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Summer,
With intensive heat and looHas come,Summer,Indian summerFull of heat and dust,The sun appearing to be a fireballAnd the flames falling around,Scorching it all.But do not disheartened,Take you heartTo beat it naturally,Pause a bit under the gulmohar treeMarking the florid blossoms,Jasmines to fragrance youDuring the night-time,Walk you, walk you.
Mayapur,
The Maya of ChitanyaCasting a spell overMagically,Making one lose in devotion,Devotional ananda,Bhakti,Bhakti-rasa,Making one lose in lila,Krishna-lila and dramticsOf Sri Chaitanya, Nitynanda,Gour-Nitai, jai Gour-Nitai,Prem se bolo, Gour-Nitai.
What rasa is it in The Waste Land,
How the commotion and impact of it?How the relish, flavor and tasteAppearing to be?Bibhatsha is the landscapic sceneryOf the waste land, the barren landDeserted and devastated in the trailOf devastation brought by the Great War,The world turned into a rubbleImpacting karuna rasa, pity, self-pityFrom the miserable conditions,Evoking pity, pity, self-pityMaking life tedious and troublesomeTo survive…
My question is,
The credo and anthologyOf modernismIn Indian English poetry?Are they poets or poetastersOr even not,The versifiers,The writers of broken verseThe English poets of Indian English notBut the vernacular menTrying to write in EnglishFor a wider platform?
Takes me back
And ChinaWith its monasteries,Glaciers,Wild flowersAnd alpine foresters,KanchenjungaSeen throughGangtok Ropeway,Pemayangtse Monastery,Lachung Monastery,Yamthang Monastery,The Yumthang Valley.
An olden statue of Radha and Krishna,
And of yore,Centuries old,Built ago,If the spade clinks overAnd the digger stumbles overAnd gifts it toA thing of historiography and museumlogy,How to view it,Hold into the hands of mine?O, a statue of gold, pure gold,Looking blacklyOr coated so,But of pure gold,Weighing to croresIn current valuation,Suppose that find youA statue historical, museumlogical,How to hold itInto the…