Poems
THE FORGOTTEN FIFTY FOUR
This poem is dedicated to our unsung heroes of The War of ‘71.
Just a hundred miles from home,
They live, their lives forgotten
By all except...
LIGHT A LAMP
Light a lamp O Kodava clans,
For the memories of our braves,
Who died upon their golden soil,
Rather than live as slaves .
Light a lamp my...
POLI, POLI, DEVA…
Winters night falls gently,
As a veil across the vale,
The full yellow moon,
Bathes the Kodagu ‘bayle’,
The fragrance of ripe paddy,
Wafts across the golden fields,
The heady...
AKHRI NAMAN
As the flames engulfed his body,
Both in life and death,
The nation stood with his family,
And with them quietly wept.
All part of a macabre certainty,
Ever...
MONSOON MAGIC
Hanging off the handlebars,
Swerving 'round the curves,
Racing thro' the misty roads,
As on the monsoon rain pours.
Coffee trees and silver oak
Blurring past the eye,
Paddy fields...