Autophony

बोझ ढोते दर्द जो रोए, चादर ओढे सोए | रामेश देखो चींटी को, काज कैसे होए || यह कृति उमर बहुभाषीय रूपांन्तरक की मदद से देवनागरी में टाइप की गई है|

Variation 1:- I am because some DNA must replicate. Carbon defines life. Variation 2:- I am because some DNA must replicate. The Red Queen enslaves.

Through cracks in concrete, a Laburnum blooms yellow. Life finds ways to live.

Stiff doorkeepers, Elderly Parsi ladies, Catholics from Bandra, Swanks with corporate passes, And the mandatory coconut, Babes thrown in for spice, And there must obviously, be boys to impress them. And some like me, On cheap tickets Thinking they alone came for the music. Stephen Kovacevich plays to us all. (The pianist Stephen Kovacevich played Bach and Beethoven at the NCPA on March 19th, 2008.)

I exist because the dinosaurs went extinct. A meteor made me.

Forest fires singe winter's leaves for summer's blooms. Death makes way for life.

A few colourless drops turn dead brown to vivid green. The monsoon brings life.

A few drops of rain: Barren soil erupts in life. Frist showers enthrall.

A floating brinjal is all that remains of you. But memory will haunt.

Cracked Gulmohur pods sow red flowers next summer. Life's never dormant.

Writing senryu is a lifetime of syllables. To save one is joy.