Simple in one’s life and philosophy.
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My search is different,
Who has got what,What is in whom,How to searchit,Find it?Where is quality,Where talent,Genius, merit,Let me search it out,Bring it out from the cavity holeAnd I shall.And who has it not,How can you say,What you underrate it,Maybe it you do not know it,What you undermineIs not a thing to be undermined.A child’s uncommon drawings and sketchesWhich…
Your old dress materials,
To be a fashion and apparel designer,Which the models may try inTo pose forAnd the photographers catch the stillsAs from my own collection,Mr.Dubey’s.Your father’s dresswears,Abandoned and discarded pants and shirts will do it,Serve my purpose,Nurture and nourish the dream ofBecoming a fashion designer,If you have not the dress materials ofYour grandfather and great grandfather,The old…
Melting Moments, published in 1990, shows
One of cosmic wilderness and existential delving,Lying in wait for comingAnd the waiting as suchThat it is never to end.A poet of the mist on the lips,Fires of passion,A world without you,Waiting, promises and searchAnd the kiss to be impressedOn the un-impressibleAnd of the veil of silence,He is mystical and philosophicallySearching meaning in life and…
Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra
The chariot wheel,The rathyatra,The wooden idolsOn an outingTo the see the worldAround.To read Jayanta is to be reminded ofLord Jagannath, Balabhadra and SubhadraAnd their journeysAnd viewing of the worldFrom the chariot,The ratha spinning,Rotating and doing a roundOf the mundane world.
Nissim Ezekiel the man and the poet, the writer of
The Unfinished Man, The Exact Name,Hymns In Darkness, Latter-Day Psalms,An Indian Maharashtrian JewWriting poems in English.A professor of English of Bombay UniversityAnd the editor of the Indian P.E.N.,Nissim introduced modernism,Went along new lines,New thinking and temperamentWhile exploring new possibilities.As a poet, he drew from the Elizabethan lyric writersAnd sonneteers,One can read and come to conclude…
As for inner compulsions,
Scenery as the dream flakesBringing pictures with ideas, thoughts and reflectionsOn the minds-cape,The sea waves surging and washing the shore.