Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Sixty

1. Love...
is nothing but a wondrous machine
for wasting time!

2. When clouds gather in the mind,
do clouds gather in the sky too?

3. No stars in the sky today.
The pack of dogs suddenly breaks into song!

4. Seeing the trembling fingers,
even the trigger now plots
to murder its owner!

5. At the mouth of a volcano,
does the moon still
have a job?

6. In thick fog,
the sun is unemployed.

7. Locked the room
and forgot, in another room.
The key inside the room,
tea water on the heater.
The thirst for tea grows.

8. Why did you stop?
Out of breath?
Or out of drive?

9. Coming to join his new job, he discovered
the company had gone bankrupt and shut down!

10. One starving man
won't throw away even
half a loaf
to another starving man.

11. Before leaving for the office,
the loving working mother
hurriedly nurses
her bewildered child.

12. Some marriages
are bound not by love
but by career.

13. In the summer noon,
drenched in sweat,
a woman tormented by separation.

14. In the kash grass of autumn,
the monsoon works overtime.

15. Mangoes on every branch
waiting for the nor'wester.

16. At sunset time,
like an experienced lover,
hope stirs in the unemployed youth's heart—
tomorrow, surely, somewhere will call!

17. With its crow-drenched body
stands that tree
where the crows have built their nest.

18. The sun rises in one cloud,
the moon sets in another.

19. On the poor scarecrow's head
a myna bird fearlessly perches.

20. In the spider's web
drop by drop of water;
in each one, a whole sun
of late evening.
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