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poddarku
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since 2008-01-15
Posts 589
india

0 posted 2008-11-21 11:53 PM



Untimely Santa
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Let’s play Santa with the backyard children.
It is early fall with ashes and golds.
Touch the heads with hazel hairs, careless
tussle with them, offer sweets to the street
with patches of sunshine, brown and all crispy.  
After all an autumn Sunday with a nip of chill
is coming in trough the window.
After all this is the month of birthdays.
After all it is your birthday.
After all everybody else have things to forget
and at this age you can not forget past, memories.
Only present becomes blur.
He wears a light sweater
with the enduring impressions
of hands long gone.
Ha, repetitions of images and phrases are life.
Let’s play Santa with them
who have trained themselves
to disbelieve every man, every woman,
every pervert and every sane.
Let’s play autumn with an ol’man
boys of backyards. © 2008 - All Rights Reserved Kushal Poddar

clever talks delay friendship!

© Copyright 2008 poddar kushal - All Rights Reserved
Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant
since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia
1 posted 2008-11-22 12:00 PM


Ku.. I love your gifting here... you have such a wonderful talent for writing.. love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
2 posted 2008-11-22 01:21 AM


Oh my, dear Ku, what an outstanding, multi-layered, poignant offering!

... the "nip of chill" is felt on my skin, as a reaction to this beauty.

Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
3 posted 2008-11-22 01:46 AM


Kushal, my dear friend, this is quiveringly beautiful and, as always, speaks a maturity and understanding of people and life, way beyond your years, and portrays your wonderful gift of giving, bathed in your characteristic humility.  I read it over and over and over, and my appreciation and enjoyment of it and submersion into it, increased with each reading.  

Please post Telescope again so that we can all read and reply to it.

- Owl

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