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All Awake to Humanity (Sonnet 2050) – Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets

Science ought to be at the forefront
of calling and curing mindlessness,
not an olympian god aloof on pedestal
distantly passing judgment, like
hallucinations through bushes.

Faith ought to be at the forefront
of calling out persecution and malice,
rather than seeking justification in
dead books, like brainless primates.

Selma to Montgomery, from river to the sea,
We stand guard, with no weapon but our dignity.
Reason is our ark, love is our compass –
Colored, White, Muslim and otherwise, together
we shall overcome – All Awake to Humanity!

Colonials Go Home! (Forest Fascist Reserve, Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets

Colonials go home, not to England
or Europe, but straight to the jungle!
Only place wild animals are beautiful,
is in the dog-eat-dog spaces of the wild.

Don’t worry, once in a while we’ll visit,
like we visit any of your fellow animals.
If anything, visiting you will inspire us
further, to never deviate from integration.

Nevertheless, there is still another way,
you don’t need to be deported back to the jungle.
If there is even a smidgen of humanity in you,
now is the time to bring it out, and get help.

Otherwise, we can easily trace your family tree,
back to the time your family lived in it.
Once we do, all nine billion of us will chip in,
and hire a couple of cargo planes to deport
all you bigots to a forest fascist reserve.

Two Drops of Blood (Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets

Pick a drop of blood from your finger,
pick a drop from another,
smudge it all on the palm of your hand –
now tell me, which is which –
which is heretic, which is believer –

which is the Christian blood,
which is the Muslim –
which is the faithful blood,
which is forbidden!

You always obsess over skin and bones,
but care the least for the life within –
wake up to life outside dead dogma, and you
can’t tell one life from another, it’s all one.

Children of South (World Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets

Africa is not a charity case,
Colombia is not a charity case,
Bolivia is not a charity case,
Venezuela is not a charity case,

Mexico is not a charity case,
Philippines is not a charity case,
Thailand is not a charity case,
India is not a charity case –

the global south is not a charity case,
it’s rich with both mind and minerals.
Human poverty in the global south is
manufactured by the northern apes.

Awake, Arise, O Children of South,
you got more brain, heart and backbone
than all old and new colonials combined.
Humans of Earth everywhere, all rise ‘n roar,
the first global goal is to fire the fascists.

“Brain is there to think first, then take a side…” Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets

Brain is there to think first,
then take a side,
but society teaches you to
pick a side first, then think alike.

In a world of flexible
spine and rigid mind,
muster an unbending
spine with expanding mind.

Art of Naskar, Neurosonnets

At the end of the day I’m a behaviorist, and my mission is, not a world rooted in pure logic, nope – my mission is a world rooted in hearty logic and mindful fiction. So naturally I’m not gonna speak the lingo of any particular school of thought, intellectual or theological – rather, I speak in a manner, meant to bring out the best in people from all denominations across the spectrum. In short, there is purpose behind my every phrase, every idiom, every tone, tune, and rhythm – my goal is to engender neither science nor faith, but to establish universal assimilation. To understand me, you have to listen as a human, not as believer or nonbeliever, but as human.

I grew up celebrating Diwali, eating fruitcake on the 25th, and waking up to the call of azaan. If I’m devout anything, it’s a devout human.

Fountainhead (Divine Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets

I am love, I am tolerance,
I’m the opposite of imposition.
I am equality, I am integration,
I’m the opposite of compulsion.

My mother is Amina,
so is Yashoda, and Mary.
Every mother is divine mother –
there is no first or last, for
every child is messenger to humanity.

Fight not each other over my existence,
fight instead against inhuman advances.
Fight not over petty scriptures riddled
with simian folly, call forth the divine
within – be forthright in treating prejudice.

I am love, I am tolerance, I am what
bigoted monkeys mock as woke and DEI.
No matter what dogmatic primates believe,
prisons of doctrines are not my paradise.

Rx for Fascism (Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets

Gaza is not for sale,
Greenland is not for sale,
Ukraine is not for sale,
Canada is not for sale.

Planet Earth is not real estate,
to pander to your predatory psychopathy.
If you are so hard up for cash, we can all
chip in to buy you some good ol shock therapy.

When someone plays fast and loose with rights
and freedom, their place is either in the jungle
or in a mental institution, not in office.
Fascism, fundamentalism and nationalism,
these are the ultimate mental illness.

30 Days of Ramadan (Sufi Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets

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.

Original Vow (Anti Fascist Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets

By race we are all african,
by birth we are all feminist,
by nature we are all lovers,
by suffering we are all poets.

You know, which nation has the nicest people?
You cannot guess in a million years.
The nation with the nicest people is, Earth, for
no nation has exclusive franchise over niceness –

goodness is a human quality, not a national one.
Nationalism is an animal trait, not a human one.
Sacredness is a secular practice, not sectarian.
Culture is an act of expansion, not exclusion.

Bella ciao, we’re not going back
to the jungle, not ever, not now.
Hate not permitted while I stand,
this, is the original divine vow.