by Gopikrishnan Kottoor
What promises you made without telling me;
and drifted in ways only you can drift by-
why should I not know the things you do;
when you come to hello and go goodbye?
You have an intelligence all your own,
when it comes to longing, when it comes to love,
and its expectations that even you can't control;
what shapes of lips you love, what movement of thighs-
in the quieter waterfalls of night;
what breaks of guitar strings that tunes sand dunes?
Never mind she is not meant for you, if you wed her
she won't rescind, beyond the glitter of her evening clothes
for all the paper boats of love you carry to sail on her river,
she is just another beautiful sin.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Born (1956), Trivandrum, Kerala, India., Winner, All India Poetry Prizes, Poetry Society, India-British Council Awards (96, 97, 98), and other leading poetry prizes. Poetry published in Ariel (Canada), Orbis (UK), Nth Position (UK), Bluefifth Review (UK), Toronto Review (Canada), The Illustrated Weekly of India, Kavya Bharati (India), Fulcrum (USA), Verse, Seattle, (USA), Indian Literature, Arabesque Review, Plaza (Japan), Chandrabhaga (India), and others. Founder editor, Poetry Chain. Participant, MFA, Texas state University, (2000) Poet in Residence, Augsburg University, Germany (2004). Important works : Poetry : Father, Wake Us In Passing, (German Translation, Wolfgang Heyder) A Buchenwald Diary, Mother Sonata, Victoria Terminus, Poems Selected and New (2010). The Coloured Yolk of Love (2012). Drama: Fire In The Soul The Mask of Death. Novel : A Bridge Over Karma (Novel). Poetry included in The Bloodaxe book of Contemporary Indian Poetry In English, The Golden Jubilee Anthology of Post Independence Indian poetry In English, and Poetry Society, India anthologies.
Last updated May 31, 2012