Poetry at Sangam

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WHAT THE SIBYL SAID by Keki N Daruwalla

She was wary of islands:
they’re short-lived, she’d say
rather enigmatically.
Distrust islands, they’re too self- absorbed;
and slowly you drift into the belief
that they are the same thing—
solitude and self-absorption. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(extracts from Island Poems)

 

KEKI N DARUWALLA

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