Calico Cat and Madras Pretty
A calico cat and a madras pretty
thought they were oh-so-witty
Shacked up together on a rainy day
colors blended to mud ~ poor baby kitty
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Categories:
madras, color, games, together,
Form: Rubai
Trip To Madras
Stepping down from the AC coach
on to the railway platform
A hot wave of salty moist air
drenches me
On my customary visit
to this city I'm tethered to
by my memories..
She coyly calls herself Chennai
like a new bride renamed
in her husband's home
At heart though she is still Madras
and to the likes of me ;
It's a relief to slip
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Categories:
madras, childhood, city, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Bleeding Madras
A fad when I was younger
Was a bleeding madras shirt.
The colors, after washing it,
Would somehow then convert.
If often had a vibrant plaid
To start with, but when wet,
The dyes would start to run;
You’d never know what you would get.
Of course, you had to hand-wash
For if tossed in a machine,
The other clothes would color-change
While they were getting
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Categories:
madras, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Madras
Madras
Hotel lobbies, hotel bars
Hotel rooms, air conditioned cars
City sights and sounds and smells
A smile, a frown, a shout impels
The thoughts within to exude
And express themselves without interlude
Here no blossoms, no sweet fresh air
Save the scented jasmine in the women's hair
And the two don't mix, as we all know
Like the fires of hell and virgin snow
Flowing
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Categories:
madras, feelings, image, introspection, sad,
Form: Verse
Madras Shorts
Madras Shorts
Nineteen-sixty-five
Red Blue green dyed colored plaid
Too bad they don't fit.
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Categories:
madras, history
Form: Haiku