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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

 32 | Dr. K.C. Sethi & Sunita Sethi                                                                                                        GEMS - II | 33
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