by Gopikrishnan Kottoor
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Lord, A Prayer
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> Lord, I
wish I had hands
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">each with
ten fingers.
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> I could
then hold you
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">tighter.
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> I could
count all that money
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">faster.
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> How I
could catch the throat
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">of my
worst enemy and best friend-
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> that
would be so much easier
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> And I
could be forever
in the
Guinness Book
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> Lord, if
I only had
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EN-IN">a hand with ten fingers
"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:
EN-IN"> What More joy
What more joy
than writing poems
about you?
Red wine that flows
down the Samaritan's throat
can't be sweeter.
Bread loaves
turn to memory of your touch
what more joy
than writing poems
about you
just as bitter
just as mist
as my breath
frozen
in mid air
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Gopikrishnan Kottoor has won numerous awards for his poetry, including leading prizes in the prestigious Poetry Society (India)- British Council All India Poetry competitions. His poems have been published both in National and international poetry journals, and in Special issues on contemporary Indian Poetry in English. His selected poems from nine books appear in the collection ' Victoria Terminus'. His impressions on the concentration camp, Buchenwald, Weimar (East Germany) are cited as prayer in the reflective book by Barbara Franklin, of the ' Adorers of Christ, USA'. Kottoor's eleventh book of poems ' Vrindavan', a Radha- Krishna poetry cycle with 214 poems has won rare encomiums both in India and abroad. Kottoor has read and worked as invited poet in Europe and the USA.His book of poems ' Father, Wake Us in Passing' translated into German, (Wolfgang Heyder) appeared as a Laufscrift book choice (Martin Langanke). His oeuvre includes Novels (A Bridge Over Karma, Presumed Guilty), Plays ( The Mask of Death, Fire In The Soul), Verse translations (Puntanam, Kukoka), Editing ( Poetry Chain, A New Book of Indian Poems in English) Writing for children, (Wander) Lyrics, Scripts, Stories, Life style ( The Twelve Petals of Enlightenment) and literary reviews ( The Hindu Literary Supplement, Deccan Herald). His forthcoming books are Hill House (Novel), A December Night's Train (Script and poems), A Woman In Flames (Play) . Blog : www.gopikottoor.blogspot.com. Email : gopikottoor@gmail.com. Reference in Wikipedia : Gopi Kottoor.
Last updated May 25, 2012