Can A Poet Surrender To Misery!
You can break the neck of a poet
to stop a hand to write
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Erade
Translated as determination
Red hot - red hot
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Artificial Rain
When nature works to give rain
it is all - gain and gain
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Gazal-Munawwar Rana on Mother
English Translation Arvind Shah
Someone got a house in share, to keep
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Can A Poet Surrender To Misery
You can break the neck of a poet
to stop a hand to write
...
Air Emergency
The sky is laden with no missile gunpowder
Nuclear arsenal or chemical weapon power
Yet - Delhi, the capital of India these days
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Can A Poet Surrender To Misery!
Can A Poet Surrender To Misery!
You can break the neck of a poet
to stop a hand to write
but the soul will spiral
spirits of expression, to run
none could kill the instinct
and none can kill the instinct.
All oceans - in a drop do lie
that a poet holds in his eye
and a world wells up in him
trickles: an extinct jewel, grim
to see unleash of a misery:
a story, of a story, in a story.
A poet puts spirit of soul in a word
the expressions to be heard -
creates, a throbbing heart scene
for heartful feelings to be seen -
strength of spirit has power: immense
to set in a sense for, sense - nonsense.
When poet is severed from ancestry
heritage belonging and home of history
displaced physically - wears torture agony,
bruised, blue and black signs to carry
memory of the Homeland gets him into the ill world of inhumane human.
© arvind shah 17/10/15
In memory of homeland, which he was forced to flee 25 years back.