Jagannath rao Adukuri Poems

When we were wee-boys, in knickers,
We threw pebbles at the mango tree for fruits
Later, demons came into our lives
In the morning, when the white birds in the sky
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She looked through the corners of her beady eyes
As the mock- intensity of his fierce gaze unsettled her
He smelled of musty caves hiding heaps of shrieking bats
That time he had smelled of freshly bedewed grass
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She stared at the wooden beam
The wood that was once a tree
A tailless lizard came from
Behind the wooden beam and looked
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Words hit you like swarming flies
On a sticky summer afternoon
Words fester under your skin
Like wounds refusing to be healed
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I am trying to find reasons
For silence. There is something
On my head, a towering gear
Smiling underneath is tough
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I was just asking time
Once again.
Because my words had fallen Into night.
They were not luminous.
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The last time I saw her on the net
She was still growing milk teeth
Strands from her tufted hair
Danced on her pretty forehead
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Trains take you to the empty spaces

Where orange fires raged the other day
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When you bear-hug darkness
You do not see bears from bushes
And where the earth ends
And the dark of the sky begins.
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