Parth Pandya writes a set of eight haikus, each capturing a moment in time from school right up to college in terms of experiences one goes through.
The two great epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata are an indispensable part of the Indian cultural fabric. This poem is Vaishnavi’s take on a small part of the Ramayana that has emotionally resounded with her over the years: Rama coming home to his kingdom after his fourteen year fast and the Lankan war. This piece was born out of wondering and imagining how joyful that momentous occasion could have been.
The oriental view of India has been that of a land of mysteries and mystics. This poem by Parminder Singh takes one into the world of mysticism where the lines between the spiritual and the material vanish, giving a glimpse of the transcendental experience lived by the narrator.
Rishitha Shetty writes a poem about Tiger Dancing, an important and much-celebrated tradition of coastal Karnataka.
Bakul Banerjee’s poem is inspired by the renowned Sanskrit poet Kalidasa’s “Meghadutam”. “Meghadutam” or the Cloud Messenger is one of his short works which describes the story of a Yaksha, a heavenly creature, trying to send a message to his faraway beloved using a cloud as the messenger.
In Inna Dulchevsky’s poem, rain transforms into many images and becomes a multi-dimensional metaphor for one’s own soul.
For Indian farmers, the monsoons are everything. Mohankumar’s poem tells the story of a farmer who waits hopefully for the rains to arrive and turn his fortune around.
With rain as the backdrop, Parminder Singh’s poem brings forth the course of a life which, in contrast with what was dreamt, goes kaput. There is a tinge of egoism which lets relationships flow away in the rain. The bloom withers away with time and the moments that could have been painted with the rainbows of togetherness pave way to an imminent loneliness.
