Of haikus.
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For whom burns it the flame,
The war memorialWho laid their lives during the World WarIn foreign lands,Who were they,How were they,Where from in India,Can their descendants and heirsTheir tales of anonymous braveryDuring that nondescript timeOf inaccessibilityAway from homesDying in foreign fields?Their photos and images,How to feel about,From which place to whereDid they the Indian menAnd how had it been compulsionsForcing…
I closing the eyes
In the praise of Ganesha,Lord GaneshaWith the hands foldedAt the temple entranceOffering water and flower petalsJust before the start of my worshipAnd olden artistic statues dancing,dancing before the eyesMade in different styles,From different objectsRock-cut, made from clay,Wooden and painted,Ganesha aschildOf Shiva-Parvati,Ganesha as dearer to Parvati,Ganesha in an elephantine faceLooking so bizarre and grotesqueBut blissful blessingWith…
What is poetry? Who to say it to me?
To find out, what it is called poetry,Who a poet,How the contents of it?Poetry poetry,The rhythm of speech, the rhythm of life.Poetry is poetry,What you take it for, what take I for,Words musical and pictorial, spontaneous and natural,Full of intonation and sound effects,Sonorous and melodiousAs the cuckoo sings,The brook sings by.Poetry is poetry,What you take…
Poetry as rock-built temples,
Housing the Divine,Grand and stupendous,The viewer viewing in awe and astonishment.
The leaders’ words the words of your mouth,
Keep the lips sealedOtherwise face the wrath and ire,You will be called in the evening to the party officeTo settle scores.Their suppression and repression famous world-wide,How do they torture the non-communists,How do they crush the democracy movements,How do they suppress people’s protests for relaxation,How do they censure the press,The high-handed handling of the tougher law-makers,The…
A specimen of biographical criticism,
The them and content of hisAnd that too seen from his angleOf the spectrum of the age and the spirit of timesIn which he was born and reared.A critic he was of Dryden, Pope and Cowley,Not of Milton and Gray though he admired them,He was but a neo-classical criticFrom the school of satires and witsWhose…