RAJ NANDY Poems

** THE POET

The poet inhales the breath of Autumn,
As sees the withering leaves gently fall;
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SCARECROWS!

They told me that scarecrows do not scare
birds or crows any more!
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Notwithstanding how you view the morn,
Or see the sunrise and the dawn,
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A TRIBUTE TO BOOKS!
(LAMENTING THE LOSS OF READING HABIT!)
With the gradual progress of civilization;
With the spread of CDs, Videos, I-pods and
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** SIDE-WALKS

Our village roads have no side-walks,
One must lookout for bullock-carts,
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ACCEPT WITH GRATITUDE
TO RETURN IN HUMILITY!
Let us not feel superior for having given,
Or feel inferior for having taken!
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A NOBLE PRIZE FOR PEACE!
When the dove returned to Noah’s arch, -
With an olive branch in its beak,
Noah knew that the flood waters have begun
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A TRIBUTE TO VINCENT VAN GOGH’S
PAINTINGS OF SUNFLOWERS.
“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul
and yet no one ever come to sit by it.Passerby
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A WORLD BEYOND!
Between the confines of life and death,
There lies innumerable cycles of life itself!
That extols life with its infinite evolving
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A MYTHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE
ORIGIN OF WRITING!

The ancient Sumerians believed writing to be
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