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One midnight
Found I not my motherBut her asthi-kalasha.The asthi-kalasha of my mother,One midnightWhen I opened the door.I did not, did not find her,But the kalashaHanging by the pole.Spell-bound, spell-boundAnd speechlessStood I bySeeing the urn.The earthen pitcher-like small urnOf my motherContaining in the ashes.The earthen pitcher-like small urnOf my motherContaining in the ashes.One midnightWhen I opened the…
Women, women,
Iraq,Turkey,Syria,Libya,Afghanistan,Kuwait,Pakistan,Saudi Arabia,I think of,Think,Women, womenWomen of Morocco,Jordan,Somalia,Egypt,Oman,YemenThink I,Take ITheir liberties,Their freedomOf speech and expression,Their life-style,Art and mannerAnd culture,Their mirthAnd joviality,Happy spiritAnd mind-set,But I become sad and sombreWhen I see themMorose and broken,In malaiseAs for what it ails themWhen come I to hear aboutTheir oppression and suppression,Cutting down of liberties,Social taboosAllowing them not to come out,Asking…
Who the lawyer,
Who the judge,How the judgement,What the plea for mercy?Who the culprit,What the crime of his,Who the jailer,How the jailed?What about punishment,How the judgement,Who the judge,Where is justice,How is it given?The legal hassles,Files piled upon,Clerical works so slow,Times and situations changingWith the change in mood and mindAnd so is judgementWith evidence and witnessAnd paper workAnd money…
Ek baccha
Dusra bacchaJansankhya badhao.One childAfterAnother child,Keep increasing population.
A Parsi man of Parsi heart,
A police officer by professionBut an M.A.in English,He is a tragedian,One concerned with depicting life otherwiseJust taking Blakian ignorance,I mean the tiger,The Ted Hughesian hawkAnd the Alfred Lord Tennnysonian Nature red in tooth and clawAnd the Robert Browningian monologues,The Aristotlean tragedy as delved deep in Poetics.A poet of the morgue, the post-mortem house,Violence, murder, bloodshed,Accident…
I want to write a poem, said she,
Whatever it is in your heart, in your soul,Say the things of heart and soul and your spirit,I want to write a poem, again said she,But I do not know how to write it?Write you, write whatever it is in your mind, in your soul,Write you, write you no doubt without any hesitation,Put down the…