Pathway beds

                        (From my poetry collection 'The Nameless Avenue') 

Doubts

Blue necked grey pigeons,

       cooing above the

minarets of a mosque

        observe the silent,

sleeping city beneath them;

        men and women

sleep on the pathways

         surrounded by

constructions of

         several structures;.

the birds look

         always puzzled

whose homes the paths

         are in real?

since thousands of feet

        pass them in daylight

to redress others for night.

 Vaiyavan