<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411591" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Agraharam I Lived In</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sun broke the night five decades ago<br>Sanctified the cow dung soil to glow<br>An Agraharam woke up<br>Fabulous brahminical kolams rounded up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prototypic in two rows adjoined<br>Houses erected, front and rear entered, exited<br>Uniform with a semi open porch<br>Unique style spoken on a stone bench</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My train of memoirs unfurls...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flips off a feather; pass by walking Iyers<br>Ahead to Balasubramanya temple devout Maamaas<br>Back from river ablution some Maamis<br>Throne on me their blessed smiles</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An exquisite feather down drops<br>Lo, the western ghats<br>A tiny cut trident over the ranges<br>Farther though glitters; hurrying up pupils</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Footing on further, mm...tomato rasam<br>Meenakshi maami's mess; gastronomy awesome<br>In goes one cup; then Mess Mahadevaiyer's home<br>Fill up my belly soft idlis some</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now seeing a bullock cart<br>Lub-dub lub-dub pats my heart<br>Pappa to the civil court<br>A day I join him up to the spot</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back in the Agraharam...<br>Women fuss over a 'nine yards' theorem<br>Iridescent; Yet an unlikable tradition-syndrome<br>All for a wedding tantrum</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A wedding I'm invited too<br>Vratham, Kasiyathra, Oonjal...ooh<br>Nagaswara band and mantras boost<br>Finally a new lif's debut; Tying the sacred knot</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Modernisation, untouchable to our 'Vaadhyaar'<br>Remains tufted within his vedic structure<br>Move on I to 'Bhjanai Madam' a prayer-culture<br>And a school of triumph over there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flaps a butterfly on my dancing train<br>Watches lawyers, doctors, teachers..a changing brain<br>Waltzs around 'Pavalamalli' trees<br>Flips away enjoing the Agraharam fragrance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By now feathers recollected dusk<br>Radiating Kalahasthisa and Varadharaja temples prismatic<br>Night-break, kolattam and karakattam aesthetic<br>Agraharam then closed, poetic</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Extinct and absent some say<br>In mind mine does stay<br>Fresh and extant<br>Agraharam now and again unfurling out</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Indira+Renganathan">Indira Renganathan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411591" data-title="Agraharam I Lived In de Indira Renganathan" data-description="Sun broke the night five decades ago Sanctified the cow dung soil to glow An Agraharam woke up Fabulous brahminical kolams rounded up Prototypic in two rows adjoined Houses erected, front and rear entered, exited Uniform with a semi open porch Un..."></div> </div> </div>

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