<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480722" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hand Wielding the Pen and Gun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write poems by this hand <br>which helped my mother<br>to crush the grains in a stone mortar<br>by raising and hitting down with the pestle<br>before the grinding mills came to a nearby town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write poems by this hand<br>which got wounds swinging the hammer<br>to hit hard on rods to make holes into the rock<br>in our deep well, and filled them, with explosives <br>to blow off and find the burst of water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write poems by this hand<br>which drove the bulls cracking the whip<br>while ploughing and moving the cart<br>and drawing water from the well in leather sacks, <br>before the electrons flew through the wires to my village.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write poems by this hand<br>which uprooted for wages the groundnut plants<br>beside the ghats from morn till dark on school holidays, <br>when the lack of rains shrivelled <br>our crops at our village.<br>I write poems by this hand<br>which made the eyes of professors wet<br>by scribbling short stories in my classical tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write poems by this hand<br>which quenched my thirst and of the kin<br>fetching waters from the falls in the hills<br>where herbs with healing powers grow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write poems by this hand<br>which feels restless to wield the gun<br>on seeing the coffins of our soldiers<br>taken to the graveyard in silence `<br>overwhelming with rage and fire.<br> ---------</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rajendran+Muthiah">Rajendran Muthiah</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=480722" data-title="The Hand Wielding the Pen and Gun de Rajendran Muthiah" data-description="I write poems by this hand which helped my mother to crush the grains in a stone mortar by raising and hitting down with the pestle before the grinding mills came to a nearby town. I write poems by this hand which got wounds swinging the hammer ..."></div> </div> </div>

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