tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post7500973865163772950..comments2023-11-02T17:38:51.144+05:30Comments on The light shines the brightest: Almost Summer Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-18046273405922219382014-03-10T12:46:22.130+05:302014-03-10T12:46:22.130+05:30The Chennai summer can look gorgeous only in your ...The Chennai summer can look gorgeous only in your verse (other than, of course, in my homesick head! :D)<br /><br />I really like these lines because they represent a clever inversion of the ghost-haunting relationship:<br /><br />"The old ghosts know too well,<br /><br />That none shall come to be haunted" <br /><br /><br />While "Buttermilk... given out like like advice" could sound like a cliche when taken alone, those who know the Chennai summer even remotely will recognise the authenticity of that expression.<br /><br />And lovely concluding stanza, simple, strong and (transiently!) final.<br /><br />The length of the lines in the penult stanza might require some reworking. They are a little extrusive in terms of rhythm when compared to the rest of the poem.Srininoreply@blogger.com