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Call For Papers For Theme MSM On Medicine, Mental Health, Science, Religion and Well-Being

 
MSM Poems
 
 
Poems on Medicine, Health and Human Behaviour
 
 
We have begun a Mens Sana Monographs Poems Section from November 2005. Interested poets may send their work for consideration. They may be in verse, but preferably in blank verse. A four-line write up on the poet with a photograph must accompany every submission. You may submit not more than three poems at one time.
 
While there cannot really be a restriction of any nature as to topics in poetry, poems dealing with medicine, health, delicate satire on human behaviour of various types, insighful reflections etc are more likely to be accepted for publication.
 
Poems may preferably be submitted in Word format by email and addressed to the Editor.
 
Acceptance, or otherwise, will be conveyed within four weeks of receipt of submission, if not earlier. (We do not wish to increase the anguish of poets by making them wait further. That may lead to another distressed poetry because of us!)
 
Poems for potential publication in Mens Sana Monographs (ISSN 0973-1229), Vol IV, No 2, July-December, 2006 should reach the Editor in Microsoft Word format by 1st May, 2006.
 
All poems will be submitted for peer review and a decision of acceptance or otherwise will be conveyed to the authors by 1st June 2006. Authors may contact the Editor, Mens Sana Monographs, for further details and clarification (email: mensanamonographs@yahoo.co.uk).
 
 
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 You can read here MSM Poems published:
 

MSM Poems

 

MSM Poems, Mens Sana Monographs, III: 6, IV:1-4, March-Dec, 2006                                

 

CITATION: Singh A.  (2006),  A Case of Identity  (MSM Poems). In: What Medicine Means To Me, MSM, III:6, IV:1-4.

 

 

 

 

A Case of Identity

 

 

Tonight at a classical dance recital

                           symbolizing the eternal quest of the soul-force for God

I too raised for myself some questions

As I saw the dancer adopt body twisted

                                    beautifully gymnastic postures

 like a question mark put before me

                                    - who am I?

 

 

Am I the inquisitive streetwalker listening at pavements

                                   to snake charmers’ aphrodisiac calls,

watching indolently as the fast cycling rogue

whirling past knocks her off, squeezes her breasts,

                                        makes off

                     and leaves me to pacify her smothered adolescence.

 

 

Or am I the automaton

That hangs on to footboards and breezes past in fast trains

                                  every morning and evening

the only sensation left in me being in my hands

                                  holding on for dear life, and in my lips

wolf whistling as I swirl past platforms.

 

 

Or just the nimble fingers

                                typing away at jet-speed,

taking down bosses’ notes, thumbing

                               across wads of money,

                                hand shaking

with prospective customers.

 

 

Or just tongues, tongues and more tongues

with mounds and mounds of sugar and ghee and adulterated oils

                               pouring it all into unknowing ears

furthering business prospects

                              feeding everyone around in slow poison doses

and fattening on pure ghee, purity of expression, conscience.

 

 

So that I can decorate my drawing room with costly paintings and

                             upholstery

watch expensive dance recitals

                             and answer question marks once in a while.

 

 

 

 

 Ajai R. Singh

 

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CITATION: Singh A.  (2006), More Smoke  (MSM Poems). In: What Medicine Means To Me, MSM, III:6, IV:1-4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Smoke

 

 

 

In the hot sultry fiasco of damp

                                      enthusiasms

and silver rays in gloomy

                                     archives,

narcosis and the feeling

                                     of melting ice on frozen palms.

 

 

Arborescent shadows of sorrow

                                    in reminiscent silhouettes

the rain soaked evening

of pouring emotions

and grassy long walks on dripping

                                     pavements

 Seeking out each other.

 

 

Remember, my dear

the sweet faint lavender

                                    in the cleft of your breasts

hidden from the present and

posterity

                                    and the knowledge of transience.

 

 

Looking at the grey skies

                                    I think of clear blue water

and simmering passions

although

                                   I’ve heard

you’ve created a smoke screen

                                   from tall chimneys.

 

 

Ajai Singh

 

 

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Mens Sana Monographs, III: 4-5, Nov. 2005-Feb. 2006                                 53

 

 

Silences                                              

 

Indeed.

 

Silences

Allow whispers to

Travel

long distances.

 

And

 

Whispers

Make silences

Come to life.

 

And

 

Life itself

Is a

Whisper

Between

Two silences.

 

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Parliament

 

Yesterday

the crows gathered on our terrace

for a meeting.

There were at least five hundred

of them

if not more.

And,

as they caw-cawed

and moved about animatedly

and argued

and jostled

and changed sides

and hung on

to slender ropes

and made it all appear

very intense

and

apparently purposeful

and

equally entertaining.

 

I remembered

another

similar assembly.

 

Ajai Singh

 

 

 

 

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