Red Green

Red Green

Green Pond

GREEN POND

Caked blood

on striated muscles,

you worshipped the seeds.

The lion roars

stirs the sleeping peacocks.

Pale skin becomes red.

Green and yellow mess of a matrix :

searching for an answer,

you scramble on the bed.

Take my sin, you said –

the penile god was not with me,

capricious as he was.

Community service for a condemned man,

let me take a plunge.

not for the body.

The glass house, mirrors on the ponds,

every wall has a door

leading nowhere.

Remaining a virgin for life

you are learning to swim

in a green pond.

SATISH VERMA

About the Author

Satish Verma

Satish Verma was born in 1935, did his post graduation in Botany in 1957.
At the age of 18, he started writing poems in Hindi and got them published in various journals. In 1957 he started a literary journal called Lahar (The Wave...) which immediately became a grand success and sold like hot cakes.
In the early 60's he successfully tried his hand at translating the classic works of Ravindra Nath Tagore like Balaka, Jyoti-Kanikain and Manimal into Hindi which were hailed as landmarks in the art and craft of translation.
His versatility and creativity almost goaded him to compose poems of a different sort and a class by themselves which came out in volumes like Prayaas and 1974 and Other Poems.
In 1980 his first- ever collection of English poems called INWARD JOURNEY saw the light of the day, which was well received and reviewed in various journals and magazines in India and abroad.
And all these years he was teaching Botany to graduate students.
In 1980 itself he started a social project of Holistic therapies called SEWA MANDIR which in due course of time has become the biggest institute of charitable kind in Asia. Sewa Mandir, however, was also in a way responsible for making Satish the poet undergo a long hibernation. And for about 25 years he did not write a single word.
And suddenly the creating urge erupted almost in a volcanic fashion and for the last two years he has been writing literally daily without any compromise with profundity, infact.
He has been rightly called "a talented poet" by Mark O'Connor, the Olympic poet of Australia and John Kinsella has found "Certainly something interesting and spiritual and tough! happening" in the poetry of Satish Verma. While Christopher Rollason has been impressed by "a strong and elegant line, forcible rhythms, and memorable use of alliteration and assonance" in the recent masterpieces of Satish Verma, E.E. Sule finds Satish's poems "exhilarating" exhibiting "a restless spirit in a surrealistic quest..." .
Satish's poems written during the last couple of years will shortly be published in his forthcoming volume called Beyonds & Betwēon.
Presently he lives in Ajmer, INDIA.
He can also be reached at kantasatish@gmail.com

http://arawlii.com/about_us.htm = For résumé.
http://arawlii.com/pub-sverma.htm = For Publication.

I am a dichromat, Red-green colorblinded. Can I still persue a career in medicine as a doctor?

My dad has always told me that if I worked hard, I can acheive anything. I'm in my second year in college and maintaining a solid GPA for medical school. Being a doctor has always been my dream but I've recently come to realize the true hard fact that I'm red-green colorblind. I remember back in elementary school that my optometrist diagnosed me with colorblindedness but I never thought much about it until recently during one of my chemistry labs, I couldn't discern a hue between purple and green. I asked some doctors about colorblindedness and medical school and they told me that they were never screened for color test, although they all have normal color. I know that all doctors need to go through general medicine and I can see how important it is for a doctor to have a normal color vision but I know there are doctors who associate with colors minimally. Are there doctors or nurses here who know doctors who are color blind? Please reply, I feel so depressed.

I too aspired to become a doctor. Right now Im at the Mayo Clinic Medical School, been there about two years. I honestly hate to say it, but I do a lot of activites discerning color. Its probably not a good idea to be fumbling around with chemicals if you cant tell color differences. In fact, in my anatomy class we did a lab a week or so ago learning about the different meanings of what a fluid produced by the pancreas is called with a certain disease, and the only visual diffence you could see was color differences between the fluids.

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