Poetry from Dr. Jernail S. Anand

Older South Asian man with a mustache and sideburns and a turban. He has a dark brown suit and coat and red and brown tie and is seated in a chair.

THE POET 

When you read my poetry,

If you see me nothing 

Except me,  my frailties

Which I proffer as great strengths

If I talk only about 

My achievements, my cap 

Which wears many a feather 

If I have nothing else to talk

Except what I have said 

In my this poem and that 

In my this book and that 

Branding about what I say 

If from my text you are missing 

He is missing, she is missing

The pain of the earth 

Is missing 

What use is my joy 

In what I have written

Which you must know

And I brandy about.

The highest peak 

Proud  in its singular glory

Bends in humility 

When a powerful soul touches it

Lofty minds are humble 

Because from a high cliff 

They can see 

The shallows and the heights together.

Who does not want to be remembered?

Loved and desired?

What if 

I too harbour that wish?

Oh! How I was filled with myself

In my text I find my own pain, 

My own joy 

And nothing except me.

I touched none 

Who could weep over my death,

Who could feel my loss 

And remember me when I am gone.

THE EGOTISTICAL SUBLIME 

Water can be stiff in its constitution

And steadfast in its nature 

Who can complain

When it overrides you

Or just underwrites you 

And takes your breath away?

But a river is to blame 

If it does not negotiate its way

It handles naughty waves

And does not mind 

If someone from the bank

Jumps in to have a bath

Water has an exalted ego 

And it won’t let anyone 

Play with it 

If it finds something fishy, 

It loosens vampires

And brings down empires.

Stiff like water, humans precious 

Their egotistical sublime

Unlike a river, 

Like a horse of a long race,

Leaves a lot of space

For kindness and grace.

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand is an Indian poet and scholar credited with 170 plus books of English literature, philosophy, and spirituality. He won a great Serbian Award  Charter of Morava and his name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He was honoured with the Seneca Award LAUDIS CHARTA by the Academy of Arts & Philosophical Sciences, Bari, Italy 2024. He is the Founder and President of the International Academy of Ethics and was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by Univ of Engg & Mgt, (UEM), Jaipur. 

Links: 

ethicacademy.co.in

 (Biblio-link

https://sites.google.com/view/bibliography-dr-jernal-singh/home)

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