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The Gift of Presence by S. Jagathsimhan Nair

11/23/2015

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The Gift of Presence, by Raymond Saunders, 1993.
The Gift of Presence

But I bear none to this confusion
flattened into a stoic  time-presence .
Fine with time, may be fine too
with an engagement with variety
wherever we choose to buy peace
from purveyors of continuity.
But then, we live our days in parts
ironically linked to  connectivity of sorts.
Only to be configured over time
by a  cellular disengagement .

S. Jagathsimhan Nair


This poem was written for the 20 Poem Challenge.

S. Jagathsimhan Nair is the author of three poetry collections, and has also been published in various anthologies.
2 Comments
Cyndi MacMillan
11/26/2015 03:22:37 pm

Jag! So good to see you published in this wonderful journal of the arts. Your poem is so well-rounded! Fantastic, how it circles back onto itself, even as it spins in a new direction. Superb, my friend. I love the juxtaposition between the innate divisions within this piece (the artist has even used door panels to separate parts from the whole)and the way things -- and we----connect to each other. I hope you and yours are well. Warm smile from Cyndi MacMillan

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Jag
12/2/2015 09:51:32 am

Thanks so much Cyndi for your kind words. It makes me so happy to hear from you after such a long while. I find a good many of your poems here. Congrats. I like them all so much. Hope you and yours, especially your daughter, are doing good.

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