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| Sukrita Paul Kumar |
Prayers
Mountain Echoes
ringing gods
into the
valleys;
Temple bells
ushering
men
into the
temples.
*
Prescribing
unending
moments of
wakefulness
love spills
into
space of
nothingness
surrounding
lovers
who die
with
each meeting;
on separation,
they are born again
to themselves,
crying for
moksha
in love.
***
Landscape
With goats
and sheep
grazing
on its
chest,
the mountain
is
a captive,
shackled in
crisscross
paths
with
the shepherd
as its
lord.
***
The garden blossomed
in winter
because
I died in spring
***
Being
The river of
silence
flows gently
growing stronger
with time,
stretching wide
from shore
to shore,
a storm
rolling in
the folds
of
deep waters;
Silence
moving
into silence,
the silence of
experience
sinking
and silting
and moving on.
***
Bio: Sukrita
Paul Kumar, former Fellow of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, held the
prestigious Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at Delhi University. An honorary faculty at Corfu,
Greece, she was an invited resident poet at the prestigious International Writing
Programme at Iowa, USA. Her most recent collections of poems, are Vanishing
Words, Country Drive and Dream Catcher. Her critical books
include Narrating Partition, The New Story
and Conversations on Modernism. She has co-edited many books, including
Krishna Sobti: A Counter Archive (Routledge) and Speaking for Herself:
Asian Women’s Writings (Penguin). An Honorary Fellow at HK Baptist
University, Hong Kong, she has published many translations and has held exhibitions
of her paintings.
Oh, Beautiful words and soulful ...
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