by Gopikrishnan Kottoor
You are coming to my mind.
But please go away.
My mind is not a door for you to open
Don’t wrap me up in the perfume of your secret breeze.
Why are you coming to my mind ?
Words are
beads of some rosary I might love
To hold in my hands and shape a prayer for
you.
But this I don’t want to do.
Do not aim your look as if I am some fruit
in the skies
of timeless autumn.
Because I made up my mind I would have nothing to do with you
The day I saw you
And wish to fulfill that promise to myself, please.
You are coming to my mind like the jaipur camel searching the night long spring in the Thar of forbidden palms
Like the she warrior who’ll win the tribal
kingdoms of the erect red hills of wars
You are taking away reason, making your own
season
Of rain that will dislodge the precipice of me
You are coming to my mind
You are coming to my mind
And I feel I must
I must lay you
naked in my heart
But I made up my mind I would have nothing
to do with you,
My love, O, my love.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Gopikrishnan Kottoor has won numerous awards for his poetry, including leading prizes in the prestigious Poetry Society (India)- British Council All India Poetry competitions. His poems have been published both in National and international poetry journals, and in Special issues on contemporary Indian Poetry in English. His selected poems from nine books appear in the collection ' Victoria Terminus'. His impressions on the concentration camp, Buchenwald, Weimar (East Germany) are cited as prayer in the reflective book by Barbara Franklin, of the ' Adorers of Christ, USA'. Kottoor's eleventh book of poems ' Vrindavan', a Radha- Krishna poetry cycle with 214 poems has won rare encomiums both in India and abroad. Kottoor has read and worked as invited poet in Europe and the USA.His book of poems ' Father, Wake Us in Passing' translated into German, (Wolfgang Heyder) appeared as a Laufscrift book choice (Martin Langanke). His oeuvre includes Novels (A Bridge Over Karma, Presumed Guilty), Plays ( The Mask of Death, Fire In The Soul), Verse translations (Puntanam, Kukoka), Editing ( Poetry Chain, A New Book of Indian Poems in English) Writing for children, (Wander) Lyrics, Scripts, Stories, Life style ( The Twelve Petals of Enlightenment) and literary reviews ( The Hindu Literary Supplement, Deccan Herald). His forthcoming books are Hill House (Novel), A December Night's Train (Script and poems), A Woman In Flames (Play) . Blog : www.gopikottoor.blogspot.com. Email : gopikottoor@gmail.com. Reference in Wikipedia : Gopi Kottoor.
Last updated May 25, 2012