Lone Palmyra Comments

2 – " what sweet thoughts crowded his head" Probably he was thinking " where can i get a female? after all, Adam had his Eve. it ain't fair! " " Pouring nectar out of a lonely heart" nice! i laughed at " drained of blood" . don't ask me why i did; i won't tell you! to MyPoemList. bri ;)

1 – are ALL palmyras male? ? i used to sort mail to Palmyra New York, zip code 14522, and a lot of other small towns whose zip codes i can often recall after 25 years since sorting by hand.

It's like " when moon appears, The sunlight disappears" " When water is applied, the fire disappears"

Some places are named after the trees that once stood there! We have a place called Mavin chuvadu! Once a big Mavu (Mango tree) stood there. Though the tree has disappeared, the place is still called Mavin Chuvadu, arousing a lot of nostalgic memories! The reference to the vampire fairies who are supposed to inhabit the palm trees adds a weird charm to the poem! Lovely penning!

Another great poem by you Nair-ji. It brings intimations of another world - a world we've left behind as we passed from our youth to adulthood. Please keep going and also consider publishing the collection of your poems as a book.

A refined poetic imagination, Madathil Rajendran Nair. You may like to read my poem, Love And Iust. Thank you.

Like a Lone Palmyra this poem stands out in the land of nostalgia. It can be anywhere.

Indeed, the palm tree must have held special significance for those who lived near those abandoned Jain ruins. Perhaps those local inhabitants, being caught up in a fever of early modernity, felt only an inchoate nostalgia for a time of many palm trees (as if in a drunken haze) .. You come on the scene with your broad sympathies to complete the arc of nostalgia. Having visited Udayagiri near Bhubaneswar, I am aware of the magic of Jain sites.10!