-Brian Mendonca
Srinagar
-Brian Mendonca
The dayes pass by
like a deck of cards
The ace of spades
and the Queen of Hearts.
Somewhere in the distance
the future flickers
On the highway of pain
It's the trail that beckons.
(November 1998
Srinagar)
Hari-dwar
- Brian Mendonca
The mongrel yelps
in a bylane in Vishnughat
Vassal to Yudhishthir
this time a Pom.
The jackfruit always
with the mango, the pipal
the neem and Asoka
as marigolds and mayflowers
weave a hymn to life.
Ornate DHARAMSHALAs
spew out grimpils
As sadhus in saffron
cycle with certainty.
At Mansa Devi
PHOTOGRAPHY
OF PLANT PROHIBITED
As matted locks
survey the Ganga.
On a cycle-rickshaw
trundling in the noon-day sun
I read Krishnamurti
on the pacific cow.
'To be vulnerable is to live
To withdraw is to die.'
(4 May 1999
Haridwar)
Poems written by Brian Mendonca in 1998-1999 and published in Indian Literature: Sahitya Akademi's Bimonthly Journal. New Delhi. Volume 221. (May-June 2004). Updated 25/10/26.
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