Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Number 1. May 2018. ISSN: 2581-7094
Poetry
and Love
Love is the nocturnal companion
for awaken dreams,
Poetry, an ocean,
eyes shining with thousands of
stars.
It ‘s an endless voyage
for the navigator who lost his way
in love’s lustful
eyes
till it dawns .
inkling…
Incoherent blabbering …
The reality called poetry
that doesn’t blend
with myth of love
makes stars shine in your eyes
again and again.
Poetry is poetry
Love is love
why then to chase
the core of inner
thoughts?
Love….love….love
Stop this cliché
Losing your eyes in the ship
today I am martyr to my love.
Let the light houses go to stupor.
Hopes swimming
from one wavy pitch to the other
have the roar of a nightmare.
Sea breeze, a lullaby
to the sleepless memories of late
night .
Tonight to her,
is a pale memory of first night.
(translated
from Malayalam by Pankajam Kottarath)