Fire And The Poet Poem by SRIRANJI ARATISANKAR

Fire And The Poet

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Fire is in grip
Fire is under feet
Fire is in heart

Fire is food
Fire is drink
Fire is smeared fire
Fire bed-companion

Fire is boat
Rowing on the fire-river
fire is crossed
Fire crosses

On the shore of the fire river
Standing fire trees
On the branches of those trees
Sitting fire-birds singing fire songs

The sky set on fire
The stars fallen off

Firey valley
Cremation ground seen
Bed of the funeral pyre prepared
The fire ascended the funeral pile

Funeral fire burning
The winding wind playful with pyre-smoke

Who is cremated?
Who is cremated?
It is corpse of fire..

Fire burnt to ashes
From the ashes of funeral pile
Again fire evolves

Who is fire?
Who is fire?

The poet's father, mother relative
The poet's ancestors
The poet's son, daughter
The poet's beloved, girls friend
The poet's friend, partner
The poet's foe, murderer
The poet's present,
the poet's past, antiquities,
The poet's future, agnosticism
The poet's day, the sun, the universe
The poet's vesper, morning
The poet's evening star, moon, glowing-worms
the poet's night, darkness, howl of fox
The poet's paradise, amaranth flower
The poet's hell, point of fall
The poet's happiness, laughter, fun, rapture
The poet's sorrow, pain, depression
The poet's language, metre, world-alphabet,
The poet's imagination, passion, idea, thought
The poet's silence, sound, inner wave,
The poet's life, quotidian,
The poet's death, twilight..ocean of time...

To tell the truth...
The poet himself is the fire...
The primordial fire...

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