Like a musical time-piece
Set on a favorite tune,
You sing my name, when I am with you
Absent for a moment-always your
Chant enchants me to be with you
And putting aside all my work
I come to you running, breathless, bewildered,
Anticipating an unforeseen trouble,
But when I look at your quietude,
Amused I am and you-
His Highness-in-meditation-deep!
Pull a chair for me to be seated beside
A distance that touches and tips me
To hear the silent radiance of your musings,
And I wait, and have been waiting
And looking at your face for a bloom.
But you on a distant Himalayan height-
Immersed in your thoughts in a dark
Deep cave of delight.
Bemused - I begin to tip-toe and go
Back to the calls of my daily chores,
Then you touch my arm with your smile
And make me sit again
Near you, you look at me but
Still your lips are locked
Like ancient portals locked for ages covered
With green-grey-growth-of –grass of Time
Hiding unknown, untold treasure!
My mysterious meditating austere core!
Now your eyes begin to
Beam with silence soft
And suddenly I see the Sun beckoning us
Into the shadow of his vermillion-glow
That gleams through his jeweled-crown
And making an announcement
For the beautiful
Beginning of
The pleasant evenings of
Our each day. 

May 14, 2006

The Week of May 14, 2006        
A Serene Goodbye by Jayalakshmi V 
Agony by Julia Dutta 
Anticipation by Jyotsana K. Prasad  
Called Upon by Dr. Christine Redman-Waldeyer
Colors of this World by Jayalakshmi V
Freedom by Julia Dutta
I Don't Know Why by Sandra Martyers
I Look Back and Look Forward by Anil K. Prasad 
Konarak by Anil K. Prasad  
Kovalam Beach by Sony Dalia 
Leave the Mountains by Dr. Christine Redman-Waldeyer
Lost Baggage by Anita Nair 
Lying on Your Side of the Bed by Julia Dutta 
My Mother's Brocades by AJ Rao  
Nude by Dr. Christine Redman-Waldeyer
Of Cocaine, Snakes and Quarter Moons… by Glory Sasikala Franklin 
Poems by AJ Rao  
Requiem for a Consonant by Anita Nair
Soul 2001 by Dr. Christine Redman-Waldeyer
Strange and Distant by Bernie McCann 
That’s what you do for Good Poetry by Glory Sasikala Franklin 
The City of Joy by Glory Sasikala Franklin 
The Dreams Persist by AJ Rao 
The New Present by Jyotsana K. Prasad  
The Passing of Grandfather by Sandra 
The Season of the Native by Dr. Uma Asopa
Visions of Rejection by Julia Dutta
Wedding Album by Anita Nair 
Winner or Loser by Chan Mongol  
Witness by Julia Dutta 
  

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