And I Touched Them In My Nostalgic Dream

For Tom Jones Singer Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE, known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer..........'Yes, they all come to meet me, Arms stretching, smiling sweetly, it's good to touch the green, green grass of home! ' On the Jack-fruit tree Owl sings the mysterious song of life in the middle of the night. Early in the morning Childless Midwife's love birds chirp Where's that naughty boy who urinates to our Madam's Rose-bush? My brother Lalith who tells yarns constantly The whole day you could smile freely. The faded Hopscotch squares on the shifting sand and how I was inquisitive with my mischievous friends to watch the beautiful girls and their new pants when they hop over the marked squares? Poor Mom stands at the clothes-line searching the stains of cigarette butts in my hidden pockets of the trousers. The pond in the temple carps swim here & there and the old kind monk still grab the life putting a comma to Nirvana? The deaf bell ringer maintains the old friendship with the cast-iron bell yet gives that melancholy sound! nimal dunu