{"id":5526,"date":"2016-10-28T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2016-10-28T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:34:22","slug":"loop-a-poem-by-amitabh-vikram-dwivedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/loop-a-poem-by-amitabh-vikram-dwivedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Loop. A Poem by Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It was a play,<br \/>\nA simple manipulation,<br \/>\nWhen your fingers ran parallel-<br \/>\nCrosswise<br \/>\nOr lengthwise,<br \/>\nAnd you created a loop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But it was not a play,<br \/>\nOnly a manipulation,<br \/>\nWhen your fingers ran parallel-<br \/>\nCrosswise<br \/>\nAnd lengthwise<br \/>\nAnd you suspended yourself<br \/>\nInto that loop.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, I know mother that-<\/p>\n<p>Now<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ol>you<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0   <space> <space>  <space> <space>Not<\/space><\/space><\/space><\/space><\/p>\n<p>living.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/loop-a-poem-by-amitabh-vikram-dwivedi\/avd-smiling\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AVD-smiling.jpg\" alt=\"avd-smiling\" width=\"127\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AVD-smiling.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AVD-smiling-100x126.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi is assistant professor of linguistics at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. His research interests include language documentation, writing descriptive grammars, and the preservation of rare and endangered languages in South Asia. He has contributed articles to many Science Citation Index journals.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent books are <em>A Grammar of Hadoti<\/em> (Lincom: Munich, 2012), <em>A Grammar of Bhadarwahi<\/em> (Lincom: Munich, 2013), and a poetry collection titled <em>Chinaar kaa Sukhaa Pattaa<\/em> (2015) in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>As a poet, he has published more than 100 poems in different anthologies, journals and magazines worldwide. 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