AtreyaSarma Uppaluri Poems

For any malaise or malady, with no bar
You jump up and brush us with tar
Even as you are loath to take part
In the positive political art.
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There was a big fatty at Ranchi
Who walked out as his wife snapped, “Paunchy! ”
Up to Kanchi he went
And came back lean and spent.
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[Viewpoint of an Indian homemaker reeling under the price-spiral]

Earlier going to the vegetable market was unpleasant
Hardy, tiresome, for I had to be a heaving weightlifter.
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The bouncy gal breezed
into the teeming train.

Hypnotised
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There was a Crook who’s into small-time crime
So nimble in theft and pocket picking.
He indulged in this guilty job full time;
It’s how he would carry on his living.
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Just you and me
For each other -
We sit face to face
Look into each other’s eyes.
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If books are a bore
Window view is vapid
Talking is trash
Music is muck
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[Brittany Murphy, a 32 year old Hollywood actress and singer, met with a premature death on 20th December 2009. She is suspected to have been a victim of anorexia nervosa and a heavy dose of prescription drugs like Vicodin after she had undergone a series of plastic surgeries. RIP.]


Now the three-score-and-two year old young Brittany Murphy
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Life is a play and also a war of many a hope;
We should learn with every trouble how to cope.

Every age and stage has its beauty and music;
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scarecrows everywhere
but no crow around
to be scared away
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