Spring Time (Haiku)

Image source: Internet

On the wings of spring 
Cuckoo —   
Flue away  


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Circus (Marathi Poem)

Dombari are a caste of acrobats in Indian Society

Circus

From South Pole
To North Pole
Life —
A tightrope walk
. . .

Dombari are a caste of acrobats in Indian Society. In the democratic India’s changing economy, they are now vanishing: No rehabilitation, No education. Who cares?

They are mentioned in Siddhartha Jataka that date back to 3rd Century B.C. Would they ever reach Olympics, or vanish?

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Rain! Rain! Come again! - Six Painted Poems

Rain! Rain! Come again! - Six Painted Poems (with original in Marathi)

By Remigius de Souza

Iamage - 1

ढग भारावलेला
काळाभोर जडावलेला
भरकटे पुढे —

अव्हेरलेली भुई.

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Image - 2

काळा मेघ ओथंबलेला
करी उपड्या सरी —
पुनरूत्थान.

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Image - 4

बी बियाण्यांची पेरी
हुकलेल्या सरी
थेंब थेंब ठिबके झरी
कृष्ण पक्षीं चंद्रकोर
आशा अधांतरी
सरकणाऱ्या मेघांवर.
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Image -4

पावसाच्या येती सरी
पुनर्युवीत करिती ज्योती
वनराईच्या सदोदीत
झरे पाझरती खोलवरी
तृप्त होती बाळे तान्ही
धरतरीच्या अंगावरी.
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Image - 5

पांढरा ढग पांघरे
आकर्षक रंग —
कोरडा.
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Image - 6

वानसे मूक भाषी
भरुनी काढिती
अनेकपरी माझ्या क्षती.
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1. These poems are taken from the original on ARCHETYPES INDIA, published on 16 May 2011. Read More >>

2. Translated from original Marathi poems: मेघमल्हार: १-५ : येरे येरे पावसा! शेताकरयाच्या यातना आणि  उल्हास In this post 6th poem is added.
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Lotus

Mud-Pond
conceived seed —
means and end
unified.

[Remigius de Souza | Mumbai | Tue 03-05-2011]
Note: Image source: Internet
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Feast (Urban Haiku)

Bamboo forest blooms
Feast for rats  —  
And the hungry

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Love on Internet (Urban Haiku)

'True' love on Internet  
Cactus laughs at  
Mirage  

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Traffic jam! (Urban Haiku)

Traffic jam!
Gasoline down!
Batteries down!
Now? —
Down to Earth.


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Ego (Urban Haiku)

Ego flights raise
Waves
Of repulsion. 

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Charity (Urban Haiku)

Oh! Charity,
Sprinkle some
Wine drops —  
For the dying…

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Traffic rulebook - Urban Haiku

Traffic rulebook:
Respect
White cane —    
Blind street furniture 

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Rain! Rain! Come again -5

Farmers’ agonies and ecstasy: sixtytwo years passed since Independence but there seems no end to farmers’ miseries

White cloud takes
charming colours –
Does not rain.

(written: 1999-2000)
(White clouds are like promises by the politicians.)

The educated elite may believe the farmers work only for four months and idle away rest of the year. Even the experts like Amartya Sen may not be an exception. Then what about the government and the bureaucrats, market and the industrial society of the First World?

More than Nature and natural calamities, it is the governments and bureaucracy, market and industrial society, by their lopsided priorities of development and progress, inflict harm on them; they are the real cause for their agonies.

There is much to learn for the governments, policymakers and the experts from the farmers: See "Watering the farms: Learning fro the people".

Remigius de Souza
August 15, 2009

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Rain! Rain! Come again - 2

Cloud dark and heavy
Pours showers —
Resurgence.

(Written: 1999-2009)

Farmers’ art is in the domain of reality unlike painting, photography, words etc that create “virtual reality”. Farmers work on a canvas of a piece of land – small or big – with colours (!) of Elements from Nature: Prithvi, Apa, Tej, Vayu and Aakash (Earth, Water, Energy (Heat and Light), Air and Space); though consciously but never verbose about it.

Farmers are conversant with every nook and corner of their farms, and health of their plants.

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Rain! Rain! Come again -1

Rain! Rain! Come again -1: Farmers' agony and ecstasy

Cloud is full
Dark and heavy
Drifting on —
Condemned land.

(Written: 1999-2000)

Very few may believe that farmers are artists; many don't even know.
Among all occupations, professions and vocations, farmers' vocation works at very high risks.
Their living is caught up in the cycles of agony and ecstasy throughout their life.

Remigius de Souza

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An Eyesore

The lowest of the lowly
Spring up in the blind eye
Of the metropolis of gold
– a capillary action.

Mumbai [03-09-03]


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