Mar 16, 2013 Awake in Dream Time - Journal Entries about the almost real, the surreal and the unreal, Parenting/ Home-schooling / Family Music and other Notes

On the Road, in Kerala
©A Short Poem by Vijaya Sundaram
March 16th, 2013
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It whispers in like mist
Swirls softly around the edges
Of a tired consciousness,
Descends, in folds of subtle silk.

The moving scenes outside
Drift away in Dopplerian shifts:

Hills clad in ecstatic green,
Small dwellings on the roadside,
Palm trees and flowering plants
Whoosh away in bursts of color.

Dogs, curious and incurious,
On the sides of roads, and hills
Roosters and chickens, pigs and cows
Cluttering the fringes of things.

As eyes close, and breath settles
Into a pattern, calm, rhythmic.

And, full of purpose and beauty,
My child slips quietly into sleep.
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