POINT OF VIEW POETRY....FREEDOM

"FREEDOM"


It’s a myth that anyone can be totally free
Even the birds are not !

I can say this without any doubt or hesitation
As I have spent days and days
In a deserted city park, totally free to the onlookers...

Lazing around , doing nothing...
But little did those onlookers realize that
I was sentenced to this freedom
I was sentenced as I could not conform !

And during this ‘total freedom’ I was carrying
A non-stop computer on my poor shoulders

I seldom saw the birds playing and scooting
On the rippled lake of that municipal park
But when I saw them, once in a while...

I noticed that these birds too had been sentenced
To their freedom; they too had a pattern
They too had their fears, they too had their norms !

Occasionally I saw a lone non-conforming maverick bird
But he too did not seem totally free !!!

DIFFERENT POETRY.... REBEL QUATRAIN ?

REBEL QUATRAIN :

The age of reason
And the sage of season
The fury of fools
And ruffians of rules

Intense intellect
Normally selects
Red herring for a clue ;
But feelings are true

One eats to survive
And cheats to just thrive
This cheating and eating
Then the heart stops beating !

We call him a master
Who runs a bit faster
On the circumference of logic
Our judgement is tragic !

Oh! Ode to the codes
Traffic lights on life’s roads
Where a free spirit is blocked
As schools hate to be shocked !

The karmic code
For some is the lode
Not to find --- but to lose
With a heaven-sent excuse !

The silent majority
Or the vocal authority
Isn’t proof enough of right
Solid mass is seldom bright !

If majority can’t be wrong
With this thought you go along
Then you too add to the mass
For more to follow you, alas !