Ratnakar Mandlik Poems

Some times my emotions
Get speedy transactions
And then my little heart
Forgetting its own bits
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The weeping of a child
Every newly borned
Is a symbol showing
A life newly formed.
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Intellectuals responsible for giving direction,
Have become indifferent to the blues of the nation,
To injustices and cruelties and their perpretration
On hapless, unfortunate majority of brethren.
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Change is life, though he loves status quo
Unwilling perhaps yet he accepts to bow
Before the authority's command for change
Coward in him fails to face powers' challange.
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Joy earned through giving, his espoused philosophy
Practice it noble hearts with acts of philantrophy.
The act of giving pays many folds to the person,
It bridges gap between divine and humane.
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Religious fundamentalism as also regionalism
Too derive strength and as their outcome
Their artificial boundaries do divide human
Though essence of all isms is only Humanism.
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Torried summer scorched earth in tropicals
Just like the passionate longing of a damsel
Striving for her confluence with her lover
To quench her desires with cupids' showers.
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Standing in shallow water when it is low tide
Experience one can get there of a life time
When the receding water after a high tide,
Washes away sand from beneath your feet.
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Year Y 2 K demon
Let loose by I.T. domain
To attract talent world-wide
For the riches of the paradise
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Scams and scandals hovering over the nation,
Off springs of the scoundrels'nasty imaginations
Engulfed the nation in quagmire of corruption
Ushering advent of a night on a day of no moon.
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