Poetry

Meditation
Written for some poetry award last December, this clunker is what you get when you think too much while writing poetry on black coffee: now, here i do what i am supposed to do, i sit down and place a pillow underneath my behind, while thoughts billow in my mind in front of me there ...
Just now, I was intimidated
Just now, I was intimidated by an indestructible paper cup towering in front of me, a long shadow bulging from its rim. The straw hole in its stained lid vows to annihilate me, its cardboard jacket sinks frivolously in the surface of the table. Sovereignly, he does not move. I ask what do you want? ...
Time with my daughter
I pressed her baby toes against my lips it was the same time as the ultrasound now, is the time that I can't tie her hair before she goes to kindergarten now, is the time I climb a mountain with her and teach her how to swim now, is the time a woman will smile ...
Kronos
I love my best of you shine me through the vestiges of your spring make me, who has the wind still in his wrinkles, sing of how we love the silk softness of our whiten hair, chance with me the rite of our fingers through it, entomb us in that raging, mad, that sacred dance
Reading: Ode To The Walking Woman by Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi (b. 1975) is an Indian writer, dancer and journalist. I read a lyrical song inspired by a statue by Alberto Giacometti. Ode to the walking woman (After Alberto Giacometti ) Sit - you must be tired of walking, of losing yourself this way: a bronzed rib of exhaustion thinned out against the dark. ...
“I have made a tribe of my affections, and my tribe is scattered” - Stanley Kunitz
Reading: In Memoriam Paul Celan by Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch (b. 1950) is an American poet who can emulate many different voices. He was a poetry columnist for the Washington Post. He lives and Brooklyn and he has lost a son, about which he wrote an acclaimed book of poetry, called 'Gabriel'. I read an In Memoriam for Celan: In Memoriam Paul Celan ...
Reading: When A Woman Loves A Man by David Lehman
David Lehman (b. 1948) is a US poet, editor, critic. He teaches at The New School in New York City. Here you can find some biography. I read some stuff about relationships: When A Woman Loves A Man When she says Margarita she means Daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she ...
Instagram poetry
Giving in to the social media requirement of visuality and brevity, I also publish poetry on - Instagram. There are a lot of so called "instapoets" but in my humble opinion they are not exactly innovative and their language sounds pretty dull to me. As it happens - and this doesn't contradict my modesty - my ...