Anandam : Three poems

Lord’s Kingdom

O Lord! take me in Thy heart

Let me tarry in Thy kingdom

Thy kingdom is bliss

Where a snake is harmless like grass

And a tiger is lovelier than a rose

Fear takes on wings.

There are no “entry forbidden” in Thy kingdom

There is no entry by gate passes.

And those in front and those behind

do not push each other

There is no race there is no colour,

there No distinction is no bar,

There are no sentries, No protocoal.

No search, No wariants.

-Avadhutika Ananda Bharati

1972 Parable

The creatures of darkness

Think they have won

And carried the Sun

To the darkest cave

Forces of ignorance and superstition feel

they have blotted out the Sun.

They sing, they rejoice

And shout with one voice

“Foul is fair, wrong is right

Mankind will do without light !”

These haughty rulers

These ignorant forces

Do not know-

That falsehood can never triumph

Although lies may explode like a bomb

Creating huge craters

To the delight of traitors

To mankind Truth will triumph

And the sun will be out

Forcing the creatures of darkness

To crawl back to their homes underground

-Acharya Nityesh

Youth Is A Dynomo

Now Boys !

From Bootleggers to bootlickers

The country is infested with blood suckers

Listen Boys!

A man dies of hunger on the road

You look in vain in the newspaper

Weather is fine for tomorrow

With air-conditioned seminar on hunger

A man dies a second time

It is reported in an obscure corner

There is a little ripple

And that’s all A high powered enquiry

Verdict All said and done,

there is nothing Wrong with the State.

Now Boys!

All this pop corn culture

Is manufactured by greed’s vulture

To consume youth’s energy

Which is a dynamo.

-KARNAL

Source: Education & Culture, 1974