The time has changed
Chapati has taken over
A new form
Pizza.
Jernail S. Anand, an eminent poet from India, shares his poetry
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, based in Chandigarh, is an Indian poet and scholar credited with 170 plus books of English literature, philosophy and spirituality. He won great Serbian Award Charter of Morava and his name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He was honored with Seneca Award LAUDIS CHARTA by Academy of Arts & Philosophical Sciences, Bari, Italy 2024. He is Founder President of the International Academy of Ethics and conferred Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by University of Engineering & Management, (UEM) Jaipur. Email anandjs55@yahoo.com
Pizza Times
The time has changed
Chapati has taken over
A new form
Pizza.
Clothes meant to cover
The body
In Pizza times
Are used to show off curves.
The real suffers anonymity
What glows on the
Silver screen
Are superficial heroes
Entertainment was five percent
But in Pizza times
A wild explosion from five
To ninety five.
People damn bored stuff
Want muscular entertainment
Horror, murder, spies
Pizza Times.
Tolstoy, Gorky, Eliot
Shakespeare,
And Italian delicacies,
Pour them on my Pizza.
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THE NEUTRAL VISION
It is important to cultivate
Neutrality in one’s actions
Which comes from
A sense of balance
And impartiality of thought
When times change,
They change our patterns of thought
And society creates those paradigms
Which are necessary to sustain
The momentum of change
Our march is into the future
Not into the past
Rather than making
It a smooth harmonious glide
We cause a lot of friction
We who have seen past
Which was good or bad want to impose
Those paradigms which have
Outlived their utility.
And do not support our movement
Olden times too were modern as compared to
Their preceding times
We left so many things
And embraced the new,
Even to the embarrassment of our elders.
It is a never ending process
Our toys, our joys
Our food have changed
The greatest change is we have
Discarded our sensitivity for right and wrong
Books in the libraries are silent
Spectators of societal neglect
Are they really irrelevant?
If they were relevant
They won’t be in lying dead on shelves
Knowledge which was considered
The Jnana yoga,
Has been hacked by AI
We have kidnapped wisdom
The new nameplate reads Artificial Wisdom.
We need to balance the past
And the future,
And decide the present
It is all in a delicate balance
Looking back can lead to another Fall.
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