Aniruddha Pathak Poems

Selling one, giving free the ‘ther one
In shoe-shops has all along been done
But then a Johnny came
Limping, on one leg lame:
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Thinking for long about me
That failed to surface like cream,
In an early morning dream
I once met the real me…
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A limit there's to what robots can:
Never can they be men and women.
A robot regretted:
Their makers ne'er mated,
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Let me narrate how Death was born on Earth,
Said sage Vyasa to Yudhishthir, shattered
By Abhimanyu's death, ‘vain, vain my worth,
O if a young dream dies, lies so scattered'.
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O crested honey buzzard,
From a point of vantage
What is it that you eye?
May be, on a prey you spy—
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If peacocks and cuckoos us regale,
If parrots please our heart,
Butterflies-beasts apart,
There's a zoo in all us without fail,
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A rooster's early morn calling sense,
Is it too much of neighbourly nuisance?
But raised has cockerel's morning heist
Oh crows of loud protest
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One breath
Twain sisters— trust and faith:
One stands if proof stays stood,
The ‘ther all lone in solitude
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Ah pebble, just a pebble,
Pray spare such derision,
It can hold enough treason.
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He that hails evil ‘pon this good earth,
Earns means nor yet merits,
Nor good deeds inherits,
Vain, worthless upon earth be his birth,
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