Summer 2024: Meena Chopra

Silicon Soul 

My eyes tinted with moon-shadow

summer sun rises in the east

glittering through my window

golden tendrils softly graze mylashes.

Face radiant with a luster

dawn pours a liquid gold

hearts melt.

 

A warmth swirls my blood

my breath expands

a silicon soul circulates in my veins

shaping a new rhythm to my days.

My vision shrivels

the sun dips into the cyberspace

dusk unfolds on the window screen.

Night falls, churning algorithms

sky loops in the moonlight

fading shadows float 

within the computing clouds.

Digits beat in my heart

my body dehydrates.

I become a nocturnal sprite

a native of a dream space

soaring in a lunar land

leaving no data to process

 

No black dust, no traces behind.

No shadows of networks to find.

 

Link to Video art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T06D3roj2Oo

 

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Meena Chopra is a Canadian Indian poet, a visual artist, art curator and a producer of art and literary events. She lives in Mississauga. She writes both in English and her native Hindi language. Her poetry has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies and also has been translated in Urdu, German and Punjabi. She has authored several poetry and art collections and co-edited an anthology. Driven by power of the abstract imagery, many times her art and poetry blend into each other. Meena advocates discovering collaborative experience between the literary arts and other art forms in order to give the audience a comprehensive and vibrant artistic experience and has a successful trail of producing such art and literary events behind her.

Website: www.meenachopra.art

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Setu, May 2024