Poem 2
From Book-II: the Sequence “Siddharth”

 

(My audio version of this poem is available in the Mad Hatters' Review --online issue 8, July 2007)

 

Distortions

New smooth roads now overlay
the long passages of boulders and crevices.

It is all good, so good,
that time is lost
in the process of finding the new goodness
of short-cuts.

A four-wheeled ten-minute drive to Bala Quila
is all set to give
a new balance to the process of history.

It is a Marxist allegory—
this short-cut to one thousand year old fort;
it is an equation of new economies;
it defines the feats of manhood and history-defying manhood.

This balancing appears to be so easy—
as we are told that there are many differential formulas
made available to us by mathematicians
for reductions.

 

Arun Gaur

 

Osian, Rajasthan, Bird of Prey

 

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