Rajendran Muthiah Poems

I sallied out for the first time in 1980
with my friend, skillful to cut jokes,
on a sinuous road with curves and bends
to Kollihills well known for herbs and rills.
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" Geronimo Ekia! " The US Seals yelled
When the unarmed Osama was alone killed
monitoring the calls of al-kuwaiti,
the Courier to al-quwaida and tracing to his lair.
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I saw on video the pilgrims
climbing up towards Amarnath,
cheering the name of the Lord.
The music of a mesmeric song
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We collected cobbled stones on
the dried tributaries of the Ganges.
Our coach was then winding around the hills
towards the hill resort, Mussorie.
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On the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island
away from a hamlet of some highland,
they walked and saw a lot of nesting turtles
and slept there for the night in the breeze that hurtles.
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Dragging her back to the shore
by rising above the waves,
when the centrifugal waves surged and roared
and dipping into the sea,
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O You Fool above! Don't shoot at me
with close encounters on a spree.
Laws of this land aren't told
fore you're clutched with a hold.
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The prejudiced minds
preach violence, abduct
people of other cultures,
carry out fidayeen attacks
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Illegal transport of rotten meat
by trains for the Chennaites to eat
made the officials kind
as they're to drug smuggling blind.
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Friendship is the bond
that ties the nation together,
though the religions, races and castes
divide people to maul each other.
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