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Truth in the margin

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    Whoever heard of that sorry old man?
With his bent cane who sits by the flickering flame,
Often rambles tales of glorious days of yonder,
And very so often exclaims about the thinness of air!
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Where do the answers lie?

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  • abhishek kapahi
    abhishek kapahi 
    A tingle of curiosity in his head
A ray of hope in the heart
in search of some answers he headed out
little he knew this was just the start
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    2
  • Vishaka Thamilalagan
    Vishaka Thamilalagan 
    A tickle in a feet ;fickle in his mind
soaring to a height;finding a way to fight
taking his combat with a firm fact
finding a way up so that not to go down
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  • abhishek kapahi
    abhishek kapahi 
    With a billion questions he attacked every soul
what? when? who? and why?
he found no answers only more questions
now he wonders where do the answers lie?
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  • Vishaka Thamilalagan
    Vishaka Thamilalagan 
    Earth  so wide with people's pride
round round round,round is the earth 
nowhere else to go out of this hearth 
knowing that always answers would be lying here ;  but still wondering where ?
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  • abhishek kapahi
    abhishek kapahi 
    after a billion question and answers nill
he decided to give up his quest
he flashed back on his journey and everything became still
and in that fine moment he found himself at rest
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Great Duels

einstein's gods

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  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    six sides to roll with
who chose to number fate
when the die was cast?
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    10
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    from naught unto nothing 
who conceived time eternal
 a constant, yet slow and fast?
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    4
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    in a warp? on a wave?
how did they carve us
into this nebulous space?
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    5
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    part of a plan or a plot? 
Or an 'atoms + glue' experiment 
of a force without a face?
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    3
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    who wrought these shapless forms,
wrote myth into idea 
and created absolutes?
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  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    and then left us to make sense of   
the inexplicable indefinites
and irrefutable resolutes?
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    3
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    do we fade to black
or must the show go on
condemned to earth in eternal encores?
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    4
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    do we simply let it be
or gauge this existence
cast in rituals, routine and mathematical scores?
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    4
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    is there a us and them,
or did some of us cast life
unto the sum of them?
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  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    Are we just the seeds?
Or are we the complete works -
 the roots, the leaves, the flowers, the stem?
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    6
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    where are the answers kept?
in the musty hallowed minds of science
or the rigid sacred vortex of religions?
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    5
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    free like music in the air?
or controlled, layered and submerged
unto the darkest depths of divine legions?
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    3
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    are they cast in doubt
entombed in a shroud of fear
or are they a scream, a sea of fists in the air?
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    3
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    perhaps it is in the search,
never about the answers derived;
secrets living forever, in the stars at which we stare.
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    1
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    entangled in the storms ofdoubt
would this siren song of quest
lead us into the death of reason?
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  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    a 360 degree churn to convictions?
pardigm shifts? intellectual drifts?
perceptions changing like the turn of a season?
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    2
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    or should I wave by
the straws of curiosity
and drown in life languid?
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    1
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    what if we weren't human?
would the living others spend
 lifetimes taming reason, as we did?
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    1
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    would we live by the primal instinct
eat, fight, procreate
to survive, to subsist?
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  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    should we forever question the code
wander, explore, deviate 
never to cease and desist?
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  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    Or do we defer to faith
seek to yield, strive to submit 
to almighty fate, kneel?
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    2
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    and what if our myriad questions,
come a day, find answers?
how would we feel? how would we deal?
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    2
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    If the athiest has to believe, would it be a relief?
if the devout has to deny, would it be a judas cry?
if the agnost has the proof, which side would loose?
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