IMITATING ANGELS and THE TRIBAL FACE: two poems by DR JERNAIL S ANAND

IMITATING ANGELS

The tangled web of wires
Followed by electricity poles
Some sparrows had thought
Were better than trees.
Cemented poles
And long straight wires
So impressive it looked
Far better than the trees
With small insects
Shaking even in slow breeze...

The squirrel who lived on the tree
Found a road passing by
Huge vehicles running along
She thought on the other side
There was a great world
Ventured she out
Only to find icemen drawing close
She ran back to the tree
Her pipe dreams shattered lie

I look at the trees in amazement
What men have done
Is only to imitate the divine
See how solar energy passes
Through the branches
To the stem
And how without stoves
These leaves can cook their food.
See the entire vegetation
Making its community lunch.

This is God's creation.
You can't see any animal
Burning a bonfire in winter
Nor they make any 'dumba'
Catching poor creatures
And roasting them on fire
God did not allow them wits
Which they could abuse to kill and destroy

God! Men have also learnt the science
Of making fire without using matchstick
Your angels also set forests on fire
Men have gone too far on the road to alienation
Bring them back to the path
Of humanity and love for nature.
The men who venerated trees and rivers
Were better though we label them
As Pagans or tribals.

THE TRIBAL FACE

I was a man, with a soul
And a face,
A single face
Which was my ID too

We don't need tribals
Was having an original face
And a soull of one's own
Being a tribal ?

They took me to a museum
Where I saw two personalities
Of a person,
Helped by a script writer

One was a real man,
With a real voice
The other, the unreal,
And public like a narrative.

What I see in the streets
Are faces
A part of a narrative
Dictated by forces of time

Gods who came to meet me,
Looking for my tribal face
Were shocked.
The real had disappeared.

I was, among faces,
Just a face,
Suffering a desperate fate
A body without a faith.

THE AUTHOR

Jernail Singh Anand is President of the International Academy of Ethics. He is author of 165 plus books in English poetry, fiction, non-fiction, philosophy and spirituality. The Academy of Arts and Philosophical Sciences, Bari (Italy) honoured him with the prestigious position of Honorable Academic. He was awarded Charter of Morava, the great International Award in Creativity by Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade at the60th Belgrade International Writers Meeting (Oct 2023), and his name was engraved on the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. Recently, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy [Honoris Causa] by the University of Engg and Management, Jaipur abd Noman Survivors Literary Award from. Naji Naaman Foundation. His most phenomenal book is Lustus:The Prince of Darkness [first epic of the Mahkaal Trilogy]. [Email: anandjs55@yahoo.com Mobile: 919876652401[Whatsapp]

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