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Remember
Remember ©December 24th, 2019 By Vijaya SundaramThis day – made into realness, Brought into being by those Who agree implicitly And, by thus doing, Make the world bend To their dream, their reality – This day is almost upon us now. I don’t mind. I like stories, And this is a good one. Remember it when you pass A man sleeping on the street, The refugees huddled at the door That refuses to…
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Middle
Middle ©Nov. 28th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram
Endings attract me. Beginnings, too. It’s just the fat middle I have to get through.
Things would be fun If we could just stitch The start to the end Or make them switch.
Leave middles behind Such muddle! Such mess! – Full of tangles and snarls, And a whole lot of stress.
Take me back to the start Of all that I was Of all I could be Then, just hit “Pause.”
Endings…
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Hermes, Psychopompos
Hermes, Psychopompos ©October 28th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram I walk to one side, Always slightly behind, Ready to catch you, And take you swiftly, Painlessly, to where you need to be. You never see me, But I’m there, your faithful shadow, Attached to you while you live, Your transport, your guide, Your truest friend, one who knows the way. You have others, yes, But they are creatures of flesh,
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Shell-Life
Shell-Life ©September 7th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram Some days, one becomes a shell. The creature that used to be within, is elsewhere. This is oddly interesting. One picks it at. There’s some pain. The scab is fascinating – All scabby and rough, but slick with memory, Like snail-trails leading somewhere, But no one knows quite where, or why. On some days, one could face Nothingness with…
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Finding
Finding ©August 25th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram It’s a balance But the tilt of it, And the back and forth of it Is tedious. It’s easy to wish to be done. But a little thought presses A finger on the middle of the scale: Why wish to be done when There’s so much left to do? Forget about feelings – the ego Is a tedious burden. There’s a lot outside one’s self – Just look! See the purpose of all…
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Umbilicus
Umbilicus ©July 25th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram I felt alone today, Not lonely. Just singular. Some days call for chatter, And others for introspection. Some days, I am mute – Not from sadness, Nor from despair, Just from a need to keep my mouth closed, And taste my own tongue. It’s delicate, my tongue, reminding me I am a creature of flesh, And makes me forget All the weight of thought – Of…
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On Watching Teenagers Perform 'The Tempest'
On Watching Teenagers Perform ‘The Tempest’
On Watching Teenagers Perform ‘The Tempest’ ©July 24th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram Magic comes clad in many robes And sometimes, it slips through invisibly. The trick is to turn suddenly And glimpse a light flickering down that unused corridor – You see dust motes dance, alive, intentional. Sometimes, it happens at sunset when you stand Staring dumbstruck at a sky gone mad While your dog tugs you…
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Double Vision
Double Vision ©July 23rd 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram To see with double-vision You need to fall headlong onto a pavement, Or break through prejudice, Or scroll through Facebook, Or drive home in slashing rain. I talk to a man sitting outside a CVS, a man Who smiles, though you see his heartbreak, When he tells you he’s Indian, And a beggar – in Massachusetts! The exclamation breaks through his words
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Intersecting Planes
Intersecting Planes ©July 23rd, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram All the planes lie open And to move from one to another Is to move from one fractured cubist realm To another. A series of still-shots in staccato movements, And all this stop-motion scenery splinters Before sitting upright. Thus it was, and thus it is now, But the fractures have resolved into windowpanes And the view outside is Alight with…
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Hum (We)
Hum (We) ©July 18th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram
Clouds of hatred gather: A congregation of locusts in a blind lust For plunder and destruction. What matters it if they themselves starve After they eat all the crops? Nobody hinted at intelligence in them. And what can we do? Wring our hands? Wrong our hands? We could blow smoke up To where they gather. We could confuse them, Scatter them, drive…
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Kalki Avatar
Kalki Avatar ©June 25th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram Child on a lotus Races in the wind Races on hefty waves Towards us. Lost child bearing a gift Of loss, bearing the Weight of the world The end of the world On her shoulders. The flood is upon us. We are lost, Grasping at lotus leaves Even as we go under. Where is Kalki? Where is the Last Vishnu Avatar Who, riding his white…
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A Dream of Forgetting
A Dream of Forgetting
A Dream of Forgetting ©June 24th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram Somewhere, trees stand tall Like my Papa, who stands Both legs apart, arms akimbo, Staring into the distance, Hearing the sound of hogs Knowing the peace of the afternoon Will shatter into a thousand Shards, and slice into our family. Somewhere, water flows like My Mama’s hair rippling in the breeze, After she’s washed it, And…
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Coal and Ash and Tears and Clouds
Coal and Ash and Tears and Clouds
Coal and Ash and Tears and Clouds ©June 23rd, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram Thoughts in the brain Become coal Words in the throat Become fire Blood in arteries Becomes ash While everything burns. Everything burns within, Everything burns without. Coolness is a dream. The trees sing a cool song, Desperate, calm, stoic – all three – Sending up moisture to form clouds, As we, hot and…
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Post One a.m.
Post One a.m. ©May 18th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram I am aslant, Athwart, Diagonal. I am sidewise, Crabwise, Orthogonal. I am stranded, Wind-beaten, Eroding. I am sinking Wave-sucked, Corroding. I am rounded Pebble-smooth Rolling. I am sanded Smooth-grained, Unscrolling. I could curl up Shell-shocked In the deeps. I could swirl up Hell-hocked. Lose your sleep! Call me, catch…
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Questions, and a Perhaps-Answer
Questions, and a Perhaps-Answer
Questions, and a Perhaps-Answer ©April 29th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram I cannot bear violence, or ambition, Nor hatefulness, or jealousy, Nor rage, or the need for revenge. Long ago, I understood these things, Knew they were part of humanness. Now, all I long for is stillness, Even as I might feel a surge of lust, Or rage, or hatred towards the haters. But stillness can be death, too. So, is…
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Dreamer in Ice
Dreamer in Ice ©March 10th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram Under ice, deep under water Gazed a face so still, so still that Not a ripple on the surface Creased the Dreamer’s face below. No air bubbles, no struggling breath No gurgling cries, no troubled eyes No searching for aeons gone by No yearning for all those who’d left No wants, no needs, no flaunting deeds No ghosts, no lives, no…
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Ghost
Ghost ©February 27th, 2019 By Vijaya Sundaram I walk among you, and through you And you don’t see, don’t hear, don’t speak to, Me. I, who lived and died ten thousand times, Over and over, wafting through space and stars, Through cosmic dust and darkness, Through oxygen and nitrogen, and carbon, (Oh, so much carbon, you would suffocate And turn black as coal, if only you knew), Through…
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