Sometime on B 14
We’re running on time, scheduled
Demure to halt to a platform, undeclared
Normalcy broke when the actual D day came
We woke up lazily; physical comfort wanted
A little moment to suck the warmth of bed
Beneath everything an undertone of anxiety
Marred the…
Vaulting Ambition
He got into a quagmire; thought host in himself!
Fought tooth and nail; headway was half done
Hoist on his own petard, the modern MaoTseTung
Hindsight taught him, given his meteoric rise
Gripped all powers in his own hands, centralized
He had to sink back like the States’…
[199] Every Moment Fleets
Life has been a humdrum buzz
Full of upturn activities all through
Heavens’ forbiddance can’t stoop
The pressure of daily chores we face
Some play with hands; some by two legs
Both churn out to the world heritage
Some concede; some chin up to
Facing many…
Smoke in Diwali
I stood on a quay of an artificial pond
A row of skyscrapers on both the sides
The fourteenth storied building built by
Men and women labourers sweated
They exhausted their energy for those
Who wouldn’t find them anywhere
On this enlightened day: they…
Fog Speaks
I was planning to fist fog in my palm
Its downy bedding on a stubble surface
Intrigued me to catch, got exasperated
We found someday its sulky face, declined
We retired to bed but the fog came in a shaft
Before sunlight fog remained thicker
Before I got up it broke the muteness with
People hurtling for daily duty of livelihood
It did not speak to the so-called elite
They were late riser with sleep as a lazy bum
Imperceptible; they wouldn’t realize
They were on duvetting pleasure, earthy
Life on cloud nine! why should they?
Masses were singular, unnerving, spurring
They knew their kismet well before dawn
They had to speak to fogs for road clearance
They left, leaving behind the kid in disarray
Who else was there to take care of them?
Nature’s kindness and clement weather?
©Basudev Paul
Touch
Touch between two inanimate objects
Produces no tactile sensation, grates inert
Touch communicates the message undefined.
Touch has the ability to affect the whole world
Touch only heals up, the panacea, therapeutic
Touch doesn’t take much time to rock the eternity.
Touch only makes things topsy-turvy in a moment
Touch quickens the fertility on a fallow land
Touch couldn’t be hid to oneself, stealthily.
Touch between two tactile materials rises
Touch is untouchable; felt only when touched
Touch is disciplined when applied in Physics.
Touch is immaterial if not fomented orally
Touch is productive; speaks volumes in the presence
Touch is a breathing life of live relations.
No-touch; no revolution is orchestrated
Touch stimulates trust and attachment.
©Basudev Paul
Touch
Touch between two inanimate objects
Produces no tactile sensation, grates inert
Touch communicates the message undefined.
Touch has the ability to affect the whole world
Touch only heals up, the panacea, therapeutic
Touch doesn’t take much time to rock the eternity.
Touch only makes things topsy-turvy in a moment
Touch quickens the fertility on a fallow land
Touch couldn’t be hid to oneself, stealthily.
Touch between two tactile materials rises
Touch is untouchable; felt only when touched
Touch is disciplined when applied in Physics.
Touch is immaterial if not fomented orally
Touch is productive; speaks volumes in the presence
Touch is a breathing life of live relations.
No-touch; no revolution is orchestrated
Touch stimulates trust and attachment.
©Basudev Paul
