jagannath adukuri's Writings
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Poem
Apr.01.2009
The morning slowly dries wet clothes, Dripping, they smell of blue detergent The house there wakes up bleary-eyed Hesitating shadows emerge from the walls A varnished gate, the midget of a woman On the concrete bench, in the garden Measuring the length of her shadow.
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Poem
Apr.01.2009
my ears are drums emptied of sounds please play music for my eyes and thought my body still vibrates and feet-taps to heavenly music heard behind my eye-lids and my skin perks up to beauty-thoughts.
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Poem
Apr.01.2009
Trains bring people to river canals Where death is a mere after-fact Submerged in flowing green waters. It is like what your life’s beginning was When you were sleeping in your mother Submerged in a sea of emerald aqua With your eyes closed in green oblivion.
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Poem
Apr.01.2009
This wordy struggle went on for too long It is airy words which chased beauty-thoughts In his folded figure on the window. A little heaving bird on the electric wires Played high drama in shrill baritone Poetry came and went with wind and rain Premature and dusty on fragrant creepers Their flowers became stars on moonless nights.
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Poem
Apr.01.2009
On the dizzy skyscraper’s
Bamboo scaffold a man’s body
Is etched against the hot sky
He is a mere painted figure
On the vast canvas of the sky.
Somebody painted him there.
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Poem
Feb.14.2009
The city is daylong and sea –backedThe sea-child deeply dangled his feetInto the sea at the misty radio clubNear the cockroach-ridden sea palaceBringing back a tide of memoriesYears ago, I had bought my identityHere, in a piece of paper, full of liesAnd endless possibilities of hurtIn the fragrant harbour to come .Now the sea is calm but afraidI see Rukmini’s...
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Poem
Feb.07.2009
that was the beginningof some poetry and action-a leap into a running scriptI get into it without adomy context is made quickly.
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Poem
Feb.07.2009
assurance comes as phone messagefrom the frosty silence of the namelessas the mind grapples with questionsthat emerge from its dusty attic.
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Jan.27.2009
Things happened here, flowing from me The stage was set for eventful existence Other things happened other place, other time My world was defined , its contours set But my luminous eyes looked far beyond The other small mimes did not matter Their laughter rang some times in ears As though they were the main shows . Now as the frilled curtain goes down My...
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Poem
Jan.27.2009
Things happened here, flowing from me The stage was set for eventful existence Other things happened other place, other time My world was defined , its contours set But my luminous eyes looked far beyond The other small mimes did not matter Their laughter rang some times in ears As though they were the main shows .Now as the frilled curtain goes down...
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About jagannath
A banker by profession.My chief interests are poetry writing and photography . I have not published any book so far .
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