#Postaday - Vijaya Sundaram

Jun 26, 2016 Free Verse, Original Poetry, The Daily Post

Build that Fence!
©June 26th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

A fence is good, you say?
To keep people out?
Or to keep you in?
Go ahead, you can stay.
We’re happy to go, to know
We won’t see you again.

If you build a fence,
Don’t you dare leave.
Stay behind.
You may rot there,
Or you may grieve,
For all we care.

While, we, we shall dance
Freely, and sing, and play
And make music and love
The livelong day.

Go ahead, and fester
In your cesspool of hate
Wallow in it, drown in it,
When you come to your senses
It will be too late
We won’t miss you, not a bit!

We will roam free among
Clouds and mountain-tops,
And we shall live and love
And learn, and laugh, and
Leave the earth a better place,

While you, with your fences
And your defences,
And your offending lying eyes
Will be nothing, nothing!

Go ahead, build that fence!
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Fence

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Oracle

Jun 25, 2016 Free Verse, Original Poetry, The Daily Post

Oracle
©June25th, 2016
By VIjaya Sundaram

The waters will rise,
We shall rise with them.

And we shall sing
Riding the waves,
Which will pull us down
Down to the place whence
We emerged, gills and all.

And the fires will burn
And millions of years
Will flow by like plasma,
Engulfed in flame.

And everything will
Be a memory of a memory
To be puzzled over on the rocks
And the shores of Time.

And one day, a new being
Will emerge, water streaming
Off its form, steam rising,
A creature of light and air
And fire and water,
A creature barely touching
The earth, as it spirals shore-ward.

And this being will read
In our lost, bleached bones
A story, a history, a tragedy,
A comedy, a romance, a song,
And a prophecy.

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Prophecy

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Voyage

Jun 24, 2016 Haiku, Original Poetry, The Daily Post

The boat bobs slowly
With no oars and no pilot
Behind lies the shore.

The boat floats darkly
Sun-rays spread across water
Beyond lies a dream.

Water-creatures leap
Bright shoals of fish alongside
Your gaze plummets down.

Down the mazèd deeps,
Into the heart of the Earth
And you hear “Farewell!”

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Voyage