Even when and where I think or thought
I am not being read
I am being read
I am spread out in atoms all over the world wide web
This is the brave new world, where I am particles discrete

In Poetry's Fist

Poetry cannot be weighed
measured
judged,certified
rewarded, awarded
can only be read
and pushed to jump off the ledge and fly
like a cat with a ball of twine
pushing it back and forth
back and forth
waiting for it to unwind
fully
Those that do you play with more
while the ones that have knots in it
make you wave your tail at it angrily
Poetry is that ball of twine
Different colours every time
I read and read hungrily
I read to slake my thirst with it
hunger for life
thirst for life
lust for life
it never dies
it lives
it grows
Poems, poets and poetry
Something more must be in store
around the corner
more balls of twine
great balls of fire
and balls of thunder
Poetry rains and falls on my face
like 
an orgy
unslaked
wet, ache
Poetry cannot be judged but some
remain
and some fall away
subjective and relative
like quantum
but absolute in having me in its grip and sway
Am I the dreamer
or the dream,
am I the keeper 
or is it the keep?
Am I the snake or the charmer of venom?
Do I draw out its blood and spit to save its life?
Am I the man rising and thrusting into each poem?
I can never have enough of it
Poetry. So I make everyone write it.
Especially the soft birds of the days
They know its secrets, they know its place
They know how it plays out
its sports and games
They know its grace
They know its hands make gestures lovely
Mudras of eternity
They know its hips are languorous and it buttocks sway savvily
They know the pots it carries on its heads
And no drop of water is spilt on the way 
They are its music makers
Dreamers of dreams
They are its songs
They are the ones each day I frame
to make them be found guilty so they can never escape
Poetry is the answer to the questions
Makes me a gaoler
and me, the forever jailed.

Ten Reasons why You should Vote for the Congress starting April 11th, to rule from the centre with its allies for a better future for India in the coming five years.

1. Congress knows the main problem in India is eliminating poverty and plans to address it.

2. The Congress encourages trilingualism of mother-tongue/ English/Hindi which is better for us globally than the one of Hindi/Sanskrit and truer to our diverse unity.

3. The Congress has young leaders in Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, and Sachin Pilot and others in the wings like Hardik Patel supporting them backed by experienced war horses like Manmohan Singh, Shashi Tharoor, Raghuram Rajan the economist, Scindia, and Sonia Gandhi, and new people like the Shatrughan Sinha family to counter the BJP who only has old war horses, whom people are now totally fed up with, like Modi, Shah, Jaitley.

4. The names I mentioned at the top rung show evidently that the Congress is multi-religious and multi-caste, still, though upper class, whereas the BJP is only one religion and upper caste based, and at the same time also upper class.

5. While corruption was the main charge against the Congress, it is now proved that BJP is as corrupt, the only difference being Congress allowed all to be corrupt, being weak, but BJP allows corruption only among its own ranks and lets others feel the heat. Both are wrong approaches, but one is not better than the other.

6. The Congress eschews violence, whereas the BJP and its satelllites like the RSS espouse and support it. The former trend is any day preferable.

7. The rupee has crumbled during the rule of the BJP showing that economically it could not deliver.

8. The Congress stands for unity in diversity but the BJP stands for uniformity at the cost of diversity and names as seditious, meaninglessly, those who speak against this kind of uniformity by calling a spade a spade, i.e.; as false unity.

9. All the issues raised by BJP like Pakistan, corruption, terror, infiltration of refugees,, Ram mandir, are all issues - except for corruption - that has no relevance to the ordinary, daily lives of most common people in India, whereas the ones being raised by Rahul like poverty alleviation, unemployment or underemployment, and women's reservation or help for farmers now have pressing relevance.

10. Democracy is based on plurality or at least having a binary system of party politics which makes it imperative that Congress be voted back this time so that democracy is upheld and not emotional appeals to only one third of Indians in the North alone, in the name of religion and hate, and division on such lines which only affect a few parts of North India and not the rest of India. To defeat BJP now, it is not enough to vote against them or to not vote but to vote for Congress presently as each vote counts and a vote for Congress is also a vote against BJP and a vote not wasted.

© Koshy AV

Dr Koshy AV is the author of six books and an established literary critic and theoretician of repute. He is presently teaching English literature in Saudi Arabia and is also an editor and compiler and anthologist in the fields of fiction and poetry wherein he has nine more books to his credit. He also works in the field of autism.

I do not know what I deserve.
But I don't seem to have got it -
Whatever it is!

I am ready to let go of nothing
and no one.
My hunger for love knows no limits.

If I gave myself a gift
it would be nothing less than
- the gentlest gift -
the Nobel
for what I am capable of writing which has not yet showed up on paper

The brightest song I, my body, ever held
was thrice, my new-born children
but first, my wife who birthed them

If I gifted myself joy
I would also gift you, my love, the moon
but only if you said I am your universe
could or would I give you the moon
and
everything else which are all in it
including this gift which given alone can be received multiplied
the gift of my love for 'thee'
for free
for all time, y' see.

©Koshy AV

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