A Mannequin's Diary

By Anna Dias

Very candid and outspoken comment on the political, economic, and social milieu. The poet has also explored various shades of thought processes. Its like a window to human insecurities, aberrations, and weaknesses. Rich with imagery and metaphors, the poems are a delight to read. The poet uses blank verse in some poems, where she takes liberties to give vent to emotions. Where in some poems, she uses frugality of words to create a unique style that impacts on the readers mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Nov 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781482812862

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A

Mannequin’s

Diary

ANNA DIAS

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Copyright © 2013 by Anna Dias.

Sketches by Sidney Dias

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CONTENTS

1. The Forbidden Fruit

2. Spectators: The Ice Menagerie

3. The Visitation

4. War

5. My Twin

6. The Exorcism

7. Elixir Of Life

8. The Closet

9. Revenge

10. Burying Hatchets

11. God

12. Twilight’s Child

13. The Holocaust

14. Voices

15. The Poor Man Talks

16. The Judgement Day

17. The Abandoned Child

18. The Killer Wave

19. Utopian Myth

20. The Past

21. Middle Class Phobias

22. The Ashram

23. A Day At Work

24. The Walk

25. Losing

26. Drinking Tea

27. The Mute Mannequin

28. Death In The Streets

29. Death In One’s Sleep

30. Broken Dreams

31. A Grandmother’s Lament

32. The Portrait Of A Happy Family

33. Flesh Trade

34. Life Cell

35. The Abortion

36. The Unwanted Child

37. Urban Glamour

38. The Perfect Man

39. Beaureacratic Traps

40. Debts

41. A Defunct

42. Me—An Identity

43. A Fugitive

44. Dreams—The Phobias Of The Mind

45. Death In Custody

46. Masquerade—The Ressurrection

47. From Behind The Curtains

48. The Tsunami. 26Th December 2004

49. Mr. Nri

50. Forensic Science

51. The Crazed Centaur

52. The Titan

53. A Process

54. Closed Doors

55. Loneliness

56. Split Personality

57. Winter’s Tale

58. The Meeting

59. Masks

60. Cindrella’s Talisman

61. Re-Birth

62. Loc

Dedicated to

My Family for being my inspiration and my muse

And to

Viji and Mahira for my evolution as a writer.

THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT

You are a dream

Which whispers

In the silence of the night

And peeps sensuously through those

Foggy clouds of anesthesia.

You are a forbidden fruit

The serpents tempting offer

You are the serpent itself

That curls into the loins

Breathing carnal pleasures.

You are the scorching flame

That singes

Across vast mounds of glaciers

You are a virus

That swallows my immunity

A victim of lethal infection.

Every brain nerve is drugged with opium

It hears no other voice

It’s a hawk in flight

Which knows no reason, no boundaries

Soaring beyond the realms of paradise.

SPECTATORS:

THE ICE MENAGERIE

The Sculptor

Chiseled out of a frozen marble

Their passive and distant demeanors

Their eyes oscillate from one act to another.

The Menagerie nods its head

In agreement and disagreements

Waiting patiently for the Judges mallet

Do they have a voice of their own

Their own thoughts?

They somehow seem to be bought by others.

Like a bored