AKELLA S. RATNAM

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Who says modern man turns his face
From thoughts about life and eternal things?
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Book of Life

The book published when the costs were low
A child born of a happy wedding.
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ROOF –GARDEN

When child sucks milk from synthetic nipples
Can man be kind and loving?
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Loneliness: solace for the dejected; Loneliness: gift for the wise; Loneliness: punishment for the culprit; Loneliness: sweetness for the lovers;
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From chinks in memory / Drips diluted desire drops. / Vengeful fate swallows silently / To disappear into depths of sadness / Ambition punctured / My soul slithers snake-like to sink..
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From chinks in memory
drips a galore of desires
Fate swallows them up silently
to lose into
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Two happy beings thrown together on long journey
Happily hover on honeymoon heights
Promised progeny provide pleasure plentiful
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Language God's gift unites mankind.

Shafts of words pointed & poisoned
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Snow and soil submerged in soldiers' blood;

Earth rubble brick and concrete rising
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Mind is a receptacle of memories
Piled up disorderly like stars in the sky
To be rummaged in old-age.
Some bright,
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NATURE

In the hall round the glass-topped table
Clinking of crystal glasses half-filled
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Democracy (Indian style)


People elected are on the nimbus
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A Prayer


Where the mind is unfree and the headis sanitised;
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DESPAIR

Like the dolphin  emerging out of ocean For a brief moment to be sighted/
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The Loss

Heinous crime it was
My grandfather said; though
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