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Please watch me read out my poem ‘Monotony’ along with other poets as part of Rattle Magazine’s (www.rattle.com) Poets Respond series in an open mic session. In this series, poets respond to news events as they occur across the world. My poem was written in response to news reports that Bollywood celebrities are now doingContinue reading “‘Monotony’ features in Rattle Magazine’s open mic”

The sparrows twitter; A private conversation is on. The crows eavesdrop.   © Vidya Venkat (2007) [This haiku was first published in DNA newspaper’s poetry page in 2007.]

  A Sarus in separation pines for its mate in vain. And then, the torment of the rain…   © Vidya Venkat (2020)

I have left those paths behind. Those paths redolent of dreamy mornings When a half-awakened consciousness precluded hope.   There were times when I turned to them, To where once a story that had begun in innocence Was sheathed in autumn leaves and slowly frozen to death.   On one of those early mornings WhenContinue reading “Testament of a hopelessly hopeful dreamer”

  Four feet, Two His, two mine, Stretched out facing the emerald sea, Against the winter sun.   We were in Positano, By this breath-taking corniche, Where the shore stretched free, But for four, happy feet.   Can you hear the silence of the sea? No one heard the silence of the sea.   TheContinue reading “Positano”