Rye On The Ravines is a collection of short poems
Which saw the light of the day
In 1985,
A representative work of the poet
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Most of the contemporary Indian English poets
Are the journal editors,
If are not, they will become so in near future,
The subscribers as readers and contributors,
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Under the moonlit nights
The whitely, but fragrant bunches
Of the rajanigandha clooms clustered around the stalks
Letting me not sleep
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Yea, the hilly river,
Flowing smoothly just with a little water
With the stone boulders
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Indian villages, hamlets and thorps
Of loneliness,
Ay, loneliness playing with the winds
In the sunny landscapes
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I love you that's why say to you
The things of my heart
Otherwise would not have
To you my things.
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I am an artist of yours
As make I the images of yours,
Keep making and re-making;
An artist I of yours,
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My God, the blunder of being a poet,
You make me not a poet again, if this be,
Putting aside everything, see me, how mad am I
After becoming a poet,
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The Pondicherry ashrama poets writing poetry
Under the influence of the master,
The great spiritual guru,
So much religious not,
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