Ramanujan trying to understand samsara,
What samsara is
And getting dizzy
And falling sick
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Nissim a Jew,
An alien insider
Trying to understand
Karma,
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Where does your son go to?
Maybe he smoking ganja,
Maybe taking he drugs,
Maybe at the ale-house!
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Jayanta Mahapatra is a poet of ideas,
Ideas, only ideas and images
As the plays of George Bernard Shaw are,
The plays of ideas
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It is not a summer poem,
But relating of the ancient orchard,
Man and his times,
The rural space and landscape,
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Taste for Tomorrow
Taken from Waiting (1979)
Is a Puri poem
Leading to the temple street
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They are the Bamiyan Buddhas,
Buddhas of peace,
Peace psychic and cosmic,
Shell you not,
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Trump, had Abraham Lincoln been,
He would have scolded you
For being partisan.
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Poetry for poetry's sake,
As is art for art's sake,
Poetry as poems
Experiences converted,
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Flowering Of A Lotus brought out in 1998
From Meerut by the poet himself
Is a book of verse
Written in the Miltonic,
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