Hell of Earth or Earth of Hell

God quietly settles in heaven

After His fabulous creation

Of earth for the humans

Of hell for the demons

With His message to man

To build a heaven on earth            

To be against, and protest Satan

For all men, welfare and mirth

For ages man has well-grown

To create a robot for his own

For all comforts sans efforts

With neither toil nor turmoil

For a travel without travails

With Satan as his companion,

The Divine’s chief rebellion

Whose whole and sole mission:

‘Heaven of hell; hell of heaven’

For provocation and pollution

Of man’s mind in retaliation   

Man born of God’s creation

Grown in ever disobedience

For over luxuries and affluence

For selfish interests and goals

As a sign of wonderful powers

To mark his powerful wonders

And his series of disobediences                                                                                                

In the courts with his deaf ears

In the places with his tight-lips

In the seats with his cold actions

In the hands with his atom bombs

To settle in his crown as a tyrant

In a shrine with his reign constant

Fellow-beings to obey his powers

To nod their heads for false truths

To shake their hands for evil ties

On earth of hell or in hell of earth;              

Published in The Anthology 'The Dance of the Peacock', Canada - 2014.

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THRALL

Something glides past from mysterious realms

             Shown in charming flowers

                 Shone in flying colors

As seen from the days of lamb-like innocence

   The future in lures slides into the present.

All, to man’s witness, is beyond expectations

           Fades the charms of blossoms                                                     

            Evades the glories of dreams

Happens by surprise here at the spur of the moment

        The transient present turns into the past

The past, cud to be chewed in the interior horizon

            Emotions of embittered hearts

            Experiences in shattered dreams

Clings for spasm whether reluctant or be an aspirant

         As milestones in man’s life-expedition

It’s time: the future, the present and the past

          That wakes man to its wonders

             Its display of infinite powers

For its enlightenment to man in its move eternal             

           As its life-long inevitable thrall

Published in Indian English Anthology, The Dance of the Peacock, Canada. 2014.

Published in TRIVENI Journal.

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TWILIGHTS

Birds in gaiety keep their dear little ones

        Warm under their soft feathers

In nights, between twilights, during snow-fall

       Till sun-rays peep into their cozy nests

They rise to sing in twilight before sunrise

        On the prospective risks in broad day-light,

In the safe-existence of their baby-birds

        And in their blissful return at sunset

All parasites like snakes have all hungers

        Only to swallow their newly born ones,

Sprinkling seeds for them to glance, hunters

        Secretly spread nets and watch to catch

Fluttering back to nests for glowing glance

         Of their young ones to coo in full delights

Indeed the happiest moment in their daily lives

         A tension to be faced between twilights              

Published in Indian English Anthology The Dance of the Peacock, Canada     
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