1
Please come and hold my hand
I have no strength to walk or stand.
I am not poor and I am not in poverty,
Think not so my dear, so long as
I am reciting your name and fame and
I am writing poem.
I am drinking the life-juice given by you,
I have no other wish but I am very much greedy
to keep you and I am hankering after you.
My thinking process, please test,
is it not bigger than me, my dear?
But my life is so small and short
you cannot rebuke me for any other things
as you know, I have no attachment in anything else.
2
You have taught me
the way of worship.
It is your sweet love;
it is your pious earth
that gave me knowledge.
I am here with your flowers,
Fragrance of which is spreading
in all directions.
I am smiling like you
with the beauty of this world;
I desire to stay with you
so long as you are here with me.
It is my gook luck
you are showing me the path to stay.
3
Hearing your flute
I came out from the house
With tears of love
In eyes full.
The air within
Is trembling, see?
And I am alive.
To see you is not
Within my power, dear,
I saw the sky above
In eyes tearful.
The light is here with me,
The colors are focusing
And still I am unable to see.
4
How to sing that I know not,
What to do and when to do, I know not,
though you have taught.
You have given me everything
covering the earth and the sky.
And yet I am not able to
keep them with me.
You have made me emotional
in so many ways here at so many times
and yet I have forgotten from the very start.
It is known to all, starting point is no where
and no one can say what is it going on here,
And still I have decorated my body for you only
and you have received me with regards as nothing wrong.
5
This blue uncovered sky
is there as it is
given by you at that hours
of beginning, O beginning-less.
I am happy, I have nothing to solicit.
The sky is happy; I have seen
nowhere to go at any time.
Let me express my language of hearts;
Let me delete the absolute that is
so rising within me towards the sky.
I know, no artist is there like you
on this earth that can make a sky so lovely
with nothing. I know how much I am searching
you day and nights here there with the sky.
6
The sea is trembling and
this state of trembling
made me fear and I sing a song
with care that you can hear there.
Am I the initiator here?
And I am telling about the wave and the sky.
You have declared to stay away from me
But I have seen you and you have provided
me the eyes to sea all scenes.
With his shadow the Neem-tree
is telling the history and
without the shadow the tree is
in love. The truth-bird is there
sitting quiet without body on the shore.
7
Collecting words in your
field of emotion I stood first.
With my own laugh and own cries
I preceded further in the light
of new moon day.
Life-forest is dense,
Scattered sky is there only,
the rain is going outside
holding my hands and is telling
O poet, come on, to measure the clouds.
Let me free from your kiss-prison first,
Let me get my body uncovered with truth,
let me write a poem in your words-love
Let me stay here a moment more beyond count.
8
How can I say my dream is not in truth?
How can you say I am not here in front of you?
Still I am playing with the fragments of sky,
Still you are talking with me committed to earth.
Come on; come on, my black mole, my white sandal!
It is the time to see each other in the match-final.
It is cold, it is chill, let us come together
with acceptability as per wish of blue eyes.
Teach me, teach me by phases your song, your dance,
Let me give a chance to write in free-verse, to show
my sorrows not in open market but in close door of yours
same nectar- rhythm full of desires beyond the body.
I have done all things here according to your direction
I have written as blessing while taking your dictation.
9
Not I but you
the nectar of this world.
Not I but you
the writer of this world.
Not I but you
the conjunction of this world.
You are the only player here and
all others are ball.
You are the giver, you are the taker
in dark and in light, I hear your call.
The flowers that are there blooming – I know yours,
the stars that are there appearing – I know yours.
I am not confusing at any time it is sure,
I am getting your instructions all times that are pure.
10
Have you seen my greedy eyes in your Kadamba tree?
Within your all-embracing arms I am feeling free.
I have remembered everything but I failed to express myself,
I am wandering in your forest and still I am fearless.
I am reflecting everything in my poems from time to time,
how the water and the fire are playing within the body.
Being the controller of everything you know everybody,
I remembered all arts all cultures while composing poems.
I know the movement of the body and the mind that have
a link with you without any interruption from anywhere.
It is right you are the creator of all happiness and
all sorrows and all universes with good faith and trust.
The fire in my veins are yours that is mystery
I am going on creating you my dear in my own way and you agree.
11
You made me a fool,
and I am here cool.
To satisfy your urge
you addressed me darling.
I want your language
but you merged in me.
Your scented kiss enabled me
to stand up before all and
I am here in return of love
that is universal.
Day and nights, see me
I am laughing and crying
Like a mad and insane
Pick me up showing your deign.
12
In our own circles
we are wandering.
We are wandering
keeping our own
identity in reserved.
We are interdependent,
here at this hour.
Under the stars,
Dictators, ourselves-
we declared.
The stars are
falling down and
it is no wonder, but
we are dear to each other.
13
Love the self first
and then only say
I love you and then
you may say
I love the world.
Who are you to love the world?
Is the world is hankering
after your love?
But if love is not there in you,
nobody is there to love you.
And without love
you are deprived the blessing
of Almighty, and you are far from
peace and stability within, see.
14
It is magic
It is vanity
It is life.
And it is yours,
and I am yours,
and you are here
within me.
Vanity Fair
is not mine
I know.
And still, O magician,
you have kept
the truth in tact
and I am going to that.
15
Go there in normal way or in
opposite way that does not matter,
O my dear, but going is a pious one
and that takes you from you to you.
While going face the spring, face the summer,
face the rain and also the winter,
and for this I have opened all doors
and all windows that are there here.
It is your dream that is taking you
with so much love that is beyond imagination,
And the plus and minuses are here with a difference
but no one is taking care to sum up all.
Seeing you I have forgotten all my thirst and hunger,
O my dear, see now, I am drunk; I am not within my control.
16
How to compose poems
that I know not, my dear
I know not how to live.
Words, sentences and their
uses are not being
properly made by me.
I fear your silence gestures,
I fear your shapeless appearance,
I fear your backward motion.
The colors, the sounds, that are in me
is yours my dear, and I am using all these
only to please you.
Please come and listen, and allow me to make you listen,
O my dear, listen, truth is being told by me.
17
Since you are not forgetting me,
how can I dare to forget you?
Since you are here in front of me,
how can I go anywhere keeping aside you?
Keeping aside you, I made a blunder, my dear,
keeping aside you, I am far from water,
and you are there within me and
I am there within you, how wonder!
No and nothing I want to know besides you,
And I know what not you are here and also there,
You are my kiss itself, you are my scent,
You are my morning light, you are also the night,
In the same parameters of life-fight, I am here,
See, in your smile and also in your tears.
18
Though I know there is no end
I am going to find the end
and the end is covering me with
its blue eyes, scented and colorful.
See me I am wonderful, see me I am not here,
And you said, my dear, coming to me, O,
You are at the end, you are the end coming to
start afresh and I am wandering here there,
To fulfill my end in this play of
presence and absence that is going on within all.
I find no end in the beginning, see,
It is beyond my knowledge, and I started again,
painful though, since I have greed I quit not,
And I said my dear, let it go on its own way.
19
Is it easy to stay united
Please tell, my dear, please tell,
without devotion, without attachment,
without surrendering the self?
I love the air and the air is there,
I love the sky and I desire to fly,
it is fire that is burning within me,
and you are the fire that I know there.
You are calling me to go there,
please clarify, are you not there?
You are staging this drama and you
placed yourself in the position of
the hero and the director, producer as well,
with your own expenses. Who am I?
20
No new poem I find here,
the poems that are here
really lack newness
that I am searching for.
Where is that love
I am searching for
here there as a wanderer
within these doubts and distrust.
No emotion is there, and also
No surrender, my dear,
No one knows how to bow down
and the sweetness therein.
Please come, give a lesson again,
Let them know the truth-fortune forerun.
21
See me, I am burning
in the oven of love-life,
I cannot allow anybody
to say it, oven of lust.
Yes, time is running fast
But here it is time,
available in plenty for love
Let us enjoy love-life here.
Are you not watching
the smile of flowers
always here, there and
everywhere you stay?
The sky is watching you,
remember, dear guy.
22
Shop love today itself,
No bargain, no rate,
Love, you can get, it tells
only through love.
Come, you are welcome,
See and feel the blooming of
flowers within you, dear,
See the dream near.
Being a poet, let me enlighten
the environment that is lovely
and beautiful all around,
and truth therein that I found.
You are sketching the sky I know
with all sweetness of this life-flower.
23
You are here to light the lamp, I know
and to show me the dream of the earth
you are here that I know and you are seeing
in your eyelid-less eyes all activities of all.
How grateful am I, I cannot express here,
I cannot express as because I am still taking
everything from you here and you are giving me
everything in time feeling my want yourself.
Here the nectar is flowing in these words
that have a touch of yours and that are again
touching you and coming to this area, this earth
to all creatures and to all people including trees
and mountains and oceans and air and sky and stars.
And I must give you thanks for your light and encouragement to fight.
24
See me, dear; I am in emptiness
and going towards wholeness.
Wholeness is there in my life,
but I failed to find it
without your grace, and for this,
see I am worshipping you, knowing
fully well that you are within me.
Life is a medium, life is a media
and you are the controller of life.
Still I am living here and remembering you
at every moment of respiration,
you are telling me in whisper to stay calm
and I am in obedience to you going here
and there without any discrimination.
25
The unseen is here, see,
the untouchable is here, touch,
the voiceless is here, hear him,
and come, my dear, feel his presence within.
With so many colors he is taking
utmost care this earth where you are
with mystic fever he is here, wonder,
I am with you in this heaven-garden.
Telling you all that are near you
I am presenting before you infinity,
I see nobody destitute here with his presence,
Thing is it is a matter of faith.
I am with him and he is with me
He is with me and I am with him.
26
The river is crossing its bank,
the sky is coming forward,
and my poem is dazzling as you see
with the new leaves and wind of the spring.
And with this I have not deposited anything
and my balance is zero, as the balance of payment
lost its value before the CCTV placed before.
O my dear, still I love the flower here.
Come, my dear, please come, and let us
go for a walk together throughout the world
just as a mere creature and see varieties of
incidents that are occurring in our presence.
Let us feel, we are parts of all those who are here,
Let us feel also, we are parts of all those who are everywhere.
27
For the world,
for the welfare of the world,
I am writing all these.
I think the life
and the world is the whole truth.
Poet is he who knows what truth is,
you are the best poet of this world,
and you have created it with care.
I know your heart is as big as the sky
and it is you who created this sky,
and under which I am playing as per my wish.
There on the body of the sky I am
feeling my pulse and on this world
I am telling, yes I am alive.
28
Coming to me you may say
Writing is a personal business,
But let me say, think twice, my dear,
Nothing is personal, admit and declare.
Since everything is interrelated
no one can claims this or that
is his own and he is here to keep
everything secret and he can do
whatever and whenever he likes.
It is true to say pieces of
stones are there in flowers,
and flowers are blooming
on the dry stone at the top
of the mountains facing the sky.
29
No one is calling me today
and I went hearing the call.
The call is sent by the sky
through air and I am fired.
This time also I am hopeful
that the bees would come with honey.
With the honey I can sing openly
and the flowers would co-operate me.
Rain arrived late though to the fields,
and the farmers are there to make merry
Forgetting their money they have deposited
as crops insurance and security bonds.
But it is flood, come and see,
Come and if you so like, service be rendered.
30
Light is your simplicity and
your purity.
This light shows you
the path towards
truth, love.
Fear the truth, fear the light,
fear the love, but keep them
within you. Mind it,
Only this fear, only this action
can enable you to win.
Don’t bow down your head
before anyone else except the truth.
Don’t go with anyone else
except with love.
31
We are going,
The sun is not coming.
In fact, we are nameless,
We are calling east, west.
We to choose what to do,
We are to select the path of light.
Though nothing is there as called
Here or there in our own life.
It is the formation of nature,
It is the intermixture temperature,
And you are the book-keeper,
I am the knowledge-center
You are the deviator,
And I am the silent spectator.
32
With your spectacles you can see me,
but if you are a jaundice patient,
what shall I do? I am not the doctor
to make your vision clear, my dear.
With your hands you can hold anything,
but if you do not want to raise your hands
what shall I do? I am not the commander-in-chief
to force you by giving punishment here.
My happiness is in my hands that I know very well
but I am not utilizing fully my freedom due to my
habit to obey the orders of outsider.
And it is in this way I am dependent fully though
I have got independence and it is disgrace
I know very well and I am helpless in me.
33
For the world,
For the welfare of the world,
I am writing all these.
I think the life
And the world is the whole truth.
Poet is he, who knows what truth is,
You are the best poet of this world,
And you have created it with care.
I know your heart is as big as the sky
And it is you, who created this sky,
And under which I am playing as per my wish.
There on the body of the sky I am
Feeling my pulse and on this world
I am telling, yes I am alive
34
How many sun and how many moon are
there that I cannot say my dear,
ask me not about all those questions,
they are not under my jurisdiction.
I can say how I am revolving me here
within my circle with my hands and feet
and busy in filling my belly and telling you
good morning without any return or expectation.
I cannot say why the smoke is coming out
from that steel plant of my town and how
the flower is blooming in this rainy days
and my grand daughter is crying to go to school.
I know, you are not able to say anything
in these days and yet I am welcoming you to say.
35
How much I am yours a great point to note,
telling something to please one at the instant
has no role to play in the wider connotation,
as coloring the sky has no value at dark night.
But at deep dark and middle of night everything
is started changing and we mark it after sleep,
Sleep is nothing but a death, forgetfulness is
nothing but preparing for a new life in the morning.
We are acrobats and we know how to go through the air
and we know all lights are here for us, we also know
the ‘parrots in full flight’ as said Paz defy movement
and language and we are forgetting we are for ours.
Time is here to learn and we are running with time,
Words have so much value and that is not a thing to imagine.
36
To say something about a matter
is trying to destroy it.
Let us try not to be a
part of any destruction, dear.
To read is to enhance the energy
and to go ahead of the self,
but going ahead is not advisable
as something may be missed.
To wake and to rise is good
but for what? If you are not able to know!
I cannot say whether you are
living or not.
To live, writing is necessary,
to write, reading is necessary.
37
Good news;
Man is missing.
And who is missing
if you are not able to answer
really a bad news.
Come and see and
say something about you.
Say not how the queen is
there and calling you.
Say not what is the trouble
faced by the prince.
Say who you are
And what is your duty,
at this time.
38
Fire is everywhere,
See, feel and say, fire,
I love it.
Without fire
it is impossible to live.
Fire, fire,
Let me declared,
it is all legal;
Fire is the same
with the poor
and with the rich.
Go not before fire.
Come here and touch the fire,
and be fired.
39
Who said?
Life is to enjoy.
One enjoy means
Another suffer, means
Violence is there.
Let me come here and say
No violence
No enjoyment.
You try to enjoy means
You inflict suffering on others
That is not sanctioned
Your nature is oppressive
And it is painful
It is violence.
40
Be brave and have courage,
With you my dear and face life.
Life has no color,
Life is tasteless,
Life is above all,
All happiness and all sorrow.
Living let me say ideal living
Needs some practice? Come here
And see.
Let me not pleased
In favorable and
Displeased in unfavorable
Here or there.
Remember friends, you are men.
41
Doctors are charging fees
without giving
proper treatment.
Milkmen mix water
in milk and charging
the cost of pure milk.
Ministers and officers are
enjoying life and getting pleasures
without caring the common mass.
Laborers want to get full wages
without performing their duty
honestly and sincerely.
Let me say all are in falsehood
and robbed common men.
42
It is dark under the lamp
and you have to bear it, my dear.
It is the nail with the rose
and you have to tolerate it, my dear.
Poison precedes the nectar
and you have to drink it, my dear.
And discover perfect combination of
wife and husband, son and father,
nose and face, and also east and west.
Remember, to renounce if you have a body,
Remember, to give something to the teacher,
Remember, to place a good service-holder.
And drive not out and kill not the helpless men
taking shelter even though enemies they are.
43
Inferiority complex is there
with all in one way or the other.
I am superior, you are inferior,
the cow is superior, the dog is inferior,
the pigeon is superior, and the crow is inferior.
Forget my dear, about superiority and inferiority
And remember, who you are, what is your role
during this period, to change the atmosphere.
Keeping purity should be the motto and not success,
Success is anything but a highlight of past actions.
Controlling your own mind you should go forward
It is your simplicity and uprightness that can
taken you to super most position at the earliest
and I am waiting here only for that.
44
If you are the son
See your father,
If you are the wife
See your husband,
If you are the leader
See your voters.
Take care yourself
and avoid death.
Being a man you are to
keep with you love
and compassion
being a man you are to
stay with the truth.
Everything is well and good.
45
It is shame
if we are not using
our own language.
It is shame
if we are not giving
respect to our own mother.
It is shame
if we are not taking care
of our mother-earth.
All other things we are doing
besides the above are fruitless.
We must face death,
and no one on this earth is there
to save from the tragedy we are to face.
46
Coming to you
I said; see me,
how virtuous I am.
I am performing everything
selflessly for the good of you.
For the good of you
I am here, see me,
I am here, to burn the fire,
I am here, to throw the air,
I am here, to win the righteous war.
Yes, I have a desire and
it is not sin, see me,
my desire is to stay attached
with you for all days.
47
My body is my enemy
And I am waging war against it
Here at every moment.
My body is always trying to
Overpower me by heedlessness
And indolence but I abstain.
I am satisfied with whatever
I get but my body has certain
Desire that I am trying to forget.
My intellect remains unattached
To my body though it is in the body
And I am studying the incidents, things and persons.
I want to know the reality between us,
Here at this time no reason thus.
48
It is I
And here I am
I am going to meet an end.
End is nothing but a
Starting a beginning afresh.
And I am starting my career
Anew, see, with you and you are
There with nothingness,
Welcoming me, come on,
I am here with everything.
I am going to meet an end
And end is we are all one.
All my knowledge and my devotion
Is for you, and I am here to achieve this end.
49
You are writing poetry and
being the head in giving light to the society,
please say whether
you endowed with a pure intellect,
firmly restraining the senses,
casting aside attraction and aversion?
Are you dwelling in solitude?
Are you controlling your speech body and mind?
Are you resorting to dispassion?
Have you abandoned egoism, violence, arrogance,
desire, anger, covetousness?
Are you tranquil in mind?
Ponder yourself and say whether you are
the right person qualified to write and give light?
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