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enjoy longer poems from Janet Kuypers’ “India Stories” 3/14/15 Poetry feature at the Art Colony in Chicago
Month: December 2015
Vehicle visions. A Poem by Ananya Chatterjee
It is snowing in Gulmarg.
I shut my eyes and try to imagine
a cold smoothness on my temples
My head drops to my gathered knees
as I sway to the slow ripples of Nagin
I become the flower-girl
on an abandoned shikara
Nearing the Hazratbal
As another sun vanishes
behind its dimpled dome
I sleep in my water villa
waiting to wake up
amid chants from
a sacred hilltop
The valley’s first snowfall- gushes the FM
I hit the brakes,
insulate my ears
against yanking horns
and prepare to leave
the metropolitan eve
It is snowing in Gulmarg- repeats the radio.
Changing channels, I shut my eyes
Somewhere, an RJ, plays “Paradise”.
Ananya Chatterjee is a software professional working for Oracle India Pvt Limited. A gold-medalist in Computer Science from The University Of Calcutta, Ananya has always been passionate about writing verses. She is a trilingual poet and translator in English. She is the author of the Amazon bestseller The Poet & His Valentine a collection of verses. Another Soliloquy and The Blind Man’s Rainbow are her other books. Her works have been published as part of the anthology on erotica, Hot Summer Nights by2014 by Inner Child Press Ltd., USA, as well as, as part of an anthology of Epitaphs, also by Inner Child Press Ltd., USA. Her poems were a part of “Soulful Whispers” – An Anthology of poems from the All India Poetry Competition 2014 By Poetry Society India. She was the winner of the Ekphrasis Poetry Contest at the National Poet’s Meet 2015. She has been awarded Certificate of Merit as part of Reuel International Award for Literature, 2015. Ananya also worked as a translator for the poems by actor and poet Soumitra Chatterjee, published in the book Forms Within. To find out more about her works, please visit www.ananyachatterjee.com
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HAIKU : Ram Krishna Singh
HAIKU: Ram Krishna Singh
on the river’s bank
his soul is lighted for peace–
lantern in the sky
shine in the grass
broken pieces of glass
in the backyard
shifting years’ load
away to the new building:
choking scholarship
lying in her nightie
she wipes the stray raindrops
settled on her cheeks
doesn’t exist
my mornings
without her sunsets
they come together
as themselves within themselves–
love’s silence
hitching up the skirt
she fills her pockets with
unripe mangoes
after cleaning
the maid leaves behind
an oily smell
squatting
in the middle of the field
a woman with child
smell of fish
in apple juice bottle–
costermonger
negotiating
the granddaughter’s cry for mom
out on shopping
looks for fish
a siberian crane
in a lotus pond
she smiles
sex in the eyes:
Eve Enseler
too heavy
these man-made machines
choking weight
hot on the trail with youth
she scales up the heights of dream
and leaves me stunned with chill