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June 06, 2009 02:10 PM EDT --
Thought I'll be free, once the school exams finish. Ten new ropes sprang up.
After my degree...scores of new tentacles sprouted.
My life now is a pond smothered by miles of water hyacinth- even . . .
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March 02, 2009 12:35 PM EST --
Chandni yaad kem naa aave
આજે અમાવસના દિવસે ચાંદની યાદ કેમ નાઆવે
બળબળતા બપોરના ત્રાસમાં રાતની યાદ કેમ ના આવે
લાગણીઓના નિશબ્દ વાવાઝોડાના ઝપાટા માં
આંખો આંખો માં કરેલ વાતો યાદ કેમ ના આવે
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February 14, 2009 02:20 PM EST --
Your eyes sparkled with an unmistakable gleam
across a roomful of heads swaying gently to my words
your smile like an unspoken hint hovered between
exapnses of my fevered imagination . . .
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January 22, 2009 01:37 PM EST --
A slim tall figure gracefully slid into view
Poise of an athlete, elegance of a dancer
My senses chorused it, it had to be you,
Lithe lissome, a swan not a prancer.
A strong handshake, you gazed . . .
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January 02, 2009 01:59 PM EST --
The idle query, will the world end
in fire or ice, failed
to rivet my attention.
Human actions can be explained
by fear or hunger -now that's food for thought.
Fear of reprisal, brought . . .
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December 21, 2008 10:44 PM EST --
Je pee rahyan chhe ene madirano khap hashe,
peeta nahi je, ene tamari talap hashe.
Jene kahe chhe roop, juvaanino jap hashe,
jene kahe chhe prem, hrudaynun e tap hashe.
Mein sambhalyun chhe mara . . .
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November 17, 2008 08:47 PM EST --
There were angels in the morning
and actors playing proscribed roles
and musicians sweating for the show down,
teacher with stones in their mouths,
and followers who converged like pups
their . . .
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October 22, 2008 10:07 PM EDT --
How can you remain white-knuckled,
all tense and tight-fisted in . . .
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August 31, 2008 03:29 PM EDT --
An original poem in Gujarati with English transcreation:
Fakir chhoon, bhogio saathe naa pan phaave
rasik chhoon, jogio saathe naa pan phaave,
maya ne bhram na gunchvada maan,
amir chhoon, lobhio . . .
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July 07, 2008 05:32 AM EDT --
When I was waiting for a bus to take me from Baroda to Jetpur near Junagadh some years back, I was busy talking to a friend. We decided to have a cup of tea to kill time. I insisted on paying, . . .
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June 09, 2008 01:23 PM EDT --
Joy like naive boy
remains low-key.
Troubles like mercenaries
yell stab and shoot free.
(c) Max Babi
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May 16, 2008 03:26 AM EDT --
The vineyards after the harvest
sleep like comatose mothers.
The palm trees sway and dance
with their minds elsewhere.
Only the weeds due now for a
total genocide, celebrate life in
gay . . .
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May 10, 2008 10:23 AM EDT --
An abandoned truck
stood like a three-legged fossil
for days, disrupting the smooth
slither of brainless traffic.
Tonight I saw,
the monument to helplessness
had slunk away on cat-feet, . . .
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April 20, 2008 05:49 AM EDT --
As I briskly walked to the office
I saw a celestially red flower with
a magical turmeric yellow stalk
tapering off into a dull white,
stuck on to the road.
Some nameless . . .
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April 15, 2008 04:27 AM EDT --
I want to stuff you
with my words -
limpid and floppy.
Regurgitated
they'll emerge,
frisky, electric and bounding.
(c) Max Babi
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April 11, 2008 03:04 AM EDT --
Another recent poem originally written by me in Urdu :
Yeh raaz poshida hai.
Tum ek zaayka thi(n), ek maheen khushboo
ya ek thandi raatke khwaab mein
mehsoos honewali surajki kiran. . . .
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April 01, 2008 02:21 PM EDT --
Here's another Gujarati poem I wrote recently
Satsangno bhukhmaro vethyo chhe kyarek?
Khadbadti tha-un tha-un karti shabdo ané
lagnioni ulti rokye rakhi chhe varsho sudhi?
Padchhayana . . .
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March 09, 2008 04:49 AM EDT --
Dreams we experience at night
But daydreams we also enjoy
Nightmares invade our dreamscapes
With their merciless idiocy now and then
Like a rampaging army with . . .
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March 03, 2008 02:08 PM EST --
Triloka Mandala
The Three Worlds
Padma is the lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera, perfection of beauty, associated with Deities and the chakras, especially the 1,000-petaled sahasrara. . . .
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February 22, 2008 12:55 AM EST --
Original in Urdu :
Pauda ek lagaya tha,
baghké banjarsé kauné mein-
ek billaski jaanko, badé chaavsé
qatra-ba-qatra zindagi pilayi thi :
kambakht jeeta . . .
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