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Workshop
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The Runner
Weathered Lines of Living
Etched deep within His Face
Tell the Life Long Story
Of working in the Sun, Wind and Rain
His piercing eyes look up at Me
At the windows of My Soul
Asking Me the question-
"Are they open or are they closed?"
His searching eyes Stare up at Me
Speaking with Despair-
Asking, "What are You looking at?"
And, "Do You really care?"
He sits on His haunches, of malnourished limbs
Tautly covered with leathered skin
Silently waiting for His service to begin
His Family fed by honest toil
His Soul richly Blessed
He earned His Rickshaw running through the streets
A well-earned prize for His caste
He lives to serve, and serves to eat
The telltale sign of His calloused feet
He sits and waits for His next rupee to come along
He sees the affluent passing Him by
And knows where He belongs
Within His Soul a Bhajan begins
Reminding Him of His worth
He chants as He runs with joy in His Heart
With deep devotion and mirth
Each day He returns to the streets-
To wait and serve
He is Living the caste of His Birth
– Hecletia
December 11, 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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