July 24, 2015 – Meenas Poems

Days of uncertainties

keep nagging

could be better in a certainty

less demanding

should bring in peace

looks anticipating

a wish not in a fleece

greatly requiring

hope it would be granted

without any compromise

an evangelical interpretation

closes in a way.

Ramblings

It Is Pongal January 14, 2022

Rituals and customs turn back breaking,It is Pongal, A decade backit was differentage was beside, help was in abundance. It turns out to be an one woman show, Pongal in the courtyard earthen pots and mud stoves,firewood, and decorations, curries and broths being almost nine in count clubbed with the auspicious, timings make me pant, The day before resolved […]

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Siblings January 10, 2022

I say one of a reckon,he replies a maize or sweet corn,expressing a scorn Another one is bornbeing christened as Omicronmilder mutation that darns, comes not alonewith a sibling in tone’called as Deltacron. Dawn sees hundredsdusk sees a floodof thousands instead. The rise turns magicalspread remains inimicalvariants of Covid typical.

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I wish January 9, 2022

Wishes remain wishesseeing snow, the fluffy ballwhite and coldnumbing the fingerslying like a white rollon the terrain. The other oneto see the worldeating whatevercomes in my wayovercoming the feelof nausea and distastei experience, Could these two be possiblein my lifetime? I ask,being me who is to blamedislikes out number the likescarrying along a quaints […]

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The Devil In Me January 8, 2022

A little patience, heart commandsa pause instructs my mind.I pay no attention,it is now and at oncecommence with a bang, Turning at times hystericallike a mad dog,I wag my tongueharsh and rudelike a hungry tiger. Blood shot eyes,expressive of indignationenhance my seethingtemper and I appearmore or less like a devil.

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Keeping Afloat January 7, 2022

Immersed in the day to day the simple and the complicated,the personal and businesspush me to the end of the world. Before I could get upanother one comes from nowheredumps me in with a force I sink faster than before. That is how my life moves one going in and coming out like a fish unable to find a status. […]

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Half A Century January 1, 2022

It is been nearly half a century two years shot in realco existing with one a life partner, who blames me for the failures. Shouts clenching his teeth, “It is because of you”,good things escapehearing the first time I became frightened , Year after yearthe allegations grow more in number, “it is you and it is you”always and ever, I have turned […] […]

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An Intervention December 30, 2021

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Many More years December 28, 2021

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Hallelujah December 24, 2021

it is silent night a holy one, the Christmas eve where few stars sparkle from afar cloudless remains the sky dark as ever in December. A soft cry from afar piercing through the quietude dispels the heavy silence, as the world wakes upreadying itself to welcome the babe. A ray of light shines for a secondcreating an illumination. A powerful array enough t […]

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Sama Thana Petha Thanda December 23, 2021

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