POETRY AS A PROPHETARY

(Prophetaries, Poetaries, Comedaries…these words are used in the manner of Monasteries).

Doctors use appliances 

And medicines 

To cut and paste 

Body parts in an attempt 

To restore health 

Of their patient. 

Men suffer as much in body 

As in their minds

Which too need surgery 

For which  they visit 

Hospitals called Prophetaries

Where skill doctors heal patients with words. 

Many patients go to Poetaries

Where Poets hold mushairas

And big dramas are played

To effect catharsis

So that men emerge from this experience 

Fully catharised

Their mental balance restored.

Some Comediaries also offer

‘Sukoon’ (peace)  to tortured souls

Who laugh their viles away

The magic wand of satire  and pun

Makes the evil spirits

On the run 

Leaving men happy and asmile.

Poems are surgical strikes

From the skies like lightning.

In their flash things can be seen better 

And the thunder drowns the pain

Of the surgery

Which proves to be a waterloo

For the bivouacs of Evil