POETRY FORUM

EXPLOIT IMAGINATION

by Saloni Kaul on August 28, 2016 :: 0 comments

Equality’s rare
In most regimes, most regiments, work or pleasure,
Where hierarchy comes into play
But in what counts, in combat fair
Giving measure then for measure
They levelly beat the lights out of day.

Sophistication, elegance reigns
In the upper class like sugar crunch caviar munch
Till it’s time for one upmanship
Ah then who cares
It’s punch for punch
All whole swing, free for all, all unzipped.

Exchange of ideas
On the other hand as it ought
Like conversation cool
Is meted out gentlemanlike to peers
Thought for thought
Where we play by the rules.

Businessmen and marketeers
Exploit imagination’s stream.
Silver or gold plated
There they go selling dear
Dream for dream
To all (and sundry) unmitigated.

editors note:

Bottom line growth is nothing funny. Imagination – equality, sophistication, ideas – are great if they make money. – mh clay

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A bit about Saloni: Saloni Kaul, author and poet, first published at the age of ten, has stayed in print since on four continents, including seventeen states of the USA. As critic and columnist, Saloni has all of forty-four years years of being published. Saloni Kaul's first volume, a fifty poem collection was published in the USA in 2009. Subsequent volumes include Universal One and Essentials All.

SALONI KAUL has been published recently in The Horrorzine, Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum (contains ongoing Saloni Kaul poetry page), The Penwood Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, Blueline (State University of New York), OVI Magazine, House Of Horror Glitter & Words, Mantis (Stanford University), The Whimperbang Journal, The Paragon Press Journal, The Imaginate (Rutger's University), Mystical Muse Poetry Magazine, The Charleston Anvil, The Treasure Chest, Poetry Leaves Anthology and Exhibition and Arteidolia. Upcoming poetry publishing acceptances include those of The Penwood Review, OVI, Amulet Poetry Magazine, Arteidolia and Quail Bell Magazine.

In addition to performing poetry solo, Saloni Kaul collaborates with artists on installations and exhibitions revolving around her own poetry and with musicians and composers on live and recorded performances of Saloni Kaul poetry set to music.