Sivakami - It is raining so hard outside, so hard that I feel my heart will break; the newspapers report that the dams are near full and nobody knows how to contain the water; and your verse evokes another land, always, always that other place; you know long ago I heard a song on Sofia Loren, and the first line ran thus - "where do you go to, my lovely when you're alone in your bed, what are the parts that surround you inside your head..." So what is the name of this landscape that you paint? The same city we walk in seems to take another shape beneath your pen, and I know the rain will have turned into another sort of rain, tomorrow, when you write again... - Rumjhum
--- In [email protected], "siva_ramanathan04" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DAY, UNLIKE ANY OTHER DAY > > Untimely siren targets untoward event- > `locals' foray forward with bale-packing > poles, into private world to converge on > glass edged compound, like > a Kerala elephant hunt. > > Gasping Kitchan trips over clothesline. > Skimpy Das in slack under wears > Gadgets funny horn apropos burrowing > Into move on. Tilaks her twin lotus buds > Scritching long blouse, waiting for reunion > Voices `akka, akka' like calling to crows > On new moon noons. > > I balance yolk on spoon, in single gulp > Saunter via creek through vineyard > To theme fields of paddy waves where > She would frolic with water snakes > Or do a dance for Shiva sensuously hid in > Hoods of flowers, sing G.N.B. querying dear > Parrot prepared to do that which I ask you to? > Willing to place cheek against cheek to plant > A kiss, chastened memorial? > > Rather she logged on to me, splotch > Forward of mud-feet; we sauntered > Sagged on to bland sand no longer bland > Chunks of feckless mud while lone wolf cranes > Up nostrils; past abandon of sapota trees > Sideways through stacks of hay, to return > Like caparisoned elephants. > > > Sivakami Velliangiri. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/yqIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- You are encouraged to post poetry, respond critically to the poems circulated and participate in discussions. To post, email your message to [email protected] OR post online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/post/ Tell friends to subscribe to ZESTPoets by sending a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if they have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/join/ ---theZESTcommunity-------------- [1] ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ [2] ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ [7] ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ --- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
