desamangalam ramakrishnan

As if the earthbecame mad
there grow up
the gigantic grassy reeds
and nodding the dishevelled head
...

This road is not named after you
though it is paved by your sweat
This magnificent structure not in your name
though made of your backbone
...

On that day
I hadn't been there.

I hadn't been beside the street
...

How silently the Bell tolls:
I see only the motion of the Bell's tongue,
And a ritual crow
That looks at the Bell
...

It is storming on the forbidden shore
the sail has torn off
some birds have got its rags
to cover their bodies
...

While ascending the hills
and descending the valleys
while resting down the dear babes
from the shoulders
...

Please don't come this way again:
here the footprints, of those
who reached and departed,
half dusted
...

Burn out, if you want,
a roll of rubbish paper

Light up
...

While walking alone through the meadow
The grass grabbed my feet
They bribed me
By a graceful grass-crown.
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In distressing moments
why do I remember
my father's sobing heart in the pyre
-I don't know,
...

There is a mountain-pass
struggling in the darkness
lurking between yesterday and today.
...

Those black eggs were delivered
by a white cuckoo
in the nest of a red crow.
Those green eggs were delivered
...

He too had a thumb
it was cut off
don't know when and where.
still, he rowed his oar
...

A word that entered the abode
from some heap of garbage
or from some gutter
began to grow with larger wings
...

This moment,
an explosion of all oblivions
and just like a smashed mirror.
Oh, the glorious Glow,
...

Like a dragonfly
you came out suddenly.
Though not knowing the place
not knowing your path
...

While I read a book
or the book reading me
there lurked your face in every page
and so I forgot my hunger.
...

What am I to respond
when somebody calls me
"Hai, Nobody"
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Gone where those people
who had been living here.
A terrible shock spreads
among the mob
...

"Eat me and get lost"
Isn't it the slogan of every vegetable
In the market?
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