Once <br />Buddha smiled <br />looking at <br />a Rose flower, <br />then Zen born: <br />the soul of peace! <br /> <br />Through cable <br />Mrs. Indira Gandhi <br />got a short message: <br />'The Buddha is smiling! ' <br />Still I can see <br /> that nuclear smile of <br />dark pride <br />on her face! <br />Now Buddha smiles <br />again and again! <br /> <br />Dear Buddha, <br />the intense moonlight <br />on Buddha-poornima - <br />is it a mushroom cloud <br />envelope your <br />darkened soul? <br />(So disheartened, <br /> I know: <br />never will the resonance of <br />your silent screams <br />from those craters <br />fall in their ears!) <br /> <br />Pity! <br />The wrath of power <br />even behind <br />a poet's* veil! <br /> <br />14.05.98 <br />AB Vajpayee, former prime minister of India, a poet himself!<br /><br />premji premji<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/064-buddha-smiles/
