Tag: memory
member name: Vinay Benjamin
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February 03, 2009 05:12 AM EST --
((This dedication to the memory of my mother had been posted months ago - but I'm reposting it as a tribute for a friend who shared a similar loss recently and had liked these lines when I first . . .
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March 25, 2007 03:25 PM EDT --
"Keep in touch," her remark at our parting,
Complimenting my eagerness,
A gesture well meaning probably,
Or cliché of social language
I'd compromised when life demanded,
As she had . . .
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July 28, 2007 02:53 AM EDT --
Bedspreads of moonlight, cover the fields,
Verse, sinuously awakes,
Affectionately drapes with its lush ivy,
Masonry of inquisitive thought.
Wind sings rhapsodies of perfume,
Gathered from meadows . . .
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February 26, 2007 04:23 PM EST --
You, habitually become a singular thought,
Occupy the entire mind,
In monotonous queries of this aching heart,
Cadence of music begins to rise.
Every heart presumably is,
A lyre of many strings, . . .
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March 02, 2007 05:39 PM EST --
What a rude welcome, ‘twas,
On mama's load shedding day,
While she'd laboriously helped me arrive,
To my designated niche on earth
A horde of masked folk peeked at me,
Deftly snipped the . . .
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July 22, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
You flicked aside the curtain of time,
Flurried into this theatre of life,
Attraction was silent introduction,
Not pretext, hunch-backed by lies.
Led us to meet closer than thought, . . .
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January 29, 2007 10:10 AM EST --
((Debra - I posted this earlier on Gather and think this is more appropriate to post to the group on "Little Boys" - you however are the best judge. Thank you))
Memory's candid camera can . . .
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August 23, 2007 11:38 AM EDT --
Pausing beside the oil on canvas,
Quintessence of a weeping child,
Contours of face, hue, tone of flesh,
Frozen essence of life.
Reaching out to touch the skin
Fingers could its texture feel . . .
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