My Poems My Paintings: A Treasure-Trove of Creativity in Literary & Visual Modes

By Dr. SS Bhatti (Ta’meer Chandigarhi)

My Poems My Paintings is an anthology of poems of various genres in English written way back in 1971. He uses poetry as an apt mode of creative self-expression in the area of literary arts. Apart from their lyrical value, these verses on diverse subjects and themes carry the authors philosophic outlook that persistently puts his highly individualized experiences in the universal context, making him a modern-day rishi (seer) of far-reaching consequence. His lifes oeuvre in poetry has four thousand poems, and in painting, nearly three thousand creations. Distinguished by the enormity of quantum, originality, sustained high quality, and amazing versatility, all his creations are couched in what he calls holistic humanism.

He insists that we humans must wean consciousness from money-mindedness to moneyed-mindedness to become our pathfinders to the realm of lifes spiritual realities.

It carries substantial and diverse material that will benefit the modern-day youth in getting rid of many illusions that cloud wits and prevent them from seeing Gods most precious gift (soul) lodged inside the eye-catching wrappings (body) that mislead us into blind alleys of maverick ambition. It is not unlikely that it will inspire some to discover their own native creativity and conscientiously develop it to full potential.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Mar 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781482888522

Dr. SS Bhatti (Ta’meer Chandigarhi)

Architect Dr SS Bhatti is a major poet in English and Urdu. He has imparted new dimensions and freshness to poetry and its ‘architectonics’. He has published three anthologies of poetry, three in English, and one in Urdu. His two Books of Art would soon hit the international market

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Copyright © 2017 MY POEMS MY PAINTINGS by Dr SS Bhatti (Ta’meer Chandigarhi). All rights reserved.

By The Same Author

LET LIFE LIVE – An Anthology of Poems was published by Partridge in 2016.

COVER DESIGN for My Poems My Paintings that is based on the Author’s two paintings has been prepared by

PROF DS KAPOOR, Graphic Artist

ISBN

978-1-4828-8851-5 (sc)

978-1-4828-8852-2 (e)

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Contents

My Poems

AND ORDER MUST CREATE

TIME HATH WANDERED ALL ALONE THRO’

THE CAPRICE OF OPINIONS

AH! ITS AIRY GRACE, LIGHTNESS ‘N’ POISE!

SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY

MACHINES and ME

LIKE A FLY DO THEY WELCOME ME

THAT TAKES MAN OUT ON A JOURNEY

RHYTHM, RHYTHM, RHYTHM…

THE SILENCE

A PROPHET IS A MADMAN…

MEN ARE BUT CIRCLES WHICH INTERSECT

CLOUD and MAN

AND LOGIC SEEKS

O MAN is THE PROBLEM!

OH! IF ONLY TO SAY JUST ONCE

BUT AREN’T DEWDROPS

MIND IS THE WINDOW…

I CUT MY HEART

ATTENTION!

REVELATION

THE SEA O’ DEATH

HOW LITTLE YOU KNOW!!

MEDITATION

NEVER WILL NONE!?

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

THE BIG ZERO

BUT HE INSPIRES AWE

That ‘what is’—SHALL BE

THRO’ EYE INTO THE EAR

For, Truth is a LIVING FORCE

THEN, UN-TARNISHED LITTLE SOULS

THE CAPTIVE and THE FREE

AND DRINK DEEP FROM LIFE’S BRIMFUL CUP

MAJESTIC FLOWS A STREAM

THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY

THIS FATAL SURVIVAL

THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

WHEN SOME BIRTH HITHER TAKES PLACE

LIFE IS ONE UNENDING OPPORTUNITY

FOR TRUTH’S NATURE IS TIMELESS

BUT YOU NEEDN’T TAKE ME SERIOUSLY

FOR HUMANITY ALONE CANST THERE BE BLISS

SUBLIME INTIMACY

THE IMMUTABLE

FEEL, now, FREE

AH! MY WELL-MEANING, WORTHY FOES

THE LAST-NAMED IS HIGHER

YET THERE IS SOMETHING IN MAN

AGE PUTS ITS SENSE ON GUARD

INTO THE POETIC FRENZY

IN AWED REVERENCES A HAND…

BREAK OUT OF THE MOULD

ONCE PICTURED WITHIN IT

RAINS

LOOK! GOD IS

MINDLESS SILENCES

PREJUDICES

The LEPER

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

STRUGGLE FOR ATTENTION

UNTIL I ACHIEVE A STATE OF PURITY

O THERE IS JOY IN EVERYTHING...

A FORMLESS SILHOUETTE

O WORLD LEAVE ME ALONE

BY SMART PHONES’ CRAZY HAZE

THE LANGUAGE OF BEING ALIVE

MY THOUGHT IS MY GREATEST CHALLENGE

NOR IS IT EVER TOO LONG

DAWN o’ TRUTH

KNOWLEDGE IS LIVING

SELF -KNOWLEDGE

O THESE HOLY HOUSES OF GOD!

AND YET IS LIGHT ‘n’ FREE

BUT VERY FEW, IF EVER

A SINLESS MATE, IN WAITING, DIEST

WITH APOLOGIES TO RABINDRANATH TAGORE

A MYRIAD LIVELY LIVES

SO THAT MY DEAD BODY

THE CHRIST-less RELIGION

TEMPTATION IS BEING PROVOKED

SHE’S MY DAUGHTER: I’M HER SON!

TO LIVEN UP HISTORY

NEW YEAR EVE

IT NEEDS A BURNING EYE

SHE SETS ME ON FIRE

THRO’ THE WINDOW

HIPPIES

A PINCH OF PERFECTION

CHANGING THE SAINT, SPACE, ‘N’ STRAW

MAN ASPIRES TO BE MAN

ENLIGHTENED petty MEN

ODE TO LOVE

THE FAMILY OF MAN

Man or Machines

LET’S KEEP ourselves YOUNG

BY HIS SOULFUL MUNIFICENCE

THERE IS HOPE IN DESPAIR

CONFUSION

YOU ARE THE WRITER OF DESTINY OF MAN

I SHALL CONTINUE TO REVEAL

My Paintings

INTRODUCTION

64 Fine Arts have been enumerated in the great Indian tradition of art and culture that extols them to the stature of Divinity. Our chief gods Lord Rama and Lord Krishna are referred to as chaudaih kala sampoorn [Master of 14 Arts] and solaih kala sampoorn [Master of 16 Arts], respectively. POETRY tops the list, with the next four in descending order being: Music, Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. In ancient times, everything in India was written in Poetry because of its unique mnemonic, or easy-to-remember, quality. This was crucial because all knowledge had to be committed to memory and transmitted from mouth to ear—in the absence of printing facilities. The other extraordinary and universal attribute of Poetry is its unmatched succinctness, which it achieves by making extraordinarily long jumps with the use of apt metaphors I call musical stenographic units of language—language being the greatest invention of the human genius. I regard Poetry to be the ‘Language of Prophecy’: all prophets are poets although all poets are not prophets.

Poetry for me is the most wonderful of all art-forms which have been so far devised by man. It is distinguished by a unique informality, spontaneity, and freedom