Tossed summarily from a train, Gandhi reset his glasses; A vision dawned, and the Empire Began to count its losses. However…
Where is the need to worry now, When the Lord watches over us?— He peers from walls and lampposts, His care is…
Athens feared the cloutless Socrates, Because he said what he had to say; He drank the hemlock cheerfully, And Athens is known…
The Gargoyle mouth begins to fill With murderous crowds— Arms akimbo with intent to kill. Drops of rain struggling to escape Turn…
Gargoyles loom from the firmament, Monstrous mouths at the ready— Will the flood they will spew Be of blood, or rain that…
Judges of the highest court were anguished that democracy was in “peril”, but seem to be reluctant to take the necessary steps to ensure elections are “free and fair”
When fools in high places make smart decisions, Shaming those in the know, Then clouds shed their toxic load, And don a…
The King was a byword For showering benefactions, Until, under the press of those Who propped his piratical majesty, His rugged beard…
Meanwhile the Ganga remains polluted as ever, if not more
Great gales of corrosive vengeance Buffet city and town, street And public square, dressed and amplified By the canny technologies and the…
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