Planets

Hey sun!
Are you a politician?
How come you are surrounded
By so many followers then?!

* This is the translated version of my first short poem that got published. It was published in school annual magazine. I am so hesitant to call it a poem today but every first has an importance, right? :)

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  1. AnonymousDecember 06, 2011 2:40 PM

    It is amazing though :) And yes, you got to be attached, it's your work, a simple verse and yet so profound :)

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  2. Bharathi Raja RDecember 06, 2011 2:42 PM

    Oh! Thanks so much, Chintan.

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  3. Sujatha SathyaDecember 17, 2011 9:02 PM

    u started blogging in 1995!!!!!!!!
    well even if there is a gap of 3 years between this post & the next, it still is quite something

    and firsts are always special - poem, love, job, whatever - small or big :)

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  4. Bharathi Raja RDecember 17, 2011 9:07 PM

    Oh, no! I updated this recently with back-date. It was written in 95 so I am keeping that date itself (just not to lose track of the date written actually). I am porting lot more poems, essays and stories from my old diaries. I know, it's lil misleading but want to know later how mature I was in each phase of my life. :)

    I am not so old to blogging... but only to writing... :)

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