#poetey

Moonlight shines

Above the deep blue

Whilst wheels overhead

The stars in their everlasting vigil.

A ripple stirs

And the tapestry quivers

Before once more

Flat and glassy

The mirror sits.

Somewhere off in the margins

Where reeds and rushes sway

A chorus of frogs sing out for themselves

In cacophonous harmony

Before falling silent

Leaving once more

The second national level multilingual poetry festival organized by Hindi Anusandan Prasar Kendra Ahilyanagar is being held this year in Hampi, a World Heritage Site in Karnataka. Those who wish to register their names are requested to contact the contact number on the poster below. You can present poems in any language in this festival. The inauguration of this national festival will be attended by the famous Kannada Marathi writer Sarju Katkar (Sahitya Akademi winner), while the President of Punjab Sahitya Akademi Sukhdev Singh Sirsa and senior poet Vimlesh Tripathi, who lives in Calcutta, West Bengal, will be present. Two seminars and eight poetry sessions will be held in this festival.

then he closed his eyes and

stared into the sunlight

remembering friends long gone

those who still remain

the voice of his grandmother

the first person to ever make him

aware of it.

the trees that gave

him a home and a place to become

the warmth of Spring days

the laughter of children at play

the cold city streets in Winter

the breeze atop the Ferry in Summer

he remembers dying a thousand times

and living only for less than a decade.

All he ever wanted

was a six-figure salary

a German car

and a place of his own

He found his freedom in his Creator

and it was more beautiful than he could

ever imagine.

...

“Forgive me, Lord of honeysuckle, of trees,/ of notebooks, of typewriters, of music,/ that there are also these:/ the lover, the singer, the poet/ asleep in the shadows.”