Thought of doing a quick review of my Poetry month activities in 2018. This year I did two projects. One to write a poem in English everyday and the other was to do the translation of an international poet’s poem to my native language ‘Malayalam’. The English Poems started with a poem called ‘Today I write’ and ended with the poem ‘The End’. In between … Continue reading Review of my National Poetry Month activities in 2018
I let the mountains cry rain, through the eyes of the sky. the earth wash its face so the, plants can wake up. I too cry… I tell a story to a flower, the flower sings to the thorn as the thorn cries from pain. the river flows like tears on the earth’s face. A face known to me since I remember, tells me that … Continue reading 29/30 | Mirroring cries | National Poetry Month 2018
a friendship takes a burial ground to resurrect corpses a funeral spreads pamphlets to celebrate life an accidental meeting gives meaning to the mind and somewhere an unnamed ceremony is winding to an end maybe today the wind will bring me a song to listen Continue reading 28/30 | a song to listen | National Poetry Month 2018
Yesterday.. I could not write a poetry and today I realized. I am on a daily poetry campaign one poem a day… But technology has given us the power to write today and post it as it was yesterday… Much like the power to change the current past to a past we want people to know.. we want us to be known. But what happens … Continue reading 26/30 | Changing the Past | National Poetry Month 2018
We always feel that our pain is unique and it might be.. but we might find ourselves way behind in a line… a line for all the people suffering in this world. If I am having the freedom to write today, that means things are not bad for me… we should never look at ourselves in isolation… but only with a very comprehensive world view.. … Continue reading 22/30 | world inside you | National Poetry Month 2018
A melancholy always drips from the apartment window, driving you nuts as you sit beneath smoking cigarettes. You blow smoke just in time for it to go in and create a chaos for the old lady who lives there. Her husband dreams of the pretty girl…. the next door neighbor, he is bed ridden, but dreams don’t cost. And the girl does not charge. The … Continue reading 19/30 | The apartment window | National Poetry Month 2018
A face weeps just beside me as I make my way into the tunnel. The face talks “At the end you will find light, but for that you have to walk in dark.” I presumed so as there is never light until you are determined to overcome the fear and walk in through the dark. It is the rule. There is no other way for … Continue reading 18/30 | Face | National Poetry Month 2018
Today a friend is leaving town and he needs to meet his friends he wants to unload some memory laundry that has not been washed for way too long… ‘Washed’ is not the word truly.. because none of it has been stained not with blood not with semen though there has been splashes of bourbon the past rash realities of splashed bourbon have stories of … Continue reading 15/30 | To a Friend Leaving | NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2018
Let the summer blow some senses into your cold heart; the world deserves better.. as the morning breaks into crackers, festivities, food and fun someone is hurt… an 8 year old has been brutally killed and continue to be ripped apart by politics in between region and religion Today life comes to a stand still and waits for its next prey as time returns to … Continue reading 14/30 | the cold heart | National Poetry Month 2018
When you push a man, make sure you do it very hard; so hard that he cannot get up. Best to take him to the cliff, and then without him knowing push him down. If not… He will fight till his end even with his shadow just to break the light inside you don’t push a man if you do it, do it very hard; … Continue reading 13/30 | Don’t Push a Man | National Poetry Month 2018
Vinod Narayan 