Divine Poetry Quotes

“If vandalism were activism,
Insurrection was patriotism.
If Jan 6 is deemed patriotism,
9/11 was divine intervention.
If 9/11 is deemed a divine act,
Hate is but an act of holiness.
If hate is ever deemed holiness,
That is the end of all common sense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“Thus Speaks God (The Sonnet)

Ik onkar, satnaam,
Porque, yo soy insan.
Aham bismillahsmi,
Çünkü, benim adım vicdan.
Sarva dharman parityajya,
Giving up all national grave,
Nos haremos vessels of verdad,
Rise we shall as sapiens brave.
Divinidad está en cada cultura,
But no culture is pure divinity.
Human divided is human undivine,
Hatelessness is civilized divinity.
Thus speaks God in tongue beyond tongues.
One vessel isn't enough to contain my neurons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Divinity is in every culture,
But no culture is pure divinity.
Human divided is human undivine,
Hatelessness is civilized divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Human divided is human undivine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Hatelessness is civilized divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“One Spirit, Many Vessels (Sonnet 1021)

Christ was not a christian,
Vyasa was not a hindu.
Mohammed was not a muslim,
Abraham was not a jew.
Buddha was not a buddhist,
Confucius was not confucian.
Zoroaster was not zoroastrian,
Naskar is not naskarean.
Nanak was not a sikh,
Mahavir was not a jain.
All that we ever wanted is,
To remind the humans to be human.
Move past the person, and delve into spirit.
There you shall discover, divisions do not exist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“How does the bird come and go,
In and out of this bodily cage!
So long as you nourish it with love,
Who cares about some mythical fate!

Cages are born of dust,
In dust cages will wither.
Yet you sob in love of cage,
Oblivious to the endangered flier!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Prayers don't work unless you do,
Person is the answer to their own prayer.
When we are the answer to each other,
We rise divine, piercing all savage layer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“I am but a drunken treasure,
with neither beginning nor end.
Don't fall prey to gatekeepers -
I am the valley, you are my gate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Forgetting head, heritage 'n sanity,
I have placed you heartmidst.
I know not much prayer nor poetry;
When heart is frozen, all prayer is amiss.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Heartstream is the mainstream,
All other streams are fancy sewer.
Leave the chase and cut off the mess,
Gutter of gold is still but gutter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“None of us are the chosen people,
We are all just people - period.
We choose what we become or not,
We are the weavers of our world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Firefly Sonnet

Firefly, oh firefly,
why do you gleam so!
Who do you try to impress,
who is the object of your glow!

Oh, ye of little sight,
said the gentle little beacon!
Creatures with light eternal,
don't shine to stir public opinion.

I gleam, 'cause that's my life,
I know no other way of existence.
Puny apes gotta find an agenda,
for most are anemic of effulgence.

And you have the gall to call us bugs,
while your mind is stuck in gutter!
My fire bears proof of existence,
you carry yours as cheap souvenir.


(Note: as a biologist I must mention, this is a purely poetic piece, not to be analyzed with science, for evolutionarily speaking, glowworms use their glow to warn away predators, and attract mate.)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Koran-e Kainat
(Ayat of Amity)

Hayat is my hadith,
Galaxies are my gita.
Interfaith, my torah,
Secularism, my sutta.

Each of your holy texts
bears news of my advent,
yet none is whole enough,
to contain my sentience.

Four vedas fall short,
as well as four gospels.
No testament is full testament,
gospel supreme is mind indivisible.

Live without hate, you're Hadith-e Hayat.
Live a life whole, and you're Koran-e Kainat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Sonnets are my vessel of reason,
Sonnets are my bearer of justice.
Sonnets are my medium of divinity,
I'm my sonnets - antidote to malice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“When I finished my first 1000 sonnets,
I felt, now I shall take it slow.
But now at the finishing of second 1000,
I feel, I gotta write thousands more!

Sonnets are my vessel of reason,
Sonnets are my bearer of justice.
Sonnets are my medium of divinity,
I'm my sonnets - antidote to malice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Sonnets to write before I sleep.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Shehit Shair Society, Sonnet
(Martyr Poets Society)

Poet* is martyred so poetry can live,
Monk is martyred so holiness can live.
Reformer is martyred so society can live,
Dervish is martyred so the cosmos can live.

Sufi is martyred so serenity can breathe,
Scientist is martyred so reason finds light.
Philosopher is martyred so curiosity lives,
Saint is martyred to keep the promise alive.

The just are martyred so injustice ends -
they diss us woke, we couldn't care less.
*Shairs and seers, we are sad figures -
It's from our wounds, the world draws courage.

Walk your wounds, surf your suffering.
Amidst self-lovers, martyr is the king.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Soul that is kind is soul divine,
Mind segregated is most unholy kind.
Helping the helpless is holiness alive,
Day of the living is day of the divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“The Naskar Code (Sonnet)

Kainat** is my qaum*,
Universe is my aum.
Carrying **cosmos in my chest,
every *community is my home.

Sat* is my nam-e,
*Honesty, my identity.
I am the one who is,
reflection of all humanity.

Bodhi* and dharma** are key to life,
lifting us high above the animals.
*Awareness wakes us to divine vision,
**Duty is the seed of civilization.

Valley of life is without elite divide,
Science, philosophy, divine, all are one.
Scientist, Poet, Dervish, or Philosopher,
Adjectives though plenty, noun is but one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Jesus and Lucifer, are all in the mind - in hate we fall, in goodness, divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Poetry, my nationality,
words, my brethren.
To the world I'm monsoon,
for inside I'm barren.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Vagabond Poet (Sonnet)

Bi' gün değil, bugün,
bugün yaşamalı,
bugün parlamalı,
bugün uyanmalı,
bugün yürümeli.

Wear your wounds like crown,
not tomorrow, but today.
In front of your thunderous resolve,
intimidating clouds all fade away.

Where lips don't speak, eyes do -
where eyes don't speak, backbone do.
And once backbone has spoken, all the
militaries cannot render it untrue.

Poetry, my nationality,
words, my brethren.
To the world I'm monsoon,
for inside I'm barren.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“30 Days of Ramadan (Sufi Sonnet)

On the 1st day of Ramadan I say to thee,
celebration of Ramadan is celebration of rahmat.
On the 2nd day of Ramadan I say to thee,
the greatest iftar is to lift up another.

On the 3rd day of Ramadan I say to thee,
kindness makes moments holy, not date and time.
On the 4th day I say to thee, till we renounce
apathy, refusing 'interest' counts for nothing.

On the 5th day of Ramadan I say to thee,
helping a human is worth a hundred Hajj.
On the 6th day of Ramadan I say to thee,
service to humanity is service to Allah/God.

On 7th I say, true mercy waits for no month.
On 8th I say, mercy exclusive to month is fake mercy.
9. There is nothing uglier than happiness hoarded.
10. Light shared, is amplified, when hoarded, it's lost.
11. Breaking fast while the world starves, is no holy.

12. Dua without deeds is dua (prayer) of the dead.
13. Only kafir is the one who lacks kindness.
14. Real divinity knows no distinction of faith.
15. The opposite of sacredness is prejudice.

16. Heart is the first and final mosque.
17. Heart set on prejudice tantamount to Quran set on fire.
18. Abandon fundamentalism, and adopt tolerance.
19. What's fanatic is dead, what's tolerant is alive.
20. Tolerance is the awakening of divine desire.

21. Condemn none, convert none, for all are equal.
22. All streams spring from the human heart.
23. Reflections though vary, the sun is the same.
24. Tolerate no more bigotry to poison the world.

25. Surpass all fear, and share a date.
26. Date shared is bloodshed spared.
27. Dogma deserted is harmony harvested.
28. Ramadan is the end of fear and hatred.

On the eve of Eid, I bear reminder - for one
who lives with kindness, everyday is Ramadan.
On Eid al-Fitr, I stand as a promise -
in celebrating each other we rise human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Where there is no muslim, non-muslim - where there is no believer, non-believer - where all distances are conquered by heart, outgrowing myths one emerges Merhem-e Manavta.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Service is sanctity, my Eid al-Adha - tolerance is my azaan, my Eid al-Fitr.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Here at the mountaintop, we're just humans - no black, no white, no believer, nonbeliever - here at the mountaintop, we're each other's keeper.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Stand Human Anyway (Sonnet 2262)

If Jesus didn't exist,
Moses didn't exist,
Mohammed didn't exist,
Vyas and Sid didn't exist,
I'll still stand just as divine,
just as alive, just as human.

If the bible didn't exist,
koran didn't exist,
torah didn't exist,
and vedas didn't exist,
I'll still stand just as sacred,
just as aware, just as human.

If I didn't exist, my writings didn't exist,
stand human anyway, within you is the ore.
Don't outsource, you are the source,
feet rooted in soil, not shackled in folklore.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Insan Chalisa (Abridged)

Jai Insan, Chetna Sagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujagar.
Rise Insan, Ilaaj Ilahi;
Al Hub, Hayat Paygamber.

Ik Onkar, Satnam Shahada;
One Insan Bodhi Vihara.
Born of Ash, Deed Amartya;
Once Ignited, Ashiq Ananta.

Vision Virat, Vajra Avinashi;
Kafir Kareem to Vidyesh Vinashi.
Unbent Akhanda in Realm Divided,
Dervish Divaane, Advaita Ruhani.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Insan Chalisa (Excerpt)

Jai Insan, Chetna Sagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujagar.
Rise Insan, Ilaaj Ilahi;
Al Hub, Hayat Paygamber.

Ik Onkar, Satnam Shahada;
One Insan Bodhi Vihara.
Born of Ash, Deed Amartya;
Once Ignited, Ashiq Ananta.

Vision Virat, Vajra Avinashi;
Kafir Kareem to Vidyesh Vinashi.
Unbent Akhanda in Realm Divided,
Dervish Divaane, Advaita Ruhani.

Ek Insan, Hoonkar-e Asmaan,
Khalsa in Veins, Noor-e Nadaan;
no togetherness, no tomorrow -
Awake, Arise, O Christly Insan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop