Hunger and lust are Cleopatra’s cousins
The more you get,
The greater is your desire.
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his mystic 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
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CLEOPATRA’S COUSINS
Hunger and lust are Cleopatra’s cousins
The more you get,
The greater is your desire.
First cousins of fire.
Which burns without a flame
And dies only when it drags us to the pier
Mind carries the kerosene oil
Keeps sprinkling
On the body
Till the whole city is engulfed
And reduced to ashes
Fire dies only when there is nothing left to burn.
What we eat with our mouths
Or enjoy with our bodies,
Is pretty little
But mind is an amplifier
Which multiplies desire
And sets mankind on fire.
Soul is also a distant cousin of this fire
Driven by passion
Which knows not to expire
Hunger and lust turn body
Just an apparel of desire.
All suffer the pangs, son to son, sire to sire.
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LOGS OF FLESH
The wooden logs even if they are wooden
Carry some good
At least they give away heat
When set on fire
And cook many a dish
Or help in disposing away
Men turned bodies
But when men lose sympathy
And live on everything
And only for themselves
They turn flesh logs,
No more good than wooden
But far less in natural properties
Of sympathetic assimilation.
Objects of nature when break
Piece by piece they return
To the earth
We the high fi call them
Biodegradable
But man, does he go down easily?
His flesh turned plastic, mind inelastic?
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