They forgot it that she too is a daughter of someone,
Now away from her home,
Taking to the route of life,
Reaching where finally?
...
O, you play the shehnoi
And let me hear the Shyama sangeet,
Shyama sangeet,
The sangeet purrifying the self,
...
Who's the girl in the sunglasses,
I mean the goggles,
Who the goggleswalli,
Why's she smiling,
...
I am a professor,
A university,
Ha, ha, ha,
Hi, hi, hi,
...
Poetry as born out of sadhna
And the poet as a sadhaka
Writing about the sadhna
The mystical and nocturnal experimentation,
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O policeman, beat you not the other man's son,
If you've to,
Beat you your own son
And having beaten him, you will feel it
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The tears in your eyes I cannot see,
The eyes red with
And the tears splashing the eyes,
O, say, say you,
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As a passenger came I here alighting from a local passenger train
One darkening eve
At a local halt
And as a passenger shall I go away one day empty-handed,
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Nagaraja, I mean King Cobra's daughter
Nagaknaya, Cobra Daughter,
I mean Cobra Princess
Is my beloved.
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Mulk Raj Anand,
Say you, how to research you,
A novelist Indian
Whose novels read not the Indians,
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