Aniruddha Pathak Poems

How jaundiced O man can ye get?
How biased, prejudiced at that!
Evil deeds of friends fair ye deem,
An old dress howso dear may seem,
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A straw mat on ground to sit,
A place in the house discreet,
Water to drink, wash guest's feet,
Words of welcome warm and sweet,
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The hatchlings in parental nest,
How much the raw wings may flutter,
It'd still take time before they fly.
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When wisdom weighed me down, I kept mouth shut,
So behaves one of three we call discreet,
Who never fingers of their own would cut,
Who'd let an axe fall upon one's own feet?
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A drop from ocean
Thrown off in giant motion
Moves no emotion!
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So vain is man's mime.
In a vast ocean of time
Small whirl as in sea,
A brown leaf blown off a tree,
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He whose health lives longer than lasts his cash,
Limbs lasting long to cheer jolly good years,
He that can laugh like a loud lightning flash,
Fortune and fate good friends, who has no fears,
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If half my happiness should hail from cradle—
Be it peacock's rain dance or cuckoo's coo,
Be it a frugal meal's caressing taste,
Retiring or rising sun at seashore,
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Fair words that boast of lawful birth
With no sex-stained biased image,
When made to look like white-robed sage,
But such is man's misguided mirth….
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Look the lead pages; look all dailies—
A storehouse of sordid stink and sleaze,
Competing each to each,
Racing, rare heights to reach,
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