Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
She was ecstatic. Wasn’t
her beauty praiseworthy?
She thought the world would dangle
from her lips.
Slowly she realized this wasn’t so.
Each one asked her to see clearly.
Open your eyes and look at me awhile.
Come, be brave. Undo the knots, untangle all.
Let loose the piled tiers of your hair, let it fall
I will wrap myself in their windings.
Throw open the secrets of your heart. Let go.
I will show you the way to new islands being born.
Open your Narcissist-eyes so I may find you by your scent.
Open the doors of your lips and let me know the taste.
Open the lined sheets held tight in your fist.
Open the layers of your garments, one by one, so I may see you clear.
From primal times the two of us were each other’s life.
Only we two know the truth of it all.
So why this distance?
Then
she thought, “God! Am I a hollow shell?
Of no value? With no substance?”
Then
she knew she had to find the import of these words.
She knew
the apparent meanings were all wrong.
The celebration of beauty was just that:
a naked truth.
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