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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”

  Every woman nurtures in her womb, a dream. The surge of raging hormones, fuel her need for love, for child, for man seed. Those tears that she sheds at that time of the month Are not without reason. It is nature’s design to make her grieve. A requiem for a dream. As that monthlyContinue reading “Period”

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”