Hazel eyed silence

Hazel Eyed Silence

She looked into my mind

Peace, gentle Maenad

The Adrishyas are nigh

Swarnakavach has risen

In the dusty mounds of night

Soft Apocrypha shakes her mane slightly

Urvashi dances again.

And....

A man walks past

In tattered Dhoti-Kurta

A red truck stands and growls

Green flakes of silence flow.

The Silent Ones

They smile; they grin
Wide laughs, wild laughs
Arcane powers of innocent eyes
Deranged genius, my child
Deranged – totally, utterly wild

Hauntingly he gazes
And abruptly laughs his short bark
Is that allowed?
Ah yes ……… next patient, please

This one’s all ears
Large brown tufts of curly hair
The bald ones enviously glance
Till they see his shining pate

Abstract, surreal he tries to be
The sudden crackle of Chhaunka of Ghee
The soft effusing essence
The parched earth – a droplet of rain

Suddenly, the dam breaks
Breaks minds, broken minds
Subtlety it finds
Silence

The sound of art
Monologues, Dialogues, Dionysian riotous orgies
All enveloped in silence
Dissonance
All Dissolve

The War

The bomb-shells roaring overhead

Nixon-Churchill playing dice

Another female disrobed

Divine weapons clash in the sky

Politics, covert, honour, death

Manipulated tools move in silence

Fools they are

Tools of a lost cause

The foolish king, the foolish father

A cunning politician

Live transmission of ancient TV

Fires erupt in Titanomachia

Shuddering silence – Gaia cries

Throws up umbilical noose

Her daughter climbs down

Her sons are becoming men

Badly thrashed, the place runs awry

Pleading eyes silenced with guns

20 Years passed – dazed horror of her eyes

We change the channels – and forget

The story is now censored

The rape of Lucrece

History we manipulated

The embers glow again