Word-Swords

Knives, daggers, bayonets and dirks  

Battled, who' ll inflict the deepest wounds 

Words remained seated silently behind 

And smiled and smiled ...and smiled

Translation of Urdu sher

Sakshi

Witness to a beautiful spell 

A life lived well with smile 

Despite the agonising groans

A tiny flower caught in thorns

Caution

The Prescience of Providence

And even the foresight of Fate 

May still not save thee, Mate

From destiny's decree, perchance

Partition in Making

Citizenship Amended

Constituition revised

Values degraded

Bigotry upgraded 

Pauper - Emperor

You may be an Emperor , 

But with a heart of gall 

You may be a pauper , 

But with a sweet soul 

Aqua regia

Death, thou hast diligently dissolved 

Great many vainglorious glories

Multitudes of incorrigible platitudinal lies 

Cesspool of hard bodies of arrogant pride 

Sole

So well long lasted the season

Of my forlonness 

That I was all alone 

Even in my own cortege 

Menage a trois

Grand forecourt of ego 

Over the foundations of superego

Id dwells in the cellar underground

Mysterious household of three of mind 

Giving

To give, you must recieve

To recieve, you must seek

To seek, you must renounce

To renounce, you must give 

Alternative

To venge , is to be vanquished
To forgive, is to have triumphed
To curse, is to be self demonised
To bless, is to have self deified

Udhhava, Ajab Tujhe Sarkar

Aadgud
Maadgud
Tin payaanche
Tadgud ...

Greater Herdsman

Gracious Lord our shepherd 

Will lead us to hungry wolves 

For he has other herds to tend 

And has wolves too,  to feed 

Grand Brothels

Temples are grand brothels 

Where for just little extra bucks,

You can get more intimate

With God the (poshest) prostitute 

(Courtesy - Priests the Pimps )

Instant Friending

Clickety clackety click, 

You are now my best friend ! 

Clickety clackety cluck ,

Now you have been unfriended !!!

Mind Pirouette

My psychotic twin,

My depressed halve

My maniac quarterback, twirl 

Around my sane centre central

Literaly Love

Love is the shortest prose 

Is also the briefest verse 

Love is a hymn, bit too terse 

And a curse too perverse  

Beef-Bazaar

Pieces of meat in bare windows 

In a flea-market of flesh and skin

Muscle loaves hanging on hook ups

Souls stripped like sheeps shorn

Garden

You are a blade of grass 

In God's vast wilderness

His worms will chew your tendrils 

That they can spew your-silk tenderness

Judicature

No one will be spared 

Myself too, be damned 

I have set bar rather high & upward  

Even gods will be judged & tried

Nowhereseville

On this thoroughfare to nowhere 

O, wandering maunderer wayfarer

Where dos't thou flee helter-skelter

With such a hustle, haste and fanfare 

He loved , He loved ...

Biding goodbye without a word

Yet, his moist eyes did betray

What his quivering lips lisped to say 

His tears screamed clear and loud

Rosary

Lover's name is the sweetest prayer 

That beloved chants forever and ever 

Secret alphabets in impassioned beads

Woven within the throb of every beats

Mercantile Medicine

Brainless Neurologists 

Mindless Psychiatrists

Spineless Orthopedics 

Heartless Cardiologists 

The list goes on and on ...
Of commodities from assembly line

Defective products of industrial

School of Mercantile medicine 

Contrast

Knowledge is proud 

To babble a little it learned 

Wisdom is humble 

To not to harp the lot it grasped 

Present

Yesteryear's cancelled fat cheques 

& Future's grand promissory notes 

One should rather encash with eager 

Present cash memos in hands meagre

 

Justice beyond

Your judgements will be your confessions 

Your verdict will be your chargesheet

You will be judged for your injustices

By the greater judge, in the higher court 

Pirates of Kind India

Shamelesly they stole 2.77 acres 

but gave away 5 acres in alms

Oh the magnanimous, exalted dacoits

Oh the enlightened, benevolent bandits

Faithfully Yours

"Faith is beyond the cane of Justice" 

So croacked the judicious judges 

 "Faith, Faith, Faith " they orgasmed 

While getting laid, whipped & penetrated

Grand Nonething Victory

In the tiniest possible corner of Universes

In a measly galaxy,  in one of puny star systems

On a micro mini planet, teensy tribe triumphed

& The Universe was tickled for a nonsecond 

Ayyapa's Fetish

Like his two fathers 

Ayyapa too prefers men 

His celibacy can stand females

Unless their vaginas bleeding

Burden

Giant pedestals

Under puny statuettes

Pedestals are overwhelmed

By the burden of smallness

Banbaas

Ghar ghar mantharka aur Kaikeyi

Har mod par Raavan kitne saare 

Kuch ginechune Dasrath kitne bebas 

Ram ka banbaas abhibhi jaari hai 

Ayodhya

In Ayodhya, now we will rebuild

A grand tomb to our conscience dead

So we can dance around in trance, naked 

Unashamed of our ugliness, we no longer hide 

Exiled in Ayodhya

Five Maha-Sitas ( on bench)  to Ram,  said 

"Now it is our turn to Rajdharma extend,

This time in Ayodhya, you will be exiled 

But you will be buried alive in a grave guilded" 

Syndicate

Tacit State, Mob complicit 

Silent Law, Judiciary implicit

Justice desecrated neat 

Demolition: final & complete

On this day

On this day, on this date

Ram was unanimously murdered 

In the ruins of Babri, buried

His birthplace, now his grave 

Matter-o-Money

Matrimony is a testimony to money 
Sanctimonious ceremony of its hegemony 

Alimony is surrender price of end of acrimony

Palimony is an alimony minus matrimony

Gideon

To voice the silenced

To lift the oppressed 

To fight for the good 

Is to soldier the god

Vanity Fair

Men, women, children and all 

With thick coat of cosmesis of wherewithal
Bedecked in their best looking masks & overall 

Strut in the glittziest of all masquerade ball

Beatify thy Lender

Angel investor is one mate 

You would have rather dead 

So a halo can be put on his head 

Only after investments are made 

Exotica

Mind the Zoo

Behold the bizzare beasts 

Mind the Circus 

Lo, acrobatics of bewildering beats 

Pyromania

Smoking is a smoldering pyromania
Dangerous is the play with lighter
At one end burns the cigarette
Butt, at other , it's the future

Self cremation

Smoking is a self cremation
Slow but sure, bloodless
Mute self mutilism
Remember, your burn yourself ..not cigarettes

Paradise within

Believe ! You will do well

Even in the most infernal hell 

For the paradise dwells within us 

That oasis will sustain the wilderness 

Supercilious Dreams

" I am the zenith of this moral universe ! "

"Enough", I summoned my pompous selve ,  

" Now go back to your crib & rest a bit " 

 So I dreamed of yet another conquest ...

A league of their own

In solitude's inner society circles
You will meet your varied selves  

Estranged creatures of strange habits 

Unknown, unheard, unbelievable beings

Concierge Medicine

Consecrated in conception
Nurtured by Art noble 

Schooled with rigours of Science 

Now yet another bellboy of Commerce

Fiduciary Clan

Parents-Limited liability Investors 

Spouses -Capital Intense Investments

Children-Unsure Provident Funds 

Famillies- Syndicated risky Joint Ventures 

Mirror

Come and see my naked world 

My chameleon skin over my rhino hide 

My putrid sores and my bleeding wounds 

See your self in reflections of my bright eyes

Check-Mate

Draft a detailed checklist
To chase a perfect mateable mate
Tick the cost-benifit analysate
To draw the best bet bait

Fetus Papyraceus

In Desire's dark womb dwells
Conceptus of a maternal twin
Love the shy  and Lust the fearless
Latter feeds at cost of former, to win





  

( Not so ) Free Market

'Free Market' is a captive misnomer
Nothing whatsoever is free in there
Everything priced : Goods, Buyers, Brokers
Sellers including Markets themselves

Serviced

As their dainted feet touch red carpets -
Rolled from doors of their glitzy slick SUVs
Mob of painted medico bellhops surround it
And usher them to luxury treatment suites

Materia Medica

Ideal herbs are wads of greenbacks
Favored compounds are gold n silver still
Perfect universal solvent is a coinmill
Best prescriptions are in cheque-books

Within-Without

Something in Us
Is beyond our reach
Even as it remains
Within ...Without

Gifted

Love, will not be conquered 

Neither will it be procured 

Nor can it be bestowed 

Love can only be recieved 

Priceless

Love's deed  can't be bartered
Even if, Heavens pledged
And the Universe mortgaged,
Whilst bargained with God.

Caldera

Thou hast nursed a gianormous volcano 

Beneath the bedrock of thy bosom beautiful

When it will erupt, thou ought to know

That lava spewed will spare no soul

Lovers' Lips

Lips only sing
When they can't kiss
And Lips whistle whence
They can't kiss the singing lips

One Night Stand

Is clearly a serious score of misnomers 

Nothing sacrosanct about 'One' or 'Ones'

Nothing particularly sacramental about 'Night(s)' 

Nothing sacred to 'Stand'-about / for / up / out

Man -eat- Man world

Pietistic Hedonist Consumerists 

And devout Deft Capitalists 

Aided by faithful Mercenary Materialists

Creating paradises for Glutton Cannibalists 

Tangled Gamble

Life is a tangled wrangle

To gamble (cheaply) mortgaged Future

To repay longdue debts of Past 

While betting on ransoms of Present

Daredevilry

To sleep with the Devil 

And then to dare to desire
To sire, heir of an Angel
Daredevil wangle with a divine angle

A road to Hell

A road to Hell is paved with -
God's good intentions
Godspeed then, fellow drivers..
But beware of diabolical diversions

Sweet sweet lies

Bitter potion of truth remained un-sold
Even when weighed in ingots of gold
While millions milled, mobbed and raved
To buy the crumbs of sweet rotten falsehood

Universe will willingly grant

Despite the Devil's devious dues
Against the long odds of Gods
Universe will willingly grant
If thou dost it dearly want

God is Dead

God is dead -
So Nietzsche said.
Nietzsche is no more,
God ain't, by any measure