Poetry: Sanjeev Sethi

Sanjeev Sethi

Sanjeev Sethi has authored seven books of poetry. His latest is Wrappings in Bespoke (The Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK, August 2022). He has been published in over thirty countries. His poems have found a home in more than 400 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He is the recipient of the Ethos Literary Award 2022. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by The Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. He edited Dreich Planet #1, an anthology of Indian poets for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. He lives in Mumbai, India.

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Dawning

When words sail 

from known and unknown shores

to land on the shingle 

where the page or screen 

greets them with gratitude 

to form sentences that ignite us. 

Slowly these glide into stanzas 

which surge with intent to carry

forward the upturns of thought 

which began with a prompt

to actualize the architecture

of ideas and emotions to fruition.

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Setu, April 2023