Sunday, May 29, 2022

My German student Somasekhar

Only the strong  and the brave can stand 

for something great cuz they understand

the values and give their helping hand

they go to any lengths  and withstand

the cracks and extend their bounds

 despite the cold weather that surrounds

they never lose strength nor close their eyes

fixed on their goal nor they ever compromise 

Strong men are like a giant lightning rod  

they can keep lightning in their hold

and strive to bring dreams into reality's fold

they're the pillars who uphold the glint of gold 

Beyond doubt future will unfold

to them a great fortune untold



అసమాన ప్రతిమ(భ) ప్రపంచ రికార్డ్ విజేత

బారతవర్ష సాహిత్య పరిచయకార్యక్రమం 28 మే 2020 శనివారం సాయంత్రం మార్కాపురం ప్రెస్ క్లబ్ లో జరిగింది.  కార్యక్రమం సాగుతుండగా తటాలున తరలివచ్చిందో  నాట్యరాణి, అసమాన ప్రతిభావంతురాలు, జితకాసిని. ( గెలుపుతో  వెలుగొందెడి)  ఆమే   250 మందితో  తో  నాట్యం చేసి  ప్రపంచ రికార్డ్ సృష్టించిన ప్రతిమ గారు.   ఆమె మార్కాపురం లో  స్నేహనాట్య అకాడమీ స్థాపించి వందలాదిమందికి శిక్షణ ఇస్తున్నారు. నా శ్రమ పట్టుదల పై  గౌరవం ఏర్పడి  తన 9 మంది విద్యార్థునులతో భారతవర్ష ను శోభాయమానంగా  నృత్య రూపంలో ప్రదర్శించారు. " ఇది మీరు చేసిన పనికి నేనిచ్చే ట్రిబ్యూట్ అన్నారు.  ఆ విశ్వఖ్యాతి జేతకు నేను భారతవర్ష ను కానుకగా ఇచ్చాను.


 ప్రక్క వాడి ప్రతిభ చూసి ఓర్వలేని తనం  తో ముఖం  త్రిప్పేసే వాళ్లనే ఎక్కువగా చూస్తుంటాం.    రెండురోజులముందు ఆమె  ప్రపంచ రికార్డ్ కోసం  నాట్య ప్రదర్శన చేసి బాగా అలసి పోయి విశ్రాంతి  బాగా అలసి పోయి విశ్రాంతి తీసుకోమని చెప్పినా  ఎంతో ప్రేమతో శిష్యులతో వచ్చి  భారతవర్ష కార్యక్రమాన్ని అలరించారు.

అల మార్కాపురి లో

మార్కాపురం సాహిత్య ఖని. ఒక్క తెలుగు పండితుడిని కలిస్తేనే నాహృదయం శరీరంలోంచి బైటకు గెంతేస్తుంది, ఆపై కవితాకాశంలో విహరిస్తుంది. అలాటిది పదిమంది తెలుగు పండితులు రచయితలు, అసమాన ప్రతిభావంతులు,   భాషాభిమానులు ఒకే వేదికపై ఒక సభలో కనిపిస్తే ... ఆ అతులిత  ఆనంద మహిమ ఒక భాషా దుర్గం,  మరో స్వర్గం.



డాక్టర్ కప్పగెంతుల మధుసూదన్ గారు  ఎం ఏ తెలుగు,  ఎం ఏ సంస్కృతం  పిఎహ్ డి. , అవధాన కళ లో   పి.  హెచ్. డి చేసిన ఆయన  సామాన్యుడిలా కనిపించే అసామాన్యులు, మాతృ భాషానురక్తులు.  డాక్టర్ కప్పగెంతుల  భారతవర్ష గ్రంధాన్నిఅద్భుతంగా వర్ణించారు.  "కప్పగెంతుల ", "పూలబాల"  అనే పదాలకి  నిజమైన అర్ధాలు మన ఊహకు కూడా అందవు.  పూలబాల అనే పేరుకి ఆయన చెప్పిన భాష్యం కలకాలం నామనసులో నే కాదు  ఎవరి మనసులో నైనా నిలిచిపోతుంది.  ఎందుకంటే వారినిజమైన  వ్యుత్పత్తులు తెలుసుకుంటే నిజమైన  అర్థాలు మనకు బోధపడతాయి. 

కప్పగెంతుల అనే ఇంటిపేరు కప్పగొంతుల నుంచి వచ్చింది. వారి పూర్వీకులు వేదాన్ని కప్పగొంతుతో చదివేవారు.  కప్పగొంతుల కాలక్రమేణా కప్పగెంతులుగా మారిపోయింది.  ఇంకా పూలబాల అనే పదంలో పూలు అతి తక్కువ కాలం జీవించినా జీవితాన్ని అత్యంత ప్రయోజనాత్మకంగా అర్థవంతంగా జీవిస్తాయి , బాల అనే మాట ఎప్పుడూ వయసుని మాత్రమే  సూచించే మాటకాదు. బాల అంటే బాల వ్యాకరణం , అంటే చిన్నపిల్లలకి వ్యాకరణ అని అర్ధం కాదు.  చిన్నయ్య సూరి వ్రాసిన బాల వ్యాకరణం అంటే చిన్నపిల్లలకి వ్రాసిన వ్యాకరణం కాదు. బాల అంటే విషయ జ్ఞాన సంపన్న అని అర్థం అని చెప్పేరు. పండితుల కసాధ్యమేమీలేదు కదా!
  


విద్యశాఖలో  అనేక ఉన్నత పదవుల్లో ప్రకాశించిన డాక్టర్ అన్నపురెడ్డి వీరారెడ్డిగారు తెలుగు ఇంగ్లిష్ సైకాలజీలలో పోస్ట్ గ్రాడ్యుయేషన్ చేసిన భాషా ప్రేమికులు.  వారు   భారతర్ష గ్రంధాన్ని వేయిపడగల గ్రంధం తో అనేకసార్లు పోల్చారు.   పూలబాలని చూస్తే విశ్వనాధ సత్యనారాయణ  గుర్తుకొస్తున్నారని  అన్నారు. విశ్వనాథ  పూలబాల  రచనల మధ్య పోలికలను  చెపుతూ  ఇరువురి భార్యల పేర్లు కూడా ఒకటే ( వరలక్ష్మి) అని చెప్పారు. కొంత గ్రంధాన్ని చదివి అందులో అంశాలను ప్రస్తుతించారు. ఇలాటి గొప్పవారి (రివ్యూ) అభిప్రాయం తో  మాజీ ఎం ఎల్ ఏ  శ్రీ జక్కిరెడ్డి గారి అభినందనలతో సాగుతుండగా తటాలున తరలివచ్చిందో  నాట్యరాణి , అసమాన ప్రతిభావంతురాలు , జితకాసిని , ( గెలుపు తో  వెలుగొందెడి) 250 తో 48 గంటలునాట్యం చేసి  ప్రపంచ రికార్డ్ సృష్టించిన ప్రతిమ గారు. ప్రపంచ రికార్డుని కైవసం చేసుకున్న  ప్రతిమగారి ప్రతిభ గురించి తెలుసుకుంటే  మనకు ఎవరెస్టు ఎక్కినా ఆనందం కలుగుతుంది  జీవితంలో అడ్డంకులు హాస్యాస్పదంగా కనిపిస్తాయి. 
Poolabala presenting Bharatavarsha to Mrs. Pratima, Head Sneha Dance Academy 
అలా అనేక మంది గొప్పవారి పరిచయంతో, గొప్ప నాట్యంతో,   దుర్లభమైన  గాత్ర  మాధుర్యాన్ని, కీర్తిని  ప్రతిష్టలను ఆర్జించిన చిరంజీవులు  ఋగ్వేదం పద్మశ్రీ , కృష్ణ శ్రీ ల గొప్ప గాత్రంతో 28 వ తేదీ రాత్రి మార్కాపురంలో జరిగిన భారతవర్ష సాహిత్య కార్యక్రమం స్వర్గ తుల్యమై మరుపురాని అనుభూతిని మిగిల్చింది.  ఈ గొప్పతనం అంతా నా జర్మన్ విద్యార్థి శ్రీ సోమశేఖరుగారిది. ఈ కార్య క్రమ నిర్వహణకు ఆయన సహాయం మరుపురానిది ఆయన శ్రమ మాటలకందనిది  ఆయనే లేకపోతే భారతవర్ష సాహిత్య పరిచయం అసంభవం 
నా జర్మన్ విద్యార్థి  సోమశేఖర్ గారికి జర్మన్ పుస్తకాన్ని అందజేస్తూ 


Monday, May 23, 2022

Inspiration - sonnets

 1.Thumbs up

Thumbs up no matter what comes up

Kick the problems down and jump up

Little bit of money little bit of honey

Little bit of luck saves any dummy  








If you've money in your pocket 

you can fly like a rocket

If you have little bit of luck

you can never get stuck

              

Thumbs up no matter what comes up

kick the problems down and jump up

If you have couple of songs in your head

you can merrily sing and go ahead


If you don't have money try your luck

If luck doesn't work rely on work, 

work never fails never work chuck

work brings both money and luck


Thumbs up no matter what comes up

kick the problems down and jump up


     2.When Dreams fail

Sometimes fair horses do trail in races

should brazen jockeys wail and lose faces

frozen rain balls from the sky hails

powerful gales rave and do stop the sails

sometimes beautiful dreams do fail

don't let your heart with the dreams fail 

dry your failed dreams on the rail

don’t cry, rail your senses if they are frail 

After all, yellow leaves from the trees fall

Water in seas, in vapor form to sky sail 

All men in old age should accept time’s call

Build a wall to bothering dreams or drive a nail

Don’t your heart with dreams overload

Sensitive heart might anytime explode



   3.Substance 

Love is distant hill
Love is Life's thrill  
not a routine drill
True love has the will

Love is summer's song
Love is spring's bang
Its road is hard and long
smile and sing and walk along

If something went wrong
It moment's ping-pong
choose a different song 
and try to get along

when love has the substance
it never looks for distance

           
               4.Silence

Thou art silence!  Are  you a doctor or a saint?
I don't know but you are a beautiful paint
why dewllest thou in the far away forest?
why lingerest thou on the lofty hill crest?

thou art silence! Are you a king or a queen?
I don't know but you are royal and clean
why reignst thou the lake and mountain?
why springst thou like a splendid fountain?

Thou art silence thine eye is surveillance
Thou art to wounded mind the ambulance
When mortal man can't cross mind's border 
Thou bringst  mind into souls order

Silence is mind's best forest 
troubled souls rest on its breast


             5. Balderdash 

You cried too much for me, poor fellow!
Balderdash ! the leaf is turning yellow!
You meditated for me since childhood 
Balderdash ! you  lost it in wild-wood

knowing that I am in every tomorrow
you looked for unknown tomorrow
you heat's a burrow and mind so narrow
you lost the present for struggle and sorrow


Remember today is your birthday
Balderdash! don't think future today
I bid farewell at your birthday party
Balderdash! don't make life dirty 

Remember I'm no more after sixty
Relax and live your life hearty 


      6. Present pledge

Future future oh my future
You're my goal said my teacher
I didn't know who you are
I walked the road far and far

when I flung my youthful wing
my heart your cheerful song sang
in the sweet melodious tone
on hope's horizon you're clearly shone

After decades of flight you're still vary far
But I can't quit the fight I am still in war
Future future you are nowhere near
future future I found you in my fear

For you I drudge and drudge, and present impledge
Now I pledge to remove life's wedge sitting on present's edge  





              7. Life

Passions like fashions are inflammable 
They are truly intrepid and untamable  
They often grow out of boundary
while desire burns in spirit's foundry 

Before youth melts, use your sense
don't wait in dark at youth's expense 
let not love in heart condense
remove the watchful eye's fence

When there is no light at tunnel's end
why not in tunnel's silence spend
a few moments with your fair friend 
don't let loneliness like life pretend 

Don't cry life is slipping out of hand
cuz life can't be totally planned




          8.Half naked

How long have you woven
like a weaver bird the beautiful nest 
of love but why you keep it in oven?
Have you lost the zest or is it love's test?

My heart has suffered like a bird
I felt awkward and half naked 
Yet  I could not utter a single word
I know your love's half baked


Oh you called me for the love feast
What are you boiling on the stove
perhaps I am the sacrificial beast
cuz it's nothing but my long strained love


My love once purely a flood
Now became food, oh my love's dead!!

 ( not aimed at criticizing anybody )


                  9. Pain
 
Like the hot sun in the summer noon
It pricks your mind like a harpoon
sounds like a gloomy tune of a bassoon 
with  universal measuring spoon

God gives pain to every creature
Pain is just the standard feature
and a perfect meter that clearly says
that how a man can his life face


you can not immediately kick it out 
You can not instantly block it out
there is only one way to get out
walk alone in wilderness and shout

look at your response to pain
wait patiently until it drain
don't stretch and strain
slowly use your brain

Never in life choose wine 
lest your health should decline 

  

                            10.  Exile

when people around are concerned only about hunger
and always run around money and their nights murder
when they have no time to look at you and smile
when a friend smiles not to smile but to beguile

Why worship social media in the name of friendship
why not make your craftsmanship  the space ship
and go into exile after all what beauty is left in society
why should you live with all stress and insecurity


Pissed are the artists who live among stupids like dunces
Blessed are the nomads who wander in unknown places
Fortunate are those who hear their own heart's drums
Stones are better then crooked friends who sit like mums

with crooks gems can not shine like gems 
embrace exile, this is truth my verse hums







 

 
 






Monday, May 16, 2022

Night' songs - sonnets

Poetry is life. People laugh at this phrase. Poetry is life because its rich  imagination.    minute things often go unnoticeable or left carelessly are analysed and presented in full detail by the poems. Things that are dull may not dull at all. Things that we consider dull are observed from different wonderful angles and analysed. That makes the poems wonderful. In everyday life when we talk about  time there is no importance for seconds. But for a a sports man or a specialist seconds matter a lot. In Night's songs each poem is a specialist with with creative vocabulary that tells you about Night's movements including its soft music.  

           1. Rafael Heart

Remember a child who can not anything tell

In whose heart though myriad feelings dwell

Yet  his thought  are limited to a few words

only if he has words his emotions fly like birds

















you too had passed  such a stage as well

only with words your life into the world jel

poor words might your personality deflect

But clear words your confidence reflect


words are  weapons hidden in mouth

They are the reason for enmity's birth

they clearly show your mind's growth

without words you are but a moth


The rhythm of words your heart hit

Their beauty in your mind sit

words ring your heart like a bell

They fly the heart like Rafael


       2.The quiet night

walking alone in the quiet street at night 

filled with silence and  glimmering light 

the eyes can not path clearly comprehend

darkness spreads like blanket till the street end


the glimmering stars look like sediments 

in the cup of sky,  they the night's ornaments

dark clouds emit deadly sparks of lightning

across the sky, lo! the distant hills whitening


The flood of white light the houses reveal

 like statues in museum with white veil

The treetops begin swaying in the breeze

My heart begins singing with ease


The night's beauty and silence by heart chosen

in the night's deep silence, peace remains frozen 


      3. Thy Mother's breath

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

Now is the time that mind should form another

Whose poor language if now thou not re-newest

Thou dost beguile thy life and its joys together

Where's the fool who thinks money can people empower

and disdains the tongue and mind's dexterity?

Or who is he so fond to built his mind's tomb

to stop his own life's prosperity?

Thou art  is thy mind's thought

thy language shows thy culture and art 

If they language is by brutal power barred

If thy mother's breath is squeezed

thy culture and land are disregarded

If thy language is left in garbage

Thy children live in bondage.


       4.TRUE LOVE

Can true lovers deny pure love's benediction

For it's fixed in nets of external restriction?

Ney love is not the feeble mind's fiction

It's life's ambition and noble hearts conviction 


Physical attraction is love's nutrition

True love is not deterred by friction

It's mind's unchanging diction

that stands peoples crucifixion


A big ship sails smoothly in deep waters

but in shallow waters slows and falters

Love awaits neither sword hilt nor waist belt

Because true love has soldier' spirit


True love is mind's addiction, 

 heart's unerasable inscription 


     5.Night's songs

 I walked through the forests quiet

 While darkness blinds my sight

 I traveled far and far to discover 

 Night’s pure magical power

I heard the magpie and the hermit

Their sweet calls faded in owl's hoot

The grasshopper and the cricket

formed the chorus of the night


I walked through the town

the houses and the fortress

were sleeping in the darkness

they forgot all their distress


Night shows its soft musical powers

God throws dark shawl on her shoulders



   6.The River in Me

In me there is a meandering river
it flows through cracks of rocks
and opens aching  mind's locks
half beat rhythm and ditty docks

the river is long it flows since long
its path gets longer, course gets richer
from atop the hill it looks like a picture
in silent valleys the river sings a song 

A beautiful porter that carries rich emotion 
with vivid words it engraves great feelings
singing sacred songs with great devotion
it shares to plain hearts all its gleanings

It rushes between the hills 
offering unknown thrills


   7.Night's mantel

O invisible regent of the night
I hear you walk, oh your foot so light
with peace and silence in your dark mantel
in the quiet of night you amble
 

The tired world sleep in your lap
men and women their day wrap
with refreshing nightly romance
that leaves them in deep trance 

night draws curtains to the sky
night songs are rich mood's dye
they bring silence and silver dew 
they the feelings renew and spirits brew

Singing lovely songs you moves towards dawn
When Sun spills beams of light your mantle's gone 


          8.Night is a kite

God loves light God loves night
God made day with heaven's light
and filled it with darkness in the end 
night is a kite that flows in the wind  
with a string attached at the end

God made man god made woman
He made the man a part of the woman
The woman is filled with kindness
like the night is filled with darkness 

In the well of love night is a fish
night is kite that flies in the air
night is a bird that melts in the fire
men are spartan they night never miss


        9. Father of thought

when poet sits in the den of thought 
and burns the language of the heart
to write, he is no less than a scientist
whose rockets tear the sky's breast

and throws astronauts like peanuts
on to the moon and sometimes shuts
their precious life in the outer space
but a poet offers the moon in briefcase

A poem is a rocket that always falls
in the sea of reader's heart and plays
the magical flute with its melodies cute
it makes the dumb hearts unmute

to light the mind's wick poems strive
to peaks of pleasure they readers drive
In poems beautiful words dissolve grief
poems offer readers instant relief 

poems have fountains of passion within
poems help man to lover's heart win


      10.  Darkness

I saw you falling silent from the sky 
How calm you are without a cry 
I see the warm sunny day slip
into the beautiful heaven's cup
God is pouring the darkness
a liquid so soothing and harmless
while the sun sinking into the cup 
he shines awhile on its golden lip
Like transition effect in a movie
the pale sky slowly turns groovy
with the moon and stars the sky swell
Wow! the beautiful night plays fiddle 
the swollen sky at day break bloats
but in our memories the night still floats

Friday, May 13, 2022

The Colors of Earth - 10 Sonnets

Earth's hues are unlimited. Our views about Earth's hues are limited. Most people know only some popular colours. Some believe that there are seven colours. some believe that there are 12 colours.  The average human eye contains 3 types of cones that are sensitive to red, green, and blue wavelengths of light. Each type of cone can detect about 100 different shades, leading to about a million different color possibilities. Man's senses are finite. Earth is infinite.

Can you think of something infinite?                          The best answer is thought. Yes Human thought is infinite. So is  poetry. The colours of the earth depict variety of rich human thought. 



         1.The River

The river bears the boat along

the flower hears the bee's song

The fishermen nets in water throws 

Fish or crabs only the God knows


The fish net  in the river water remains

until the apple sun from the sky resigns

When it's dark the boat reaches the bank

the tired boats men the river thank


In the river..

The blue sky  flutters like curtain

the silver moon dances like Spartan

the fish in water come to the surface

and dance looking into sky's face


Night is for sleep everybody knows 

The river never sleeps it flows and flows


 2.The Air and Flowers

Air loves flowers not for their colors

Air can't see but feel their collars

Air can touch their slender stalks 

Air can kiss their tender lips


 The air on gardens is slow and gentle 

 Air and flowers are so sentimental

when air throws them a gentle glance  

 The colorful flowers bow and dance 


Air brings gifts from far away France

Flowers hug air and send it to trance 

Air brings flowers showers from sky

The flowers get wet and shrink in shy

O dear sweet smelling flower

dwelling in bower, air is your lover


            3.Leaf  or flower

The two sat by the pond in a lofty garden

One is a warrior and the other is a woman

Oh! Sweet lady your heart got harden

The smile on your lips, where has it gone?


Oh sweet lady! You left your smiles to the flowers?

Your silence my heart stings and senses devours

Look at the beautiful birds listen to their sweet songs

Don’t you want to dance with me oh my heart longs


Oh sweet lady look at the leaf and the flower

Both got wet in the afternoon shower

Love is a shower, Can't feel its power?

Why don’t we spend one more hour?


Oh great warrior look, the sky gets dark

Since morning we sat in this park

The black clouds are drifting leeward

the doves and cows are homeward 


Enough we are amused cuz love has the power

It is high time we moved, you can't get leaf and flower.


          4.My death

I know

my last days are drawing near

I have neither regrets nor fear

I had  my sinews deeply grilled

I had my mind thoroughly tilled


About pain I never complained 

with it unconscious intimacy I gained

I had all my promises fulfilled

And I had already all my life lived


Death's unknown intricacy

doesn't go beyond literacy

If death comes I never decline

 In death's hands I can recline


before I breathe last

I wish to see who fondly  stands 

with all my books in his hands


      5. In Delhi

It was many years ago

when I lived in Delhi 

I met a man called Ali

whose strength I don't know


but he maintained a big pomp

though his actual profile is low

It's aggrandized by his bungalow

he walks as if walking on ramp


He uses extravagant vehicles

To show his life rich and lavish

with his manners odd and peevish

he terrifies his men and kills


He is a jobless man with all ills

He trains people on job skills


                6.Apartment

At midnight the dull thumping sound grows

As if somebody is running on the terrace

The weird sound a gristly entity shows

Every night the growing sounds scares


A young  man said  it must be ghost  

most people said ghost is a trash

the ghost might  roast us like a toast

I heard some voices quivering in a flash


Let us tonight awake and observe

who can that decision subserve 

people who looked bold resolved

but later people are not involved 


Ghost doubt reigns nights still 

Ghost fear sustains light thrill


        7.Young People

A common man at  a young  age 

has neither thought nor courage 

people don't on their own think

true! they can't their feelings ink


They can't worthy books read

Nasty films their minds feed

their narrow mind is feeble

yet they think they are noble


some poets might look old

they are fearless and bold

but they are to cinema sold

Alas! Old is no more gold


They made the great literature cold

The youth has gone into foreign fold


      8.I am a Stengun

My poem is no fun, it's a word gun

when you've the reading begun

Think that the firing has begun

Remember that I am a stengun 


whose target isn't man but mind

with each bullet you can clearly find 

that you with knowledge tightly bind

Remember it is highly  refined


wise men willingly show their dare

knowledge can not wise men scare 

stupids bullet proof jackets wear

but my gun never at them stare


I dare wear the gun to share

the rare things readers care


     9.Love in graveyard

Under the barren boughs of sorrow

she stands in the graveyard of her mind

she grieves the death of something

she long abandoned, and remains as dumb-thing


She lived with a half surgeon

He made her half mad and half virgin

she wonders what is the ceremony about

how long should she wait, she has a doubt


She can wait, but all she hopes is shade

She waits for which she goodbye bade

She thinks that people don't invade

If she in the mind's grave stayed

O woman! don't at the grave cry 

You know Love will never die



           10.My Heroine

When my life was pretty harried
She has bent low and me married
Time has seen us man and wife
She entered in the adversary of life

Like ordinary women she has no concern 
for I how much I earn but she is so stern
ordinary woman might think it danger
But she is simply the game changer

In the early days of our marriage
Violent winds shook our carriage
I had my irrevocable appointments 
She'd incontrovertible commandments
 
With such a mismatch in temperament 
Marriage could only be an experiment
Still I wonder how she stood by my side  
Though I couldn’t much to her provide

we started as Simple man and wife 
after two decades we became life in life
but at first, my marriage was delicate tomato
with growing love and trust it became a potato

Many people capture their marriage in photo
No photo can like poem tell the story in toto
Love and trust like plants don't grow over night
They need time to become trees and reach a height 

when I in her absence ate a chocolate
she closed the gate, I could not negotiate
I took time to learn she was vigilant 
I thought that she was somewhat different
 
Even slight deviation in plan made her indifferent
She hissed like a snake she is so belligerent 
I never thought she walks the troubled aisles 
But surprise! She traveled tortuous roads for miles
 
Miles and miles she traveled with smiles 
And never got vexed with my job trials
Several times I have the jobs changed
With her I moved from place to place
Off course, we were  estranged only for days

Most violent weather could not us deranged
Is it God, who has this marriage arranged?
Her name (varalu) spells boons, she stands apt 
to her name given by mother as an epithet

Gradually she rewarded all her boons 
She swam the sea during typhoons
Later we celebrated several honeymoons
As a writer I created many a heroine
But she is my life's perfect heroine

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Royal flames - 10 sonnets

Human greed is endless like his ego. Humans claim to be the most intelligent on the earth. They think that all animals are inferior to them. It is not  true. Man has high value for elephant tusks, tiger and seal skin but he has no value for their life.   It is a pity that again  human's compare themselves with animals like lions and tigers to show their valor and dignity. 

The rich people decorate their castles with elephant and lion heads and with deer skin. Man has high value for elephant tusks, tiger and seal skin but he has no value for their life. In movies we have seen goons raping and killing a woman or housewife for she is beautiful. Man feels that animal skins and heads gives a royal look to his house and body. Animals are hunted, baited and trapped for the show of vanity. This vanity is a superstition. Man's superstitions are  hidden under Royal feelings. The royal feeling are nothing but royal flames. I wish humans realized that no creature , even the ant is inferior to man.  

 1.The Vase

I saw a bright and beautiful vase

I saluted its royal look of a king's mace

It is all set to beholders please 

Its  gaudy colors can heart seize


I fixed my gaze on the table at the window

My conscience is gripped by a mute shadow

Are you like the vase cried my inner voice

To please the world is not your sole choice


If  I don't the wicked world please  

O God, It will certainly me tease

Through the window I looked at the trees

Tree the living thing that never flees

The living truth from root to fruit

not tinsel vase but living tree I salute








     

 2.The Cow 

Lo! Here is a white cow 

grazing in the meadow

while the sun shines above

oh the cow her heart full of love


She has no money to make

From the world She's nothing to take

jealousy can't touch her or shake

she's honest even when the earth quake 


Neither politics nor power is her need

She is far away from human greed

All she want is shelter and  the feed

she is nobler than noblest in deed


A cow is far better than a doctorate  

A cow is greater than a noble laureate


               3.The Crow

There is the crow on the almond tree

He looks at me with a crooked eye

Me a dim wit can’t his greatness agree

Until I  saw with my mind’s eye


I called him stupid while he is intelligent

I blamed him a thief while he is mischievous

While he remember human faces for years

Humans think crow bad omen, shiver with fears

 

Who knows crows like parrots can speak

They the humans in loyalty shake

They  a crow for a thief take

He is wiser than men for god’s sake


For they live in large families

While humans are breaking families 


4. The Ant


In the park near my house I ambled  

Oh!  a tiny soft creature I trampled 

but never bothered though it was mangled  

because it is a tiny ant so I scampered 


who cares the tiny insignificant ants

they've neither minions of law nor grants

Ants hide behind walls, under the rocks,

beneath piles of logs, between the cracks


They underneath the objects in the soil nest

they work and work all the time but never rest

In the night you can't see them walk 

but wonder, they can see you in the dark


killing an ant is fun and you need no gun 

But ant is systematic and second to none


 5.The tiger and the man


On the fringe of  a rain forest

Where greenery swells at its best

where tranquility dwells in its chest

A man with a gun with face fiercest 


entered while the wild animals rest

unsuspectingly on the forest's breast 

The baby deer swims without restrain

in the limpid lake by the mountain


Two alligators fell after the swimming deer

 the deer moved quickly with morbid fear

the alligators weren't hungry they let her pass

with insatiable hunger the man isn't that class


The man pulled the cock and shot at the tiger

the markets need her bones for man's vigor

the tiger escaped but he did not let it pass

He threw in her way poisoned baited carcass


And poisoned the water in the shallow pool

where she drank and died, man is not a fool


 6. Wildfire


 Hill-fire  Hill-fire  Hellfire

Animals are in dread n dire

cried all animals trapped in terror

tried in vain to escape the horror

wild fire wild fire cried the ranger

shouted at firemen to stop the danger

ranger ranger what a danger

we try to save the boar and sambar

Tiger elephant  where do you go

wild fires rage, when wild winds blow

no gun no bullet with just a cigarette 

we set fire to  the  forest velvet 

your  titanic tusks go to royal castles 

Your royal bones go to china without hassles 


  7. Royal Flames

Why building  the biggest forts

bringing stones of finest sorts

Why digging into earth's deepest parts  

 building world's tallest posts


 killing nature that gives you food

 felling trees that give you  shade 

 How crazy you everything invade

 What laws have you obeyed


Look at List of kings who licked dust

why do you crave for the world's best

Behind Egyptian Pyramids lies Royalty 

Behind the Italian Colosseum lies cruelty


Dog's loyalty is better than king's royalty

Stop the wicked games stop the royal flames


8. Night of storm

The wild winds sweep  

when the night is asleep

the windows peep  

the voices cry deep


the trees and huts simply fly

plants and  flowers amply die

the hen and chicken cry and cry 

the raving wind howl in reply


the children in the walker

the dreams of the baker

the boats in the water 

all quickly they scatter


All things transform 

in the night of storm 

  

 9. Facial Symmetry


How benign is her broad face                                                                      

You admire her upturned nose                                                                                                 

And a pair of lustrous angelic eyes                                                                        

Her mouth is cute that shiny pearls expose

She has cupid’s bow in the upper lip                                                                     

When  open apart they your heart rip                                                     

Her face is as bright as day light 

Her heart is as dark as winter night

Her large eyes may be so nice

But stay away if you want peace                                                                   

 Beauty is skin deep - a mire so deep                                                                    

 If you fall in beauty’s trap, you weep                                                        

Hear the call of her facial symmetry 

That is a sure way to cemetery


10. Kick me out of your heart

 

My love for long on your looks bread

but your crooked foot on my love tread

use your looks like bullets to thwart

my heart and with hatred you tore it apart

Kick me out of your unwilling heart

I may from the apex of love fall apart

Let the stones of truth into me pierce

Let my pain and agony touch your ears

I trust that you might live alone in joy

After the dainty bonds of love destroy





Philosophical - verse

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