Poems of Eden
Jack fruit
A fat lady pines
to be plucked, drowning in scents
of a full summer.
Chiku
Her skin delicious
holds sugar-sweet stickiness,
folds in surrender.
Water melon
A red moon gushes,
watery poems dribble
into Night’s garden.
ANUPAMA RAJU is a corporate trainer and writer whose work regularly appears in various sections of The Hindu, including The Literary Review. Her poems have been published in The Little Magazine, Indian Literature, Kritya, Pratilipi and in some anthologies like Mosaic, Winners-2, etc. She was invited to read her poems at the Prakriti Poetry Festival in 2008 and at Kritya in 2007. She won the British Council-Unisun poetry prize in 2006. She has also translated a story by Paul Zacharia into English for Pratilipi. Anupama lives and works in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Jack fruit
A fat lady pines
to be plucked, drowning in scents
of a full summer.
Chiku
Her skin delicious
holds sugar-sweet stickiness,
folds in surrender.
Water melon
A red moon gushes,
watery poems dribble
into Night’s garden.
ANUPAMA RAJU is a corporate trainer and writer whose work regularly appears in various sections of The Hindu, including The Literary Review. Her poems have been published in The Little Magazine, Indian Literature, Kritya, Pratilipi and in some anthologies like Mosaic, Winners-2, etc. She was invited to read her poems at the Prakriti Poetry Festival in 2008 and at Kritya in 2007. She won the British Council-Unisun poetry prize in 2006. She has also translated a story by Paul Zacharia into English for Pratilipi. Anupama lives and works in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
