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Frank
You have changed the tense. Let us wait and see if anyone else wishes to say something.

S

1. A short man, not very ordinary looking, waited behind the East Fort arch every morning at 8.25 and followed me right up to the bus stop. He wore a dhothi , perhaps two meters wide and lifted the tip with one hand. I am in my convent blue uniform. He has betel stained teeth. Him following me to t...

B

Thanks for sharing. We live in hope. Poetry is the tattoo on our skin--accompanying us in our after-life.

S

Each stanza unravels slowly and here is a poem to be much liked.

S

Kenneth I could get it. Names like Greek Gods. We used to sign our creative letter writing with names like Codopirina and Mr.Eldopar. Aspirina. Even our Auyurvedic names became feminine. That aside the artists are well accounted for. Einstein alone perplexes,maybe because of his theory. That it is s...

Bernie What a lovely poem,everything that Frank said and much more--thrilling like flash fiction.Will definitely return to it several times for a long time,better still store it in my favourite poems folder. Below, a corn laden barge creeps on the flaxen river. Rain again with both hands. I join han...

Thank you Gracy.

Siva

Thank you Kenneth.

Congratulations Bernie and all those who were placed from other boards. Thank you Michael and Bernie and Frank. Frank you are always right when it comes to editing. Seeing so many commas in the last stanza --I wish I had removed all those commas, then there would not have been so many pauses and the...

B
Thanks for reading.And pointing out the 'space' which was missing.

S

The verandah of Nakulan’s house had a parapet with an easy chair; of the two rooms, one was his and on the other his mother lay. Outside the verandah, on the muttam, a single tree could be seen; In the room inside gurgling noises could be heard where an old woman who had spent her life with a schizo...

Kenneth and Frank

If somebody helps me with the punctuation,then I accept the nom.

S

Kenneth
I do not wish there were more people like you. Because then all three of you would become very ordinary.

S

Frank
I know you will help me with the punctuation. I have learnt quite a lot from your editing.

S

Hi All
I have achieved something. Just touch and go,no ugliness,poetic enough to be prose. I do not wish there were more people like you.I am not able to comment on the poems because sometimes I feel extremely stupid.

S

My Friend’s Father Prof.Carey The verandah of Nakulan’s house had a parapet with an easy chair; of the two rooms, one was his and on the other his mother lay. Outside the verandah, on the muttam, a single tree could be seen; In the room inside gurgling noises could be heard where an old woman who h...

Bernie

Thank you for the information about the Writers' rooms.And the quotes from poems of Indian background.

Siva

Thanks Kenneth. I want to delete that Gay Professor poem.I am not able to do it.

S

Two normal rooms on the ground floor and one larger double room on the floor upstairs steps outside leading to the first floor on the left a black Sintex tank water overflowing, a pipe tickles in, a little lower a boiler heats up water and pipes take their angled diversion here. Dogs barking all of ...

Kenneth and Bernie

Now I know how I will be rewriting this.

S

I have read this and shall keep track of the comments.

S

I like the last line.

S

Two normal rooms on the ground floor and one larger double room on the floor upstairs steps outside leading to the first floor on the left a black Sintex tank water overflowing, a pipe tickles in, a little lower a boiler heats up water and pipes take their angled diversion here. Dogs barking all of ...

Billy

where I kept the Playboy(.) You need a full stop there.
Kenneth has said what I wanted to say.

S

B

Yes.Good one.I nominate this poem for IBPC.

S