I closing the eyes

Saw them notAnd since my childhoodHave been,Specially my father used to sayBut deliberated it notWhen want I know it moreGoing beyondOr even travelling byBut the curiosity ended it not.The Bhutias,Bhutia people,Their history, culture,Society,Know I it not,Their ritual and ritesAnd practices,Cuisine and food habit.Their tongue, languageSikkimeseCloser to Tibetan and Dzongkha,Belongiong toNyingma and Kagyu schoolsOf Tibetan Buddhism,The…

Writing in Kannada and English,Honnina Madilalli his novel in Kannada written in 1960,Followed by Lamps of Hope, a small booklet of poems in 1976.Amidst The Cosmic Wilderness,1980,Rye On The Ravines,1985,Symphony of Skeletons,1985,Tender Wings,1988,Melting Moments,1990,Kabadi’s Glimmericks,1994,A Tear On A Pancake,1995, ,Golden Glimmers,1997,Shimmering Waves,2000,Snail-Pace Street,2000,Chariot of Dreams,2002,The books of poems tendered by D.H.Kabadi.Strangely philosophical and socially conscious,He…

SmilingFrom the goggles,Dark sunglasses,Memsahebs.

Or in meditation under a Bodhi treeOr crossing borders in the Far EastGiving his gospels and sermons,Artisans making the statues of BuddhaFrom stone, clay and metals,Buddha is Buddha,Where is he not,In your soul, in your heart,On your mind,Just feel you, feel you it,just search you, search you it.

The philosophy of itLandscapicFull of highlands and downlands,Rocks, hills and trees,Rivers, valleys and marshesAnd without these,The earth is not the earth.

Bhagabati,Awake, awake and arise You,BhagabatiRepresenting Valour, chivalryOf the gods,Appearing as the Battle-queen,Annihilating satanic forcesRepresenting ego, pride, tyranny,Sin, vice!Awake, awake You, the Creational Force,Awake, awake and arise YouBhagabati,The Eternal She,Kalratri,Maharatri, Moharatri,Mahashakti, Mahamaya, Maheshwari,Yogamaya, Trinetri, Mahadevi!