Gnomic Lines. Six Brevities Poem by Ananta Madhavan

1. Picture battalions
In yellow terrains.
Sleep.

2. Star, a faint wonder.
Why stone a saint?

3. Epithet, forget the etiquette,
Be bondsman to me.

4. A crazy thing to do, going to sleep.
How we trust our own betraying selves:
I do not like to wake up as someone else.

5. Anger is forgiven,
If it is not underdone.

6. Ages in Cages

In the sanctuary it is fair game:
We move in a cage, a cage they roam.

In the zoo the picture is the same:
They move in a cage, a cage is their home.

In the mind we reach the final stage:
We move in a cage in a cage in a cage.

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