Long Shrivelling Poems

                             Brahman Nemesis

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As time passed on by, they settled and married
producing a fine brood of children
yet growing more and more unsettled
until one day they headed off again
this time going to the far north
where the lands were bound...

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The Bangladeshi Flood

It is the latest worrying news to hit this troubled nation...
There is a growing bewilderment and fast rising indignation....
Ever since the Home Minister proudly announced to the nation...
Malaysia is in urgent need of...

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For a day, for a week, for a month you will be remembered
Those who knew you well
Family will always recall that you have left a void in them
The thoughtful friend for a year
May think and...

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Part Two

           a hardly flickering oilwick open trough lamp lighting
limply other framed coloured pictures of Ganapati
two half-empty troughs of kunkunum and vibhuti
on the half-opened cicatrised...

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Before that day splashed  everything with light
I  played in solitude with cuddly clouds
And watched them form changing figures, blight
The sky or bring the sobbing sludge of rain,
      ...

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There is us and them, but we must learn
Who is us and who is them ... whose blood is on the floor?
Whose illusions like shambled mansions burn?
No lack of compassion here makes the suffering of...

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The muscles flexed like wings for flight
I saw fell down from heaven like light
The trees shook
Off their callous demure, grew gold green
My masked look
Came where adoration feathered preen
The cold pride that risked my life
The risks...

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"life goes on...even though our hopes are crushed...
                    leave their dreams to the dream catchers" (By...

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A crystal vase, a bunch of withering Roses.                
                    ...

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Part Two


Older in age 
                    younger in growth

  still heeding   His Master’s Voice

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There was a flower with a dream
Within its heart like a sun
And life was like a living stream
That kept rolling on and on
The flower grew each day brighter
And the dream steadfast yet
Like a stamen still...

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The strongest den,  most beautiful place,  unbreakable bond s and each others strength. 
Beautiful memories wrapped and treasured. 
Yes,  family is the most beautiful gift one can ever get. 

If we pay...

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 "Horticulture is a groping in the dark
into the obscure and unfamiliar " James Tate,
from his poem, The Definition Of Gardening
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There is an art to gardening, yes there is
I like to create a beautiful display
in...

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The knife sank deep
And in a brother's heart the twisted blade went to sleep
And I, the Adam there,
Saw the things that fall apart through winter lids of tear
You do not know 
How a parent can...

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Across The Lines

P agan mistletoe lies at the joyous heart of rendered Christmas
A postate nonconformists celebrate another legend of how the
G reat saviour surrenders to modern conception of the child in
A ccomplished reinterpretation of trinity...

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Heck, you asked for it
The base in a vortex locked
Crumbling with the torrid shock
Of maligned money
Bonding the world in duress
Spewing for policy cess

Who fooled you to vote
For shrivelling tax and more
Crime and crumbling of the...

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The world is changing like quicksand under our feet
Before we know what ground to stand on 
Our fall begins, the avalanche of progress makes obsolete
Our little bank of dreams. And life goes on.

I thought time...

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It’s too
				            cold outside.
				        The blustery wind 
				    snapped my arm in two.
			 ...

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How transient this psycho life,
psycho babble, psycho speak,
sat in corners, doing the freak,
rant and rave, brand, engrave,
and stamp and carve with a butcher knife.

All the cuts and spilling guts
could not convince any other than
I am...

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Literally cut off an arm for them
                 shrivelling white bone protruding, screaming from the pale flesh
The ultimate expression of...

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This sudden surge of old death
This expiration of forest trees
And my lung choking for breath
This sickness of an old disease
This tropical rain forest gasping
With the world for life, and chains
Of food stores lit up and...

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Crossing those boundaries of yesterday, step into unknown.
As today is your birthright, burn with fervour; consume and rise.
Repetition is forbidden, etch out your story; time flies.
Past is shrivelling rose, let go, so it may nourish...

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The zesty singing splits the misty air
A sudden itch, the pest swift wings
Zooms off again. The buzz still brings
A sizzling pain, a sharp shrapnel of fear

My shrivelling protest hears but cannot find
The flitting fiend with...

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One day alone is not enough
To measure universal love
Sculptured in her embodiment
One day alone is not enough
To tell treausre greatest of my heart
Besides the shrine where I serve my Lord.
One day alone is not enough
To...

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