A house
beside a shady tree
and tarred road
heaped up stones
three poles and plastic roof
walled with torn sacks

A gaze
as if in trance
a gleam
in the eyes
a smile between parting lips
not at all at the far away mansions
the indweller

An ever- flowering tree
grew out of nowhere
a poet, a poem


(India, May 2007)

Raveendran N.V.

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