Parth Pandya writes a poem about the season of summer and what it does to tormented souls.
We are about to sell our house. We will move away and our house will stand there in silence. Just a building it might be, but what if it will yearn to see us? Ranjini Sivaswamy pens a poem.
From the silence that preceded the birth of the universe to the silence that pervades a music hall, M.Mohankumar presents his perspective on this month’s theme through a poem.
Praveena’s prose poem is the internal monologue of an individual exploring identity and sexuality in a society that sees and yet doesn’t see the struggle for this space, and how choice, often always silent, even in the smallest acts, plays out in everyday life.
Hema Nair’s poem talks about the silence born of loneliness—a silence that can be deafening. This solitude comes from an inability to love because of self-imposed boundaries. Enveloped in an introspective silence, though, we can seek to understand ourselves, attempt to change, or be stoic in our acceptance.
Srinivas’s poem paints silence, first in the seven colours of a rainbow; and then, in black, white and shades of grey. Each colour represents phenomena, which are often experienced in silence, due either to choice, or to compulsion, or to the very nature of certain experiences. Admittedly, the links between the various colours and what they represent are, in many cases, subjective.
M. Mohankumar’s verse focuses on a relationship gone awry – it speaks of two factions engaged in a pointless dispute, as in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
Structured in the form of a monologue, a poem speaks to the poet who has ‘created’ it. The poem has a number of questions by asking which, it attempts to understand its relationship with the poet, his world, his other creations, and its own sense of self-worth. Verse by Srinivas S.
Not all relationships are happy. Some are abusive where damaging things are said and done in the name of love. Shalu Bhati captures one such relationship in her poem.