It is this luminosity, my dear,Of the gilded leaves in the sunThe magic eye promptly catchesA silver flicker, a yellow transience.A palliative to the chemical painIn variously knotted entrails andThe reddish tinge in eye-whites.
Archive for October, 2005
9 Oct
Beauty-waves from Guruvaiyoor
Beauty-desire, succulent, ripened quickly;The astute spirit-being violently reacted within.The fevered body hated to be a whipping boy.Arjuna’s friend had told him contrary thingsLeaving us all befuddled, our minds giddy.Nachiketa had asked death what it was and why.Of course, knowledge was death before and after.Now this beauty-thing, was it a physical glowOr a spirit-layer, eternal and [...]
7 Oct
On return from Guruvayoor temple
The ego’s fires had subsided, quietly,Shadows and silhouettes then came inGolden hues appeared on slept-in bedsI tried catching sprawled self-shadowsProducts of yesterday’s mashed egos.The graphic eye, silverlined and lying,Was helpless to bolster bewitching beautyThe eagle’s cry went up to the skyFrom the green sea of coconut frondsYesterday the Godchild smiled exquisitelyToday is another day of [...]
5 Oct
A photography trip to the forests of Wyanad
First poetry had entered a dog’s lifeChasing steel shadows and gray deathThe elephants were hard to come out;They had their strong sylvan reasons.Our timid tribal guide called out to SuryaWho had his elephant feet tied to the tree.There was black fear in his beady eyes.Earlier, in the morning, beauty had beckoned;Death of a dog was [...]
4 Oct
A dogs death
He had come into us, running,Yelling, in crescendo of pain.Then all was peremptorily still.The car stopped, screechingOnly to scrape bloody fleshOff the muddy bumper; actuallyHe was chasing steel shadowsWhich had no business there.
