Check Dams Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Check Dams



I tapped you
Love sprang like a spring.

It ran like a ravine
And jolted like a rivulet.
Then it flowed like a mighty river,
Overflowing the banks.
I drank it to stomach full.
Check dams were built.
Now the river is the ocean of sands
I am not desperate.
I will dig and smell the wet sand
22.06.2002, pakd

Saturday, January 9, 2010
Topic(s) of this poem: river
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Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Aravayal, karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, South India
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