Hey I was reading this slightly old post by "tanu". I must say I am overwhelmed. The dream of the pine cone and the free fall are simply fantastic. Congrats. For me this is superlative poetry!
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> The Sea
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> I am the sea-
> Blue with intent
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> And I shall persist
> Crashing on your silence
> Wearing your reserve
> Shingle by shingle
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> May it take centuries
> And many more star bursts
> For your contours to
> Conform to mine
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> I shall wait
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> Every river caters its waters
> Every land concedes its borders
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> To me
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> And so shall you
> In time
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> And in memory
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> Tanu
> Dec 1, 2001
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> Free Fall
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> I am
> a pine
> cone
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> dreaming
> of a pillow
> of snow
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> Tanu
> Jan 7, 2002
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> Spring Showers in Lalitpur
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> Rain sluicing down red-tiled roofs
> Plum petals scurrying
> White on the yard
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> I would be a cat
> Contemplating paws
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> Had I not been a worm
> Devouring words
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> Tanu
> March 13, 2003
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> Quoting Farah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> > SELF-ACTUALIZATION
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> > I am not such a pleasent person;
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> > Not deep down inside.
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> > My exterior is a mirage,
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> > My interior a void...
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> > I am,
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> > An echo;
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> > Loud and empty.
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> > An inconcrete reflection,
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> > Of a long lost voice.
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> > An abandoned shell;
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> > Glossy outside.
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> > And the noise of the sea,
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> > Encapsuled within
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> > Is merely that
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> > A Noise!
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> > Farah (30th June, 2005)
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> > --- In [email protected], Albert Krishna Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > the moment
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> > > at the end
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> > > of each exhaled breath
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> > > before the next
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> > > the note
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> > > which by it's absence
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> > > in Mozart's symphony
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> > > the word
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> > > the poet never found
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> > > that gave meaning
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> > > the thought
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> > > that arose
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> > > before I began
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> > > to think
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> > > the void
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> > > that lives
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> > > where the infinite
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> > > I am
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> > > that
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> > > shekhar
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> > > http://www.shekharkapur.com/blog/archives/2005/08/i_am.htm#more
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