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....
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"Broken Shards "
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Chandra Dorai
A piece of green glass on the grass,
glittered in the sunlight.
The other bits of glass were swept away.
Not only was glass broken,
Broken were rules of cricket,
Broken was concern for a human being,
Broken was hospitality to a visiting country,
Broken was the sportive spirit,
Broken were values
Broken was the veneer of civilization
to reveal brutal primal instincts,
What the eye saw
was only a broken piece of glass,
not a heart that was broken
at everything else that lay shattered
on the grass.
The only thing
that remains unbroken
is Hope.