Poetry
Poetry
RECRUITMENT OF A HEART
by
Pranav S. Joshi
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/lifecageint/
The poem is published in a poetry volume, "Collected Whispers", shown below.
Behind a cultural cage, a bleeding gaze goes on
dancing in processed, liquid light that can't be seen,
can't be described using colours of voices and questions
in a furniture-memory that remain unshared
in the purity of principles if, if it really exists in
uncluttered clays and sticks
of love and unemitted smiles.
A heart is available for recruitment
beating an empty muscle, educated and caged
by painted, imagined eyes borrowed from an invalid
social head-hunter, camouflaged, skilled, wanting
to shore up infrastructure of other hearts, to shake
the dreams and the bars
to awaken a counsellor of inner-grief.
Designers of diversity, whispering to an unfinished
poem that begins, that ends in the recruitment of heart
sequestering secrets from a burning landscape
fast spreading across the cages of whites, the
blacks, the reds, the yellows, the browns, the dead.
Copyright ©2009 Pranav S. Joshi
Following are some other poems from my poetry collection. Hope you'll enjoy reading them.
Relax and have a go!
- Pranav Joshi
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A HOME WAITING
Empty walls, empty wallet and empty heart
Stale air, scurrying cockroaches and feasting lizards
The home of an odd-job cleaner
Cleansed of emotions
Covered in caustic circumstances
Waiting for the world to stop throwing dirt and disrespect.
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THE COMPLAINT
Grief delivered from a wheel of an ice-cream truck
His leg, covered in blood, bandages and a week of hospital smell
Not with the ice-cream
The other leg — an empty space, an ingot with an irregular cusp
Welcomed by a wobbly parrot
Complaining about its broken leg.
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WHEN?
The human atoms
Beating to balance the demands of life
In the air bruised by the knives of expectations
In the City of Possibilities
Originating —
From the malls of the Orchard Road
From the pictures of the exotic destinations
From the pages of the fashion magazines
From the roars of the Continental cars
From the spoken and unspoken tales of the millionaires —
Leaping across the boundaries of Singlish and English
Looking beyond the calls of the responsibilities
Listening to the haves and haves-not
Searching for a place with a breeze in the landscape
Seeking pleasures in meeting readers, poets and writers
Until the day they will extinguish itself
And extinguish their dreams.
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WHISPERING ALOUD
A poem about the shoreline at Sentosa Island, Singapore, published on the website of http://www.writeforbucks.com