by Gopikrishnan Kottoor
The ash and the fire,
the blood on the wind mill, the slow uprising
that now cares a damn;
all the dreams cast into the rambling rains
what was it all for? You know, perhaps
and will not tell. All the flowers in the path
that lay dying, the birds over the mountains
losing themselves before they return;
who told them the story of leaving home,
thinking they would find beauty and truth elsewhere?
Perhaps it was all wrong, the miles we traveled
into the storms
thinking we would at last hold each other there
was not to be. And now in the glass of the years
breaking,over which we tread, quietly, each alone,
not even caring to see if the other is anywhere there;
such things, that only caress the mist
between us that disappeared;
Funny, how each moment comes and goes;
everything begins and ends;
Valleys of love, how,
they turn to deserts of lust and into dust;
Well, when you laughed it all away
you felt so profound
you thought it was in your hands;
but the power, the folly and the wisdom
Time will always tell
it is all in between the legs.
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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.
