From: "annapurna" <kanchanagunga-AT-cyberdiva.org> Subject: RE: Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:33:47 +0530 sachaalu weeps and wails and i look at her in envy in this too she is herself in this too she has a way while we quote our half familiar bibles and half learnt upanishads she cries in pure poetry bringing tears even to my contact lensed eye comforting me by holding on to me this is what it means born of the earth to understand seasons and cycles with every breath of your being to be abstract without ever straying from reality sachaalu's eyes deadened by pain lighting up when she hands out a chocolate as i choke on her spicy cooking i learn this too from her as i have learnt so many things.. in my eyes and in hers is the certain knowledge... that inevitably my time too shall come as hers has.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- radhika wrote: Dust unto dust Ashes unto ashes... there is peace now the crow flew on to the wires in the parking lot as i stood there gazing at the the passing train.... wondering.... in this small town at the other side of the world divided by the railway tracks [whereelsewouldigrievebutonturnpikesparkinglotsanddigitalspaces amidstseasofanonymity?] thinking of another small village on the other side of the world and of a river where he swam as a child.... said s/he had flown all the way over the oceans all is over - all is fine. there is peace now. as the particles of his being merge with the river Godavari his childhood dreams and thoughts floating with his remains ... there is peace now. endaromahaanubhaavulu andariki vandanamulu. -- ************************************************************* Radhika Gajjala http://www.cyberdiva.org/ *************************************************************** "in memoriam" under construction (contributions welcome) - http://www.cyberdiva.org/vedalenusimhudu.html ***************************************************************
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