At A Bar Table

Rumour, Hearsay and Gossip

sat around a loaded table

in the dimmed bar -

Tipple and Tattle

To slurp and to sip!

Rumour was in bad mood

His SUV called WhatHuff

Has been impounded

With a rude traffic cop rap

Foamed he, “Those stinky brood!”

He banged the table hard

All at the tipsy table agreed

“Don’t those who ride to ruling thrones

The people of the Land feed

With Fakehood, Titter and canard?”

Xavier Bage

Wed, July 18, 2018

The Eyeballs

 

Many people are not convinced

When I say it has been raining

Heavily in Rajasthan

Streets there are flooded with rain water

They argue, how is it possible?

Rajasthan is a desert

Where no rain falls!

They have to see with their eyes!

Many people smile

And they look upwards to the sky

Showing the white of their eyeballs

When I say that I’ve seen ghosts

They think I’m queer to believe such things

There’s no such thing as ghosts

They say.They know everything,

They have seen everything!

They turn their head when I say I am a soul

Only my body of flesh and bones, they see

They laugh when I say that I am a spirit

They themselves are spirits

But I’m surprised how they miss

The truth they themselves carry!

Aren’t we talking pigs if we are not spirits?

How can the eyeball people be convinced!

Xavier Bage

Thurs, July 12, 2018

NEW INDIA ???

This morning many of us saw

Three young men pulling a woman

Towards the forest

Why do you think they did such a thing?

For reasons known to all best!

And look at the brazen cruelty

They even video recorded the act!

And uploaded it on social media!!

This is the fearless generation

Of the lawless New India!!!

Xavier Bage

Sat, July 07, 2018