Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Number 2. November 2018. ISSN: 2581-7094
After The Tempest
There is an alphabet of
tragedies happening,
shadows unveiling each
other,
and yet there is that range
of anonymous figures
ranging from Prospero to
Ariel,
defining hospitality
through vulnerability.
Hope that rains.
Hope that keeps soaking.
And so Miranda comes out of
the woods,
travelling the seas of the
world,
defying the Apolineal
seafarers
with a presence that is
silence.
And then there is a
Dionysian absence,
a silent Big-Ban that
intoxicates.
And then hope emerges and
remerges,
and there is an alphabet of
new voices
that follow Miranda,
while it rains and rains,
cradling that boat that
sails without papers,
cuddling the absence and
the silence
of other alphabets of
dreams.
World Tour
Foreign musicians
negotiate:
An adopted child returning
to Jupiter,
herds of mistakes,
a lonely fly.
Shackles are crossed out,
Fences obviated.
Then fences of shackles
emerge:
Stampede of terms for the
expelled
Media steroids administered
without prescription.
The liaison of terms is
guaranteed:
Jupiter is up there,
herds roll on
And the fly echoes alone
its shadow on the terrain
Nameless crowds queue,
another concert is
organised
and the audience…
The audience?
The audience is still
negotiated,
passively arranged into
a catchy chorus that buzzes
alone.