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Mute Audience
Rains might restrict normal activity
But not some unforeseen necessity.
So when the weather is inclement
And the hours are in waiting spent
I, like my kin the cart-pulling cattle
Which chew the cud when lying idle,
Ruminate on all the words I've heard-
Quite a lot of news unwittingly shared.
Many a human drama enacted behind my back
Makes me a mute audience in my steady track.
Children no longer recite nursery rhymes,
They're computer whizkids of modern times.
Older students are always tense
Their urge to reach goals is intense.
Lovers find the world rosy,
Everything as perfect as it can be.
Married couples are a bickering lot,
Many a score to settle have they got.
Elders wear a worried look,
Today's lenience they can't brook.
Banters in lighter vein,
Groans of age and pain,
Tirades of dissatisfaction,
Gossip and political faction,
Ravings about smart performers,
Reproaches for wrong-doers,
Drunkards' philosophies,
Aspiring poets' ecstasies-
I've heard them all with my ears,
Sobered and grew wiser over the years.
– Pavalamani Pragasam
December 1, 2000
Workshop # 4
Poetry
A Mute Audience – Pavalamani Pragasam
Beast of Burden –
Subhajit Ghosh
Dignity – Hillol Ray
Don't Laugh on Other's Life – Vivek Saxena
Elected Silence! Talk to Me! – Seema Banerjee
Low on Green – Cynthia Proctor
Musings of the Mind – Bijal Dwivedi
Passing Life in Stride – Ahmed Tanhaa
Poor Man – Gummadi Venkata Reddy
Simple Dreams – Joseph Allen Hardy
Thanksgiving – B.K. Swaminathan
The Diary of a Relic – Smitha V
The Moment of Silence – Seema Banerjee
The Obsolete – Meenakshi Jha
The Runner – Hecletia
The Stare – Nicholas LaMattina
The Wait – MaryAnn Harrison
These Eyes – Helena Fernz
Your Eyes – Pili Pubul
Articles/Stories
A Simple
Wish by Anton Piskac
Bondage
by Vasudevan Raghavan
Contented
Life by Pavalamani Pragasam
Dear Writer by Ramendra Kumar
Empty Nest
by Subhajit Ghosh
Karishma Kapoor in Benegal's Rainiya by Chitra
Parayath
Musings
on a Rare Friday Evening by Radhika Ramaswamy
Point and Click by Maalok
Rains by Tyr Anon
Rains of Realization by Bijal Dwivedi
So Babuji by Ashish Nangia
The Cycle of Life by Dr. CS Shah
The Last Photograph by Subrata Mukherjee
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