The wooden been music
The snake charmer playing
And the melodies breaking,
Haunting
...
Blake, talked you of the bright and burning eyes of the tiger
And the Maker making it,
Experimenting with ferocity, brutality and beastiality
And Milton, talking of Satan and his snake,
...
What it is in the department,
The academia and the academies
And the people academic,
Followed by a dull and routinized affair,
...
The snake charmer playing the wooden ' been' instrument
And the cobras,
Hooded and hissing
Dancing,
...
Snake-charmer, play you the wooden 'been' instrument
In the forest deep and dark,
Playing the music of your rhyhtm
And sadhna.
...
Came they snake charmers
To show the spectacle
Taking the name of
The snake gods and goddesses
...
When we see the snake unaware
Or find by chance
Sitting coiled, holed in
Or peeping through,
...
Just like a green bean
I saw it struggling to cross
The road,
But it was not a bean
...
The snake-charmer,
Charmer
Playing the been,
Wooden been music
...
When I saw it at midnight
Near the gate,
A poisonous snake was it
So rapid and fast,
...
Nagamani, The Myth of Nagamani, Snake-stone, Gem-stone
Nagamani,
The black stone, the blue stone,
The snake stone,
...
How much terrified and horrified had I been
When my mother
Awoke me at the dead of midnight
To notice me
...
I trying to catch
The rhythms
Of the bagpiper's music
And the been music
...
Whatever fellowship or visiting honour gets he,
But the things of Nagamandala
Not his own,
Of those nondescript poor and humble
...
The been music,
Play you,
O charmer,
I want to hear,
...
The snake-charmers' music
Steal
They
The Bombayan
...
Gentleman, who are you,
Peeping through the cracks of my bathroom,
Made by the bad mason
Just to take money from hastily,
...
O charmer, where do you lie playing the wooden been music,
Playing so haunting music
And the cobras dancing to the tume of,
Swaying,
...
I remember the night
When after the death of my father,
My mother awoke she all of a sudden,
Perhaps awoken by the dead father's memory
...