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Category Archives: Poetry
Past Months In My Blind Spot
The past year still lurks in my blind spot, but here are some creative images in the periphery. On the occasion of UNESCO World Poetry Day, March 21, 2022, Print Publications, India, published an anthology, Poems for Leisure, Pleasure … Continue reading
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My Mother Revisited on December 27, 2021
On her birthday, looking through the mountains of neatly organized papers my mother, Sudha Ghosh, left in my charge, I found a cluster of poems. She wrote: These poems were written for my pleasure in the summers of 1959 to … Continue reading
Poetry in Union: Railway Lines and Valentines
I was one of seven writer-poets to participate in “Poetry in Union: Railway Lines and Valentines” between 12.00 pm and 6.00 pm on February 13th, 2019 in the West Wing of Union Station. This event is a partnership between the … Continue reading
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Occasional Ghazal Couplet
https://youtu.be/eMnIbkn_vjo Posted on November 2, 2017 by Suparna Ghosh This video is based on a couplet from the album Occasional Ghazal, written by Suparna Ghosh in English in traditional Indo-Persian style, and translated by her into Hindi/Urdu. The music … Continue reading
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A Song Dares
A song dares There are no words no strings no bows no tune but there is a song that undulates in my blood and rides waves of amber and ember in and out of ice and icicles and wandering relics … Continue reading
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Magic myth sound and rhythm of words
In my solar system, the sun is a mass of words, heat and life, force and destruction, construction and reflection of a cluster of planets, around which colours revolve in symphony and erupt on canvas. Courtesy: Natica Angilly’s Dancing Poetry … Continue reading
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Unlimited
it’s a monolith, thought the gull alighting on her shoulder a monument, mused the spirit whistling through her walls a pillar, whispered the wind twirling ‘round her limbs a village, revealed the crier surveying her space a forest, roared the … Continue reading
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Woman Of Stride
With flowers her belly And buds her breasts Waves her legs And breeze her arms With the moon her heart The stars her heartbeat The night her eyes And rivers her dreams The woman strides Into the unknown … Continue reading
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Ghazal
Lately I have heard a ghazal being described by some poets as a series of disjointed thoughts. They follow this up with free-verse poems of disjointed thoughts. This is not just a simplistic distortion of this centuries old sophisticated art … Continue reading
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The Pilot Light
the pilot light is still burning igniting decades of dormant elements I was borne by you my mind inscribed with words you whispered flesh imprinted with waves of your caress skin engraved by the ripples of a warm lake I … Continue reading
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