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J.Koladi Samson Poem
High above clouds
You flew
Radar focusing beneath
In search of prey.
Image fell on screen
One walking in haste
His head bowed down
Wondering at
Mismatching arithmetic
At home, office
Breaking his back
To meet ends both
Nebulous mind.
Flare in your eyes
Like a diving bird
Impertinent crash landing
Sharp claws clung
An ascension with prey
Into unreachable heights
Vanishing into thin blue.
A quill is shed
Life drops dead.
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HIDDEN HANDS
I'm here on our shore
All above
Sands we used to measure
Timeís hour-glass.
You ran to the cape
Asterix from comic pages
The fisherman stopped you
Crabs chased, you ran in bewilderment
Mother sea, all tenderness gazed.
On a country boat on shore
Our rice bowl full
Sea-gulls creaked an omen ill
I stood over you though shaking
A shade, shelter, arms out stretched
Jesus on cliff in Rio
Drooping sun, tearful eyes
Faces of June, roaring waves.
My offering at twilight
My son, where did you vanish
Decorated our yard
Our life sketch
Sea lowers the mourning pitch
Light house like glow worm
Boats swing
Rhyming song, catching thief
Hidden hands emerged
Stealthy pirate
Eyes swoon
My life-terrible moment
Was it the Hidden Hand of God?
Misspelt horoscope,
Envious stars.
A lone sea gull dipping down into the sea
Death knell from chapel
Me alone on the shore.
Even shadows become invisible.
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LEAVING NO MARKS
Water leeches squirm in blood
Next door boy snatching
A grilled chic drum stick
A game of chess
Sitting late hours.
Overnight
Vultures, predators and hyenas
Deadly pandemonium.
Burning torches, crude swords,
Iron rods, explosions in hand
Wiping a commune off.
Cries choked, screams of chastity
Gang rape-
Girl petrified eyes
A blooming bud squashed.
Hunter and the hunted
Orphans and widows
Flames licking the last hope
Exodus,
Doleful moments
Relief camps, a farce.
Striping pant zip
To make cock sure.
Well set, predetermined
Your fear, your desire
Flared up.
Discussions, hand shakes
Cashew nut crushed over
Bisleri water
Cease fire.
Odour of burnt flesh and dreams
Lingering in air.
Gone are the lives
Gone are the hopes
Leave no space
No marks in history
Mass migrations, rapes and death
Same old story.
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FUNERAL RITES
Hunter and the hunted -
It's a breach of contract
Finger , pointed at me ,accusing ,my dad .
Muse forefather , consecrated water ,
An agreement on half burnt chest ,
Primitive scribes chiselled-
Dad, you shake me in my sleep
Lifeless curses on me
Zenith of fear, I agonists
Tent a bye-pass
My love offerings to you dad .
My son breakes glass
Leap beyond circles
I weep in remorse
How I imposed solitude on you!
Brunt out ashes
Broken words-
Dad..............my Day.
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I SAW YOU LOOKING AT ME
The screech of door
Rush of men and women
Languorous over gin and tonic
Stepping down the ladder
Unannoyed at sharpened blade
Of turmoils of yester and morrows .
Dispassinonate I sun
My numb heart
Then I saw you looking at me
In the murmur of monsoon rain
With eyes sappaire crystals .
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GLASS HOUSE
It was me
Yes ,did it deliciously
Mind blown
Petals chopped
Goodness stamped
Fantasies striped
Freshly plucked dreams
Buried alive .
Years flew along water
With oncoming seasons
Virility of cool showers
Narrowing to drizzles
In faded memories .
Nun bird nested in heart
Transfigures to a shadow
In white thread monsoon rain .
Rain prevails
Nothing but rain
Lashing rain ,her hair unleashed .
I sat at the doorstep waiting patiently
Dreams sprouting to life ,
Swallowing mouthful of air
Shadow of my soul
Bow to gnawing flame
In this coconut shell
Lying in state .
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WHY THOMAS K THOMAS LEFT A SUICIDE NOTE
Nothing left aside,
He lay on his back
Eyes fixed at ceiling fan.
Reminiscence of Predicament
Of travels in shade
Sojournment in places many.
Land of beautiful women
Back waters,
Port wine and pure lust
Day of extravaganza
Deep poverty and sickness
Malaria and white gold
Girl with wheat complexion
Singing and swaying
"By the rivers of Babylon
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Song bringing sad notes.
Trafficking powder,
False passports.
My Babylon girl,
Let not the blue venom
Gushing in veins
Graze your purity.
Move along.
Dirt in prison, cockroaches
Unspent day and nights
Unseen hands plucking
From cells with sticky sweat.
None to see
None to visit
Branded jail bird
Salty breeze from
Back waters.
Brought back past
Like a roll of film.
Mom's eyes rolling
To void yonder
Mutiny in the house
Dad like St. George
Killing the dragon with spear.
No love, but barrenness
No cups filled with dew
Mom , salt of life, gone.
Dirt and grease nauseating, stinking
Life........rotten smell in air.
Leaves of fan rotating
In a primitive rhythm
A sterile thought
Death wish-
Sorcery of rotation
Sweat and inebriation
An outcast
A glide, a long curve
The knot
Tightening-
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ODOUR OF DEATH
Fumes of incense sticks
Death sneaks into the drawing room
Without consent of none.
Shivering mourning, snub off
With night spreading over
Remnants of obsequies
Twelve basket full of charred dreams
Odour of death smothering
Oh! mourn Jerusalem
Son of Man is beaten.
Next morning
Death has the odour
Of stinking mouths.
Over perfumes poured
Stinking death demonstrate a route march
Shrouding her wings
Death nothing but death.
Shuddering tears
Like diamonds-
Flame of candle bowing
Over the cross.
Time has come, sun drops dead
Flames fading
Trusting two ropes
The deceased sinks to bowels
Of earth,
A sigh of relief
Death leaves a photograph on the wall
Death smiles
My friend,
Comrade.
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BETROTHAL was sure you'd come
Waiting on the steps
Saw a hawk circling
Across blue sky.
My hair glittered in twilight
Slippery steps , algae invading
Eyelashes flickered in kajal.
My face glowed in the bronze mirror.
Weave yet another cool breeze
On my unveiled cheeks, my love.
Humming raga, MEGHA MALHAR1
I visualized rain murmuring
White threads of rain caressing
Welcome clouds of invoking rain
Like a diver-bird
Diving to get taste of our love.
Rain subsided, silence conceived love
Rain wept...........silky threads
Rain slept.
Twilight gives way to darkness
Confidence fading off.
Can't he feel my anguish ?
Smell of clotting blood pierced nostrils,
Petrified, I saw white ants eating love up-
In delirium squashing head on wall,
I fainted.
Darkness shrouded
Your fragrance estranged
I couldn't live with you
Nor can I live a life without you.
Shedding smiles, weeping dreams, hopes
Even myself to darkness,
Clad in brocade silk saree
Hands stretching out
To maids, sitting around
MEHANTHY2 decorating entwined fears,
Roots of brutal death.
I could't die with you.
Outside writhing in pain,
Tender blood oozing,
Sacrificial prey,
Becoming ritual mark on forehead
Fumes of camphor, clot of life
Blessing for long marital status.
Frozen tears spreading
Into a surrealistic painting,
Life dead in the hour of death
Leaving my dead soul, bride
Clad in blue silk.
1 Hindustani Raga.Tanen sang this raga invoking rain.
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Yes,but lemme finish Susan
Holy sermons,discourse,invocations-
Priest, like one possessed,
Less holy whispering.
It was a pleasure trip
Church at hill-top
Spreading death knell
How come you fail to hear it?
Ancestors lay beneath earth
Waiting our arrival
Your colour sense
Matching arrogant taste
Like amorphous mind.
Chariot of Time fled
Pretended with self deceit,
We loved each other.
Susan, you're right
Lone days and nights
Logical arguments
Crawling anguish
Unanswered puzzles
An eerie frequency,
Structure of Time strangled.
Invocations from distant planes
Your defiance
Not to anoint dirt on them.
We have crossed half our life.
Choked off springs
Gnawing wounds
Burning embers in my chest
We passed the setting sun
Time running short.
I am in a transition between
Life and death,leaving,
Fragrances kept close to heart
We part for good
Me knuckling under-
Yes,Susan
Leave me at the railway gate
Resume your journey
A few minutes walk
Rail roads will take me to
Noman's land.See, we lived a life
Of rail roads.
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