Love's Evidences

For love's sake
do not destroy the evidences.
Have you destroyed them already?
Given them only the  cold significance
of a flower upon your hair
that blooms but once
for all the centuries?
Love's cake
replete with our names
will  be lit in time's candle
in the air
when you and I know it not;
destroy time; and all yesterday
do not come back today
but do not destroy the evidences
of love that battles all of dust
but just passes us by
like playFor love's sake
do not destroy the evidences.
Have you destroyed them already?
Given them only the  cold significance
of a flower upon your hair
that blooms but once
for all the centuries?
Love's cake
replete with our names
will  be lit in time's candle
in the air
when you and I know it not;
destroy time; and all yesterday
do not come back today
but do not destroy the evidences
of love that battles all of dust
but just passes us by
like play love's sakedo not destroy the evidences.Have you destroyed them already?Given them only the  cold significanceof a flower upon your hairthat blooms but oncefor all the centuries?Love's cakereplete with our nameswill  be lit in time's candlein the airwhen you and I know it not;destroy time; and all yesterdaydo not come back todaybut do not destroy the evidencesof love that battles all of dustbut just passes us bylike play
From: 
The Zong




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ABOUT THE POET ~
Born (1956), Trivandrum, Kerala, India., Winner, All India Poetry Prizes, Poetry Society, India-British Council Awards (96, 97, 98), and other leading poetry prizes. Poetry published in Ariel (Canada), Orbis (UK), Nth Position (UK), Bluefifth Review (UK), Toronto Review (Canada), The Illustrated Weekly of India, Kavya Bharati (India), Fulcrum (USA), Verse, Seattle, (USA), Indian Literature, Arabesque Review, Plaza (Japan), Chandrabhaga (India), and others. Founder editor, Poetry Chain. Participant, MFA, Texas state University, (2000) Poet in Residence, Augsburg University, Germany (2004). Important works : Poetry : Father, Wake Us In Passing, (German Translation, Wolfgang Heyder) A Buchenwald Diary, Mother Sonata, Victoria Terminus, Poems Selected and New (2010). The Coloured Yolk of Love (2012). Drama: Fire In The Soul The Mask of Death. Novel : A Bridge Over Karma (Novel). Poetry included in The Bloodaxe book of Contemporary Indian Poetry In English, The Golden Jubilee Anthology of Post Independence Indian poetry In English, and Poetry Society, India anthologies.


Last updated May 02, 2015