REVERBERATION—BABARAJ ENGLISH FREE VERSES

APARTHEID!

Apartheid!
You are an abominable Monster!
Crawling with long and vicious tongue!
Avaricious to have an ugly dip
In the ocean of human blood!
Adorning the length and breadth
Of your body with human bones and flesh
Piercing your wretched claws
Into the tender hearts of your victims!
They are not inferior!
They are not superior!
Inferiority and superiority
Not in colour or creed
But in the spotless thoughts and deeds!

URN OF ASH!

Urn of ash! Urn of ash!
Life is but an urn of ash!
Everyone is after mirth
on this damned and dusty earth!
The burning inner desires
Like raging waves of the ocean
Tempt our mind to trod on the evil path!
By hook or crook it leaps to reach the door
Not knowing it is an intangible horizon!
Wisdom, conscience and rectitude
Wither! Wither! And wither!
Violence, avarice and arrogance
Grow with Vigour! And vigour!
For desires transform the human beings onto beasts!
After all life is but an urn of ash!
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STAR WARS!

Oh! my little stars!
I ma happy that you don’t have wars!
How many of you? I can’t count!
How far you are? My eyes can’t measure!
Your twinkling nature I enjoy with rapture!
You don’t have tussles even with your neighbour!
But, you see on this earth!
Quarrels and quarrels as if our birth right!
The so called super powers with atomic innovations
Pave way for annihilation! And human extinction!
You are the symbol of serenity and co existence!
But they name the war as star wars!
What a shame!

INDIA IS ONE

The ice cold breeze of Himalayans
The tender breeze of Pothigai hills
The swinging waves of Indian ocean
Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea
Chime the rhyme and reverberate
India is one and second to none!
Multilingual tongues and multifarious religions
Exist but co exist ! we are one on harmony map!
Despotism and violence we hate!
Democracy and non violence we elate!
Starwars we oppose! Global peace we propose!
Yes! India is one on this earth!
Second to none we sing with mirth!

STREET SINGER

Gandhiism! Socialism! Communism! Despotism!
So many isms are there like so many castes!
We are least bothered!
We want Food, Clothes and Shelter
Our basic amenities and birth rights!
They are at stake at the hands of exploiters!
Oh! Time !the deciding factor!
I am searching for you!
So sings the street singer!
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CRADLE BEYOND THE HORIZON

I want a cradle beyond the Horizon!
To have sound sleep without emotions!
Joy and sorrow: Pain and pleasure
The Nature’s tentacles! Nobody can escape!
When is the grip? When is the slip?
None can say but order of the day!
This mixed feast adorns every table!
But pain and sorrow only clip my table!
The sleepless nights are destined to me alone!
So, I want a cradle beyond the Horizon!
Oh! Sound sleep!
Could you descend on me at least there?

BENDS AND CURVES

Flock of birds fly and form
Bends and curves in the sky!
Fascinate our eye and thoughts!
Flowing rivers glide and form
Bends and curves on the earth!
A beautiful sight shaking hands
With the ocean at last!
Bends and curves towards the mountain top
Lengthen like the combed hair of a damsel!
Win our hearts and we heave many sighs!

DEDUCE

Some where we born! Somehow we grow!
Like lotus flowers yearning for Sun’s grace!
We float and float in the life’s stream
For a meaningful life! Some get and many do not!
But all live on hopes!
For better fertile crops in the near future!
Have we got fertility? Or met with futility?
We should deduce before we die!
We won’t do that!
For we still yearn and yearn!




NEED OF THE HOUR!

Rise like a Sun!
Piercing the obstacles of fanaticism!
Awake like roaring waves
Shattering the rocks of fundamentalism!
Launch your actions
Like powerful tempest
Uprooting the communalism!
Erase the boundaries of
Religions and implant unity and amity!
Pluck the tentacles of
Disparity and confrontation!
Smash the barriers of
Selfish designs under shades of religions!
Dismantle the chains of
Violence and orgy and anarchy!
Honour the humanism
Uphold the concept of nonviolence!
Choose the right path
Reach the goal through peaceful means!
Unite the entire human race
Join hand in hand feel the holy trace!
One voice! One thought! One goal!
Peace! Amity and Harmony
Bound to blossom
Carrying the fragrance
To the whole universe!