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"'''Another Letter from Another Father to Another Son'''" is an English poem by the Indian poet [[Mathew John]]. The poem was a surprise winner of the first prize<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianpoetry.org/awards.htm|title=Award Winners - All India Poetry Competition 2013|access-date=2014-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220122128/http://www.indianpoetry.org/awards.htm|archive-date=2014-02-20|url-status=dead}}</ref> in the All India Poetry Competition conducted by [[The Poetry Society (India)]] in 2013.<br />
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==Excerpts from the poem==<br />
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:Sonny, it is not my wish to advise you<br />
:Though my tongue yearns to be advisor to the king.<br />
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:Sonny, it is not my wish to advise you<br />
:Though this may end up as another piece of advice<br />
:In another letter from another father to another son.<br />
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::: *******<br />
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:For, it took years for my father's sermons<br />
:To traverse the miles between my ears and my brain<br />
:And I learnt about most things<br />
:After enough follies had been past.<br />
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:Let me tell you a single thing<br />
:The way to go, seems to me<br />
:From life to the book<br />
:And not the other way around.<br />
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::: *******<br />
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:So, let life teach you before your father's words <br />
:And let life teach you to outgrow<br />
:The interesting stories that other people tell.<br />
:For, nobody is really very sure.<br />
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:Earlier they used to tell<br />
:Never look beyond the wall<br />
:Now, they have built<br />
:A ladder for you to climb.<br />
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::: ******<br />
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:But, nobody is really very sure<br />
:About the wall, forget the ladder.<br />
:Very few boxes have been opened, my son<br />
:It is still an interesting world out there.<br />
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:So, let me not offer you<br />
:A book, a window, a jigsaw puzzle or my reading glasses<br />
:Let me give you just these –<br />
:My silence and my smile.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Indian poetry]]<br />
*[[Indian writing in English]]<br />
*[[The Poetry Society (India)]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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*[http://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=Indian+poems Popular Indian Poems]<br />
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[[Category:Indian English poems]]<br />
[[Category:2014 poems]]<br />
[[Category:Works originally published in Indian magazines]]<br />
[[Category:Works originally published in literary magazines]]</div>>Bearcat