Vanity Brute

Whenever some friend praised
That my poetry is good
Fuddled; I raise my hand
To check for horns on head
Satisfied; I bruit abroad
“Well! Well! So far so good
Vanity brute hasn’t gone to head
I am still your kind
Eligible to coyly tread
Along with you; ahead”

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Poet

POET
He is a poet
When his thoughts survey
What distressed millions flay

He is a poet
When his works slay
Every social evil sway

He is a poet
When his words relay
What virtuous people say

He is a poet
When his expressions lay
Portraits on brains’ gray

Sathya….

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NUGGETS (acrostic)

Nuggets of gold, money and authority
Ultimate luxury, status and handy men
Gathered he through all bloody means
Giving not a damn to humane feelings
Equipoise is but nature’s patent strategy
Tamed is he by crippling ailments
So sad! Spends life like a frozen vegetable!

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Pink Sari

When took a dip in Ganga
that pink sari
imbibed a lot of Advaitha.

...glued to her skin
and lost identity...

became a mound of her mounds
curve of her curves
and dip of her dips.

I knew how euphoric that pinky felt
When dried up and separated from her
...retained her shape.

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Evidence

“Who is responsible for this? ”
I wanted to question Him
When I entered His realm
I found ‘guilt’ in His eyes! Yes!
He is hurrying to daub on some......
evidence! Well! Well! I could guess
On the right lower brim
Of large messy earth canvas
He is erasing…….. His name! !

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Walking Tall

I'm going stronger and stronger
I'm growing taller and taller
With each and every failure I savor
With the wounds on my naked heart I preen
Like a lofty tree with Axe-made hews
That stops not sprouting new leaves
Nor buildings it's trunk's thews
Nor doling out, for free, sweet fruits

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God

One says there is ‘NO’ God
One shows the skies
And says ‘YES’
And jokes one clever modern
“I WISH He is there”

As one who’s neither a Leftist
Nor a Rightist
Nor even a go-in-between
I visualize
In every YES, NO, WISH and CONFUSION
His visage with glowing beams
And mocking grins

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My Questions

When my love was just a trickle
And my mind was still fickle
I had one question
“To live
With you?
Or without you? ? ”

Once our love was settled
Our hearts and thoughts mingled;
And our souls melded
I have only one question
“Without you;
To live?
Or not to live? ? ”

Sathya….

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Nostalgia

What’re you doing O’ my friend
at those chilling shores of Ganga?
Gathering today, morrow’s nostalgia?

Let me share those moments;
taste your ecstasies.
On that future day when you fall into oblivion
let me recall those lost flashes and waned out scents
and earn for you, your own stolen heavens.

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Best Sellers

‘Five steps to success! ’
‘Become a millionaire
In just ten days! ’
‘A complete repertoire
Of mind powers! ! ! ’

Juicy titles! !
People buy
Spilling dollars
Read them
And throw them

Publisher announces
“Million copies sold”

The author grins
“I told you
It's easy to find
A million fools”

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