premji premji - (064) Buddha Smiles!

Once
Buddha smiled
looking at
a Rose flower,
then Zen born:
the soul of peace!

Through cable
Mrs. Indira Gandhi
got a short message:
'The Buddha is smiling! '
Still I can see
that nuclear smile of
dark pride
on her face!
Now Buddha smiles
again and again!

Dear Buddha,
the intense moonlight
on Buddha-poornima -
is it a mushroom cloud
envelope your
darkened soul?
(So disheartened,
I know:
never will the resonance of
your silent screams
from those craters
fall in their ears!)

Pity!
The wrath of power
even behind
a poet's* veil!

14.05.98
AB Vajpayee, former prime minister of India, a poet himself!

premji premji

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