K SHESHU BABU - FLOWERS NIPPED IN THE BUD

The writer from anywhere and everywhere when ponders on the question ' who am I?',receives some response in a lyric by the Assamese singer Bhupen Hazarika ....
" Ami ek jajabor' ( I am a gypsy ...)
Some of the writings including poems appeared in dissidentvoice.org, Leaves of Ink, Tuck Magazine, Virasam,  Velivada, countercurrents.org, counterview.org, counterview.net, sabrangindia.in , etc.

​Flowers nipped in the bud

​There was a garden
Some called it 'Kashmir'
Others ' Garden of Eden' !

Plenty of flowers flourished
The gardner carefully nourished
The place shone with beauty
Colors sparkled in the air aplenty

Visitors came and enjoyed
The flowers felt overjoyed

One day, two visitors from opposite sides
Entered to claim the land of ' mines' !

They clashed with each other
And trampled many a budding flower

While they surrendered the place
To their big corporates with grace
Flowers yelled ' we want freedom' !
But their voices choked and were left to serfdom