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Manaswita R.
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(from: The Dance of the Eunuchs)
... Their voices
Were harsh, their songs melancholy; they sang of
Lovers dying and of children left unborn...
Some beat their drums; others beat their sorry breasts
And wailed, and writhed in vacant ecstasy...
... Even the crows were so
Silent on tress, and the children, wide eyed, still;
All were watching these poor creatures' convulsions.
Such evocative imagery!
— Dec 17, 2021 12:31AM
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... Their voices
Were harsh, their songs melancholy; they sang of
Lovers dying and of children left unborn...
Some beat their drums; others beat their sorry breasts
And wailed, and writhed in vacant ecstasy...
... Even the crows were so
Silent on tress, and the children, wide eyed, still;
All were watching these poor creatures' convulsions.
Such evocative imagery!
Divya
is on page 99 of 320
Unable to read more than two or three in one sitting, so intensely powerful and deep are her poems. Now reading from her time in Sri Lanka.
Smoke in Colombo
On that last ride home we had the smoke
Following us, along the silenced
Streets, lingering on, though the fire
Was dead then in the rubble and the ruins,
Lingering on as milk lingers on
In udders after the calves are buried,
Lingering on as grief lingers on...
— May 01, 2020 11:56PM
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Smoke in Colombo
On that last ride home we had the smoke
Following us, along the silenced
Streets, lingering on, though the fire
Was dead then in the rubble and the ruins,
Lingering on as milk lingers on
In udders after the calves are buried,
Lingering on as grief lingers on...
tee
is on page 78 of 320
skipped to the poems.. the introduction will be read when this quarantine GETS to me
— Mar 27, 2020 06:32AM
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