A Poet’s Wonderland

Where my heart shall take me, there my feet will go, Only to the might of eternity, this head shall ever bow…(All Rights Reserved; Contents Copyrighted © 2008)

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.
 

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.
 

 
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