Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Kabir en español

Buscandola Kabir mismo se perdió
La gota desapareció en la mar,
Dónde se la puede buscar...

Sunday, December 6, 2009

A tryst with Haikus



1
Dancing trees
Inedible fruits
In the sun

2
A cup of tea
Under a tree
Lots of love

3
Flames on shore
Storm on the sea
Though too mild

4
Why to be?
There’s no choice
Already here

5
Tremendous heat
Tremendous cold
Tremendous change

6
Not a path
Not a purpose
Not a problem

7
Too empty
Melodious sounds
But must cease

8
Technique known
To endure and reach
Desire lost

9
Fireflies
In the sun
Certain death

10
Tranquil sea
Beauty of death
Still alive

Rhyming Haikus



1
Nothing at all
Broken and bruised
But walking tall

2
Pendants here
Do not bear
Anything but fear

3
Good and Bad
Pain and Orgasm
Violence and Calm

4
On her way
Shivering I lay
And just pray


Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I laugh; I cannot do otherwise!

I see people running fast
Everywhere I see a terrible haste
Running to where no one knows
Laughing at everyone who does not run
They have to get something important done
And they think that all that they do
Is something unique and completely new!

They think
That they are making a difference
That their existence is really important
That what they achieve will remain forever
That death is not something that can be own
That as long as one lives one must go on
Go on doing what is very important
Important to humankind
Important to society
Important to culture
Important to planet
Important to universe
But important in what way no one knows!

They believe
That one who doesn’t run is an escapist
That one who doesn’t do what is important
Is a coward and is lazy
Is a traitor and is foolish
Doesn’t understand the importance!

But I see
That they were not and they will be not
There have been many like them who are not
And so,
I laugh back at them
I cannot do otherwise!

--Rishiraj

Saturday, October 3, 2009

VOYAGE (My tribute to Paul Michael)

Don’t know where to look for you

Don’t know which number to call

Don’t know where you have gone

I don’t know about you anything at all


My conversations lost in the wind

My sighs get wasted in this desert

When I see you it’s a shimmering mirage

The whole existence seems inert


My letters for you are never answered

You never respond when I call your name

I wonder what has caused this change

I do not know now whom to blame


I understand that it is death...

But what is death I don’t understand

Is death the end of life?

Or life is the beginning of this end?


The only thing that gives me peace

Is that I am to join you soon

If it is a chance to see you again

I believe death to be a boon


In the ocean of the unknown we are lost

With only fragments that seem familiar

We don’t know what's exactly the case

And that is the sole reason of fear


You inspire me to tread this path

To go on whatever it might be

You make me believe that each moment

Is a voyage on an uncharted sea.


--Rishiraj for Paul Michael

Monday, July 13, 2009

The eleventh hour

Ya casi llegamos…

Ya casi llegamos al fin.

El fin de toda la historia…

El fin de los placeres

Y de la miseria…

De los amores…

Y de la gloria…

De la tortura…

Y de la euforia…


Todo se acaba, en absoluto.

Las bellezas y las fealdades…

El esfuerzo de siglos en un momento…

Y la razón es un estúpido.

Ese estúpido que va pasando…

Que solo vive en momento actual…

El dichoso filósofo que no ve el futuro.

Sin embargo, ve la riqueza mundana.

Y no solo la ve, también la añora.


El que se la pasa violando a la madre…

La madre que es la tierra en persona.

Ese maldito nos lleva consigo

A todos al precipicio.


--Rishiraj

Written in blood


Brain is bleeding due to fear
Bleeding eyes the reddish tear
Your hand in my red one
Own blood, nothing have done
Bleeding makes a slippery joint
Bleeding up to final point
Tongue bleeds while I do talk
Bleeding feet but still walk
Flow of blood nothing could block
Scarcity in the plasma stock
Bleeds energy I spend
Body bleeds start to end
Bleeds the being, complete and whole
Heart bleeds but less than soul

--Rishiraj