Which none could envisage
But the public voted him to power,
The mandate brought him to
As he understood the pains of the common people,
Making one with them, taking them to be his own,
Had he not, he would not have,
A common man he speaking to a common man,
Hearing their pains,
Laughing and smiling with them,
Living and sharing with them all.
A look at the smaller poems of the thinner collectionShows grief distilling as drops of despair and gloomy sadness,Short of the Hardyian concept of the bleak hope and harsh winterAs shown in The Darkling Thrush poem,Man a puppet into the hands of Destiny,Happiness but an episode in man’s life.An oldie in verse, taking to the…
In the search of the animal,How much dear and own had they been one day,Think you?Gadhei jo ab paayei nahi jaateiUnki khoj mei mere din katatei nahi,Jaanwar ki khoj meiKabhi wei kitanei apnei theie,Sochiye to jaraa?
An English teacherIn Marathi,A Marathi journal editor,A translator,A short film man,A globe trotter,A fellow of writing programs,A writer on visits and tours,A modernist,A Baroda man,A Bombayan,A poet regional,Cosmopolitan,Global,A modernistDevotional.
Rock’ n’ roll and going blues,Pop and rock?
It blushesWhen speaks she.
A story draped in innocence and ignorance.A poet of childish mind and heartMare is especiallyOf wonder and astonishment.
