Murali Sivaramakrishnan is a poet, painter and critic. He is Professor and Head Department of English at Pondicherry Central University.
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POTENTIAL
the potential,
for creating digital autonomy;
an insistence,
directed by a Gabriel clone
about the inequity of reality;
and then sadly,
transmitted orally to one person (a life);
this dying is about a postmodern body
a lonely body, alone;
the situation becomes more impersonal
and still yet?
Transhuman potential, Keep Reading
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A Life
No intermediary in the passing night
Brought better news than what the heart revealed,
Sending from its furthest reaches news
Of bitter blood, infatuated calm
Or a tempest of delighted skin.
Thus at midnight, with the world beyond
Your fragmentary reach at goodnesses,
Silence then was best—you were just a guest
Of something larger than this sorrowing.
No use to reason why the crest of time
Has danced on you, then left a trampled rind.
You lived and knew the best, then left your life behind. Keep Reading
Three Verses on Our History
Verse 1 – Early Hominids
The third ape-shadow emerged, baby-curious,
From the primitive Mormon-mist.
A lucent moon watched
As ape-gene glowed, mutating with every touch.
Left alone at daybreak
Soul-light dazzled the primate mind
And the first divine thought of the universe
Contaminated all pure beasts
In one massive cloudburst
Saying
“I love”. Keep Reading