MERCY  ! MERCY!
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Lock in,lock up, lock out,
WAKE UP,WAKE UP!
Wake up to the call of misery
Echoing in homes  barren of  food,
Morbid silence  of desert-like roads,
MERCY! MERCY! MERCY!

Hear you not,
Cold  footsteps of death
Shadowing   all corners,  thresholds-
Cosy and safe,till yesterdawn?

Flapping of wings  slowing,
Chirpings  and laughter draining,
Sunshine, moonbeam.starlight  ebbing,
Whisper  once,I beg you, Only once,
Which our  LIGHT
For unlocking the doors. . . . . .
Choking  our world so-
MERCY! MERCY!  OH  MERCY!
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Nuggehalli Pankaja

Clouds brooding. . . Shadows darkening,
Leaves  still, breeze stiff,
Whence comes this odour
Blinding life and light?

Whispers  in the air,
Hideous. . . gruesome,
Surrounding - - surroundings,
Suffocating. with steps stealthy!

“Wherefore come you?”-I shriek,
“From  planet above”- It hisses,
“  To unearth you,oh  BHOOLOKANIVASI ,
Jealous of your achievements. . . . .

“CORONA   is my name,
Forget not!
Flee not  coward!
Tell me, can you hide
Dare you hide,
Anywhere-
And where?
From me, the ALL_POWERFUL  CORONA

“Ha ha.ha. .. . ”watch awhile you accursed!
Gloat  not so soon!
Our doctors and scientists
At your throat night and day
Will diminish and destroy
Ere  you create more havoc,
Beware   Oh CORONA!
Flee back  whence you came –soon!
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Nuggehalli Pankaja
(Inspired to  rewrite in positive by my dearest friend and guide dear Ambika Ananth)







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NUGGEHALLI PANKAJA

“Ha ha. . .”watch awhile yo

Your wavelets lapping the lotus
Reminds me
Of his wavy curls,
And the ripples
His dancing feet-Yamune…………..

Rustle of boughs
Sweeping the shore,
His laughter low
Over the scented breath of breeze
  Makes me sense
His presence –Yamune………….
    
The lilting voice
Of cuckoo,
Through flutelet  pouring out
An array of colours
Blinding,inspiring,
Unfurling a vista of splendour-Yamune!

How my feet aches,
To dance with him once more,
As before…………
Can you help me find him –Yamune,
  You who was close to his heart?

“I am there in your heart Radhe”
Came the whisper-
Melodic,vibrant,fluty
“Ours is a spiritual bond
Surpassing carnal—sublime!
You can find me in all forms
Through nature
If but you tune yourself
To keep steps with me
Unto eternity………….
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Nuggehalli Pankaja.
KARNATAKA-BANGALORE
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Gazing   at    the    painting

In   sunset    of   my   life………


Roses     rustled    around,

Like     thoughts    rambling,

With     petals    of    sunset-sheen-

Melody   of     moon-rise   divine………..


Poesy    inspiring

Are   they , Each      thought-petal   a    dew-drop

Awakening,

Souls     caught

In    cocoons

Of    their    own    making……..
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Nuggehalli Pankaja
Karnataka-BANGALORE

VIGNETTES      FROM     YONDER
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a)-         REMEMBERANCE. . . .
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      Diana   dear,
Did you have to be
So   wonderful,
That even Yama-God of death
Had to woo you?
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                        TO HER NOMORE
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Thou were a dream

In my life…….dry,

One moment here,

Next moment gone,

Like stars after morn,

Leaving me fumbling

For footsteps fading………..
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C)-              SHADOW
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Shadow lingers,

My steps falter

In an effort to capture……….

But find myself becoming the shadow itself

When end of lane

Nears…………….
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WALK    ON……….
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It  is  not yet  dark

Wanderer,

Walk  on…….walk  on,

For  some  more   time…………


A   little  more   mile

Over  these  lanes

Still  ours

TILL        COMES        OUR         HOUR

Nuggehalli Pankaja