Banjarans by the sea
walking single file
white shirts billowing
over ebony skin.
Wife, husband, sons
-with their bare belongings -
on a Saturday morn.
India at their feet
passing through paradise.
Receive some raiment
O Sarvajna
for succour from the wind and rain
May your footsteps
leave their imprint
Of your joyous labour.
Anoint your kin
with your mirth for life.
(23 April 2011
Baina beach, Vasco, Goa)
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Sarvajna - 16th century Kannada poet famous for his 3 line poems called vachanas
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