CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Who says modern man turns his face
From thoughts about life and eternal things?
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Book of Life
The book published when the costs were low
A child born of a happy wedding.
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ROOF –GARDEN
When child sucks milk from synthetic nipples
Can man be kind and loving?
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Loneliness: solace for the dejected; Loneliness: gift for the wise; Loneliness: punishment for the culprit; Loneliness: sweetness for the lovers;
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From chinks in memory / Drips diluted desire drops. / Vengeful fate swallows silently / To disappear into depths of sadness / Ambition punctured / My soul slithers snake-like to sink..
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From chinks in memory
drips a galore of desires
Fate swallows them up silently
to lose into
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Two happy beings thrown together on long journey
Happily hover on honeymoon heights
Promised progeny provide pleasure plentiful
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Snow and soil submerged in soldiers' blood;
Earth rubble brick and concrete rising
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Mind is a receptacle of memories
Piled up disorderly like stars in the sky
To be rummaged in old-age.
Some bright,
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NATURE
In the hall round the glass-topped table
Clinking of crystal glasses half-filled
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DESPAIR
Like the dolphin emerging out of ocean For a brief moment to be sighted/
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Retired from teaching profession)
Crime And Punishment
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Who says modern man turns his face
From thoughts about life and eternal things?
A time was when people believed
Our sins in the past birth revisit us in the present.
The modern man with no time to lose,
Impatient to act expects punishment meted out
Here and now for what is done in past or present.
Modern man devoid of human emotions,
Programmed to be efficient in actions
Is a fully charged robot in human shape,
Makes mental balance sheet of his parents’
Deeds of omission and commission.
Old age is the Day of Judgement.
The young sit on judgement over the acts
Of their elders; react by inflicting pain
And offering sustenance grudgingly,
Like the employees who pay income-tax.
A S RATNAM