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The light of sadhnaLighting?Where ShivaFrom whose matted hairThe Ganges flowing?Whose Third Eye PowerAwakening?It’s sadhna,All but sadhna,Shiva-sadhna,And the Nagamani,The Shiva gemstone,The lingam flashing,The cobra testing the sadhna,Kalbhairava supernatural passing throughTo take the ordeal,Nagamani is butA meditation about the lingam,Shiva and his snake,The lingam lighting,Shiva meditated throughThe darkness,The dark myth of the lingamAnd his snake, kaal-rupa,Dark and…

Mean it?Is it Kamaksha?The Goddess of Desire, Love?Who the Goddess of the Nilachal Hill isOf Assam, Kamakhya?Who the Goddess overlooking the Brahmaputra,The Tantric KaliOf the Shaktipitha,The Menstruating Goddess,How to worship the Bleeding GoddessAsking for forgiveness?How the riddles, puzzles of creation,Life and the world,How to think of life and the world,The Bleeding Yoni telling of our…

Writing the saga of Janaki,King Janak’s daughterAnd telling in his own wayAdding to the story and versionOf Valmiki.A poem of some epic lengthIt tells the story of Sita,The earth-bornWhich appeared beforeFrom the depths of earthOn a lotus flowerWhile King Janak was tilting the landWith a golden furrow.Sitayana is the flowerOf his study of the RamayanaAnd…

And infected human lifeWith its spread, rapid infectionChain and cluster of affectationSpreading from personal contact to community infection?No remedy to it, just the lockdown,The ban on movement and public gathering,Social distancing, physical distancingTo avoid any contagious contact,Go into a quarantine, self-imposed isolationAs for to check the spread of it.

Inducted into the body corpusOf poetry,A poet of the dark journey of oblivion,Shadowy presence,The ships sailing not with the cargoesOn board,But souls and spirits boardedPlunging into the dark watersOf the oceanGoing to an unknown destinationA poet casual and eventual,He has taken to poetryCasually, nay seriouslyAnd his poetry appear as versesIn loose sheets,Scribbled offhandedlyAs loose overflows…

Before the arrival of the foreign invasionAnd what to say more about history?Who built the rock-built temples,How and when,Who can ever say it?