ANJU KISHORE, INDIA

Anju Kishore

Ms. Anju Kishore, formerly a finance professional, is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a published poet writing in English, and an award-winning editor of numerous free-verse anthologies. She is now learning the ropes of theatre and Japanese forms of poetry. Her book of poems, ‘…and I Stop to Listen’ (2018) inspired by the civil war in Syria was well received. Her poems, some of them prize-winners, have been part of many anthologies and journals.

SOULSPEAK

Meet me beyond thoughts that dart

like fishes frantic to be everywhere

Beyond conversations

knocking into the edges of nowhere

Meet me there, where a shaft of dawn

is not broken by what should

or should not be done

There, where clouds do not claim 

mouthfuls of every horizon

Come, let us hold hands

not as love's convoluted threads

but like waves adrift

bound by an ocean's depths

And when it is time to step back into shadows

waiting to draw you into their designs

we shall let the dark filigree drape your curves

for ablaze within you would be

the intent of a million suns

contoured by all the grey that we freed

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Solitude of Soul 2023 :: Setu, March 2023