Short Beggarly Poems

I am not brilliant
Or heroic
Or frightfully quick 
Or connected.
Just beggarly
And bled for
And brothered
By Betlehem's King.
He came to us
And blessed by the Lake
Hounded and hung
And risen
For my puny sake.
Its a good thing
I now walk in
With Him....

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I was in a hurry!
My son was standing in cold with his mother.
I slowed down my scooter, but did not stop.

My mind's eyes in a flash searched all my pockets,
Could not but find a ten rupee note.

I did smile and smile and nod my head
At the bubbly gujjar-boy
Who was followed by his beggarly mother....

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there is nothing
it's only you
on this earth

beggarly I wander
here and there
everywhere
but find nothing

that greenery field,
that green leaves,
that chirping of birds,
that flowing river,
that sun rising and setting down,
that moonlit night,
that tranquil dark with a suave breeze,
greet me to show your beauty

really I'm nothing here
O Love 
without you


-May 06, 2019, Chattogram...

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Don't carry the dead back home
Leave them better left alone
Time will come to face those fears
Now your debts are in arrears
Grab the living by the hand
Tell them you still have a plan
Even beggarly and small
somehow rise above it all
Be the salt and not the dross
Claim the win and not the loss
Someone needs you to be strong
Fake it, make it right or wrong
"Till you really reach the place
where you learn to turn your face
to the only one who knows
how your inner garden grows....

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The inevitable envy we feel
When we see our neighbour’s wealth
The eternal Ferris wheel
Up now, then down
The wheel turns
To be up
And to be down

Yet the greatest of us
Rise to the challenge
Of when being up
And seeing far
Not to look down
On those below

Not to spit
And not to drop
Popcorn snow
On those below

For who knows when
A turn – and then
Those above
Will fall from love
And become in a cycle
The bottom few
On the poor man’s pew
Hat in hand
To beggarly stand...

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