Rajesh Thankappan Poems

When I said, ‘I hope, '
I really didn't harbour any
But still I went hop, hop,
Hope, hope,
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My eyes have not reached the region
Where my vision should reach,
My vision has not reached the region
Where my intellect should reach,
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Was there a time
Before the birth of time?
Before the big bang
Before the universe began?
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This is my chair
This is my chair
Two frogs were fighting it out
With lungs puffed-up with air.
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I saw a pair of swans
Streak across the azure sky,
A story of love and beauty
Being scripted in the heavens high.
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You were the telescope through which I saw
My entire vision of the universe.
Through this window I gossiped with a multitude of stars
That spangled across the night sky and enticed me from afar.
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Zigzag zoom
Zigzag zoom,
I dreamt myself
Travelling to the moon.
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I have a silent companion, of whom I realized late,
It’s my fate, its my fate, let me here state.
He would rather have things done his way
But I relentlessly try to bring him under my sway.
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It is not darkness alone
That makes a thing to hide
For a thing may also hide
Even in the brilliance of light.
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Our eyes behave just like a prism
When it dwells upon the past and thus gazes back
For the intervening time refracts our vision
And lends them rainbow colours both variant and vibrant.
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