Love and leave?
Having left her weeping inconsolably,
The eyes red with weeping,
The handkerchief wet with tears,
You intend on proposing again
That you are single, unmarried,
on the look out for a new girl.
And will say you again that you have not
Any girl before,
This is the first time you have fallen in love
With anyone who is so sweet.
Say you, I love you to her,
Not before me as I may not like your character
And it may turn bad for you.
The mod girlsEuropeanized, Christianized,Modern and AnglicizedSpeaking Hindi inAn English tone,The convent girlsFrom the towns and cities,A melody-makerSo ever green, so fresh.
Live in the house,He will surely turn me outTo be strandedOn the footpathOr will be ISomedayIn the old age homesRehabilitated into.
Witty, ironicalAnd existential,Eco-centricApart from bustingMyths,But going byMyth and mystery too.Digging underneathFor objects,Face to face with nothingnessTrying to define itGandhian non-violenceWith the Bhil, Korba and other tribalsIn lively discussion withTryign their best to understandGandhism and the hungry stomach.The poet taking the pagesFrom the lives ofSylvia, Kamala, MahadeviAnd readign the burnt poems,Just as the insect keeps palyingWith…
As it came to the Bomabayan circle of criticsSupported by the Bombayan criticsBut most of his books have come out from Writers Workshop, CalcuttaBarring ones or twos from other publishing houses,Dasavatara and Other Poems (1967) , Seventy Seven (1973) ,Straws in the Wind (1973) , Shadows in the Sun (1976) ,Grass in the Garden (1978)…
Like Mulk Raj Anand’s Story of India for children,He handles the thingsPoetry, art and craft so lyrically,Life, literature, time and reflection.Sitting by the door, the poet reflects uponIn his prose-pieces, literary essays, reviews and reflections,Opinions, annotations and notes,What is poetry,Quoting his own poems and relating toWhich the critics have failed to allude to and refer…
