Kala Ghoda Of Kolatkar & Other Poems Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Kala Ghoda of Kolatkar

Kala Ghoda,
Kala Bhoda which
Kolatkar writes about
Is not
The Kala, Kala Ghoda of Kolatkar,
But is an art-piece,
An art emblem,
A stone horse black in colour
Presented by Albert Abdullah David Sassoon.

Kala Ghoda,
The Kala Ghoda (Black Horse)Statue
Referring to that of King Edward VII,
Mounting the horse,
A stone statue representation of
As the Kala Ghoda area famous
For art and commercial purposes
And the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival held annually
Draws large gatherings
Just like a fair.

Kala Ghoda
An Arts District
And Plush Commercial Shopping Area
In Downtown Mumbai,
Named after and famous for
The British time buildings
Housing museums, art galleries
And institutions,
So dear to Kolatkar artistically
And poetically.

Paglet

The world thinks
He is a paglet
And he thinks the world
Is a paglet,
But I do not,
Who is who?

Who is really
A paglet?

Humanity

When feel you thirsty, hungry,
It is none
But man giving water, food
To man,
It is man serving man.

Konark

At Konark
Saw I
Stone figures and figurines
In passionate love,
So amorously closer to
Each other.

Laila

How was she
The Arabic folklore beloved
So forlorn and forsaken?

But her love,
None came to feel it,
Her love of heart!

Do Not Smoke

Said I,
But heard he not,
Went after
Taking
One cigar after another.

Smokes trailing,
Ashes shaken off,
Puffs taken,
The cigar with embers
Smoked,
Smokes coming out
Of the nose and the mouth.

The making of a gentleman!
But how long will he be able
To smoke as thus
Harming himself,
Will his health permit it
One day?

My Boy, Do Not Take You Ganja!

I reared him
Hoping to make
A good boy,
But chose he
A different path
After taking ganja
From a chillum
And turned he
Into a ganjeri
Loitering on the road.

Heard he not,
Just the friends
Who misled,
Misguided him
To be otherwise.