Animal Locomotion [nonsense verse]

The typo was not hypothetical
the hippo was just typographical
the zoo might have been theoretical
best popsicle? try our girafficle

After Kalidasa (Addressing the Cloud, the poet muses on the tastelessness & tawdry appeal of commonplace cyber-communication, when compared with the subtle satisfactions of a proper Megadhuta-gram) [homage]

Do thou when trundling north O cloud
on winds of might that buffet you
note mortals clacking keyboards loud
till (glancing yon) they covet you?
who would (what maiden gold of mien)
prefer black clacking modes of speech
to dulcet whispers soft serene
in sundown hues: ocher & peach?

Megadhutam Riff [rubai]

The low-hanging cloud-mass was high enough tech    for me
the messenger tarried (if only a sec)    for me
when banished & distant from one whom the heart    adores
that heavenly email looked lovely as heck    for me

Robert Browning Riff [couplet]

Verse-making    was the least of my vices
long's the list!    a mere couplet suffices

"In my heart" [ghazal]

by Bhau Kalchuri



O Meher    since you gained sway in my heart
there's naught save     pain & dismay in my heart

your wine turned     into a blade in my heart
heartbroken! groovy!     I say in my heart

I'm facing     mountains of trouble & woe
Beloved!     where is your jai in my heart?

I wot not     whither my wander might wend
I merely     follow whim's way in my heart

with naught save     shipwreck & tumult O Bhau
you're ruined yet     somehow okay in your heart



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[re-rendered into English verse by David Raphael Israel]

Bhau's own literal English translation of his Hindi ghazal appears in the volume Meher Sarod.