POETRY AS A PROPHETARY by Dr. Jernail S. Anand

(Prophetaries, Poetaries, Comedaries...these words are used in the manner of Monasteries).

Doctors use appliances
And medicines
To cut and paste
Body parts in an attempt
To restore health
Of their patient.

Men suffer as much in body
As in their minds
Which too need surgery
For which they visit
Hospitals called Prophetaries
Where skill doctors heal patients with words.

Many patients go to Poetaries
Where Poets hold mushairas
And big dramas are played
To effect catharsis
So that men emerge from this experience
Fully catharised
Their mental balance restored.

Some Comediaries also offer
'Sukoon' (peace) to tortured souls
Who laugh their viles away
The magic wand of satire and pun
Makes the evil spirits
On the run
Leaving men happy and asmile.

Poems are surgical strikes
From the skies like lightning.
In their flash things can be seen better
And the thunder drowns the pain
Of the surgery
Which proves to be a waterloo
For the bivouacs of Evil

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, [the Seneca, Charter of Morava, Franz Kafka and Maxim Gorky awards Laureate, with an opus of 180 books, whose name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia]] is a towering literary figure whose work embodies a rare fusion of creativity, intellect, and moral vision.