Monthly Archives: September 2006

He had moustache to be proud of,
earlobes pierced with circular rings of brass,
wound a gaudy turban on his scalp,
wore frilled cloth clinging tautly to his skinny
frame,
clasped an iron bludgeon for self defense,
chopped tree wood with thick blades of stainless
steel,
climbed bare walls of brick with large urban feet,
took bath in monsoon ponds of muddy water,
adroitly lit roaring fires with bundles of
dead sea weed,
relied on changing positions of the sun for an update
on time,
showered fruit and petal on daintily sculptured feet
of the deity,
guffawed whole heartedly at mindless chatter
prevalent in village,
coated walls of his mud baked hut with pure cowdung
plaster,
hurtled a volley of loud abuse at son for skipping
school,
milked the cow to professional perfection,
wore a jugglery of threads sewn with superstition,
uttered inaudible phrases in broken English,
guiding overseas tourist through dilapidated walls of
the castle,
being the solitary source of monthly wages,
was a thorough blend of impetuousness and rural
flamboyance,
his dreams had never crossed territories of his
village,
with reflections of unexplored charisma lurking in his
eyes,
he proclaimed loud with dignity to be the ‘KING OF THE
VILLAGE

(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.

© nikhilparekh

JUST YESTERDAY NIGHT I was bathing in a tub replete with silken foam;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw colossal structures reverberating rampantly in the air outside.

Just yesterday night I was busy perceiving mesmerizing fairies;
While today when I got up in the morning; there was an earth shattering explosion; puncturing with turbulent velocity through my intricate eardrum.

Just yesterday night I was molding scented clay to intriguing shapes with my palms;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw screeching birds drifting at electric speeds; flapping their wings to abscond away as fast as possible.

Just yesterday night I was conversing for marathon hours with my beloved;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw blistering lava fulminate from umpteenth places on the muddy ground.

Just yesterday night I was watching my favorite film on television;
While today as I got up in the morning; there were gallons of acerbic dust hurtling directly across the moistened tear coat of my eye.

Just yesterday night I was reminiscing exuberant days of my tender childhood;
While today as I got up in the morning; I heard hysterical screams of people trapped helplessly beneath concrete debris.

Just yesterday night I took scrupulous care to trim my unruly beard;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw individuals running helter-skelter to save their lives.

Just yesterday night I was listening to enthralling tunes of western classical music;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw an old man gasping for breath; with waves of unprecedented terror entirely circumventing his face.

Just yesterday night I was profoundly involved filling my shopping bag with succulent fruit;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw mammoth slabs of raw brick plummet violently towards the ground.

Just yesterday night I was sketching enamouring shapes with vivacious strokes of my paint brush;
While today as I got up in the morning; I heard a fleet of dogs and cattle shrieking uncontrollably in inexplicable pain.

Just yesterday night I was penning down lines of romantic poetry; languishing in aisles of fantasy and desire;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw petrified citizens loudly chanting the names of their respective gods.

Just yesterday night I was gently caressing soft blades of spongy grass; While today as I got up in the morning; I saw distraught individuals rummaging for their life time wealth; amidst the pulverized interiors of their shattered homes.

Just yesterday night I was enthusing my mind trying to decipher mind boggling puzzles;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw naked infants shivering on the streets; anxiously searching for their missing parents.

Just yesterday night I was rejoicing with my family sitting abreast the crackling fire;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw streams of fresh blood blended profusely with the disdainful sands.

Just yesterday night I was traversing through the bustling streets with the rollicking laughter of children playing; prominently lingering in the air; While today as I got up in the morning; I saw completely squelched arms and feet; lying juxtaposed along with the incongruously shaped rusty iron pillars.

Just yesterday night I was frivolously poking my mother in her ribs; sending her into chortles of uninhibited laughter;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw wholesomely decimated cars and vehicles; under bulky columns of jagged stone.

Just yesterday night I was ardently sucking flavored ice candy;
While today as I got up in the morning; I saw people burning dead bodies of their loved ones in a coagulated heap.

Just yesterday night I was cognizing the majestic palaces constructed by the king of yesteryears;
While today as I got up in the morning; I heard faint cries of innocuous children trapped hopelessly under a heap of mortar and iron.

Just yesterday night I was incessantly fantasizing my city to be an ocean of enigmatic dreams;
While today as I got up in the morning; my perception disastrously changed within fraction seconds of time; as I saw the entire township; the main ingredient of my existence; sink beneath a mountain of mud; after being viciously attacked by the killer earthquake….

(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.

He had fanatic obsessions for bulging trouser pockets,
overloaded sockets of office shirt,
silver chains fitted neatly to periphery of neck,
all kinds of heavy purse dangling from shoulder bone,
jeweled rings adorning daintily curved fingers,
beads of slim gold riveted firmly to ear lobe,
portable briefcase bags carried by executive staff,
bronze plated ribbons holding a bunch of hair,
he was a maniac patrolling through the busy city
streets,
sighting stashed trouser shelves with his hawk sharp
eyes,
waiting to capsize on every stealing opportunity that
came his way.

the passenger ahead had protruding pockets,
a short thick neck flooded with precious ornament,
he looked like a prince waiting for the bus,
with gold rimmed glasses nestling on his thin nose.

the maniac couldn’t resist any longer,
long hours of wait had tantalized burglar zones of his
mind,
saliva dribbled from his mouth in plenty,
his eyes lit up like briquette’s of burning coal,
sly smiles encompassed wide corners of his mouth,
professional fingers now moved stealthily,
maneuvered skillfully caressing bulging outlines of
the pocket,
few swipes with cheap blade finished the job,
the passenger now felt light as he alighted the bus,
great chunks of his wealth now lay in cold hands of
the maniac,
all he was left to confront was a big gaping hole,
torn threads emanating from infinite regions of the
stripped pant pocket.

(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.

Kissing the scarlet rose profusely; made me feel as if
I was timelessly wandering in bountifully fragrant
paradise; wholesomely oblivious to the uncouthly
monotonous vagaries of the manipulative world outside,

Kissing the undulating waves intransigently; made me
feel as if I had transited back into mischievously
tangy childhood; with the ravishingly frothy salt
marvelously replenishing every iota of my disastrously
bedraggled countenance,

Kissing the seductive clouds ethereally; made me feel
as if I was romancing with the most astoundingly
ultimate fantasy of my life; compassionately caressing
the winds of grandiloquent majesty; for centuries
immemorial,

Kissing the robustly gregarious fruits poignantly;
made me feel as if I was perennially radiating in the
pristine prime of youth; blissfully blossoming into a
glittering ocean of untamed energy and exhilarating
newness,

Kissing the scintillating pearls congenially; made me
feel as if I was celestially basking in the glory of
profound aristocracy; exquisitely draping each element
of my impoverished countenance; with unbelievably
enthralling resplendence,

Kissing the brilliant Sunshine ebulliently; made me
feel as if I was blazingly surging forward even in the
most savagely acrimonious of winds; blazed in
torrential fireballs of benign enlightenment; for
infinite more births yet to unveil,

Kissing the tantalizing dewdrops ardently; made me
feel as if royally feasting in the aisles of
beautifully vibrant yearning; bequeathing a legacy of
oligarchic fascination; on every mesmerizing step that
I tread,

Kissing the vivacious rainbow boisterously; made me
feel as if flamboyantly marching towards the doorsteps
of irrefutably righteous triumph; dancing in the mists
of unfathomable longing; with the Omnipotent shadow of
the Lord as my sole savior,

Kissing the milky moon phlegmatically; made me feel as
if profoundly encapsulated with heavenly illumination
from all sides; an altruistic tranquility which
drifted me off; into a sparkling slumber,

Kissing the corrugated soil thunderously; made me feel
as if I had unassailably discovered my priceless
rudiments; irrevocably propelling me to forever exist;
only as the philanthropic harbinger of humanity,

Kissing the velvety grass surreally; made me feel as
if infinite dormant pores of my dwindling visage had
miraculously rejuvenated once again; piquantly
tingling me towards a fabulous new chapter of
exuberant existence,

Kissing the frolicking butterfly wonderfully; made me
feel as if ecstatically leaping on the innocuous
summits of humbly bestowing creation; unsurpassably
relishing and assimilating the vividly enamoring
treasures of this Universe,
Kissing the ingratiating waterfalls intrepidly; made
me feel as if swaying in an enchantingly melodious
entrenchment of eternal sound; whispering the
innermost desires of my soul; uninhibitedly to the
panoramic world around,
Kissing the sweating tree stems holistically; made me
feel as if perseverance was the richest of all
treasures in life; ubiquitously flowering into a
civilization of unprecedented togetherness,
Kissing the blistering lion fearlessly; made me feel
as if I could now confront even the most tumultuously
acrimonious disaster in life; tackle the worst of
deadly catastrophes with prolific dexterity and spell
binding rhetoric,
Kissing the impeccably virile milk emphatically; made
me feel as if I was the most innocent organism alive;
unequivocally washing all my inadvertently committed
sins; in the aura of invincible honesty,
Kissing the candle of truth innocuously; made me feel
as if a sagaciously blessed molecule of Almighty God;
rendering my gorgeously selfless service; to
unassailably enlighten every quarter of the miserably
beleaguered society,

Kissing the sensuous evening nostalgically; made me
feel as if romantically philandering in wisps of spell
binding titillation and indefatigable charisma;
surrendering every element of my diminutive
countenance; to the artistic kaleidoscope of twilight,

And kissing you on your divinely lips unconquerably;
O! beloved; made me not only feel; but immortally fall
in love; harness its most stupendously ecstatic
virtues; for countless more births of mine; of course
with your heart; soul and breath; always and
irrefutably by my side….

(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.

If you starved me to unprecedented limits; then I
would inadvertently attempt to pilfer morsels of food
from my neighbor’s plate,

If you kept scorched me beyond the point of no
control; then I would poke out my tongue unknowingly
in the mayor’s tap; which was leaking water,

If you created me as black as charcoal; with
disdainful boils of infection creeping on every inch
of my skin; then I would stretch my palms ominously;
in an attempt to snatch fair flesh from the princess,

If you made me squint eyed; then I would stare
unrelentingly at all plebeians passing; with fantasies
revolving rampantly in my mind to grab their eyes,

If you threw me on the street naked in the freezing
cold; then I would run helter-skelter in desperation
to steal every business tycoon’s clothes,

If you crippled me in an accident; rendering me to
spend the remainder of my life on a dilapidated
wheelchair; then I would greedily slaver in my tongue;
the instants I saw robust complexioned legs marching
towards victory,

If you caused me to stammer; stuttering at virtually
every word that diffused from my mouth; then I would
be engulfed by hideous thoughts of switching my tongue
with a professional singer; all day,

If you made me stone deaf; with the most tumultuous of
volcano’s failing to make any impact on my sleep; then
I would try and hamper every single individual from
opening his mouth,

If you made me mentally retarded; with my brain not
even being able to distinguish between a dog and a
man; then I would pelt stones at every car I
encountered; smashing the windshield glass into
infinite pieces,

If you forced me to sleep on a bed of hostile thorns;
then I would stealthily enter the King’s palace; to
take away his golden pillow,

If you made me walk barefoot on a road strewn with
abhorrent filth and dirt; then I would steal every
shoe loitering aimlessly outside the temple; to
protect my bleeding toes,

If you inundated my nose with a fetid stench of blood
the entire day; then I would ruthlessly chop every
rose from the soil; to appease my senses with its
enamoring scent,

If you deprived me of education; leaving me to bear
the taunts of the acrimonious society; then I would
resort to illegitimate means of earning money; simply
to show the world that they were wrong; silencing
their mouths forever,

If you orphaned me in my childhood; never giving me
the comfort of nestling in my mothers arms; then I
would become a prey to bad habits; with nobody to
prudently guide me and illuminate the path of my life,

If you didn’t give me space to dig the grave of my
cherished ones; then I would extricate the coffin of
the pretentious priest; to bury my uncle instead,

If you didn’t let me consolidate a single of my
dreams; then I would philander without any purpose;
simply being a nuisance to the society,
If you didn’t give me a right to live; blissfully
exist on this earth lost in the world of my passionate
fantasy; then I would fight valiantly for my
existence; to enjoy the source of my moist breath
trickle down my nostrils,

If you uncouthly snatched away my beloved from my
life; leaving me deserted with lifeless tears of blood
dribbling down my cheek; then I would go mentally
insane; perhaps assassinate everyone whom I came in
proximity; before meeting my own end,

Therefore O! lord; this is my humble plea to you; for
today and for several more years of my life to unveil;
bless me with whatever I want so that I can lead life
helping other humans; or let me instead pray to you
to, ‘KEEP ME SATISFIED’

(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.

It seemed you were just a pound of flesh; in the
sacrosanct womb of your revered mother; only fractions
of seconds ago,
While today you stood more towering than the skies;
with your eyes glistening more flamboyantly than the
midday Sun; as you hoisted me on your fearless
shoulders…

It seemed you were just a pound of bones; in the
immaculate belly of your vivacious mother; only
fractions of seconds ago,
While today you matched me step for step as I raced
towards the finishing line; entwining your fingers
impregnably with mine….

It seemed you were just a pound of water; in the
divine pouch of your stupendous mother; only fractions
of seconds ago,
While today you literally blew the air from my lungs;
as you euphorically punched me in waves of
insurmountable triumph; on heart of my chest…

It seemed you were just a pound of hair; in the
Omnipotent sac of your impeccable mother; only
fractions of seconds ago,
While today you proudly intimidated me in every aspect
of life; soaring above the crimson cocoon of clouds;
even before you alight a single footstep….

It seemed you were just a pound of wails; in the
divine cradle of your ingratiatingly alluring mother;
only fractions of seconds ago,
While today you confronted me eye to eye across the
table with passionate fire blazing in your eyes;
drowned in astounding fantasy; that triggered
thunderbolts of lightening in clear sky…

It seemed you were just a pound of blood; in the
invincibly compassionate stomach of your mesmerizing
mother; only fractions of seconds ago,
While today you signed countless Business deals every
unfurling minute; blazed like an insatiable volcano;
in whatever sphere of life you wholeheartedly
undertook…

It seemed you were just a pound of inconspicuous
jelly; in the worshipped bowl of your philanthropic
mother; only fractions of seconds ago,
While today you left me panting for breath; as you
clambered like an uncontrollable whirlwind to the
summit of the mountain; carrying me down; as I
miserably felt short of indispensable life…

It seemed you were just a pound of diminutive
emotions; in the innocent entrenchment of your
twinkling mother; only fractions of seconds ago,
While today you indefatigably romanced with the soul
mate of your choice; conceiving and profoundly
assimilating the beauty of this fathomless planet; in
every beat of your thundering heart…

And it seemed you were just a pound of brain; in the
celestially blissful bag of your immortal mother; only
fractions of seconds ago,
While today you had made me feel the richest entity on
earth alive; granting me an infinite more lives to
live in this single lifetime of mine; as you
tirelessly kept calling me FATHER….

(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.

I had been ardently yearning for this moment as much
as fathomless fields of barren grass; passionately
yearn for rain,
And today her beautifully soft palms were entwined in
heavenly unison with my chest; as she astoundingly
startled me with her bountifully sporadic winking…..

I had been intransigently desiring this moment; as
much as the unfathomably mystical forests; perennially
desire resplendent fruit,
And today her celestially innocuous eyes reflected the
Omnipotent charisma of the entire Universe in my face;
as she gorgeously emanated her very first cry of
survival…..

I had been tumultuously craving for this moment; as
much as the patriotically blazing soldiers crave for;
irrefutably scintillating triumph,
And today her mischievous shock of ravishing hair;
eternally caressed my ebulliently tear soaked
cheeks…..

I had been intractably perceiving this moment; as much
as the Gods in the cosmos indefatigably perceive;
harmoniously symbiotic brotherhood on even the most
remote quarter of this Universe,
And today her divinely diminutive feet rhapsodically
kicked my chin; with each profoundly pronounced line
on her majestic palms; euphorically chiseling the
remainder of my penurious life….

I had been irrevocably fantasizing about this moment;
as much as the profusely scarlet roses fantasize about
being regally kissed; by the voluptuously silken
clouds,
And today her innocuously rubicund lips smiled
uninhibitedly at me; putting my unsurpassable ocean of
worries and anguish; to a perpetual rest…..

I had been indefatigably wanting this moment; as much
as dolorous solitariness wanted to be handsomely
perpetuated; by a resplendently twinkling fountain of
enchanting sounds,
And today her ingratiatingly sacrosanct forehead
rested blissfully in my outstretched hands; as she
beautifully suckled my little finger in her godly
mouth…..

I had been unrelentingly cognizing this moment; as
much as the freshly sown seeds incessantly cognized
about being aristocratically drenched; by torrential
tumblers of sparkling rain,
And today her immaculately Omniscient skin bestowed
upon me not only the strength to rise from my
veritable grave; but unflinchingly exist for infinite
more births yet to unveil…..

I had been fanatically waiting for this moment; as
much as the disheveled orphans on the street
optimistically waited; to be embraced by cisterns of
unparalleled caring,
And today her impeccable large ears flapped in queenly
tandem against my fingertips; as she incoherently
whispered the magical mantra of life to my; baselessly
wandering soul…..

And I had been immortally anticipating this moment; as
much as gruesomely hapless darkness in the dungeons;
perennially anticipate vibrant beams of vivaciously
unflinching light,
And today her impregnably minuscule heart throbbed
more vibrantly than the chapter of existence near my
neck; with the blood running in her sacred veins the
same as mine; as she was none other than my newly
born daughter; KAVYA….

(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.

Just Where were you when I was inconsolably fretting in exasperation; with virtually no other shoulder in the world to lean upon; to share the innermost secrets of my brutally agonized heart?

Just Where were you when I sat in solitary listlessness—for hours immemorial on the dining table; not wanting to savor even the most infinitesimal morsel of food- without compassionately befriending company aside?

Just Where were you when I unrelentingly tossed and turned all cold-bloodedly sultry night; fervently waiting for those ears into which I could whisper my innumerably inexplicable happenings of the day?

Just Where were you when I sat in stony silence after composing a boundless lines of majestic poetry; ardently wanting nothing else in this world; but you as my audience to hear and engross in the spirit of each word that I’d evolved?

Just Where were you when I jumped in unabashed exhilaration at achieving my very first triumph in this vast world; wanting to rejoice in its glory for moments unprecedented in the passionately sensuous warmth of your arms?

Just Where were you when I inexhaustibly wept tears of emptiness; when the knives of loneliness stabbed me deeper and deeper; to make me a living carcass more ghoulish than its veritably dead counterpart?

Just Where were you when I sat in morose submission—rejected by the entire world; but still with untamed fires burning alive in my eyes; as I timelessly awaited you to ask me as to how I felt-as to what had I recently undergone?

Just Where were you when I was irrevocably trapped in the hell of lecherous mayhem; refusing every ounce of benign help that came my way; untiringly desirous of only your unparalleled countenance coming to my rescue?

Just Where were you when I needed that pricelessly inevitable pat on my back; after endeavoring for a countless hours on the trot to spawn sheer and insatiably rhapsodic newness; out of a graveyard of nothingness?

Just Where were you when I sought those minuscule bits of admiration for every honorary accomplishment of mine; inspiring me all the more and indefatigably on the path towards altruistic righteousness?

Just Where were you when I needed to quell the unsurpassably raging fires of my flesh; with the magically silken caress of your skin; forever become one in the fragrance of your bountiful existence?

Just Where were you when I’d desperately cuddled to a bundle of frazzled fright; when all I perennially waited for was your rejuvenating voice; to sweep me of my beleaguered feet and into the land of invincible utopia?

Just Where were you when I endlessly kept listening to the rapid ticking of the grandfather clock; waiting for the doors to open with a bang upon your blessed arrival; and the sound of your mesmerizing footsteps overwhelming everything else in vicinity?

Just Where were you when I audaciously chose the road never ever tread upon; and then having done so I needed your friendship and inspiration all the more; to survive amidst a pack of savage wolves and emerge effulgently victorious?

Just Where were you when I’d shunned and shunted everything else in the world for you; walked out of my parent’s palace at strokes well past midnight—to meet you at the footsteps of the mosque; from where we’d planned to silently elope?

Just Where were you when I was starving to an unforgivably gruesome death just outside your doorstep; waiting for your eyes to atleast recognize me-if not make love; as an organism whom you once upon a time profoundly and dearly loved?

Just Where were you when I was fighting an infinite devils singlehandedly; when I so badly wanted your voice from behind to encourage and pep me up each unleashing minute; and not at all the muteness of the atmosphere as my lone savior?

Just Where were you when I was just about to leave for my heavenly abode; relinquishing my physical form forever at the commands of the Lord; indisputably wanting to utter just once in your ears; as to how much I missed you?

And now when I’d only started to plan as to how to legally give you divorce; separate you from each aspect of my life; you suddenly seemed everywhere-as if landed from the land of nowhere; spuriously smiling and comforting me to save our goddamned marriage; only so that not just half-but every part of my hard earned richness always remained the complete gloss of your artificial lips? …

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Don’t philosophize; just fantasize,
Don’t cry; just create,
Don’t beg; just bang,
Don’t surrender; just smash,
Don’t extinguish; just evolve,
Don’t drift; just daunt,
Don’t rhyme; just revolve,
Don’t go; just gallop,
Don’t haunt; just Halloween,
Don’t inundate; just inspire,
Don’t wilt; just wink,
Don’t jinx; just jog,
Don’t kick; just kiss,
Don’t meander; just mix,
Don’t loot; just love,
Don’t ogle; just ooze,
Don’t quack; just quell,
Don’t tear; just tie,
Don’t smother; just sing,
Don’t abuse, just admire,
Don’t brag; just believe,
Don’t punch; just procreate,
Don’t falsify; just fire,
Don’t abhor; just appease,
Don’t bark; just become,
Don’t fidget; just finish,
Don’t expose, just embrace,
Don’t throw; just thrive,
Don’t waste, just wrap,
Don’t command; just commiserate,
Don’t emancipate; just engulf,
Don’t dry; just dream,
Don’t beguile; just bond,
Don’t massacre; just merge,
Don’t cling; just clap,
Don’t hang; just habituate,
Don’t squabble; just seduce,
Don’t despair; just dance,
Don’t blurt; just benign,
Don’t treason; just team,
Don’t reason; just rhyme,
Don’t pierce; just peace,
Don’t seize; just smile,
Don’t frown; just frolick,
Don’t relinquish; just ride,
Don’t growl; just grin,
Don’t sweat; just sweeten,
Don’t coax; just captivate,
Don’t fulminate; just free,
Don’t stick; just suckle,
Don’t poison; just proliferate,
Don’t slaver; just shimmer,
Don’t retrospect; just respect,
Don’t comment; just compliment,
Don’t muse; just music,
Don’t brood; just blossom,
Don’t flaunt; just face,
Don’t tyrannize; just titillate,
Don’t irritate; just idolize,
Don’t latch; just leap,
Don’t hijack; just heal,
Don’t jabber; just joy,
Don’t bombard; just bring,
Don’t piece; just peace,
Don’t sneak; just seek,
Don’t abridge; just attune,
Don’t parry; just print,
Don’t maudlin; just milk,
Don’t belch; just begin,
Don’t discriminate; just darling,
Don’t frazzle; just flirt,
Don’t zigzag; just zip,
Don’t pervade; just purify,
Don’t sin; just sanctify,
Don’t dull; just dart,
Don’t demolish; just donate,
Don’t measure; just maverick,
Don’t rotate; just remember,
Don’t grimace; just gyrate,
Don’t desert; just drool,
Don’t brazen; just bear,
Don’t dim; just dazzle,
Don’t maraud; just melange,
Don’t fix; just freelance,
Don’t zombie; just zing,
Don’t elongate; just engender,
Don’t corrigendum; just clean,
Don’t duplicate; just dream,
Don’t squelch; just spawn,
Don’t clown; just consecrate,
Don’t nuisance; just news,
Don’t attack; just acclimatize,
Don’t mew; just mollify,
Don’t holocaust; just harbor,
Don’t incinerate; just irrigate,
Don’t beguile; just blatant,
Don’t boo; just booze,
Don’t ennui; just eternalize,
Don’t adjudicate; just adjust,
Don’t bludgeon; just bloom,
Don’t misguide; just mesmerize,
Don’t redirect; just read,
Don’t renunciate; just restore,
Don’t dodge; just disseminate,
Don’t misconceive; just mitigate,
Don’t forge; just form,
Don’t fudge; just flow,
Don’t drain; just date,
Don’t impersonate; just incorporate,
Don’t psychic; just patronize,
Don’t fire; just fantasize,
Don’t menace; just marvel,
Don’t drown; just devote,
Don’t retreat; just relish,
Don’t jail; just jingle,
Don’t whimper; just whistle,
Don’t expect; just accept,
Don’t spread; just sanctify,
Don’t break; just bring,
Don’t fight; just free,
Don’t groan; just grow,
Don’t batter; just bounce,
Don’t preach; just pass,
Don’t shout; just scintillate,
Don’t argue; just adore,
Don’t dither’; just dream,
Don’t stamp; just salute,
Don’t deny; just do,
Don’t simmer; just scintillate,
Don’t recoil; just reinvigorate,
Don’t grunt; just give,
Don’t remove; just redial,
Don’t tonsure; just taste,
Don’t undulate; just utopia,
Don’t condition; just courage,
Don’t imitate; just intimate,
Don’t cremate; just create,
Don’t pretend; just pursue,
Don’t tarnish; just truce,
Don’t rip; just ravish,
Don’t camouflage; just climb,
Don’t ostracize; just oasis,
Don’t dread; just dimple,
Don’t flinch; just fructify,
Don’t scowl; just surge,
Don’t negate; just nictitate,
Don’t duplicate; just drape,
Don’t sedate; just sanctify,
Don’t laze; just levitate,
Don’t emancipate; just exult,
Don’t incinerate; just illuminate,
Don’t fret; just fly,
Don’t doom; just drool,
Don’t traumatize; just tantalize,
Don’t manipulate; just marry,
Don’t cognize; just click,
Don’t supress; just start,
Don’t taunt; just taste,
Don’t betray; just bond,
Don’t stammer; just speak,
Don’t slave; just save,
Don’t abrade; just ameliorate,
Don’t meander; just music,
Don’t stink; just sweeten,
Don’t pass; just plunge,
Don’t flaunt; just fulminate,
Don’t trespass; just transcend,
Don’t spill; just soar,
Don’t tie; just team,
Don’t neigh; just navigate,
Don’t slither; just swim,
Don’t bray; just brain,
Don’t scarecrow; just swim,
Don’t avalanche; just amalgamate,
Don’t kick; just kindle,
Don’t trick; just take,
Don’t butter; just believe,
Don’t characterize; just culminate,
Don’t drag; just dance,
Don’t fight; just forget,
Don’t chop; just cement,
Don’t violate; just voice,
Don’t cry; just consecrate,
Don’t dump; just dangle,
Don’t pounce; just persevere,
Don’t rebel; just rendezvous,
Don’t zany; just zeal,
Don’t irk; just ink,
Don’t juvenile; just jargon,
Don’t quaver; just quench,
Don’t disturb; just dart,
Don’t fume; just ferry,
Don’t erupt; just ensure,
Don’t shunt; just save,
Don’t show; just succeed,
Don’t peep; just pedal,
Don’t laze; just love,
Don’t ambush; just acclimatize,
Don’t breach; just begin,
Don’t restrict; just race,
Don’t mash; just mollify,
Don’t crucify, just cease,
Don’t limit; just leap,
Don’t frown; just flute,
Don’t weigh; just wander,
Don’t terrorize; just tingle,
Don’t brawl; just bingo,
Don’t weep; just wonder,
Don’t undulate; just ultimate,
Don’t thunder; just tune,
Don’t sweat; just sizzle,
Don’t parasite; just paradise,
Don’t reel; just real,
Don’t rectify; just read,
Don’t fever; just flourish,
Don’t repeat; just replenish,
Don’t compress; just coalesce,
Don’t siren; just solace,
Don’t intersperse; just interact,
Don’t imbroglio; just incarcerate,
Don’t levy; just light,
Don’t cage; just conquer,
Don’t soot; just satisfy,
Don’t cross; just caress,
Don’t exonerate; just erect,
Don’t cogitate; just click,
Don’t mutilate; just mold,
Don’t soil; just settle,
Don’t eradicate; just eternalize,
Don’t remorse; just rejuvenate,
Don’t mutilate; just mitigate,
Don’t beat; just bless,
Don’t shoot; just shower,
Don’t lie; just listen,
Don’t crash; just caress,
Don’t mess; just mingle,
Don’t bore; just breathe,
Don’t fool; just follow,
Don’t suck; just satiate,
Don’t duck, just drum,
Don’t ponder; just proliferate,
Don’t boss; just bestow,
Don’t slash; just solve,
Don’t tempt; just touch,
Don’t uncouth; just undo,
Don’t war; just welcome,
Don’t thrash; just tinkle,
Don’t envy; just exult,
Don’t bend; just blossom,
Don’t hide; just harbor,
Don’t char; just cheer,
Don’t dog; just do,
Don’t jail; just jingle,
Don’t pamper; just prove,
Don’t taunt; just team,
Don’t worry; just whistle,
Don’t vanish; just ventilate,
Don’t assassinate; just accept,
Don’t mug; just master,
Don’t jam; just jolly,
Don’t groan; just grin,
Don’t dawdle; just dare,
Don’t incinerate; just illuminate,
Don’t disguise; just dream,
Don’t complicate; just concentrate,
Don’t plot; just philander,
Don’t smoke; just smother,
Don’t age; just ace,
Don’t chase; just culminate,
Don’t murder; just merge,
Don’t emphasize; just empathize,
Don’t trick; just triumph,
Don’t dither; just develop,
Don’t mock; just marvel,
Don’t sink; just seek,
Don’t insist; just implement,
Don’t pin point; just prove,
Don’t preach; just participate,
Don’t sulk; just shine,
Don’t bore; just bound,
Don’t nibble; just neutralize,
Don’t wriggle; just win,
Don’t vain; just voyage,
Don’t zigzag; just zoom,
Don’t yell; just yearn,
Don’t x-ray; just x-mas,
And don’t utter; just unite….

©COPYRIGHT-2002, BY NIKHIL PAREKH

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Parrot green buds of thorn,
Camouflaged in multiple coats of sand,
Having entangled roots in a sheath of loose soil,
Sighted in abundance on colossal plains of parched land,
Required crystal water in paltry amounts,
Thriving in blazing rays of the fiery Sun ball,
Swaying mildly in the rustic dry breeze,
Resistant to termite and large insects,
A specimen of sharp and flexible tentacles,
Spreading its parasitic reach to milligram amounts of starved sand,
Giving birth to flowers after short spells of rain,
Oozing bitter springs of milk when sliced with knife,
Accustomed to soaring heights of mercury all throughout centuries of the calendar year,
Baked to brittle proportions in oceans of acid light,
a relishing meal for hunch backed camel wandering at leisurely speed,
It has hidden cavities of water in raw pulp shells,
Also the tenacity to wound its prey with a labyrinth of acrimonious sprouts,
A perfect antonym to lush green grass,
Inhabiting umpteenth spots of infertile land,
The King Cactus stands tall and solitary in steaming sand of the Sahara Desert.

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