Meenas PoemsIt is been a while
I have written with style.
I read about the Nile
in my file.
It is a beautiful river
Flows with not a quiver
sometimes it rises up in a whiz
most times it is a bliss.
Long ago rivers and their estuaries
were seats of civilisation
became the hub of transactions
and places of education.
The Nie valley grew
around its waters blue
coaxed the nomads to settle
who started the cycle of planting
and harvest.
I am not in the scene.
I am away from the event
both in mind and body.
I receive calls day in and day out.
The callers talk of the disastrous event.
I tell them that I was never involved.
I am disturbed by such calls.
My jaws pain and my ears ache.
What did I commit?.
The man sleeps
being one of self-enforced
an act of cowardice.
The man wakes up
after causing a chaos
a status of ease.
Society condemns him.
His family makes him a hero.
An irony beneath.
A child’s smile
Is worth a million
Soothens the heart
Softens the feel
To see it is itself
A reward.
A drama enacted with a precision
Expected to bring a windfall
Ended in a tragedy.
Strange are the ways of God.
It is a call
being one tall
called as Brexit.
U.K is out of it
Scotland wants it
North Ireland wishes it.
A piquant situation
A referendum’s insinuation
Brexit is certain.
Straight I go.
Turn not left or right
Focused I am.
Away from all
Away from the extended family
Away for good.
Soga is a small timer
Sana is even smaller.
A husband and a wife
one feigns, the other is vain.
They know not etiquette.
A couple of days back
Soga was in the thick of a tussle.
He was at the helm of a function,
the event took an ugly turn
leading to a lot of unpleasantness.
Insensitive to the situation,
Sana paraded up and down
dressed in expensive clothes
wearing bright and gaudy jewels.
Soga entered the fray
talked with much audacity.
His words “I wallow in wealth”
drew much angst.
He was jeered
His connections with local thugs
proved catastrophic.
The gathered grew restless
manhandled him.
A chain of untoward incidents followed.
He suffered ignominy and financial loss.
Ethics go to make a man.
Elegance frames a woman.
Sensibility extends sobriety.
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Meenas Poems 