STARTING
POINT
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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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