Just for her love and innocence
And the acceptance of it,
You are killing her,
Punishing her so hard,
...
Kill not your daughter for honour,
will weep you
After having killed
The innocent daughter.
...
Rizvi who used to teach English
And had been the Principal of
Tilak College, Bareilly, U.P.
Is not an academic,
...
Divergent Shades as a thin collection of poems
Opens up with
Prayer For The Coming Years,
A poem
...
Holding my blackly unkempt beards,
She said to me,
'How do you do? '
...
The CPI(M) cadres and comrades,
Enrolled, subscribed and levied,
Recruited and regimented
Are the muscle men,
...
Whether they know it English or not, but they will
Call themselves
Poets and poetesses
And that too Indian English poet
...
O fanatic, I can see it, your end is
in fanaticism,
O fanatic, I know it, that
you will remain fanatical ever since!
...
What is the CPI(M) , everybody knows it,
I mean the wrongs of it,
How has it tortured people
In the name of party and politics,
...
Is it modernity,
Love and expression of modern art
To picture and photograph
The nude girls,
...