Arunlal Mokeri

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Arunlal Mokeri Biography

Arunlal Mokeri was born in Mokeri, Calicut, Kerala in 1982. He finished his PhD in English Literature from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad in 2012. He has translated screenplays of Malayalam films to English for International Shakespearean Studies Desk, headed by Prof. Mark Thornton. Arunlal Mokeri has translated to Malayalam the philosophical writings of Bertrand Russell under the title 'Manushyanum Yukthichinthayum.' He has several published articles and translations to his credit. He currently works as an Asst. Professor at Dept. of English, Govt. College Mokeri, Calicut, Kerala.)

The Best Poem Of Arunlal Mokeri

The Cat

The cat is simply everywhere on a given day.
On the culvert sleeping, his ears keeping watch;
In the shade purring angrily at himself clutching the earth;
Out in the sun as a proud machine-perfect movement of limbs;
At the wayside trashcan licking wet the dry fish bones:
Always involved most in himself.

Or he scratches the truck at rest
Thumps dying moths with soft white paws
One moment here and the next, up, on the tree,
Busy at some self-occupied spree,
Till the Sun goes down.

Then in dark, he spits out daylight
Through two sulfur balls in his head
And looks at the moon's skeletal white face
To study the scratch patches closely.

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