He has great appraisal for poets <br />Neruda, Pushkin, Eliots’ <br />Kalidasa, Tagore, Keki… <br />List is on and on <br />Reads on and on <br />Keeps a heap at store <br />Displays and describes with silky talk <br /> <br />I wrote a few small poems <br />Gave him for a read <br />Reader read and silently left <br />I waited for days together <br />Then someone said – <br />‘Silence speaks louder than words, sometimes <br />But not everybody listens’ <br /> <br />Lightning struck <br />I gave ear to that silence <br />Tagore has written – <br />‘Man has in him the silence of the sea’ <br />Learnt to respect the silence <br />Today I am happy <br />Writing and reading my work. <br /> <br />-vidi- <br />28/05/2009<br /><br />Vidi Writes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/zip-of-zilch/
