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EXPERIMENTS IN MODERN TAMIL POETRY 101

Black Flowers

Dreams + Imaginations = Papers Boat comes

Tear-Flowers

Milky way

Tongues of the silence

Also consider the following expressions:

Songs of the dust

Metta Veenas of fire

Tamilanban

Incarnations of silence Abdul Rahman

Prisoner of the poverty Inkulab

Garland of tears Mira

Numerous expressions like these adorn the new poetry.

Social justice is the emphasis made through many of the new poems, ©.-g.:

Their sweat becomes the sea Wherein the life of some becomes the boat

Tamilanban

In the cool ponds of the earth The exploiting people swim We, the earthquake, will awake And put fire to those ponds

Inkulab �