Another Winter evening and hot tea cups-- Poem by Ramesh Iyengar
Another Winter Evening And Hot Tea Cups
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Would you mind, switching off the TV ?
Good, Thanks…….
It is time, we talk serious things.
No, not gossip.
I talk of other serious things.
You forgot to read today's newspaper.
It is there on the teapoy
I don’t mind. But, one day there may be no newspapers.
Only tabloids.
The prices you pay may be excessive.
You forgot Marlowe, Byron and Lord Bacon ?
The book shelf is dust-laden.
The dictionary is untouched. You see silver-fish brooding inside.
Your recreation is in your fingertips.
(This remote control made you lazy in front of the idiot-box)
You never even buy a paperback.
……………Would you mind spending sometime with me ?
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Ramesh Iyengar
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