EXTRACTS FROM: 'ANAMALAI POEMS' BY <br /> LATE Ms KAMALA DAS <br />{ KAMALA DAS, THE NOTED MALAYALAM & ENGLISH <br /> WRITER PASSED AWAY IN A PUNE HOSPITAL ON THE <br /> NIGHT OF 30 th MAY 09. SHE WAS 75.} <br /> <br /> (I) <br />“….If I had not learnt to write how would <br />I have written away my loneliness or grief? <br />Garnering them within my heart would have <br />grown heavy as a vault, one that only death <br />might open, a release then – <br />I would not be able to feel or sense ….” <br /> (II) <br />“..If only the human eye could look beyond <br />the chilling flesh, the funeral pyre’s rapid <br />repast and then beyond the mourner’s <br />vanquished stance, where would death be <br />then, that meaningless word, <br />when life is all that there is, that raging <br />continuity that often the wise ones recognize <br />as God? ” <br /> (III) <br />“…No, not for me the beguiling promise of <br />domestic bliss, the goodnight kiss, the weekly <br />letter that begins with the word dearest, <br />Not for me the hollowness of marital vows and <br />the loneliness of a double bed, where someone <br />lies dreaming of another mate, a woman perhaps <br />lustier than his own! ” <br />(ONLY THREE SMALL RANDOM EXTRACTS ARE PRESENTED; <br /> IT ONLY SHOWS THE DEPTH AND RANGE OF HER POETIC <br />MIND AND THOUGHTS! MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE!) <br /> - RAJ NANDY <br /> NEW DELHI <br /> 01 JUN 09<br /><br />RAJ NANDY<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/extract-from-anamalai-poems-by-late-kamala-das/
