Poetry

My Four Poems 

These may interest some readers.

1.  THE  SILVER  JUBILEE

For twenty–five years

We have lived here

In this house

We call ours

Slept in the same bed

Looked into each others’ eyes

Embraced and begotten

These children

We call ours

Together

We have spent

This life

And yet

We have been two cocoons

In tangential contact

Our unmetamorphosed selves

Shrivelling year by year

In our dark individual cells

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2. ARCHAEOLOGICAL  REMAINS

We have tried

Both of us

We have broken our heads

Against stone walls

Withstood the heat of blast furnaces

Waded through parsecs of frozen silence…

To edge towards each other

And now

Two frayed animals at our wits’ end

We stare into each other’s eyeballs

Reflecting two archaeological sites:

Ruined cities with their broken artifacts

Time beaten images of clay

Seals and tablets inscribed

With undecipherable messages:

Remains of a defeated endeavour

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3.  WE  TWO

In this wilderness

We two

Could’ve walked

Hand in hand

On the same pathway

But chasing mirages

We’ve strayed away

From each other

Our oases

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4. PARTING

That day

During our casual talk

Over a cup of tea

One thing my dear

Was clear:

Henceforth we won’t be

Atoms united in covalent bonds

Perhaps we would be

Two particles of dust

In random motion

Floating in a shaft of sunlight

Or two elements in two non-intersecting

Universes of discourse

Never meeting

Never coming in each other’s way

Hurtling through space

Like galaxies from the shattered centre

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