Light And Shades Of Colour Poem by Ananta Madhavan

Bit Poems

1.
When you said it was dawn,
I did not believe you.
I clung to the night.

2.
One can give perceptive credence
To truth dressed up as lovely fiction.

3.
Be gentle with the tyrant.
His mill can grind stone
No less than grain.

4.
Action is a toy and its rehearsal
Thrills less and less.
Jump again.

5.
I told the child,
'Don't fling the Buddha down,
For it will dent the flooring'.


6.
Force must be canalised
And the savage civiised -
Let me thrash you.


7.
I did not race the river as I walked
Beneath the softened glades of spring.


8.
Such was her loveliness,
It might have been ensnared
By a dream Haiku.


9.
Light and slabs of colour,
The street
Furs and shoes and ties,
Wet asphalt
A squelch of tires,
No waiting, Sir,
Red and amber, drizzle, sleet,
Chilled fingers, shrinking skin on palm,
Ears like champagne.

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(1963)