HAVING   BEEN   HAPPY


Having been happy in touching metallic skies

Or fingering the moon for its dusty overlay

Having been happy in moving orbs and the shores

Or spreading the sunshine to the burrowed moles.



 Watching a lonely planet amid reluctant universe

Communications with eyelids in retinues of mankind

Having been happy in sweeping the volcanic dust

From a cold planet cast under the Brahma's curse.



Having been happy in holding that repose

Which contained hidden geometry of the universe

Having been happy in consoling the suppressed cries

Of the shoring waves under the moonlit skies.

The Spring
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LA   MANCHA.



Bereft of the poetry of his soul

The knight took refuge in the house of death

Into darkness he went with his mind crushed

Wandering lust gone and with his own trust.



 The enchanter gone

And disenchantment entered

And the land of La Mancha

Slowly turned to dust & cinders.



Talisman of allurements or of feasts

Chimeras of windmills or of fabulous beasts

Golden liquors and the shining decanters

Tales of poets sorcerers and of wizards

Adieu to stillness and the romance

Tryst and other typographical stance.



 His merry madness had to go

And sanguine sanity had to be constructed

Don Quixote had to be demolished

And Alfonso had to be resurrected.



Alas! there is no poetry left now

In the lands of the Al Toboso

And no veils of Dulcinea now accrues

Across the knight of the mournful rue.




Claws of Moon
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SPACES   OF   HEART



Neither wreck of hope nor promises fulfilled

Neither love nor torture nor mutability

Nor hooking of oneself ego'd to oneself

Or to the world for its swaggering applause.



 Spaces of heart

Abundance of access

Numbers & squares

Inscrutability & recess

Receiving & receding

Angels of high repute

All rallying around

To accommodate in art

The spaces of heart

An abundance of access

Numbers & squares

Inscrutability & recess.




Reverie
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©2002 Durlabh Singh

email: durlabh@durlabh441.freeserve.co.uk