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:
It's beautiful ....!
You can write ...
and talk ...!
Keep at it ... dear hardly inarticulate ...
Comment number two ...
in all that poverty, and hard times, i sensed a tremendous spirit ...
so why did you see deadpan eyes?
it was the absolute lack of hope in her eyes(nagarjuna's mother)
nR u are fabulous and poignant.
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