The Mind Is the Fountain

The mind is the fountain

Perennial source of wants to spurt

They leap like rising tides

They race like galloping horses,

I fly on the wings of wants

Like butterflies and fireflies

In my sport and game of life.

I do not know where to fulfil

My wants in the realm of facts

Some say wants are sure to rise

But they are shattered in time

That is indeed life chime

Some say that one should have luck

Where is that luck to be found?

Is the luck on earth for man’s mirth?

How does it shine in its reign?

Some say it is in the rainbow colours

For luck I launch a wide search

Luckily, I find the rainbow in the sky

I am not a child to climb it

Nor am a mountaineer to ascend it.

Some say luck paces than the hare

I pace much faster and speedier

It is not found at that speed.

Some say luck moves like tortoise

I move so but I do not find it.

Some say they are fulfilled at will

By sheer means of hard work

I do that in devotion

With all expectation

Published:

AFFLATUS CREATIONS

An International Literary Journal

April – June 2026 | Volume 3 | Issue 11

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Single in the Field

I listened to her in field

Singing a song outpouring

Her profound feelings

Risen from her sensitive heart

For the bloodshed and the tears

Of victims of rapes and killings

Violence in the land of peace

Unrest in the arena of equanimity

For the rogues in cow’s face

For brutes in sheep’s clothes

Villains in the false guise

Caring to smile all the while

She heard or seen on the television

The incidents of suffering,

Hating the race of man to be human

With humanistic principles

I love a man with no hypocrisy

Whom I marry

To be his mate lifelong

Where is he?

Where should I find him

In the love of mankind

In the welfare of man’s race?

Her question strikes my heart

For I found my life mate

I love her in the heart of my heart

To journey all the miles

My heart in its lovely parley

She is comely

She will be my life mate.

Published:

AFFLATUS CREATIONS

An International Literary Journal

April – June 2026 | Volume 3 | Issue 11

https://afflatuscreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dr.-Rajamouly-Katta-9-Poems-Pg-49-58.pdf

‘Love’, the Voice to Unite All

Between man and man

A clash is inhuman

Between a nation and other nation

A war is antihuman,

A sign of lovelessness.

Man is born in any nation

For love, life for life sans tears and fears.

Global voices from deep hearts

For human relation and amelioration.

Smiles for miles in man’s sojourn

Hand in hand, arm in arm,

Progress of man in the universe,

The welfare of man’s race,

Love blooms peace and harmony

For the world family

Love transcends barriers and frontiers,

Whereas war is for total devastation

Colossal loss and universal destruction,

We are not *Brontasseurs and *Dinosaurs

For war to meet our end and extinction,

We are insightful species of distinction.

War mongers need transformation,

Not for killing, violence and extermination.

War is not success but defeat for human loss,

Friend and foe alike including the boss.

*Two species fought with each other. After a series of their warfare, they have become

extinct killing each other. Their war ended in the extinction of two species.

Note: The poem got award on International Poets' Day.

Published:

AFFLATUS CREATIONS

An International Literary Journal

April – June 2026 | Volume 3 | Issue 11

https://afflatuscreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dr.-Rajamouly-Katta-9-Poems-Pg-49-58.pdf