Shreekumar Varma Poems

Let me hold you while you laugh,
there's a saying in our parts
that tears revive the past but harden the present,
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Who knows
what visceral vistas of pain
will lead me to you
in your mist-shrouded
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He plucks a flower from her hair
finds her soul embedded;
'I'd rather have a flat for us,
what will your father spare?'
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Tripletting from our own heads
we brought them forth as gods;
wiseheaded, river-berating, caressmiling-
universes in a three-palm.
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My life, I see, is a period of darkness
singed by lonely flashes,
I lie as if in a hospital bed
run through with tubes from each pretence-
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the earth contused once, i was born;
a sublime sky spread out in aesthetic colours-
i was a pioneer, touching the right chords,
breaking out in fearless pursuit of reasons.
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when the sun dips as if forever,
when streaks of feeling
silver the horizon's brow
and the waves start up in excitement,
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as silence drops like rain on river
helpless lives sail by, wild-wailing
their woes- the heart alone beats in a
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whenever someone complains
of travel sickness
or the rash, its always with the hope
of a better summer next time around.
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