sathya narayana - SENRYU COLLECTION

On August fifteenth
He got married
Lost independence

On January twenty sixth
He signed with tears
His wife’s constitution

(August fifteenth is the Indian Independence day and January twenty sixth, Indian Republic day from which date the Indian constitution came into force)

God shaped faces
Man preferred
Masks

My office is there
Amidst herbs, shrubs, trees and cuckoos
My music school too

“Oho”, shouted a haiku poet
“Oho”, echoed the mountains
He grumbled “Anthropomorphism”


A poet's wife
his first audience
first victim

rolling-pin...
useful to roll rotis and
control husbands

amnesia patient
used to go to neighbour’s house
even after treatment

night long cruise
in trance ship via dream islands
till dawn of rality

Overloaded bus
Moves like a pregnant woman
Abortion feared

Road rollers on move
Birds and farmers search
For new homes

In concrete jungles
Cows feed on
Wall posters

A hobo sleeping
Under leaky sky dome
Season-proof

Small rain
Then Sun and a rainbow
Dash farmers’ hopes

sathya narayana

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