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Wounds of heart then heal well

To self-discourse when we deal well,
Wounds of heart hitherto heal well.
Let whole world see no good in you,
Clouds once clear, sun does reveal well.
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Epigram | 03.08.2025 | self, heart, clouds, sun
Note: Apart from being a Muktak, this could well be the first two couplets of a ghazal.  

Rare are bucks with loud bang

What all our likes lets, such luck’s rare,
Plugs all our panic, such pluck’s rare,
Rare are bucks that give loudest bang,
Cool amidst all muck, such ducks rare. 
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Epigram | 02.08.2025 | luck, pluck (courage), buck (money), duck

Note: A quatrain like this in Gujarati is known as muktak, a quatrain with free/independent thought. Its first, second, and

Mother Nature Reconsiders

Mother Nature gazed happily on her brood,
until one of them spoiled her mood.
Her smartest monkey was on the take -
"Could it be that I made a mistake?"

Boiling Vegetables

Vegetables boiled in an angry froth. 
Stirred up, they were, in a savory broth.
"Give me liberty or death", they said, 
as they were joined by a cabbage head.

Change in the world'

You can change the world.!
In it by turning.. just one
Page at a time.)

Tales of Heartbreak

The saddest words that I have heard spoken
were by a mushroom whose heart was broken. 
Yet, there was that onion I chopped and fried.
Oh, how I remember the tears I cried.

Don't Dismiss the Mushroom

Mushrooms don't have many frills, 
but they seat frogs and they have gills,
so, I don't dismiss them out of haste,
especially considering their taste.

In grit and guts does hope dwell

Hold thy hope, happy scene shall come,
Ocean to thirst if keen shall come.
Rest nor relax O wayfarer,
Thy goal with joy within shall come. 
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Epigram | 09.08.2025 | hope, patience, traveler
Note: Inspired from the original Urdu:

Rakh hauñslaa, voh mañzar bhi ayegaa,
Pyaase ke paas chalkar samañdar bhi ayegaa,
Thak kar na baith O mañzil ke musaaphir,
Mañzil bhi ayegi

Two cheers for

To pass from probing eyes, two cheers,
To pass from all decries, two cheers.  
None, to kiss the crest of success,
To stay there ever wise, two cheers.  
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Epigram | 08.08.2025 | success, test, cheers 
Note: Inspired from Kamaal Bhopaali (Urdu):

Nazar nazar mein utarnaa kamaal hai,
Naksa naksa se guzarnaa kamaal hai,
Kaamayaabi par pahuñchnaa kamaal nahiñ,
Kaamayaabi

Audubon's Birds

"Dear, you never dress this way for me. 
Is something going on that I can't see?"

"I put my bright plumes and feathers on 
to pose for John James Audubon."

Checkered Life

Tigers, generally, come in only one type,
wearing a coat with a vertical stripe. 
My dad's stripes go sideways, and as one expects, 
my fur is covered quite nicely with checks.

baguettes uv preeminence

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                                 they were green                 

Dodger Game

Though they fell into an abyss,
I don't think it's the apocalypse.
So, nevertheless and all the same, 
I'll watch today's Dodgers game.

Some Feet

Some feet are bare.
Some wear shoes.
That's news.

Big League Dreams

My doctor warned me not to fall.
Should I give up on big league ball?

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