THE RAJ & THE ROSE 37,000 ft Across Europa we ... - damowords

Meditations
The world is changing mate
In the face of fact & feat
Colour-obsession regressing day-by-day
Usain Bolt, Lewis Hamilton - fastest men on the planet
Vishy Anand - chessmaster extraordinairre
& Thro sheer will, skill & luck
Obama comes to fend off world oblivion
& all as black as crows
Like a Rosa Parks sit-in,
Or a Martin Luther march
Far from the Dravidian stigma of varna
When Brahmins could slap him for caste & colour
A youthful Dalit doctor stands & declares
“One day I shall be the Prime Minister of India!”
Kanayakamari
At last the Ghats have peter'd to their end,
Sole, savage witch-peaks all which now remain,
Until we reach the grand Cormarin bend
Where ends Amritsar's forty-eight hour train;
Join'd eclectic
In one wylde, chopping squall
Waves from the Antarctic, Araby & Bengal.
Ashes scatter'd on ocean stream,
Last remains of Mahatma,
Opponent of London's regime
Nurtured in South Africa,
Returning preaching freedom's dream
With soft satyahara -