Saturday, July 24, 2004

Somebody called it Ananta-poor

 
Gazing upon acres of red hot earth
A multitude of curvilinear lines
under trudging ox, aging feet and prostate breath
The clear blue sky a reminder of beleaguered times.

Can you feel this?
through a moving square of reality...

Where was I?
Amidst anemic women with deadpan eyes,
with a borewell, no matter how deep, without warning would dry,
where the sun blazes as the last sliver of hope dies.

Can you feel this?
through a moving square of reality...

Soon it will become a ghost of a village
listless kids hangover a neglected fence
the old -brooding and hoary, with every passing minute age
as they wait and the clouds pass with no penitence

Can you feel this ?
through a moving square of reality...

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's beautiful ....!

You can write ...

and talk ...!

Keep at it ... dear hardly inarticulate ...

10:59 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Comment number two ...

in all that poverty, and hard times, i sensed a tremendous spirit ...

so why did you see deadpan eyes?

11:05 pm  
Blogger nr said...

it was the absolute lack of hope in her eyes(nagarjuna's mother)

10:29 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

nR u are fabulous and poignant.

7:35 pm  

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