by Gopikrishnan Kottoor
color:#222222">I have kept apart
color:#222222">2 minutes
color:#222222"> all night
color:#222222">to think of you.
color:#222222">
color:#222222">23 hours and 58 seconds
color:#222222">Ill think, that I
color:#222222">will not think of you.
color:#222222">
color:#222222">So I'll call for wine
color:#222222">the rose one
color:#222222">and one of lavender
color:#222222">and i'll think of Bloody Mary
color:#222222">in red vodkha
color:#222222">that is cheap and best selling
color:#222222"> at the airport
color:#222222">where even the pilot
color:#222222">who has seen you
color:#222222">dreams of you
color:#222222"> I know
I do not want to know
color:#222222">what to do
color:#222222"> without you
color:#222222">oozing all my life
color:#222222">and
color:#222222"> I've blood pressure to manage
color:#222222">my diabetes,
color:#222222"> and the most important need
color:#222222">to bring down
color:#222222">the climbing mercury
color:#222222">of
color:#222222"> your morning smile.
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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.
