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Congratulations Michael!

I feel so happy.I knew it was a strong poem, just didn't know how to put it in words like our judge.

Siva

Kuttanad Waters from everywhere meeting up finding a pathway through land paddy fields on either side beyond single line settlements water boats to ferry us; Alleppy, because of the foreigner who could not say Allepuzha Venice of the south attracting tourists, here trees take the path of sunlight. f...

Dear Block Administrators
All my posts in The Writers Block are recorded in Google.If I had noticed this earlier I would have been stingier with my posts.Is there no option that says that it is not meant for common peruse?
Siva Ramanathan

From the general ward in the eye hospital it was the last of my needlings, simply because I refused to go in for further treatment, I had sneezed while Dr. Velayudhan Pillai was coaxing the cataract in my eyes towards a corner to make it dissolve in the skin. Grandfather and grandmother told me stor...

Michael
We have tender coconut souffle in Kerala.It is a watery state of coco(nut)before it becomes a hard nut.I wrote this for a theme as flash fiction and now turned it into a poem.

She put the purple cabbage in the salad bowl and tossed it along with poison salts in the salad spinner; Now you know she had no need to use the scissors, or the shears, or even heat the skewers to finish off. Twenty minutes before her husband started for home she would add poison powder in the salt...

The Sufis Balance Peace With Self A Sufi saint will give you a fresh lime write something on it with charcoal tell you that your worries will evaporate before the lime dries up. It sounds logical--- you shift your worries to that lime wait for it to dry and shrink much time has elapsed so the worrie...

There’s water traffic here A patrol boat for the officer. House boats float, stratified according to the standard of living in water. I take a small hand row boat all by myself, forty years ago, this is in the Veli boat club. I have come straight from school, there is no time to pull out those off-w...

Billy
I have read this poem of yours.What is strong about Michael's poem is that it is sparse.

Siva Ramanath

Michael
I thought you wanted me to double space the words.This is fine,only it looks too crowded.

Siva

Michael I did the double spacing twice but it does not auto save,so it come back to the original.Can you do it for me if you know how to? The absence of capitals, I would like to retain because I read a poem like this somewhere.The capitalized title is alright. Should it be Train At All Levels,or, T...

'Train At Three Levels' is my original, unpublished poem: I am not representing any other board this month with this poem or any other poem. Sivakami Velliangiri sivakamivelliangiri@gmail.com Train At Three Levels the first 'thrain' lisped from your stories, how as a child you enlarged two anna coin...

Train At Three Levels the first 'thrain' lisped from your stories, how as a child you enlarged two anna coins on the tracks with the weight of the Salem Express then tossed them into the pulp of the Cauvery for the peace of your ancestors; the poet in me borrowed only the image. as a young girl I r...

Sundays grandma took us to the Marina. On the way at Triplicane we bought Frisbees plastic sand- pie buckets, spades and a palm leaf basket of cooking utensils for five rupees. As for the marshmallow we cradled that too. And the scooping out happened on the beach mat. We flung the thick rind and mar...

Very distant intro in the Silver Duck Hall every member rains words food / foot care washing the feet, Krishna sucking his own toe doing naivedya to leprosy feet, licking the pus finally I realize it is not food but foot. Copy copy cat cat, preserve rights as, copy right TT talked about the gore in ...

Michael
Please post the 'hospice' poem here.
I second Michael's poem,'hospice'.
Siva

'Museum ' is an unpublished poem of mine, and I am not representing any other group.My e-mail id is sivakamivelliangiri@gmail.com.
Sivakami Velliangiri

Museum Papa took us on Sundays to sit and gaze at the museum by night.' Look at the spotlight focused on coconuts, don’t they gleam like burnt gold?'' he would say. The nuts shine, the leaves cast black shadows, the red and white building sits like a painting on the mound; the loud speakers of the ...

edit-1 like these back waters thirsting for salt, the Arabian sea calls yet another harvest far beyond where the mix happens, whitesprayhorses raise their forward foot swallowing the land water under their necks. Sivakami Velliangiri Kuttanad Waters from everywhere meeting up finding a pathway throu...

Whenever I went to Nakulan’s house to chew the cud of poetry we sometimes talked about Ivanious. the university where he taught literature before retiring, before the rumour of Professor Carey pushed itself ugly with ash like the snake pill tablet when lit. How boy students shook underneath their pa...

This is the ultimate Gyan which will extinguish the Agyan. He understands death comes to the body and not for the soul.
The question mark makes us think as it does the poet. The resolution is the poem.

edit-4 ''harvest'' sack upon sack of grain stacked up to reach the moon India is still hungry. Michael I will keep this version because I feel 'India is still hungry is stronger. edit -3 ''harvest'' sack upon sack of grain stacked up to reach the moon still a hungry mouth. edit -2 ''harvest'' sack u...

Frank
There is no hard and fast rule that says

Titles must have capital letters for each word, no period or full stop.

Octo
it is impossible to figure out how you have edited,because there is only one version.This poem should not have been abandoned.

There are these favourite spots Papa took us on Sundays to sit and gaze at the museum by night.’ Look at the spot–light focused on coconuts till they gleam like burnt gold,’’ he said. The nuts shine, the leaves cast black shadows, the red and white building sits like a painting on a mound the loud s...