Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom -- A K Ramanujan

Guest poem submitted by Rama Rao, a stanza from:

(Poem #1692) Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom Do not worry about Despair Just comb your hair Despair is a strange disease I think it even happens to trees. -- A K Ramanujan

Sometimes a poem seeps in without one realising, and resonates. Ramanujan,
in my opinion the finest Indian poet to have written in English, is often
simple and matter-of-fact in his themes. Yet I find these lines haunting and
melancholic and memorisable.

Rama Rao.