by Gopikrishnan Kottoor
So
it should be. So it must. So it is.
That love should find a nest and lay eggs
color:#222222">and all that must break; or be juiced up
color:#222222">by the cunning sliding snake,
color:#222222">that envies love's flight.
color:#222222">So it must be, so it is that it must never be
color:#222222">that my hands must bough down to your scented flowers
color:#222222">lost between your smile and crying lake;
color:#222222">Let it be, Time might wonder about it why,
color:#222222">but we must not knot what is not,
color:#222222">it healed us once; whatever name you might call it by
color:#222222">it brought us pain and healed us all at once,
color:#222222">like the wave that pushes on the sands
color:#222222">with a thousand eyes, that breaks in foam
color:#222222">but never stops; see from far away
color:#222222">a bigger wave builds; it must see us through the end.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Born (1956), Trivandrum, Kerala, India., Winner, All India Poetry Prizes, Poetry Society, India-British Council Awards (96, 97, 98), and other leading poetry prizes. Poetry published in Ariel (Canada), Orbis (UK), Nth Position (UK), Bluefifth Review (UK), Toronto Review (Canada), The Illustrated Weekly of India, Kavya Bharati (India), Fulcrum (USA), Verse, Seattle, (USA), Indian Literature, Arabesque Review, Plaza (Japan), Chandrabhaga (India), and others. Founder editor, Poetry Chain. Participant, MFA, Texas state University, (2000) Poet in Residence, Augsburg University, Germany (2004). Important works : Poetry : Father, Wake Us In Passing, (German Translation, Wolfgang Heyder) A Buchenwald Diary, Mother Sonata, Victoria Terminus, Poems Selected and New (2010). The Coloured Yolk of Love (2012). Drama: Fire In The Soul The Mask of Death. Novel : A Bridge Over Karma (Novel). Poetry included in The Bloodaxe book of Contemporary Indian Poetry In English, The Golden Jubilee Anthology of Post Independence Indian poetry In English, and Poetry Society, India anthologies.
Last updated May 28, 2012