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Poems by Jaya Abraham
Ghost of Summers Past
This summer, is the ghost of all summers
This sun, a ghost of my childhood sun
I feel the laughter and the joy
Ghosts...
Three Poems by Jaya Abraham
Story of a brooch
Every Saturday evening
My grandmother was busy
Ironing her whites crisp
Scolding me with every fold
For inheriting her husband's
Dark skin and dark thoughts.
Folding her...
Poems by Jaya Abraham
Stargazers’ night
The sky spreads
A vast canvas of dreams
The street sleeps
Moon, the big mom
Paints silver
Across my window.
Aldebaran, ardent follower
Steals a wink,
At the Pleiadean...
Poems by Jaya Abraham
A room of my own
Once, I had a room
With glass walls.
Sitting there
I painted my life
Dreaming
About oceans.
For those who saw me
I was a fish...
Poems by Jaya Abraham
Winterlude
Tell me about December
The soft sigh of the latches
The clouded mirrors
In the washroom
Resolutions smudged
They peep out again
In a trail of ants
Their adventures...
Five Poems By Jaya Abraham
Stolen Shorelines
The azure waters
Lured me to the shores
The vivacious waves
Washed me to lands unknown
And the men on the shore,
Filled my plate every evening.
Like a...
Poems by Jaya Abraham
Lot's wife
She held a lot,
The morning hues
The mows of the herd,
The soft flap of the wind
Against the tent roofs
And the smell of bread
Fresh from...
Poems by Jaya Anitha Abraham
Gospel at the Well
Walking to the well,
Me, a fugitive
An empty pot in hand,
I carry my home in my mind,
Moist in hopelessness,
I bake my bread...
Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
The Lone Transmuter
On most days
she is soft curled Medusa
her locks big animated S-es
insistent question marks
buoyant ends curving
into snake-eyed C-s
inky chocolate in the shade
haloed red...
Malayalam Poetry : Vijayalakshmi’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 28
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
