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How Can We Relish Our Dish…?

K.V. Dominic
How happy we are
when prices of cereals
Prof. Dr. K. V. DOMINIC (b. 1956), English poet, critic, vegetables and fruits
editor and short story writer is a retired professor of the PG
shoot down like manna!
& Research Department of English, Newman College,
Happier we are
Thodupuzha, Kerala, India - 685585. He has
authored/edited 40 books including two short story if it comes down to
collections and eleven books of poems—six in English and Rupees thirty, twenty
one each translation in French, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and ten or even less
Gujarati. There are five critical books on his poetry. He has But we don't listen to
done his M Phil, PhD researches on Rabindranath Tagore's wails and sobs of
short stories and R. K. Narayan's fictions respectively. He is farmers and their families
an authority of Research Methodology and has conducted
echoing from those
several workshops all over India and abroad. He is the weeping goods we purchase
Secretary of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Silently and unaware we support
Critics (GIEWEC) and Editor of two international refereed
those cut-throat middlemen
biannual journals--Writers Editors Critics (WEC) and
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML). who exploit those miserable
PhD/M Phil researches have been done on his poetry. Poverty stricken, debt-drowned
farmers suicide everyday
How can we relish our dish
when we savour their tears?

Triplets of Wisdom
I never cry over my failure
God will not be pleased
nor I take it an end of life,
by applause and noisy prayers
But my tears wet my eyes but by nishkam karma

when i succeed in next attempts Moon whispers to earth:
Beware of human children
on remembering how did I miss ? plotting to shoot you

since success been so sweet Mourning Moon to man:
How could you shoot down
...Author your mother Earth!
Waves of worries
can be conquered
by waves of seas
Depression finds
its suppression
at starlit sky
Drench in rain
and extinguish
fire in your mind @K.V. Dominic

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