Bhagirath Choudhary is an internationally acknowledged poet, writer, philanthropist, social activist, humanist, global activist for responsible parenthood, universal empathy, human solidarity, responsible earth citizenship, world peace and environment activist based in New Delhi, India. He is founder of Global Literary Society with 9450+ members in 102 countries around the world for motivating world literary fraternity to create a global wave of positive literature. He has received many international awards like “The World Icon of Peace” 2018, “The "Ambassador of Humanity" for 2019 HPAW, West Africa, Vivekananda International Peace Award 2019 by IHACEL, Mahatma Gandhi Award 2019 for promotion of Gandhian values through literary creativity for a nonviolent world by World Union of Poets (WUP) Italy, and Master of Metaphor Award by World Poetry Conference 2019, Special Award of International Poet for World Peace, Tolerance and Common Co-operation 2020 by European Institute of Roma Studies, Belgrade, "Laurel de Poet" Award by Indo-Universe Voice of Poetry 2020.
Gandhi's Talisman
It enlightens
Within and without
By lighting up
The truth candle within
When we hold
The candle out
We see shadows
Of ego and doubt
In heavenly meadows
When your self
And its egoistic clouts
Becomes too much
When you have doubts
About your inherent divinity
And truthful human breast
Apply the following test
Gandhi asked
Himself and others
Recall the face
Of poorest
And weakest
Of the human race
Gandhi said
Ask yourself
The step
You contemplate
To take
Will that help
That last man in line
Will your step
Bring him some sunshine
If like Gandhi
Every leader of man
Become kind and sane
Every cowboy gaucho
And corporate honcho
Promise to be divine
To let some sunshine
For my forgotten brother
Waiting for ages in line
The Racism
Earth is ever afflicted
Cruel wounds inflicted
By racist indignity
And haughty insanity
The terrible arrogance
And the dark ignorance
Racism creates violence
Without human conscience
God made man
In His own
Image
Man must behave
Like a kindly wise sage
The scourge of racism
Stands against
Humanism
Manhandling human dignity
It even defiles
Godly creation's divinity
Science says
With evidential emphasis
Man must learn
From DNA analysis
Which declares
With ample reasons
That all men
Are distant cousins
Drop your racism
And your naked fascism
To let humanity
And everyone breathe
-
This poem is dedicated to the recent victim of racism
George Floyd whose last words were, "Please, Let me breathe".
Battle of Beasts
It took life
Millions of years
To process
Your beast
Into a human priest
To give
You the word
The life
Worked hard
Thousands of years
Making human tongue
Into a holy bard
Look now,
What are you doing
To heavenly hearth
And mother earth?
Your jealousy
And your heresy
Your sadist vanity
Eating away
Your humanity
You kill
Your brother
You violate
Your sister
With your
Hatred and violence
You have
Made yourself
Into an earthly sinister
You stage
War games
To take advantage
Of religious names
With your bombs
You turn
Mother Earth
Into devilish tombs
Your inhuman
Terrorist bands
Everyday destroy
Life and lands
Only devil's bands
And his beasts relish
To demolish
Love and beauty
That was created
By loving human
Hearts and hands
- Poem is provoked by the death and destruction caused by the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
© Bhagirath Choudhary
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