ORACLE

Man, in quest of sole goal today

Turns this very holy land hay

Deliberately learns to be different

In rock-like silence and indifferent

To rampant atrocities and tortures;

Tears and fears for money-glitters

He grows and grows so avarice

So prejudiced to be an accomplice

Waits he so eagerly for a chance

And avails himself of it, per chance

Appears to be most corruption-free

With his rich hues deception-free

Poses a Gandhi in the free time

And sings Anna Hazare’s chimes

For his hunger and his thirst

He allows none to know his lust

In the guise of sensitive glances

He seizes the others’ due chances

The crocodile knows his tears

The chameleon detects his colors

I am God in temple, kept aloof

Tongue-tied to be talk-proof

My constant search from heaven

To see him not in the ways forbidden

Again not to fall victims to the Satans

As all for all, not to grow gluttons

Not to see gaps, not to create rifts

Not to cause ripples are his real gifts

This is my oracle echoed to the human

To be humanistic and humanitarian

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                                                                Miracle in Oracle

                                                               19^th October, 2011  

                                                            Nov-Dec, Muse India  

EARTH AND ITS OFFSPRING

“I am ever confident

Of your stature, a dot mien

Of your status, menial and mean

A particle, a dismal miniature

You are down to earth a parasite

The most disobedient for God to cite

You are oblivious of your origin

As a temporary guest in my inn

An egg to mock at its mother hen

A seed to question to a huge tree”

This all is the allegation of the earth

For the response of its offspring:

“What an unpleasant surprise!

I am small but my story is not

My life is short but it means a lot

I am mien but not mean and menial

For pride, you own a wide kingdom

You are soil that lacks in wisdom

I fly in the welkin; swim in the ocean

Broadcast news and telecast views

I have wonders in my lands

I have splendors in my palms

I have powers in my hands

I have no desires for your alms

I am not high but kiss the stars

From my highest parlors

Of my magnificent mansion

All know it; I need not mention

I can rock you by my wiry atom

At will, from top to bottom” 

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                                                                            Miracle in Oracle

                                                                           18^th October, 2011

                                                                         Nov-Dec, Muse India

HEAVENLY BLISS

You are too ignorant to declare,

“Bliss is the rarest commodity”

“Heaven is not on the thoroughfare”

Bliss is in you; heaven is on earth

They are one in one and won by you

Bliss is heavenly; heaven is blissful

To have it in life is really beautiful

It is futile to search for them there

But easy to find them so much here

Success is not to be taken to the head

Nor failure is to be taken to the heart

Victory follows a series of failures

To bestow on you the due knowledge

Of how to have victory without fail

Actions are sheer parts of our lives

So are the results surely mere ones

And so work-cultures and life-styles

Are to create all sorts of emotions

To ruffle the calm and serene heart 

Like bubbles in water whirls or falls

Transient are they to be overcome

And to be conquered at ease for bliss

Only by good verse, a nice converse, 

Glimpse of nature or fine sculpture,

To mimic a cuckoo, a heed to music;

All to lull your deeply aching heart

All to appease your paining mind

Are in your hand, mind and heart

Wisdom lies in search and in quest

Of an oasis in one’s life of desert.           

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                                                                            Miracle in Oracle

                                                                                  5-9-2012 

                                                                  ‘The Commonwealth Review’

                                                                 Vol. XXI. No.1. ISSN: 0974-0473