A Tamilian poet
With Dravidic identity
Writing in English.
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The glare of the eyes
ThatIt wasA wild catBushy, wooded and grizzled,Peculiarly grey brown,Speckled and freckledUtmostAnd tamelessly swiftBefore it is stopped.
Modern poetry is but of modem man and the modern world
Had the connecting bridges and roadways been not,Could they have been modern,Had the radio, the watch, the cycle,The bus, the train, the tram been not,Had the school, the college, the pen and paper been not,Could you have been modern?Had medicines been not, could you have been?Typhoid, malaria, tuberculosis, small pox would haveFinished it all, what…
I visited the temple,
Where the non-Brahmin priestessOf the scheduled casteWorshipped HerWith love and devotionAnd the skull thereinSaw IAnd what I prayed for, sought forFelt it too later onAs prayers heard,Blessings bestowed upon.Do not think it that the BrahminsOnly worship Her,She is of allAnd can be found anywhereIf called humblyWith feeling and devotionAnd feeling for Her in heart.
Information, communication,
Speech sent across instantly,Time saved, distance approachedIs the main thing.Clutching the world alongInto the fist,The message is sentClutching geography and geology,Globally positioning.The purpose behind it is to sendMessages, get it sent in-voice,The philosophy of the information scientistSo that he has made it,The purpose and agenda of information technologyAnd the tool applied for.
Eklavya,
How to celebrateTeacher’s Day,Eklavya,How,How toCelebrate it?Tears were in your eyes,In yourEyes,Falling,Falling out of ananda,Ananda, delightAs well as from sorrowOf neglect?Eklavya,Eklavya,Say you,Say you aboutYour pain,Pain,Sorrow,SorrowWhich but struck you?DronaStood before,Saw you excelling Arjuna,Stood and asked,Asked for your thumbAs gurudakshina,As his gurudakshinaAnd you cut it,Cut it the thumb toGive to,Give to him?O Eklavya,Eklavya,Say,Say you,Why, why did you,Did you…
The Pondicherry School is one
The divino-religious school of poetry,The ashramite school of poetry.With the ashrama at the helmAnd sadhna the purpose,The school is mystical and religious,Spiritual and divine,Theological and cosmological.The experiences and emotions ofThose of the ashrama and ashramites,Sadhakas, ashramites and disciplesBusy with ashramite rites and practicesAnd routine duties and works.With huts and hemitages, cottagesAnd meditational and conference halls,The…