt so
Wear him; or even tear him! I vow
Never does he lose his glow
Ever near to thou to distance every woe!
Call him a pal and clasp him in love
Or cast him off in unmindful shove
He stays within thou as another soul
Cloning bodies is a new found go
Cloning minds! Friends knew long long ago! !
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