Buddha smiling,
Beaming with joy,
Radiating with sunlight
And the sunbeams falling upon
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The fanatic's daughter,
Want I to marry,
Take to as my own
The fanatic's daughter.
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Mahatma Gandhi,
You awake, awake,
Arise, arise
And see
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Sadhu Baba, sadhu baba,
Tell you, tell you,
When shall I be married,
Tell you, tell you,
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Hamlet, you too are writing poems,
Have turned into a poet
From being a dramatist,
A dramatic persona and protagonist,
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There is nothing as that to strut and walk on tiptoe
As T.N.Seshan showed it to be,
Everything is but bogus and false,
Fake and fraud,
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The monkey showman comes he dressed in uncouth clothes,
Clumsy and soiled,
With the two Indian monkeys,
Red-mouthed small-breed monkeys,
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Nissim Ezekiel is one such poet who suffered the alienation feeling most,
Some sort of rootlessness and uneasiness in being here
And the nativity question baffled him
As for to be called Indian
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Poetry of Himalayan Wisdom by Simanchal Patnaik is in reality
A volume of some Himalayan height
As per his type and tenor of writing,
The magnum opus of the poet,
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It was my first kiss,
Kissing you for the first time,
Ever a girl in my life,
Let me enter it into my diary.
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