Indira Renganathan Poems

A sickle moon can not teach you
How to rip apart the cloud-curtain
Nor can sheteach you
How to sail through space
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Neither a vegetarian nor a non-vegetarian
Ye but the empyrean Eternal
Who can seize and store ye inside his mortal being
To proclaim to be alive immortal
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Once a village was hit by drought
Rain failed and cultivation failed
People had to move out from there
Evacuating the village
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WhatToDo, What Not ToDo (Trijan Refrain)


Trijan Refrain is an invented form created byJan Turner
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Any academic highbrow
A poet can easily be?
Nor a poet can easily be
An illiterate lowbrow?
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The Tableau Of A Thirsty Land (Tableau)

The Tableau is an invented stanzaic form that paints a single image
in keeping with the name of the form, tableau meaning picture.
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111. Shifting from one god to another God shows one's diffidence

112.Ritual dalliances are seldom disliked during times of misfortune
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It has been so many till now..
A hope, a wish, for a hello
Me on my spirit's march
Any to meet friendly as such
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I sit with my laptop well prepared
Feeling good with a mind fresh and flared
I work for a while well
Soon yawns out I sleep well
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Morning rises with a blessing 'good morning'..good
Morning moves on wishing you a 'good day'..good
Daytime chores end wishing you a 'good evening'..good
Evening free and happy wishing you a 'good night'..good
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