My Female Unborn
Baby Foetus,
I am,
Am fighting
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Knew I it not
The origin and the end of it
As the paths of life,
The paths of the world are not the same
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Under the shadow of Bapu
Stand I,
I seeing the photograph
And thinking of
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Shiva-ratri,
The Night of Shiva,
Shiva, Shiva, Shiva.
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Bhole-Shankara, Shiva-Sambhu,
Har-Har Mahadeva,
No life without Shiva-Shiva,
Shiva-Shankara, Bhole-Shankara,
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Shiva the Mahayogi,
The Mahasadhaka,
The Mahafakira
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Who is this Quichotte,
Salman Rushdie's or Miguel de Cervantes'?
Whose creation is this?
Quichotte definitely not there, but Cervantes' Quixote.
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Poetry folk, rural,
Natural, pastoral, romantic, songful,
Hearty and spontaneous,
Poetry wordy, rhetoric, prosodic, stanzaic,
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What is it tradition?
The historical sense.
What it in individual talent?
What the objectivity of art?
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Meraa daru-pinewalla beta,
Tum kahan ho, tum kahan ho,
Mera beta?
Piyo, magar kam piyo,
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