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Debra O's avatar

One of the most astonishingly beautiful and deeply blue poems I have ever encountered.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, Debra. 🙏

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Petru Viljoen's avatar

The repititions a rhythn.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, Petru!

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Petru Viljoen's avatar

Likewise Rajani.

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Kim M Russell's avatar

I'm so take by the beauty of this blue poem, Rajani, I 'm lost for words.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thank you, Kim. Much appreciated. 🙏🙏❤️

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Greg Carman's avatar

Saving to savour again later, a saviour even.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, Greg. 🙏

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Neil Barker's avatar

I really the various descriptive imagery in the poem, Rajani. One of my favourite lines:

"Spare

and strong and made of

pewter sun."

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, Neil.

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Susan's avatar

"The way it is written,

the way it is sung, the way

it goes . . . "

And the way you write it crosses the bridge, crosses the chasm on a bridge, carrying blue with it. Bravo!

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, Susan 🙏❤️

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Sherry Marr's avatar

My new favourite of yours, Rajani. This reads like a gentle reverie - blue, like the sweater, like the sky, like the sky reflected in the river. Just beautiful.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thank you, Sherry :)

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

What a wonderful piece, Rajani, full of sound and texture—incantatory. I would love to hear it read aloud!

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thank you, Paul. Appreciate your kind words. I will try and record a reading sometime!! I have a few on Instagram but haven't posted audio on substack yet!!

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Sonia Dogra's avatar

The dichotomy that blue represents. Brilliant and never a day when I go back without something meaningful.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

That’s so kind, Sonia…thank you so much! ❤️🙏

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LeeAnn Pickrell's avatar

This is beautiful—the repetition and sounds—mesmerizing and haunting.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, LeeAnn. 🙏

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Kerfe's avatar

A requiem for both the living and the dead. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the border lies.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thank you, K. Yeah, some cross the border, some work with a blur and some have enough apathy to make it a thick, hard line…

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Rebecca Cook's avatar

This brings to mind U2"s "Bullet the Blue Sky."

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Not familiar with their music but thank you :)

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