Sharmila Ray Poems

PAST TENSE
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Hello,
writing to you is like writing on a blank page which magically will soak in all the
words and become blank again. So there is only blank.Writing to you is addressing
a blank within me. Tracing a line from your forehead down to your lips and then to
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Can you hear your voice
my voice and
everything that’s going on?
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Missing you is a strong word.
It has a smell to it, mushy and oppressive.
Sometimes, in the dead of the night the word condenses
before it scatters into hundreds of colour photographs.
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REFUGEE 1
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Alphabets march to enter my heart
but an ancient wind stops them,
They get lost.
They die
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Naked and immense
the ruins stare at me.
Here the evenings are
still born children and
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Crossed legged on the floor
I open the first chapter on trade winds.
The warm fragrance of distant cities
and abandoned shells
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