Gandhi’s Talisman
It enlightens
Within and without
By lighting up
The truth candle within
When we hold
The candle out
We see shadows
Of ego and doubt
In heavenly meadows.
When your self
And its egoistic clouts
Becomes too much
When you have doubts
About your inherent divinity
And truthful human breast
Apply the following test
Gandhi asked
Himself and others
Recall the face
Of the poorest
And the weakest
Of the human race
Gandhi said
Ask yourself
The step
You contemplate
To take
Will that help
That last man in line
Will your step
Bring him some sunshine
If like Gandhi
Every leader of man
Become kind and sane
Every cowboy gaucho
And corporate honcho
Promise to be divine
To let some sunshine
For my forgotten brother
Waiting for ages in line
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The Poet
Poet is a wordsmith,
Forging words
With civility
And positivity
Enhancing the word potency
He decorates
Words with imagery
Imagery advocates
It provocates
Eye of audience
What to see
In the scenario
Imagery resources
If ambiguous
And superfluous
May talk of moon
With all its romance
But miss the target
Always remain
A matter of chance
Today too much word
Crowding the humanity
It has already reached
Where all is garbled
To the point of singularity
The scientific imagery
Creates very faithful
A scenario
Almost truthful reality
Negative news feed
Creates almost false lead
Media advocates
For Corporate greed
Today task of a Poet
Remains unchanged
With imagery of positivity
Poet must incorporate
Scientific imagery
To wipe off the negativity
And already overburdened
Audio visual word singularity.
©Bhagirath Choudhary
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July 17, 2019
UBUNTU
I am
Because we are
And my dear you
Says Ubuntu !
I came
All innocent
Without past lament
As a moon crescent
I came
With creative courage
To light up earth
Her days and nights
With joy and mirth
I came to share
All the heavenly ware
How could I ?
Be happy
When all others
My sisters and brothers
Treading hungry and sad
Did I come ?
To compete
With others
My sisters and brothers
Denying them
Without shame
Mother Earth’s ware
Coveting their legitimate share
Hadn’t been
Gifts unseen
Bestowed and given
Like benevolent bacteria hidden
Energy ATM in my every body cell
Where pious Mitochondria dwell
As cosmic cooperation warriors
Truly as cosmic goodness carriers.
I am a cosmic cooperative
I am a cosmic narrative
Born of evolutionary hope and charity
O, Ubuntu
Let me discover anew my humanity.
©Bhagirath Choudhary
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November 04, 2019
Biography: Bhagirath Choudhary
He is an internationally acknowledged poet, writer, philanthropist, social activist, humanist, global activist for responsible parenthood, universal empathy, human solidarity, responsible earth citizenship, world peace and environment activist based in New Delhi, India.
He is founder of Global literary Society with 9415+ members in 102 countries around the world for motivating world literary fraternity to create a global wave of Positive Literature.
He has received many international awards like “The World Icon of Peace” 2018
“The „Ambassador of Humanity“ for 2019 HPAW, West Africa.
Vivekananda international Peace Award year 2019 by IHACEL, Mahatma Gandhi award for 2019 for promotion of Gandhian values through literary creativity for a nonviolent world by World Union of Poets (WUP), Italy and Master of Metaphor award by World Poetry Conference 2019.
Special Award of International Poet for World Peace, Tolerance and Common Co-operation 2020 by European Institute of Roma Studies, Belgrade
„Laurel de Poet“ award by Indo -Universe Voice of Poetry 2020,
Bhagirath Choudhary
New Delhi, India
kanwarpura52@gmail.com
1 Comments
Good Poem
Congratulations.