Veerankutty Kollanary Poems

Republic of Silence

Sitting in a room
Where only echoes are stored
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Please, don't insist on making me say everything
This mountain is eloquent enough
To speak of solitude as
It stands still since
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നല്ലവൾ / വീരാൻകുട്ടി.
ദൈവമേ
നീ വലിയ ആളാണെന്നാണല്ലോ വയ്പ്
എങ്കിൽ
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Poem

Dirty Words by
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Taming the Tongue
Writing down the names
of the silence-breakers in the class,
I got them lashed well;
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Write
about the need
to protect trees
on this paper,
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Your short stature itself
is testimony to God's
intention to create you
in the form of a football.
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Watch the flight of the milk weed fluff,
A very humble effort indeed.
Wingless,
It is disallowed the crossing of borders,
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