Saffron Encounter
Tshering Namgyal Bhutia 1983 (Sikkim)
Prevaricated replies,
tempered by a devious smile.
He exudes a foul aura,
a shifty disposition.
Vermillioned forehead,
a trident in hand.
An unkempt, villainous beard,
tobacco stained teeth.
His word is his weapon,
encircling your senses,
feeding on your superstitions,
He's got u right where he wants.
His bag of tricks,
creates powder out of thin air,
Gangajal at his fingertips.
Enraptured you gaze on,
while he coaxes your naivety.
He's talked his way into your wallet,
and you walk away a poorer man.
Confused, you wonder aloud,
to make sense of what transpired.
And you begin to realize,
You've been taken for a ride.
Frustrated, you seek out the godman,
but the chameleon's lost
in a sea of humanity.
Your rueful smile
can't help appreciating,
the silver tongued rogue,
a master of his fraudulent art.
About this poem
The poem is about the scams run by fake godmen, that are commonplace in India, and how they fleece people using religion and astrology
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Submitted by zanymustang on February 27, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 866 |
Words | 194 |
Stanzas | 28 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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