anujan raja

Memories know no sleep
Memories come to torture you
Haunt you and
Swamp you into nightmares.
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- - Obstacle Race
The coconut broke in a hundred bits
The droplets flew out
Felt on my face
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Remember


The little child lay sleeping
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IMMORTALS

My father has no death
My mother has no death
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I wrote a poem
And threw it in the fire
The fire charred it
And burned it to ashes,
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I LIKE BIRDS

I like birds,
Not as a lump of flesh
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Bereavement

I was not there when my father passed away,
I was not there when my mother passed away,
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Where are the twinkling stars?
I saw in the sky yesternight?
Those tiny specks of light
That lighted my way
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Father walked ahead,
The path was narrow,
Bushes thick grew on either side
Dark, tangled and mysterious,
In the sticky gloom of the dusk
Vaguely aware of the creeping fear
I walked behind,
My gaze locked
On his bare heels,
Barely visible in the dark.
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Poem 3—DEMOCRACY

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RESURRECTION


I sat there feeding the chips
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,

At noon
Two crows sit on a bough
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THE TALISMAN

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आपदां अपहर्तारं
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JUST CAUSES
Our causes are just
They always say,
Champions and crusaders
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I dare not pluck this flower
A little bee is in there
Eating his breakfast
Easy to pluck it and shake it
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THE TALE OF THE BLACK PIG

He was not so in the beginning.
He was white
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DISCORD or THE WALL OF SILENCE


It's a bit cold today, isn't it,
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THE DOG
[ A Soliloquy ]
It's not my fault
I've become a man-eater
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