Forbidden 13
Somebody digs a well
Someone else’s eyes water
Eels travel miles to
Mate at mid sea
And certain fish
Swim upcurrent
But Lena, the
Champion swimmer
Drowned in
Shallow waters
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Forbidden 6
My destiny is contained
In your silence
You prefer absence
I am totally incapable of
using the word
I breath it caress it
Jot it down in the margins
But never utter it
You talk in your sleep
I can not caste away my fears
To be a forbidden fruit
Is such pale metaphor
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The truth about charles chaim wax (one more)
is that we love ourselves
more than we love charles
so we want him to come tell us
how bad we are
and make us feel
how good we are
and where's he by the way?
Like children lost at a village fair
we keep searching and finally
with out warning we chance upon
each other and shout
and scream and scratch
for giving such a scare.
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The scare crow
was always scaring me
near the big
tamarind tree
never thought I would
encounter it
at the graduation
I had failed to qualify
and my intellectual abilities
had defeated me
and calling a spade
a spade
can be misleading
when it is actually
a magic carpet.
The scare crow
is a test of
others' courage
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The White Owl saying 2
Fire is dangerous
but not if you are the fire
said the white owl
My fire sits on a red chair
and I am not consumed
They say the holy fire requires
sacred mantras, holy pourings
and no ordinary twigs
but the inner most brittle bones
of my lazy body
and an overactive mind
that makes the flames go up
turning me into a heap of grey ash,
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This is what the fish said
-1-
How long can the hide and seek go on?
The net is cast everyday and soon
you will be `it'.
A fish's silence says a lot
The one under the oath of Hatha Yoga
called back to say
`Ruthless love breeds contempt'
-2-
This is temple river
These are temple fish
Casting nets is prohibited here
Some fish even wear golden rings
They live on the puffed-rice of silence
They do not always decipher the meaning of dreams
Today they said move on to the big ocean
when the pond gets small
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