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Death of the Man March 25, 2007

Filed under: Poetry,Satire — Rohit @ 12:50 pm
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Revelations of what you see, and those of what I see too,
Infernal revelations from our primordial past;
Do shock us, but also soothe.
He speaks of honour and glory, bloody hypocrite!
Just as dreamily as he evoke the passions,
He uses the blood to stain the stream
Then in vain, with a peacock’s feather he tries to paint;
The absurd in static, the surreal in facts.
I wonder, just as you would do,
What ticks his psyche’s clock?
That heaving bosom, like the bellows of a blacksmith,
Germs a terror, or perhaps a fraility of some kind?
Back to wondering though, it does not stop,
But no answer I find, and neither would you;
Right, but who is he? And what is it in him…
…which makes him root in these fallacies?
Nobody knows, nor them, not you and neither do I;
But we remain stunned and petrified in horror,
When we beheld those hellish acts…oh devil be cursed!!
Questions…of life and death, of reality and dream…still horrify.
To my surprise, still, I remember I tried
With you, you know…to confront these dumb lies;
What we got though? Just a little more pain,
And an evening supper with the devil’s clan!
How could a man, oh God how could he?!
Wreak such havoc in the nature’s womb?
How could he…I beg to know, be unaffected…
…by his own diabolic acts? Is his conscience frozen??
If enslaving the niggers and coloured beasts were philanthropy,
Then I would rather eat a venomous feast and die;
If hubris were to be a virtue and lust the land’s law,
A hungry lion in my face, to me would suffice!
Remember…they would wring the necks of men and animals alike,
And then in silver goblets, their blood-meals would proceed;
Followed by the succulent le bifteck de chair avec le sang,
Oh nevermind…they’d say, les autres attendront…as if they care!
Look there, you see those clergymen? Ha! They say…
…no, preach morelike; “the gospel of love” (and what do they do?)
Like how a bunch of pigs would happily bathe, in the grime of fresh hypocricy!!
Poor pigs, why blame them? Who are we to judge afterall?
You see, my heart aches and the soul goes numb,
As I continue to write this song;
Did I say song? Oh melodies be damned!!
I mean…this is but a tragedy of man…
The benign skies from above would laugh,
And the earth too would shy away;
The oceans, with the rivers would wash their face,
And trees would hide their’s in disdain!
I see a change coming this way,
Perhaps quite tumultuous and grave;
Transformation to redeem this race of its sins,
As it walks silently, down the Hellespont.
Meanwhile, like a dumbstruck fool I wonder still,
Trying to figure out what I wish to know;
What makes the heart of a man? Is it the good or is it the bad?
Shades of both perhaps, for no poles exist in there.
Listen carefully…do you hear the sound? The choir plays a dirge,
And hermits clad in jet black robes too queue;
To mourn, or may be to celebrate the death of man…
…who lost the battle, before even knowing why!
“Blâmer le sort”…now you might say,
For what was his fault in this case?
I just grin and laugh inside, a few more join me too…
…you know, like how swans mock a crow?…just like that…
Bang! A rapturous rumble of the roaring skies,
Mark his end afteral…that brutal savage, forever damned!
A lightning strikes, followed by the rain, and it cleans…
…the earth from the plaques of man’s deeds, ever so evil.
 

Zen Poetry February 19, 2007

Filed under: Absurd,Mystical,Poetry,Spiritual,Zen — Rohit @ 8:01 pm
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Tao of Life

Go there, what has been abandoned by all,
Go there, where no life thrives;
And once you go, see that humming bee,
Smile to it, and it shall show you its hives.

Kensho

The lark above, it chases its prey,
Soaring through the winds gracefully it flies;
What an awesome scene! But I just smile…
…and the next moment, I am that lark.

Dialectics of Existence

The thirsty soil, drinks the tears of the sky,
And then under its lightning’s frenzy it burns;
But the rosebud grows full, to feed the bees,
And with its thorns, to bleed the gardener’s hands.

Dependent Co origination

The moon and the stars, on a summer’s night,
Play hide-and-seek in the clouds;
The owls hoot, the wolves howl, the frogs croak,
And the plants grow on their own.

…Aniccho Hoti Nibbuto…

Knock…knock…knock…
“who is it?”; “you know better…”
“is it that what you are, and unto it I be?”
“Ah! Now we are free!”

 

Echoes of Silence January 30, 2007

Filed under: Love,Poetry — Rohit @ 11:19 pm
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Echoes of silence, to my heart console

like rays of light, a dreary night illuminate;

cries and shrieks of my trembling self

go unheard…but you do know

for in the letters of gold, t’was on thy soul engraved.

 

Love, why you be not here? I ask myself…

thine whispers of hope, why can’t I hear?

the naked truth, my vision of sight t’has stripped;

deeper and deeper into the abyss it falls,

the abyss…of this fathomless dream.

 

Suddenly, at once…a Magpie’s nest,

catches its soul, by the thread of a grass

…in the silver moonbeams, as it rejuvinates…

the starlight fom above, spots its other half;

which in a kingdom faraway, sleeps a restless night.

 

Together then…in joy and innocence they bathe

…their being, faraway so, in a neverland’s dream;

thus, one they become…for their spirits entwine,

the waves wash the shores! And then the sun off sea…

seal their fates to be one forever…those grains of sand.

 

Plop…plop…plop…as the raindrops drip,

their haunting sound turns my brows’ wheel;

and then, faraway I disappear…

I fly away with the winds,

but in their hearts again, I reappear.

 

I return thus, I do return…where else would I go?

becoming the arrows of the divine archer winged,

with a stallion’s speed, thy souls and hearts I pierce;

and by its mane, the course of life I steer,

life…mine and yours, and theirs and ours…

 

Woosh! though the candles burnt out,

their light still remains in my being…and says…

“To wither away and burn yourself…for them,

who in thy glory shine…life does be”

some live on…while some shed a silent tear.

 

And thus, without a sound…without any trace,

into the eternal you sublime; through me, and I in you,

only to wake up…to what we already knew.

which dream you talked of? and which dreamer?

 

For once, for others, for your other half,

you ceased to be…only to find the truth, the love and joy;

and just as you lost yourself in them,

in the life itself, you dissolved.

 

Just a shot of lightning though, and none remains,

one grieves, while the others sees joy;

and then the one enjoys…as the other,

…in his solitude, sheds his mien…in his tears.

and all this…t’was but a profanation of your soul,

which lost on its rambles on the lovely plains;

…now do awake…to the light of peace and love,

the echoes of silence whisper thus.

 

The Parody of Fools December 29, 2006

Filed under: Poetry,Satire — Rohit @ 10:20 am
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In all their pompous glory & beautiful coloured forms,
The flock of merry gypsies, set asail the grasslands
like summer storms; there was not a thing to wonder;
T’was a monotony of each day, new places each day to see
and strange people to meet…fine play!
Showing off their crochet hats, the men; and maidens,
their patched linen skirts; displaying the fake jewles
which adorned their ears and necks, and the bells
on their bags, clinging with breeze…
…the flock kept its pace.
The men who rode the horses, seldom at their wives would see,
but never did they miss a chance to glimpes,
The bare-backs of young ladies on the streets;
Occasionally, even sneaking out at nights,
to warm their beds with their passions’ torch
Which scorched their lusts and burnt their hearts,
but lo! their life indeed was so gay…!
And the women? What of them?
Was their moral fudge all sweet? Or did it have the fungi warts too?
and well…all knew it did!
In every village and town they passed,
the tormented losers with their broken hearts,
Would come to seek the crystals’ advice,
which the gypsy maids used to contemplate on their pasts
and then putting together the designs mistique, the future
would be gazed to reveal the brightest hour;
Consoling those snipes at least for some time,
Making them believe their lives won’t go astray.
Instead, their carracks shall safely sail,
The violent tempests of their fates.
The play thus, goes on for many a days
those fools would always of frustrations die,
But who cared? the fortune-tellers got their share!
Ceremoniously on sundays, the rams and bulls,
would be slaughtered and with festive joy consumed…
…of course after the ritual screeching of “Hail Mary…Our Lady…”
Poor frogs would even, then stop to croak, but filled with glee,
for at least they could sing much better!
As the nights would fall, the flocks would halt,
to rest the bums of tired horsemen…which sored,
bumping against the rotten leather saddles.
Thus to rest, they all would retire and sleep…
and on one fine day, none would ever wake up again!
Thus, their lives, would come and go,
Not one bothered, nor caring to know
From nowhere they appeared, and back there they go,
But who cares to understand the lesson…
…which with them, in their graves do go?
T’is as common as the seasons or tides,
or as simple to know of the bees’ vice
Why then don’t we listen?
Is it just so disgraceful to soil our ears?
Oh! of is the wise is the one who knows naught?!
Ha! Human folly, what a glory…
Their empires rise and fall to dust
Their balloons of inflated prides do burst
What they do…in it lies their misery
What they think…in it lies their doom!
Their stings are filled with venoms raw,
nor bees, nor snakes, nor scorpions compete
These stings are their words, their merry rhymes…
…which they play on the organ of their defiled tongue!
No weapons they need, no canons to fire
No forts, no castles, no shields…no wars to win;
They speak…and their worlds are destroyed!
The sun and the moon and the heaven’s lights,
The seas and the clouds and the mighty skies;
with peity and disgust they gaze these flocks,
The flocks of animals, in human form!
The children divine of eternal light,
Like the specks of dust, which on a sunbeam’s a blight;
and their shadows thus cast, on the mirrors of thoughts,
which illude them, and seal their fates’ locks…forever!
These are the ones who know what they are,
yet, they know not, what they wish to know
and so as they are, conned and decieved by life,
They fall deepre and deeper in the labyrinths…of hellish delight.
What hell though and which heavens ?
They are, their God’s greatest plight;
Their God, dear God, the emperor of these goons…
and hence one too, the lazy fairy’s boon!
but hail! to the ones who thought this up, and now…
…they know not how!
But well, they at least make their ancestors proud,
What a proof this is…that they come from apes;
and are not the charlatans of divine grace!
Poor things, lost souls, they shall wander forever;
In the stretches of life’s eternal sketch.
The lands where they will, never find what they seek,
The treasures…oases, thich they know don’t exist!
And thus, we sum up, the parody of fools…who have all,
except some faith…no faith they have, in their hearts;
No faith in the little miracles of life, No faith, not at all…
…in the dreams they percieve.
Hence, they wander and wander along,
In search of just a word, which would free them all…
…but that one word, they know not, is within their heads;
Like a needle lost, in a huge haystack.
Ha! they prove t’is grass stuffed upstairs!
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P.S.: This parody is in noway racist or discriminatory…I have nothing whatsoever against gypsies, it’s just an analogy.
 

El Rumbo de la Vida December 13, 2006

Filed under: Inspirational,Poetry — Rohit @ 3:44 pm
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El rumbo de la vida, se parece tanto al rio,
El río del amor, el río de la lluvia;
La lluvia…y su agua celestial.
Aunque empiece pequeño,
Lentamente crece inmenso;
Aunque primeramente parece insconstante,
luego se va calmando.
El rumbo de la vida, se parece tanto al río,
Nos somos las ojas de otoño;
En su fluego tranquilo.
Dejar atrás qué ha pasado,
Siempre adelantar…como el tiempo;
No preocupar nunca…acerca del futuro,
Siempre adelantar.
El rumbo de la vida, se parece tanto al río,
Con sólo una meta…
…de alcanzar el mar.
Viviendo…sólo este momento,
Nada mas…continúemos fluyendo;
Apagando la sed de los transeúntes,
Continúe fluyendo…debajo del cielo abierto.
El rumbo de la vida, se parece tanto al río,
El río del amor, el río de la lluvia;
La lluvia…y su agua celestial.
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SPECIAL THANKS….to Laura…for all the wonderful help she provided, and made this junk into real poetry ;) ….muchas gracias Laura!!!!! xD!!
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My first spanish poem…feels great!! Maybe its crap but its invaluable for me…now at least I can be confident about being able to pass my spanish exam =P…lolzz
English translation for those who don’t speak Spanish…
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The course of life, it’s so much like a river,
The river of love, the river of rain;
Rain…and its heavenly waters.
Although it starts small,
Slowly it becomes huge;
Although it seems fickle at first,
Later…it calms down.
The course of life, it’s so much like a river,
We are like autumn leaves;
Which flow with the tranquil flow,
Leaving behind what is passed,
Always going on…like time;
Never preoccupied about the future
Always going on.
The course of life, it’s so much like a river,
With only one goal…
…to meet the sea.
Living only in this moment,
Nothing else…we flow on;
Quenching the thirsts of passers by,
Flow on…under the open sky.
The course of life, it’s so much like a river,
The river of love, the river of rain;
Rain…and its heavenly waters.
 

Go On…! December 10, 2006

Filed under: Inspirational,Poetry — Rohit @ 4:43 pm
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Try not to make your life just long,
But try and make it contented and strongIt’s not your Needs but Deeds that count,
It’s the seeds of love that you sow count;The power of eternity lies with you,
And this is a fact not very newThen why you let your work unfulfilled?
The kingdom of humanity you have to build,So go on, now go on, just go on and on,
For only you can bring over a bright new dawn!
 

Carry Me On Your Morning Wings December 10, 2006

Filed under: Nature,Poetry — Rohit @ 3:53 pm
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Carry me on your morning wings,
O dawn carry me to the sky…
Chasing the winds and over the clouds,
up above the rainbow high;
It’s to the sun I want to go…
…away from the cold bleak night,
Breaking all bonds with the mortal world
to experience the feeling divine.
Carry me on your morning wings,
O dawn carry me up high…
It’s the soothing cool warmth of the early sun
I want to feel and enjoy;
Take me there on your morning wings
where everything is just fine,
No drop of rain, no burning flame
would disturb me as all’s just fine.
Carry me on your morning wings,
O dawn carry me to the sky…
I want to count the countless clouds,
And feel the timeless light;
Take me where pure love is abound,
and is eternal indeed…
And only sound that you can hear,
is the waltz of love resound.
 

The Spring December 10, 2006

Filed under: Nature,Poetry — Rohit @ 3:40 pm
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My rain dance lasted for night long
But now its dawn I see,
And it is the time to sing the song
from so long I wanted to sing.
I sing about the merry birds
I sing of nature’s bliss,
I sing the song of picturesque woods
That stand lifeless and still.
Silhouette of dawn in woods looks like
spotlighting first flower of spring,
And wood-winds making it gently rock
On the rhythm of gushing streams.
The snow on the branches is melting now
Exposing the lichens beneath,
And ugly moths breaking their cocoons
transform to butterflies, as we dream.
The joyous ants are again on their march
Celebrating the arrival of spring,
And squirrels coming out of their holes say
“Rejoice!” for it is the ‘spring’.
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This is one of the old poems I wrote last year.
 

Untitled December 2, 2006

Filed under: Absurd,Metaphysical,Poetry,Zen — Rohit @ 10:26 am
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On the roof I lay,

watching the clouds;

and then the stars at night,

Ah! a rose just did pout! Wait! it’s not a stone,

it screamed just now;

but why does it hide?

Think not more, for you know why. Look into my eyes though,

and see yourself;

but when I look in yours,

It’s the eternity I see. So you say you know it all?

then look at this stick;

tell me what it is,

don’t know why, I just see the sand!

A sphere in a sphere,

and just void in between;

nothing else, there be…

so where is the child you see?

Giant waves of the oceans blue,

sweep the shores each day;

but what do they leave behind?

A shell..in which our worlds be!

Winds too blow the leaves now,

of the flaming trees of autumn red;

they do go far away…yes they do,

but they return fresh and green.

So only this water, my concern be

and the pitcher it lives, does not;

oh! a thorn in my foot..what a shame!

I love it still, now it does be mine!

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Confessions of a Fanatic. November 21, 2006

Filed under: Poetry — Rohit @ 9:22 pm
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Treading through the shadows, alone I walked
On the path which has no ending, and no start;
Cutting through the mist, alone I sailed
In the sea of tears of innocent wails;
Mesmerized, Hypnotized, Bewitched my soul had been
For millions of aeons, land I had not seen;
Locked up in the prison, of virtual walls
Never did I realize, that pride is followed by a fall;
Living like a fool, conforming with the herd
The picture of reality, thus becoming blurred;
Thinking that I am right, and the world is wrong
My ego had controlled me, for very long;
Unaware of my identity, being forever lost
Wretched I had become, like the one in ‘Faust’;
Unable to distinguish, the right and wrong
The true forces were becoming, unbearably strong;
There, just in front of me, was standing my doom
For any sort of doubt now, there was no room;
Running behind false ideals, all my life
Unaware of the reality, I had been;
I was dreaming to be a martyr and attain the ‘Paradise’
Which in existence…never had been;
Scared I was, of some imaginary ‘GUY’
With my true nature, I was refusing to comply;
O dear! I regret, what had I done;
In the name of something, which is nomore than a pun!
One more ring now, I have added to the chain;
Which binds me to this world, so mortal and profane!
 

 
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