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Arundhathi Subramaniam Poems
- Prayer May things stay the way they are in the simplest ...
- To The Welsh Critic Who Doesn'...
- 5:46, Andheri Local In the women's compartment of a Bombay ...
- Confession It’s taken time to realise no one survives. ...
- Another Way To swing yourself from moment to moment, to ...
- Home Give me a home that isn't mine, where I can slip in ...
- Heirloom My grandmother, wise even at eight, hid under her ...
Arundhathi Subramaniam is a poet and writer and on spirituality and culture. She has worked over the years as poetry editor, curator, and journalist on literature, classical dance and theatre. She divides her time between Bombay and a yoga centre in Coimbatore.
Arundhathi Subramaniam is the author of three books of poems: most recently Where I Live: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books, UK. Her prose works include the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic Sadhguru: More Than a Life, Penguin and a book on the Buddha (Book of Buddha), Penguin Books (reprinted several times). As editor, she has worked on a Penguin anthology of essays on sacred journeys in the country ... more »
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Prayer
May things stay the way they are
in the simplest place you know.
May the shuttered windows
keep the air as cool as bottled jasmine.
May you never forget to listen
to the crumpled whisper of sheets
that mould themselves to your sleeping form.
May the pillows always be silvered
with cat-down and the muted percussion
of a lover’s breath.
May the murmur of the wall clock
continue to decree that your providence
run ten minutes slow.
May nothing be disturbed
in the simplest place you know
for it is here in the foetal hush
that blueprints ...
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her poems suck, if i had the choice to either eat my mums and lick the up or read one of her poems i would already be bending my mum over
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