# Blank Shots

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/07/02/blank-shots/
- Published: 2018-07-02T20:28:36+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Shyamala Nair[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Blank-Shots.jpg)
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Pages:** 64 **Year of Publication:** 2018 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN: **978-93-5045-
177-9 (9789350451779)

_**About the Author**_
 After teaching English for more than thirty years, Shyamala
Nair retired as Principal of Lady Amritbai Daga College for Women, Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Her articles and poems have appeared in journals and anthologies. Her first collection
of poetry, **_A Side of the Sun_**, was published by **Writers Workshop**, India,
in 1997.

_**Teaser**_

_Requiem_

Why do you take to the deserts
 Now, when we need you? You say your rooms are all
allotted There is no space for new. The great-grand-nieces and -nephews Only blunder
into your overcrowded memory.

I know how you cling and persuade the desert
 For mirages that help you live a life
outdated The dunes you said are everchanging You struggle to recognize them With
eyes blurred with cataract and sand. They send you unreliable erratic messages. 
You let the sand dribble away Losing grip Like the genes you leave behind To uncertain
life.

_**Contents**_
 40 poems