Keki N. Daruwalla​

• Advice to Old Poet
  

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​(Daruwalla’s Invitation to the Bar)
 
Focus on bones
Not half rhymes, half tones
Muse India’s faded stars
 
Your knees and hips
Are warning blips
On  hospital radars
 
Elegies and Odes
(please burn your notes)
No longer are in flow’r
 
Treat fractured iambs
Wild dithyrambs
As  galaxies afar
 
We canot reach
That star spangled beach;
Let’s move towards the Bar.
 

A recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award and Commonwealth Poetry Award, Keki N. Daruwalla has so far published about 12 books, consisting of mostly poems and a couple of fictional works. Some of his important works are Under Orion, The keeper of the dead, Landscapes, A summer of tigers and The minister for permanent unrest & other stories. He also edited Two decades of Indian poetry.

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