With the golden hair glistening
Would be my love
But came she not,
The salon girl, the parlour lady,
The bobby-cut girl,
Simply speaking,
Fearing it that she would not cook food
And came she too not.
Just the golden locks, remember I, hanging upon,
Coming over the face
And I losing in Bobby’s sweet dreams, Bobby-cut glistening
And golden hair to whisper into her ears,
Bobby, I love you, I love you
But that love you,
Now a dream, a false dream,
As Bobby went away doing ta-ta, bye-bye, goodbye.
Their psychology,A study of mind and behaviour,Our emotion and feeling,Thinking and idea,Instinct and impulse,The layers of consciousness.
The ghost of Thomas GrayHaunts him here.Thomas Gray’s owl,Jayanta Mahapatra’s lizard and scorpion.
With Edward VII mounted uponA black horse,Is a Bombay areaArtistic, commercial,Busy, official and full ofHigh, but old buildingsOf the British-timeTelling of architectural grandeur.Through the myth of Kala GhodaKolatkar says the poetic mythOf his,His struggling daysOf as a commercial artist,His tryst with poesy,His visits and re-visitsTo the areaWhere there lie in lodgedFamous complexes and establishments.A poet…
A druggyOr a romanticistOr a classicistOr a reformistOr a Catholic un-Catholical,Romantically classical?An alchemist he,His life is a pilgrimageAnd he going toOn a pilgrimageTelling ofThe pilgrim’s progress,Human virtuesLike a good Samaritan.
Engineering and construction,Roads and links,Bridges and dams,Electricity and housing,Post offices and telegraphs.The modern ageOf the radio, the cinema,The theatre and cosmetics,The television,The telephone,The wireless handset,The textiles.Had the food been notIn the belly,Had clothing been not,Good houses to dwell in,Could we have been modern,Had we not gone to schools,Had there been not courts and police stations?
With the sun reflecting,Rising and setting,Time reflected overAnd denotedBy the rising and falling sun,Sunrises and sunsets.A poet of the sun dial,Time,All permanent and all-pervasive,The world a matter of time,Time mechanical and cosmic,Life and its fleeting moments,Life and the passage of time,Man has a destiny of own,Ever known to us,Time and the universe,Human time, Creational Time,The…
