The secret of Chidambaram
Nothing is clear, nothing whatsoever
What is deep inside the cosmic-embryo
Remains buried under consciousness
Where lies the tantalizing secret
As warm tears well up in the eyes
Imposing stone archways open one by one
The fog-screens fizzle down slowly
Only to reveal the ether of nothing
The Chidambara secret slowly unfolds
In the vaulting dome of a nothing-sky
As the [...]
Archive for September, 2004
28 Sep
The secret of Chidambaram Nothing is clear,…
20 Sep
A blade of grass I have never felt my loss of…
A blade of grass
I have never felt my loss of space
As I do now in these unaware moments
I cannot focus awareness on the winding road
The distant hill is covered in a blue haze
There is allaround oblivion felt in my unbeing
Only the other day I was a blade of grass
Today I cannot wave in the mountain [...]
16 Sep
Reverse View
Up there a pair of keen eyes
An involuntary twitch of beauty
A taut screwing of eyeballs
Consciousness flowed this way
A white kurta, a speck of black hair
From behind the parapet wall
He sees me whole,flooding my being
My diagonal view is a rebounce
Consciousness reverse-flows
Reinforced by the fluid present
In horizontal ether-filled space
He happened half a century ago
While I exist ,here, [...]
13 Sep
Fever I lie here , on this side, A miserable…
Fever
I lie here , on this side,
A miserable ,reluctant host
They enter me, quietly,
And cling to the nuclei
Of my epithelial cells
Stirring up fevered passions
Beyond lies opaque space
Mysterious and impenetrable
Neither I nor they have choices
That is the way the script goes.
1 Sep
Fire and water (A morning in Sivakasi* ) Sti…
Fire and water
(A morning in Sivakasi* )
Stillness could not be heard
Only the the airconditioner’s drone
A shrill peacock-cry from the bell tower
Pierced my morning silence
The temple bell rang and rang
With its thick tongue in fever
Images , some fiery , some smouldering
Came dropping from the white sky
Clusters of acacias that had grown
Waterless under the skin of the [...]
