My mother never told me
Love is a bottle of mango pickles
She used to put in my cotton bag
Every time I leave my home town
One day
Her season of mangoes ended
And never returned”
A simple poem on a very simple theme ,very effectively used image .Those of us who know what mother’s mango pickles signify for a son who is studying in a different city will understand this.
Heart-rending is the “season of mangoes never returning” .
A Malayalam poem in English ! That is what he says in the other poem
Thinking somewhere …
The bus conductor
Pushed me out
As I was leaning on a foot board
For support
In an open public bus
Going somewhere
In Mumbai city
In the early
Twenty first century
Thinking about
A Malayalam poem
In English.
