Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
Listen and you will hear the seatc "Listen and you will hear the sea"
Her sideboard held
two proud shells,
my grandfather’s bounty
from the only days apart
in their fifty-seven years,
the edges clipped,
but sounds intact.
Her eyes beamed care
into my hands
any time I picked them up
and I did at will;
one to each ear,
imagining the beach I know
that she knows, the beach that,
at eighty-nine,
she could no longer take me to.
I sprayed on furniture polish
one Christmas clean - she rebuked gently,
showing how, wiping the grooves with a flannel.
If I could pick them up today,
I would hear as vivid,
but I don’t need to.