# Some Poems 2009

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**Author:** P. Devarajan
 **Pages:** 44 **Year of Publication:** 2010 **Price:**
HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-959-1 (9788181579591) FB 978-81-8157-
960-7 (9788181579607)

_**About the Author**_
 P. Devarajan was born on June 26, 1947 in Kottarakara Village(
Kollam district). Soon afterwards, his family moved to Calcutta where he grew up.
In 1970 he moved to Mumbai and he continues to live there. He has worked as a business
journalist with _The Times of India_, _Business Standard_, _Financial Express_ and
_The Hindu_’s _Business Line_. He takes a strong interest in wildlife and ecology
and has written articles on environmental concerns facing India for _The Hindu_.

_**Teaser**_

_Marine Drive_

on summer evenings desiring suns
 drop into the Arabian Sea, drape her; in December
and January she lies quietly, undesired; racing an athletic monsoon wind in July,
she clambers the erotic curves of Marine Drive, runs graffiti on sea walls in unknown
alphabets; witness to the yearly routine for 37 years, the Sea and the Drive have
seen to my welfare in difficult hours; watching winds and waves scaring crabs under
rocks, scattering pigeons, privy to private moments, one waits, mostly.

_**Contents**_

GOAN HYMNS / 11-14

SEEN & HEARD / 17-31
 Bullock cart ride / 17 Two lives / 19 Karthiyayini / 20 Dashari
Rao / 22 A banyan tree / 23 Chintamani / 24 Rains and paints / 25 Raman and Iyer/
26 Moments / 28 Onions / 29 Shreya and Chiyu / 30 Laburnum flowers / 31

WORDS TO MYSELF / 35-42
 Short Pieces / 35 Marine Drive / 39 Dosa with chutney /
40 Desires / 41 Chaos / 42