Suicide is martyrdom.

One commits suicide from fear, pain or shame

As an escape route or from being wronged.

Sometimes it is in the form of revenge.

He is a martyr like one lost in war.

16.07.2014

Use sparingly.

Adjectives to poetry

Are jewels to royal ladies.

They focus or enhance

And in excess mar the contents.

Use them sparingly.

16.07.2014

Documents handed over

Imagination is not a reality.

Imagination of original

Is not real, but coloured with mind.

History is of imagination

From the data collected.

Scriptures are of imagination

From the supremacy employed.

Literature is of imagination

From expression of faculty.

None of them are real.

Hold them accordingly.

16.07.2016

Being habitual is a disease.

A crime- if done repeatedly,

It is not a crime but a disease.

The accused needs treatment.

He is like an alcoholic.

Don’t destroy him by punishment.

16.07.2014

My life is mine.

Bitter truth be unknown but not sweet lies.

Sad news out of sight; sweet news in focus;

I must get praises even at my cost.

Let me seek women; let me befriend them.

Let me do where I find joy, harmless though.

I must count among the people around

For which I shall tap all my sources.

I shall serve others and earn their goodwill,

That will see me off in my end journey.

My life is mine and let it be all fine.

15.07.2014

Love one, not possess.

To possess one is to forget to love one.

When you possess your wife it might happen

That you’re vigilant and not jubilant.

You see that she seek not men’s company

And that she is mute to love, denied by you.

Whether you love her or not, she must care you.

When you possess your husband it happens

That you’re cautious but not accommodating.

You see that he befriend no co-woman

And is impervious to other women’s love.

Better to possess not, so as to love.

15.07.2014

No desire for rebirth

No desire to reenter the school

When schooling is completed.

No desire to reenter the college

When the education is over.

No desire to reenter the world

When living is completed.

Woes experienced through the phases

Will loom shading happy moments.

15.07.2014

How religions exist^

Religions exist for their promises.

Promises are in the form of beliefs.

Gods promise heaven and pardon one’s sins.

Hell is shown to those who ignore the gods.

Prayers are answered and not known when.

Promise after death is religions’ bait.

All are beliefs; beliefs are not provable.

Religions promise nothing that can be proved.

Slaves are there to the masters of religions.

Religions exist by their promises.

15.07.2014

Desires for beauties

He is too handsome to go in jail;

She is too pretty to be punished.

Thus enjoys the charm of one’s good looking.

Good looking is a qualification.

Eyes search for beauties in a concert.

Eyes befriend beauties in a party.

Talked to by beauties, one is elated.

Blunders of beauties are tolerated.

With a pretty face, her voice grows sweeter.

With a curve figure, her dance looks dearer.

A beautiful one cannot be wicked;

Thus goes human’s mind, blinded by attraction.

Beauty scores favour and discount one’s flaws.

Appearance consciousness is beauty.

Hygiene and elegance add to beauty.

Well groomed, well behaved, one is a beauty.

Unlike woman, man is polygamous.

Unlike man, woman is kept from adultery.

As long as man’s sexual perversion goes

There lies desire to fish beauties with baits .

13.07.2014

Mercy is more than a pardon.

Mercy is higher than showing kindness.

Mercy is not just forgiving offenders.

Mercy is doing good, moved by pity,

To the offender instead of revenge.

‘Save me; my enemies chase me to kill me;

All men call you good; house me for a night.’

Said a stranger to Sheik AzimKhamer

Of Arabia, falling at his feet.

The Sheik bid him enter and fed him well.

He made him his guest and gave him a bed.

At dawn, he gave him some gold and a horse.

Moved was the stranger by his benevolence.

He confessed he was the killer of his son.

He offered himself to be slain by him.

The sheik was shocked and was agitated.

However, the good part prevailed on him.

‘Go! I will not kill you.’ Said the Sheik,

‘You have been noble enough to confess;

I must be noble enough to forgive.

Then only will rest my son’s soul in peace.’

Mercy is an act much hard to perform.

Mercy is a privilege enjoyed by those

Who have power to retaliate or

Who have power to adjudicate.

We’ve got by mercy that we don’t deserve.

Let others get by mercy that they don’t deserve.

Mercy is sweeter than the revenge

As it sweeten the offender also.

13.07.2014

Fortune gives no pride.

Tom got a lottery from a draw.

Ram got a treasure from his yard.

Jane got a throne from her aunt.

Fortune has favoured them all.

They are fortunate to get them.

They got them they less deserved.

To say someone is fortunate

Is to say he less deserves it.

Fortune is not a hard earned one.

13.07.2014

Being with the spouse lost

A widower not married again

And a widow not married again.

Stand high in the heart of their children,

And by it they nourish themselves.

13.07.2014

Be seasoned with humiliation

Don’t expect the same treatment that you give

If you’re lower in rank, wealth or power

Or when in the receiving end.

Don’t expect the same treatment others get

If you’re lower to them in some respect.

Be seasoned with the humiliation.

11.07.2014

The cause of death

Many things can be the cause of death.

Anything can be the cause of death.

These causes are instrumental.

The primary cause is the birth.

11.07.2014

That is how Fate operates.

He repays one tenth to me.

He repays tenfold to him.

That is how Fate operates.

I excel him in knowledge.

He receives more attention.

That is how Fate operates.

I am sincere in my words

Yet I get no weight to it.

That is how Fate operates.

I do avoid doing sins

And yet get undue sufferings.

That is how Fate operates.

I am chivalry to her

The conceited one scored hers.

That is how Fate operates.

The world is not a balance

Where weighing is perfect,

Thanks to the influence of Fate.

09.07.2014

It is El Dorado

Without begging, if you can live, do it.

Without cheating, if you can live, do it.

Without stealing, if you can live, do it.

If all do like that, it is El Dorado

08.07.2014

All done for ego

I spent for my child at the cost of my needs;

Its growth is linked to my capability.

I spent for father at the cost of my time;

His condition is linked to my prestige.

I give donations without any wish;

My name is linked to the society.

I provide good clothes to my home servants.

Their looks are linked to my standard of life.

07.07.2014

To fight the invaders

Brothers or neighbours can fight each other.

They must unite to fight the invaders.

Dogs and rodents guard their territories.

They don’t betray to help the invaders.

07.07.2014

About mistakes

A mistake is not a mistake

Till it is not detected or

Till it is not recognized.

Mistakes thrive at every stage.

07.07.2014

An orphan at the end

Once mother is no more,

Siblings would disown you.

And once wife is no more,

Her kin would disown you.

Motherless and wifeless,

Man would be an orphan.

05.07.2014

Command respect

Money and power can earn you respect.

They are Fortune’s play and not your display.

Virtue and service can earn you respect.

They are your display and cannot be usurped.

05.07.2014

For smooth sailing

Set not a goal; it’d show your inferiority.

Set not to glory; it’d show your inadequacy.

Wait not for God; it’d show your inefficacy.

Then your mind would have a smooth sailing.

01.07.2014

Genuine respect

Money and power earn respect.

Skills and knowledge earn respect.

Virtues and service earn respect.

The first one gathers jealousy.

01.07.2014

Let go of my wrist!

Let go of my wrist! Let go of my wrist!

Someone may notice; someone may report.

Our love is a bud; give time to unfurl.

Our love is a fruit; give time to mature.

Give time and space; eggs take time to hatch.

Let us grow in love, and touch hearts of either,

Before which my wrist need not be grasped.

You are my love and I am your Radha!

Don’t be a Krishna to woo all gopis.

Let go of my wrist! Let go of my wrist!

30.06.2014

Life: comedy or tragedy?

The manner of death, like the time of death,

Is not in one’s hand; one can’t work for it.

A death without sufferings is one’s wish,

Which can’t be accomplished by one’s will.

There is no life style that can ensure it.

No healthy living is a guarantee.

No religious path can take one to it.

The good deeds one did might fail to get it.

Many holy ones had horrible deaths.

Many noble ones had miserable deaths.

Death has been kind to many wicked ones.

Death has been kind to many selfish ones.

A god man can promise you a heaven;

A god man can assure you no rebirth.

He cannot promise you a painless death.

No god man says anything provable.

Sweet deaths and bitter deaths are ruled by Fate.

Fate is nothing but the outcome of fights

The life force wages with the outside forces.

The result determines the nature of death.

A play of comedy ends in happiness.

A play of tragedy ends in sorrow.

One’s manner of death is the determiner

Of comedy or tragedy of life.

29.06.2014

Growth eats faith.

Progress is growth; everyone must grow.

Schools must grow, hospitals must grow;

Business must grow; producers must grow.

To grow means to eat; growth means eating things.

Growth has no concern for things it feeds on.

Cows would grow fat eating grass a lot.

Cows would have no concern for the grass they eat.

Growth in focus, fair means is forgotten.

Growth has eaten faith; growth has eaten peace.

I wish I was born during the Stone Age.

29.06.2014

Hope and fear helpless;

Hopes for the dawn will not hasten the dawn

Fears for the hell will not delay the hell.

Hopes give confidence; fear gives helplessness.

Hopes and fears impact only the body

29.06.2014

The unknown woes of the old

The second childhood is a hell to all.

Even an emperor is not exempted.

They are reduced to be a beggar,

A slave and an orphan by the care takers.

They suffer with no one to appeal to.

They curse themselves,  with no way to slip to.

29.06.2014

Everyone dies, with sex-longing.

Everyone is a sexual pervert.

Only the degree is different.

Otherwise one must be an impotent.

Has ever one died without sexual thirsts?

God and man are half, half responsible.

God made man polygamy and woman

Monogamy and man denied himself

Freedom of sex from chastity on woman.

28.06.2014

The spouse is not a relative.

Mother and father you’re related to.

Daughter and son too you’re related to.

Sisters and brothers are connected to you.

Spouse is a partner, not a relative.

Accordingly your passion is tapped.

28.06.2014

Alpha woman marries Beta man.

Strong and successful people are Alphas.

The next to them are the people, Betas.

The Alphas are ambitious and selfish.

The Betas are content and considerate.

Doors to progress are open to women.

Alphas and Betas of female are on rise.

Male Alphas are unsuccessful hunters.

Women no longer partner male

Alphas.

Beta men are in demand to woman.

She wants a partner not to cling to

But to get support, not to be disturbed  

But helped in her success and joy.

Alphas marrying each other often

Ends in clashes or in unhappiness.

Alpha and Beta combinations work.

Conquering woman is the event of past.

22.06.2014

Live like a wise man.

Macbeth calls life a tale, no more.

Leo Tolstoy calls it a stupid.

To Shakespeare, it is a dream.

Yet to them their lives were precious.

No wise man has ended his life.

No wise man has wasted his life.

No wise man has ignored his life.

Be a wise man to live your life.

20.06.2014

The goal of the life

Germs live a life; worms live a life.

So do reptiles; so do mammals.

Life is given; life is taken.

Birth and death of you, you don’t set.

The one who sets will have a goal

And not the one who is set to act.

What you can do is minimize

Ambitions, desires, risks and hates.

Happiness maximum is a goal.

Suffering minimum is a goal.

No gods can save you a safe death.

Most seers and sages have failed.

Life is dead for want of water,

Food, shelter or helps from danger.

Life is dead due to predators,

Disaster, mishaps or disease.

Raise tolerance; build toughness.

Size your ego; slice your desire.

Humility kills enemies.

Yet is there Fate that defies you.

20.06.2014

No use of weeping

No use of telling anything to one,

Who hears not, listens not and understands not.

You may weep, shout and cry over the dead,

Who hear not, listen not and understand not.

20.06.2014

Give conscience freedom of action.

Consciousness is self-awareness.

Conscience is self-righteousness.

Consciousness gives life a quality.

Conscience gives life a status.

The former cares about the self and safety

And the later, about the ego and name.

Conscience silenced, shamelessness steps in

To usher in wickedness, that mars faith and peace.

19.06.2014

Which is the strength?

To compete with one less able

Can earn you wins but not learning.

To compete with one abler

Can earn you losses but learning.

Learning, not winning, is the strength.

19.06.2014

In a limited view

A hundred yard before or behind

And two generations up or below

Are in our view and perception,

Beyond which we aren’t impacted.

18.06.2014

Music or God?

Songs sung in praise of Lord Krishna lures me.

Songs sung in praise of God Siva lures me.

Christian’s devotional music draws me.

Songs of Allah sung by Haneefa draws me.

I enjoy songs, not attending those gods.

The so called theists also do the same.

17.06.2014

Football and basketball

Let children play football or basketball.

They would experience camaraderie,

Team spirit and togetherness.

They would learn bearing failures and defeats

And abiding by rules and regulation.

They would develop reflex action

Necessary for spontaneous response.

They would develop a steel physique.

Let children waste in football or basketball.

17.06.2014

Be there no discrimination.

A widow is desired;

A divorced woman is desired.

A married woman is desired.

An estranged woman too;

Man has no discrimination.

Then why must a man be disturbed

in case he comes to know

That his wife had had a past?

16.06.2014

The world is not fair.

She said she was raped; he said she consented.

What heard might differ from what have happened.

Reaction can be out of proportion.

The world is not fair in judgment given.

16.06.2014

About giving gifts

Give a gift as a token of love.

Or as an act of benevolence.

Else it is a bribe, given for a favour

Or the wages got for the help done.

16.06.2014

The withered tree stands.

Today was his birthday at his old age.

As usual it must go unnoticed,

Without new clothes and special food

And with no one in any fuss.

A friend of him sent him a birthday cake.

Save kids, no inmates were enthusiastic.

The cake was cut in order to be cut.

He wished he was not supplied the cake.

15.06.2014

Who apes who?

Woman started wearing full trousers,

Hitherto the monopoly of men

To tell him in face that she is equal.

Man didn’t think of wearing the dress,

A symbol of womanliness over years.

 The one who thinks low would want to ape some.

15.06.2014

Killing and raping

Each species is a prey and a predator.

One is a prey and cannot escape it.

A female, this apart, falls as a prey

To its male counterpart in each species.

No consent is sought from the preys targeted.

Killing and raping are for life sustenance.

15.06.2014

My sons’ old age

The elderly people, helpless, dependent,

Are subjected to verbal abuses

And neglects in food and sanitary

At the hand of his sons or their wives.

With no alternate space to escape to,

They suffer with curses, longing for death.

India is benefited from globalization.

How will my sons pass their old age period?

14.06.2014

Football matches

A benevolent king for the first time

Saw a football match that was fiercely fought.

He ordered to give each player a ball

And banned any fight over a ball henceforth.

14.06.2014

No need of repentance

Attend on your ailing parents

As if they don’t live tomorrow.

Who knows what is in store for them.

Then you need have no repentance.

14.06.2014

Petty cases are processed.

A bus conductor was found guilty

And was dismissed from service.

He resold a ticket and pocketed

Rupees twenty.  He contested it.

The trial was without any delay.

The court upheld the dismissal.

The court and the government felt high.

The victim was not a giant.

14.06.2014

Jail is to all old ones

No choice of food or wants in jails.

So is the case of old age homes.

No alternative space for both.

The second is more threatening.

14.06.2014

Be guests at par

As a host, one must receive guests alike.

Motorists, cyclists and pedestrians;

The host must entertain woman likewise;

Royals, the well-known and the common;

As a guest, you must expect the same deal.

Harmony in a gathering exists

Only when equality is in treatment.

Differential treatment disturbs their minds

13.06.2014

Three- way yields peace.

There were two men walking down opposite

On a raised footpath and confronted.

Both stubborn, there will be one way.

One yielding, there will be two ways.

Both yielding, there will be three ways

As each chose to opt out of the way.

13.06.2014

[From the story somewhere heard]

Immediacy and intimacy

A grandchild is not as close as a brother

In term of immediacy.

A brother is not as close as a grandchild

In term of intimacy.

The mark the grand child got is nourishing

More than a crown the brother got.

The trunk and the twigs are well connected

Than two close branches are.

12.06.2014

Fear engulfs the old.

An organ impaired, worry engulfs.

An organ weakened, fear engulfs.

In the old age, people suffer

From pain of fear, not fear of pain.

11.06.2014

Woman is beauty to man.

Woman herself is beauty;

Beauty is a relative term.

Woman without another,

With time and space granted,

Would become a beauty.

11.06.2014

Only for survivors

He knows not that he is dead.

He knows not that he was born,

Or that he has ever lived

Or about his descendants;

No regret for immature death;

No regret for unfinished works

Or for lack of gratitude;

Or for the sufferings his heirs get;

It is all for his survivors.

10.06.2014

No longer precious

I have preserved a letter she wrote me,

Her photo given and a book gifted.

Over decades I cherish them to my heart.

After me they ‘d be mere papers, and thrown.

10.06.2014

Reverence for mother^vr

No reverence is equal to the one

That a woman command from her children

When she has not changed her children’s father

And when she’s not caught in a scandal.

Children hate substitutes for their fathers.

10.06.2014

A doe eyed Bengali beauty

Dasgupta then

 And Sonali Rossellini now

Passed away this week all alone,

At the age of eighty four in Rome.

It was in nineteen fifty seven.

A scandal broke of an affair

Between Sonali ,27

And Roberto Rossellini, 57.

The occurrence was in Bombay.

Blitz and Film India flashed the news:

‘To elope with Roberto Rossellini’

They flew to Paris and then Rome.

She took her second son, one year,

Leaving the other with her husband,

HarisadhanDasgupta, a filmmaker.

A doe eyed Bengal beauty was she.

An aspirant of an actress was she.

She led a humdrum existence,

Playing a second fiddle to her spouse.

Her husband deputed her to assist

Roberto Rossellini, a celebrate

Film maker of Italy, in script writing

In his documentary of India.

Discomfited and yet flattened

By the attention Rossellini lavished,

She, 5’8”, succumbed to his charm

And slipped into her arm and then bed.

She had to desert her family

And elope, with no other way left,

As she had conceived illicitly.

She gave birth to a female child.

All the fifty years while she lived in Rome,

She dressed in saris and looked Indian.

She lived with elegance and grace.

Her estranged husband has later died.

Her second son died and daughter fled,

Having converted to Islam.

Her first husband died in penury.

She died alone, aloof; who knows how?

09.06.2014

God still will save.

He got growth; he got wealth.

He got pride; he got beam.

He owes all these to gods

He visited and worshiped.

He lost growth; he lost wealth;

He lost pride; he got shame.

He owes all these to gods

Who saved him from more falls.

He goes to them as usual.

08.06.2014

A gift is not free.

A gift given to you

Is a seed sown in you.

It must grow up in you

To give back as harvest.

A gift given to you

Is a part of harvest

One has got from the seed

That you have sown in him.

A gift is not a free one.

08.06.2014

Visalakshi

She herself that day called me up,

That she never did hitherto.

She got my number from one,

Being her confident and my friend.

Given to know about my health

Affected by deadly cancer,

She was tempted to contact me

Which she never thought of doing before.

She was at ease as much as she was

During our sojourn of love

Enacted when we were sixteen,

About fifty seven years ago.

I gathered courage that I couldn’t

In earlier opportunities

To confirm the news that was gnawing

At me all fifty seven years.

‘She fell into well from love failure’,

The next day after we were caught

Red handed in her room by mother,

Was the news I heard when I left.

She confirmed it as true in a tone

To show me how deep she was hit

By the failure I inflicted.

Her suicidal attempt put me dry.

She consented to my offer

Of visiting her in her abode,

Which she’s never encouraged so far.

It shows she couldn’t put down her urge.

The spark of love I ignited

In her as a maiden love has stayed

In her for the past forty years

Of family and her widowhood.

She is a widow but I am not.

Even if I were a widower,

We cannot reunite by body,

In front of our descendants.

07.06.2014