Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Hills, verticals of rock
above
sheer, perpendicular
and all around
shrubs, stones, trees – midget growths –
a whole landscape bristling
furious with color
gun-metal grey, red, ash
and the in-between shades
mauve, at times purple
risen from the iron
heart of earth
belched from the seabed
A conflagration within
conflict raging
a war in stone
a falling out of gods
The eye arrested
calmed
in breast of rock
and a persistent wish
to be annihilated –
to be this –
to be stone