Rajesh Thankappan

It is the day when the young hearts beat faster
In happy anticipation the mind too remains eager
It is the day when one may lavish gifts or offer a simple flower
For when you have presented your heart can anything be dearer?
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Had I been born a Buddhist
My perception of religion would have been different
Had I been born an American
My perception of world polity would have been different
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At death he rose to the zenith
Like from the ashes the proverbial phoenix,
It was such a terrible incident
A horrible, blood-curdling accident.
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The train
Rumbled on unfamiliar terrains
And I
A passenger
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The colour white hides
Within its hides
Shades so different
Of which our eyes are ignorant!
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As a child
I have raised my hands
And held stars
Within my tiny palms!
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Don't say ‘no' to ‘no'
Or life shall offer things hard to swallow
Things that get struck in the throat
And pierces like a stubborn dart or an arrow.
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The old lady Jill
Who had fallen ill
Took a golden pill
From a fairy who lived on the hill.
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As life floats on trough and crests
Dancing precariously on the waves of breath
I am pulled by antipodal quests
One of earthly and other of heavenly conquest.
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We are grieving for having lost a good old faithful friend
Who for us was a beacon resting upon a tower of strength
Though he was always besides us with a warm and radiant smile
Now he has sailed away into the beyond where the distance can no longer be measured in kilometers or mile.
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Baby smile, baby smile,
Babies smile so sweet.
Baby smile, baby smile,
Where are your teeth?
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Ice creams, ice creams,
We all love ice creams,
No matter its colour be
Red, blue or cream.
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The earth is parched
with her thirsty tongue sticking out
but the wind of change
has summoned at the far horizons
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I woke up in the morning
With a rainbow in my eye
Soon I was draped in
Vibrant colours bright.
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If I did have a neck
As long as a giraffe's
I would have teased all other creatures
As puny little dwarfs.
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Just like a blooming flower that opens up to the dawn
Just like a bird that sings in the morn
Just like the floating full-moon that is into the night sky born
Just like an oasis in a vast desert forlorn
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O breeze!
You sing so sweet
In the summer
In the sweltering heat.
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Was there a time
Before the birth of time?
Before the big bang
Before the universe began?
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This is my chair
This is my chair
Two frogs were fighting it out
With lungs puffed-up with air.
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The man who slept
In the freezing ice
Woke up to gift us a smile.
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