Love is an act of divinity
Loving does not make you loose character,
But hating does.
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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LUST STORM
(Those who don’t love and spread hatred, doubt, distrust, and confusion in nature’s ranks are the loose characters of this cosmic community)
Anyone who is easy of virtue
Is called characterless.
Character stands for the natural behaviour
Of an object, living non-living
And when it acts contrary,
We can call it characterlessness.
Love is the original characteristic of life.
Between Adam and Eve
No other emotion existed till Satan
Planted love for the
Forbidden fruit which changed
The essential character of humanity.
Men started playing with this emotion
And all that happened
Lacked humanistic virtues
And the divine character
Which made humans
A part of nature, the godly empire.
Fruits when stopped from ripening
Or animals when
Forced to stay indoors
Do not lose their essential character,
Rather, they carry on
Irrespective of human infringements
But human society over time
Evolved a value system
Which characterized humanity
When we trespass its boundaries
And violate morality
We are dubbed characterless.
Those who indulge in relationships
Society does not approve,
We call them characterless
But we are very tolerant
Towards those who indulge
In indecent and unbecoming behaviour
Those who spread the dictum of hatred,
Elope with millions, and play
With human passions,
Belie hopes
And dwindle the human stuff
Are they not deviants lacking essential human character?
Love is an act of divinity
Loving does not make you loose character,
But hating does.
All those who hate violate
The divine command and
The essential character of human kind.
Cheating, deceit, forgery,
Lies, promises,
And showing impossible dreams
Fall into the category
Of characterless behaviour
And we are in the midst of this rising lust storm.
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OZYMANDIAS II: THE LIFELESS MASS
(With an apology to Shelley)
I put his broken visage
Back on his neck
And joined his legs back
Till now he was Shelley-shocked
I made him comfortable
“How come? Ozymandias
Was it angry wind and time
Or some crazy wish
Which engineered your fall?
Tears appeared in the stony eyes
A lump in his throat
He said:
I destroyed myself
Passion is an attraction between
Two things that stand apart
If they become one,
The passion disappears
Leaving behind a lifeless mass.
Ozymandias continued:
Passion is a contrivance
When catches fire
It gives our bright sparks
And burns at full speed
Only to expend itself fast
The magic flies
Leaving behind ashes
Which turn cold in no time.
Here I spread like a lifeless mass
It was my passion
That brought me down
I had dreams and passions
Which got the better
Of my judgement
And I lost
My balance which
Informs this universe.
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