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Learn your speech count the beat
beat one is the first dialogue
beat two reversal of roles
Reserve tables with candle bra
stretch opening lines ,rehearse
the elastic band of refinement.

Reach breaking point.


See the elephants and bison
cows and dogs
lizards and cockroaches
and sometimes relatives too
out in the open. It's
quick and done with
as plain as that, both genders.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/3019 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:43:35 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2890/t/Sixtieth-Birthday-Second-Wedding.html
At Thirukadayoor on my husband's birthday, we three
my husband, my daughter and me.

All his life he has sung Her glory
The Goddess Abirami, who flung her ear stud to make a new moon full.

My daughter said, ''Appa if you think of me as equal to your son
come, lets us go on with the sacred marriage.''

I dissolved the pain of my son's nonchalance,
and pretended that it was... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2890 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:44:30 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2799/t/Ten-Ways-Of-Defining-A-Couvam-The-Number-Ten-.html Black as ditchwater
where all drainages meet
it stagnates in the city.

It has far reaching smells
pungent and wheeze inducing
it is our city's pride.

The rivers the poets sang
Ramanujam the waterless Vaigai
this is the antithesis.

There are bill boards that read
sanctuary of birds, and strangely
the wings make a beautiful sight.

But what if a foreigner
should choose to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2799 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:12:49 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2798/t/-Ways--Contemplating----Eat--Apple--Number--.html
Squat the apple on a saucer
topple it with peanut butter.
Then pass the knife and slice off
one side, eat and turn the saucer
just an ark.
Meanwhile talk of a grandfather
in the country who taught you
how to relish slices of apple
with peanut butter.
Remember a poet's eye is on the symmetry
of the apple and has now
reached the seeds.

Long after perhaps I would have... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2798 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:59:05 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2797/t/Ten-Ways-Of-Making-Chapathis-The-Number-Ten-.html You have to feel the flour with your fingers for the texture
or else you will have to seive it once more to hold back the coarse
chaff remembering flour and flour will stick
together.
A dash of salt with the tip of the fingers, one half spoon sugar
warm milk and water ,a spoon full of oil and all
your five fingers
and childhood will help you with memories of sand
pies.
It is almost like a prelude to making love at... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2797 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:46:56 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2582/t/Friday-Economy.html
Never in my wildest dreams
had I pictured myself
outside the library of Alexandria
gaping with a closed mouth at this
more wonderful than the pyramids,
more shapely than the sphinx.

I stand in awe of such
magnificent knowledge bank
A dream in concrete,
an architect's poetry.

Zaharaa says ,''look ,
this great marvel will take us one half day
just to go around the circumference,
This... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2582 Fri, 22 May 2009 06:07:13 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2579/t/Thursday-Prompt-Overheard.html

Has an ace up his sleeve
plays open forum, digs nose,
hits potluck and traps mice.
Has fathered a dozen grandfathers
among other achievements.
Never been to high school
why should he when there is paddy
in the foreground, background
underground and aboveground?
Has two bad habits, only :
on new moon days rides stallion
like a kid on a sack of grain and
on full moon days makes... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2579 Thu, 21 May 2009 05:07:15 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2578/t/Wednesday-s-Prompt-Hope-Fear.html
Wrench the children away
train them in martial arts
haphazard firing
blindfold them
only to let them out
into the enemy territory.
I fear for these Tamil children.
Now that the war is over
how long will it take
for them to be free of fear?

Sivakami Velliangiri ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2578 Wed, 20 May 2009 00:22:56 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2573/t/Tuesday-Writing-Prompt-Sentence-and-Syntax.html You are one of those who manage to mentally transform life into a real-time adventure, as though,

Sivakami

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2573 Tue, 19 May 2009 00:35:52 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2571/t/Monday-Prompt-Found-Poem.html
How could all
our mails qualify?
Are they not virtual?
What is actual is
both mom and dad,
who gather garbage
and neatly arrange it
...time and again.
They think
they make the place
cleaner by doing.
So your house has loads
of cardboard boxes
with old electric wire,
switches,
old clothes,
paper cuttings,
buttons,
nails,
wood pieces,
''interesting"... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2571 Mon, 18 May 2009 09:15:12 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2555/t/Sunday-Writing-Prompt-Mother-s-Day.html {No question of a conflict}
We vibe with each other, now .
I have no need to hide
what I was at his age-
the same vivacious burst of energy
the same reckless nose thrusting go-aheads
and championing of a cause.
But he is lucky unlike me
he never gets into a jam as I did
I am the first who can appreciate.
his plane making a racquet without a silencer
or his editorship of the ECE journal with his avionics
and glossed... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2555 Sun, 10 May 2009 08:43:51 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2553/t/Writing-Prompt-Saturday-Journeys.html
The crackle of my forefathers' whip
the ones who beat their wifes
or drove the cartwheels over their thighs.
and drove on after a cursory bandage
of stuffed chili powder, rock salt, and
turmeric paste, to their business
is one kind of journey.

When the floods came it became
an exodus , only the fittest
escaped. Among the weak sisters left behind
there were seven virgins, who hung their
heads in shame,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2553 Fri, 08 May 2009 16:56:48 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2552/t/Writing-Prompt-Friday-Sound.html start ringing of their own….

Shake shake,
shake earth, shake
shed that discomfort ,
push that strand
that tickles your groin--
but gently
like rocking a hammock,
strictly no more histrionics------
mind you,
we have had too many!

Funny, but also fear evoking
I can think of so many
like the golden sheep that shook
fleece.

Will the fish-plates have moved,
over the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2552 Thu, 07 May 2009 22:21:59 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2551/t/Journal-Entry-May-7th-We-did.html

The poets are gathered in Room no3 for the reading
in basket chairs and straight backed ones
introductions are just begun
everyone has a lingo suitable.
Sometimes you can preceed Krishnan with
'I am making the Canterbury Tales just like the Old boys
so many boys,so many stories,we are making a book.
Each has a different story to tell,do you know Chaucer?''
The first time I see Chitra take over, and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2551 Thu, 07 May 2009 10:48:48 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2545/t/Tuesday-May4th-Ordinary-Things.html
There are these favourite spots
Papa took us on Sundays
to sit and gaze at the museum by night.
''Look at those spot - light
focussed on coconuts till they gleam like burnt gold,''
he said. The nuts shine , the leaves
cast black shadows,
the red and white building
sits like a painting on a mound
the loud speakers of the radio blare
the Malayalam news reels
Yesudas moves us in Carnatic faith.
Our... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2545 Mon, 04 May 2009 07:41:47 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2538/t/Sunday-In-Short.html
Each time I call him on the cellular phone
I am conscious of a circumstantial drone.
If I miss him amidst a very busy meeting, hoping
to hear a lady's moan, it is the grocer's shopping.


Sivakami Velliangiri.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2538 Sun, 03 May 2009 08:33:05 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2431/t/Friday-Writing-Prompt-Apathy.html
She's come all the way from Scotland
to hold us loosely without grip
she glitters in maroon and indigo
as she gazelles like a Kathak artist.

She is fluent with her hands , sprite and agile
she moults her skin, every membrane a jacket
of Ganeshas , as she goes butterfly catching
imaginary net, she is a danseuse, Cupid's squatting.

Reaches out nail polished finger tips to Brahma's toe
he exhausts his... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2431 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:34:09 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2421/t/Thursday-Prompt-Your-Story-From-A-Photograph.html
Life history and past history-yes we were curious
as to why I never conceived, in spite of innovativeness:
Prayers and night stay in temple soil on full moon
skies-we ducked our heads wherever three temple tank waters met
slept over night on sea shores temples, hill- top temples and
Guruvayoor, carried a hundred kg stone serpent to Kasi
in a gunny bag, dragging our weighty luggage. All this was penalty.
'You Velliangiri,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2421 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:25:26 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2408/t/--exhausted--Animal-funda---insect----reptile-.html
Ant-rail-we went along till they fell
Into an ant-house---a hollow. So we lost.
Collecting snake skin jackets was safer
we learnt from being bitten, the good,
the bad, and even the sami ant.
We never poked. The black had pincers
my wee daughter had closed her fist
on one such and the stings went right in.
(this was twenty five years later)
We knew how to entice them to a nun's bed
with a single sugar line-we also... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2408 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:05:31 GMT http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2395/t/Writing-Prompt-Tuesday-Rivers.html
Every poet worth his Indian salt
recalls rivers, hence Cauvery
essence of the Karumari -
Black Kali, Goddess, therefore amrita,
or call it what you will,
and a culture of buffaloes
dhobis, asses, local people
doing the usual trick,
and me quite happy with my habit
of copper coins
enlarged first with the weight
of the Salem Express
or the Blue Mountain wheels
and then tossed into the pulp of the river
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Siva Ramanathan) http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/topic/2395 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:06:59 GMT