I attended a Poetry Workshop recently, at Prithvi Theatre, Juhu and co-ordinated by Sampurna Chatterji. It was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life, and I wouldn't miss it for the world!! I have never before met so many people who love poetry just as much as I do, we read and discussed and critiqued.. We created together..
Below is the poem I wrote with Sampurna's help;
Twenty thousand nights ago
Do you remember
One morning?
Silence pressing upon my ears
Heavy corrosive
Grey air like smoke
smoke without smell
Obscenely bright
Beacons
Whose house was it?
My grandmother's or yours?
When we stood at the window
Black granite so cold
And looked...
Buildings
Asleep
Black windows gaping
Hollow eyes
Mourning
The summer heat was close
Hugging us in its sweaty arms
Sucking the moisture
From our
Bodies
Big green and yellow
Flowers stuck to my skin
And you?
Holding hands
We saw...
The city
A ghost book
Laid out before us
Blue hills
Peeling
A drawing in the distance
So long ago
An image pressed
Dried leaves in a book
My mind
Your heart
Can we retrieve it?
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That's a wonderful poem. That the speaker cannot remember whose grandmother's house underlines the importance of what is coming. What a beautiful world you created in this memory. God bless.
Thank you Sandy! Glad you liked it!
amazing writing... loved the ending... :) good goin ... keep up the amazin wrk... cheerz
PS urs is the 1st blog i bookmarked cuz i just loved the 2-3 posts i read
Regards,
Clockroots :)
Thank you so much "Clockroots" (love the name!!), that is a very very big compliment!
How did you come across my blog?
well it so happened that the a cpl of days back... i was chkin my mails and im quite a.. shall i say ... inactive member on cafferatti... but was too bored so was going thru the convo of u guys bout the meet and all :)... just clicked on ur link and found a nice lil treasure of intricate words strung together. Thanks for the compliment btw :)
Such a nice memory ... beautifully recounted!
hii...found your blog id on museindia... interesting blog..will go thru..your poems..
cheers,
apurva
intriguing!
Have you read any Guillaume Apollinaire? This reminds me of his stuff, the way he lays out the landscape all around... (I love his work!)
Maya, yes, workshop is wonderful! I met an apparently very independent poet recently who said,
"What was it like to go to school for poetry?" (with a sour look on her face). I have my M.A. in Creative Writing...I told her the workshop and sharing experience is worth a ton for me. Some people are afraid of the sharing process and critique (maybe they think they will be "influenced"-god forbid), but I believe it helps a lot...I worked on "raw honey"...it was written last night almost in my sleep. Thanks for the comment, and I think the revision is more "immediate"...check it out!
Keep up the good work.
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