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color:#222222">I have kept apart

color:#222222">2 minutes

color:#222222"> all night

color:#222222">to think of you.

color:#222222"> 

color:#222222">23 hours and 58 seconds

color:#222222">Ill think, that I

color:#222222">will  not think of you.

color:#222222"> 

color:#222222">So I'll call for wine

color:#222222">the rose one

color:#222222">and one of lavender

color:#222222">and i'll think of Bloody Mary

color:#222222">in red vodkha

color:#222222">that is cheap and best selling

color:#222222"> at the airport

color:#222222">where even the pilot

color:#222222">who has seen you

color:#222222">dreams of you

color:#222222"> I know

I do not want to know

color:#222222">what  to do

color:#222222"> without you

color:#222222">oozing all my life

color:#222222">and

color:#222222"> I've  blood pressure to manage

color:#222222">my diabetes,

color:#222222"> and  the most important  need

color:#222222">to bring down

color:#222222">the climbing mercury

color:#222222">of 

color:#222222"> your  morning  smile.

From: 
The Zong




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ABOUT THE POET ~
Born (1956), Trivandrum, Kerala, India., Winner, All India Poetry Prizes, Poetry Society, India-British Council Awards (96, 97, 98), and other leading poetry prizes. Poetry published in Ariel (Canada), Orbis (UK), Nth Position (UK), Bluefifth Review (UK), Toronto Review (Canada), The Illustrated Weekly of India, Kavya Bharati (India), Fulcrum (USA), Verse, Seattle, (USA), Indian Literature, Arabesque Review, Plaza (Japan), Chandrabhaga (India), and others. Founder editor, Poetry Chain. Participant, MFA, Texas state University, (2000) Poet in Residence, Augsburg University, Germany (2004). Important works : Poetry : Father, Wake Us In Passing, (German Translation, Wolfgang Heyder) A Buchenwald Diary, Mother Sonata, Victoria Terminus, Poems Selected and New (2010). The Coloured Yolk of Love (2012). Drama: Fire In The Soul The Mask of Death. Novel : A Bridge Over Karma (Novel). Poetry included in The Bloodaxe book of Contemporary Indian Poetry In English, The Golden Jubilee Anthology of Post Independence Indian poetry In English, and Poetry Society, India anthologies.


Last updated May 28, 2012