If a past is grey and circumstances seem black,
A future of white can well be distilled,
If the being fills with light.
(Haiku adapted, 2007)
Proof of Rock:
Let us go then all of us,
As morning light glows in the eastern sky,
Cleaning blood from psychiatric stables,
Winnowing in biblical fables,
Baptist’s prophecy,
Jordan anointed Superstar ministry.
(In honorarium, 2007)
Quitipin Quirk:
It is not in the realms of previous psychotic speeds that are dared,
Nor primordial fears of snakes and other psychic allusions not to be shared,
But rather in pharmaceutical interventions that now ensnare,
That the being is slowed down and judgment impaired.
(NIMHANS UNIT II )
Right and / Wrong:
Right action for wrong,
Rights the wrong,
With ease, in easy song.
Truth’s own sight
Gives the mite a mite,
Beckons the beacon’s
Blinding beam of light,
Compelling in its mighty might.
(The writer has a Masters in Adult Education from Jamia Millia Islamia. She has many years of teaching experience at the school level as well as ten years of experience in the book publishing industry. Her work has been published in newspapers and a few syllabus books as well. Lakshmi has retired and now lives in Hyderabad.)
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