# The Parrot Shrieks

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**Author:** R. C. Shukla
 **Pages:** 135 **Year of Publication:** 2003 **Price:**
HB Rs 200, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 81-8157-116-9 (8181571169) FB 81-8157-117-7 (8181571177)

**_About the Author:_**
 R. C. Shukla, Head of the Department of English, K. G. 
K. College at Moradabad, is a well known bilingual poet from Northern India. He 
has published his English poems in several leading poetry journals in India including
the Delhi-based _Indian Literature_.

**_Teaser:_**

_Charity is not the name of Love_

Very tenacious are
 Your trammels, my love, Which My heart is indisposed to break
Because The discipline I have learned is forbearance No matter Who of us prevails.

My claims may be mine
 But the sanctions are yours And it is your discretion Whether
you become judicious and lift Or remain clogged To your stones.

Charity is not the name of love
 Nor commiseration, nor benevolence. It demands 
food for its needs Food for the eyes Food for the soul.

The thing that performs
 Is a barrier An enactment against love But an equally conservative
conclusion Is a thing that reigns On the welkin of soul As righteously As on the
land of limbs.

**_Contents:_**
 A Queen of Purpose Entered My Life / 15 Charity is not the name
of Love / 17 Sex is not cohabitation alone / 18 You are not Mimosa nor a flower 
indeed / 20 You are ever with me through your absence / 22 Woman is a field fertile/
24 Love is an illusion blinking from heaven / 26 Ours is an unusual relationship
between the Glass and Stone / 27 The woman does not like one who waits / 29 I was
not conversant with the art of Bath / 30 All Woman Are Islands / 32 A Woman’s Love
Is an Invasion / 34 Commerce / 35 No final word can be uttered about her / 37 The
flag simply shrieks / 38 You are a simple flower of an orchard / 40 It was a bolt
of chance / 41 We never sat under the banner of solitude / 43 I manhandled my romance/
45 The sun never rises in the sky of love / 46 I can read you through your speed/
48 Words can never express / 50 I spoke my most precious words / 51 My presence 
does not make you happy / 53 I implore wisdom to let me have the truth / 55 My eros
inspires me to live / 57 The Parrot Shrieks / 59 It has happened exactly as anticipated/
60 My need was never greater than me / 62 You were never cordial to my calls / 64
How am I responsible / 65 When I watch you from a distance / 67 Yesterday the message
assuaged / 68 The desire to be free is an impediment / 70 She kept me waiting beyond
my patience / 72 I lie in my hell / 74 Romantic love is not different from an illusion/
76 Making love means / 79 The child touches the burning candle and is burnt / 80
Music won’t come until the hollow thing speaks / 82 A man’s love for a woman is 
a chagrin / 83 You are not unviolated / 84 The promises are with me / 86 The desire
to come to your dwelling is dead / 87 But when the opportune moment came / 88 She
thought she had been cruel indeed / 89 It was never equitable / 91 A part of me 
lives within you / 93 The necessity of Spirit is great / 95 I languish for you /
97 I shall dispatch you to the dark corners / 98 She may possess a malignant poison
too / 99 The unmanageable self-willed woman / 100 Woman / 102 She kept the truth
hidden / 103 My cloistered hope is from you / 104 I wish to swim with you / 105 
The woman has learned about the heart she has / 107 I keep you like a diary / 108
Keep your bread with yourself / 109 I should consult my wisdom / 110 Romance is 
not bigger than life / 111 How long the mendicant waits at a door / 113 I met a 
woman / 114 An obstinate revengeful woman / 115 Who can surpass woman? / 116 What
is a woman without modesty? / 117 The woman stared / 118 You broke the nut / 120
Love does not trust the language of denials / 122 I wrote lyrics to produce music
in the tree / 124 I constantly duped a truth / 125 You are a disease undiagnosed/
126 If I can trust my parrot / 127 Adieu Friend Adieu / 128 The house without its
woman is fallow / 132 What Is that Force? / 134 You are an invisible river / 135