Fungus. A Heap of Poems

Fungus. A Heap of Poems
Parvez Kumar

Этот необычный сборник стихов на английском языке создан молодым поэтом из Индии.

В Индии Парвез Кумар получил степень магистра по английскому языку и британской литературе (Guru Nanak Dev University, 2011), а в России преподаёт английский язык и пишет стихи о том, что его волнует: о любви, о природе, о современном обществе и его нравах, о поиске Бога, о Родине…

Стихи написаны простым английским языком, который понятен любому человеку.

Это вторая книга автора в жанре поэзии.

В сборнике найдут для себя интересное все, кто когда-то изучал английский язык или изучает сейчас. А также просто любители современной поэзии!

Иллюстрации со скульптурами, дополненными яркими анахронизмами, созданы в соавторстве с Надеждой Бугаёвой – автором романа со стихами «Сказка о царевиче-птице и однорукой царевне».

Parvez Kumar

Fungus. A Heap of Poems

PREFACE

I behaved very dramatically in my early poems. I took poetry piously serious and made it ample (literally). I know that many of the same kind as me, still think the same. But whatever they think, it bothers me the least. I am striving to take my poems to simplicity and reality which is well felt, well seen and well experienced. A poet is just like a commoner yet specializes in making garlands or necklaces of the beads which he finds at the different levels of his life; though it can be obnoxious.

Time and again, I think about bringing some sort of moral into my verses just as most poets have done. But what is moral? Where does it exist? Subjectively, I think that it dwells in our mind only. Perhaps, it is made to defend ourselves against each other; a kind of shield or it is fear of conscience which controls us from committing anything immoral. However, moral has different meaning for everyone. What is morally good for me, can be bad for others. Let me tell you a little real story, one of my friends sent me a video on Telegram. I saw that in the video a person, carrying a heavy branch of a tree, was trying to scare away a python who had caught a deer for its lunch. In return, the python tried to counterattack but its middle part of the body was tightly wrapped around the deer. The person succeeded to drive away the python. The python quickly released the deer and swiftly crawled away. The deer didn’t move for a couple of seconds, then it stood up and ran away. That person managed to save the deer’s life. I think most people would do the same, if they had such a case. But in the moral world of such people pythons must starve to death. Whether it is right or wrong, I leave it to you. “Right” and “wrong” has different meanings for everyone.

Moreover, I have no wish to teach you what is good and what is bad, because if I try to do so and some of you believe that, it will take you in prison of my limited knowledge and you won’t be free to find your own way to think about things. This is what has happened in the human history: everyone has tried to feed others with their own experienced knowledge of morality, philosophy and laws of life. Such laws and limited morality have grown out of fashion on countless occasions by following generations of people, because people are like those beautiful green bushes which must grow to their actual size and use full wisdom and power in their total capacity. But some leaders, keeping in mind those personal laws and morality, do try to manicure these bushes in that shape and size which is suitable for their own eyes.

Eventually, most people have lived life of darkness and handicapped spiritual illiteracy. Unfortunately, nobody is free to feel one with their own self and enjoy the life in totality. We are taught that life is a struggle and it is ugly, full of hardships; and for that we curse God or our fate because we are not ready to accept that we ourselves have made such life.

By the way, I think that we should be very conscious and careful when we wish something, and be careful for the words and context in which we wish something; because everything comes true whatever you wish, sooner or later. Our wish or desire starts to work on itself to make it happen. So, we have to be clear in our intentions and wishes when we desire something. Otherwise, we get things half done; and we are left with dissatisfaction and regret. I know that I am not the only one to say it.

Sometimes, you might have noticed, some brilliant ideas strike your mind before you go to sleep or early in the morning when you are half asleep and half awake. The picture of idea is clear to you when your brain is calm at that time and you are alone, even if there’s your partner in the bed beside you. But when you totally wake up, that picture becomes blurred and you can’t focus again. You wake up and come in contact with the world for another day. But if you concentrate well and think about every single detail of this future thing or concept or method, you will witness that it will come true and work wonders for you.

In India, we believe and practice ‘daan’, a kind of donation. We believe that whatever we donate, returns to us in double amount, so we must be very careful what we donate; consciously or not consciously. So, keep in mind if you use this wish-come-true technique to disturb and destroy somebody else’s world, your wish will come true, but it will work like cancer, and you will perish. My God! Did I need to tell you that? You already know this, but some are still asleep.