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STARTING POINT

 


STARTING POINT

 

-         Manas Bakshi (India)

 

Last night's storm

Has devastated

A flowering tree, 

 

A fledgling

That just started dreaming

Got its world ruined forever;  

 

Tonight a rickety girl

Gives birth 

To a dead child, 

 

Moaning in the air

Groaning within--

Spark of life

Never loses its sheen, 

 

Life reflected in a dewdrop

Forebodes:

There's always a beginning

With a spadix

Against everything decaying. 

 

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