Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:37:03 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: "Aquestion of balance"


Thank you, Radhika...somehow I thought you have a baby to care for 
along with a husband and your Ph.D.  But now it turns out you have 
teenaged son.  Yes, I suppose motherhood IS overrated, but my mother 
had a good time at it, despite the hard time I gave her...and somehow, 
there is no one ever as close to you as someone of your very 
own...maybe not...only God knows, I guess!

I'm glad you like this poem...the memory of the father is that of my 
own father who had to leave me crying my head off as his train sped out 
of the train station in Jaipur in 1947...then I promptly forgot my pain 
as I played in my grandmother's garden chasing all sorts of flora, 
fauna, and bird life!  I'd like to do some work on it...can you help me 
with parsing lines?  Is that asking too much?  I'm so poor at it!  My 
goal, presumptuous though it is, is to write many poems capturing 
images from my life and describing them in poetic images...I read a 
book published by an American baseball player who after retirement, 
wrote about himself in poetry and essays.

Take care and all the best!

-Manjusree

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>Manju - thanks for yet another beautiful poem!
>[[ - and believe me motherhood
>is overrated;-)]]
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>R
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