Pebbles On The Shore By R.Rabindranath Menon Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

On the shore of life, Menon keeps picking
The pebbles, the gravels
In order to learn from
Life and its experiences,
Life and its teachings.


The book which appeared from
Writers Workshop, Calcutta in 1981
Includes in
Pebbles on the Shore, Beauty,
On Memories, Parasuram Part-I,
Parasuram-II, My Country, My Culture, Tell Me,
I Saw Her Quietly Die, Too Many Laws, Equality,
Corpses Grow Bigger, Diehard, On Stars, Silence,
A Citizen’s Story, No more Prophets.

Excellence, Explosion, Assessment,
On Gods, Priests and the Laity,
True Love, A Theatre of the Absurd,
Letter from a Divorcee, Hunger,
Kingdom of the Dead, Echoes Without Regret,
Reckoning, At the Confessional,
Psycho Analytical, Musings, the others.

The poet loves the stars
Each of them
And tries to understand
The beauty and majesty of them,
The silence speaking through,
Beauty enlightening upon,
Rue love which but gives,
Takes to not,
Memories leading to
Where he was once.