Blog 5 Arugam to Cochin Elephants & Airplanes: Indian elephants are gorgeous, their small freckled ears, long curling eyelashes and small yet appropriate whisking tails imbue them with the qualities of a ballerina carting a trunk. To watch them stepping down through the jungle on to the beach, youngsters and babies entangled between their legs…
Poem: Troubled You leave me again tumbling, Stumbling across your shadow. Our thoughts and laughter like too…. perfume me. yet still I hear heart ache tangled in my hair I feel & feel & freeze. The play set act scene, You moved in me again. Touché The game set match, You won in me again.…
Poem: On the Beach As I lie here weak not strong, My head rings clear and full with song, Of deeds and places friends long gone. The splash of ripple on the beach. Warm soft sand within my reach. Sweet high clouds in a cobalt sky. Floating on this moment free, Its you who moves…
Poem: The Lovers Like heavy clouds on a sleepless night. Mist still covers the eyes that might. Reveal those thoughts in a tangle entwined. What did happen? Were you mine? They could burn, deep in my brain. Combustible particles. Tinder awaiting flame. Hot licentious fragments of imagination. Fragrant as incense, smoke coils from my thinking.…
Part : 3 Elephants and Surfing Colombo was done in a day and in the early hours of the next morning I embarked on an odyssey which even Homer would have cringed at. The initiative had come from Pundit, my host with the round brown face, flaring bushy nostrils and sparkling white teeth. He whispered…
