Dr.K.V.Raghupathi Poet
About the Poet: Former academic. Writes in English. Poet, short story writer, novelist, book reviewer, and a critic. Published twelve collections of poetry, two short story collections, two novels. Widely anthologized. He lives at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh and can be reached at drkvraghupathi@gmail.com
A Tireless Social Human being
A Chauvinist, A Feminist, An Androgynist, and a Zen Monk
A tireless social human being, everyone is
I am the rising mountain
in the world.
you are the dipping valley at the bottom
As he makes umpteen compromises with it
said the male chauvinist under the vast
energetic and jubilant
blue sky.
I liked his buoyant spirit
No, I am the rising mountain
he struts and frets with it
you are my dipping valley at the bottom
till the skin cracks like the summer land
said the feminist under the magnificent
and the bones brittle like a glass vase
moonlight.
made of the wasted raw material
No, I am the both, said the androgynist
but he has missed the other side of his
under the silvery stars.
half-life
No, I am neither the rising mountain
the glory of beauty.
nor the dipping valley said the Zen monk I am a zero as much as you are under the sinking shining sun. MARCH 2021 - 044
