Horns Poem by Boutha Ayyanar Boutha Ayyanar

Horns

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The moment I stepped inside the City
the first thing that came into view
were the horns of men.
Instinctively my hand felt my head.
Nothing pricked
With the heart being fully aware that
 the Onida Ad is a figment of imagination
Even in the wildest of my dreams I have never seen
real men sporting horns.
But now,  forcing me to believe that 
the city-bred would indeed be born
with horns
I come across men with horns
all too often.
Thinking that at least my friend from the village
who has migrated to the town
would be free of horns,
when I knocked at the doors 
he opened it 
waving his horns gleefully.
I touched the horn. 
Indeed it was real. 
Once again I felt my head.
And,  I could feel something pricking.
Before the Sun could retire for the day
the horns had grown on my head too.
I became terror-struck.
I began to cut them but
they kept on sprouting.
The horns that I had removed 
during day-time,
when I woke up after a night's sleep
came to occupy their usual place.
And,  I too have begun to
roam around with horns,
searching for the Man 
minus the malignant growth.

Horns
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: lonely
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Lonely
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Jazib Kamalvi 30 January 2019

A good start with a nice poem, Boutha Ayyanar. You may like to read my poem, Love And Iust. Thank you.

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Jazib Kamalvi 30 January 2019

A good start with a nice poem, Boutha Ayyanr. You may like to read my poem, Love And Iust. Thank you.

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Jazib Kamalvi 30 January 2019

A good start with a nice poem, Boutha. You may like to read my poem, Love And Iust. Thank you.

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