Home is where my shadow grows, the soaring spirits leap.
I chase for idioms; tame them
to my need of pulsating my silences.
I script Gandhāra. It grants me the fierce tenderness
of watching my spine, my muscle in art.
Poems sizzle on the white page/s.
A breathing spirit that guides me in life.
Harp of my tradition , let me strike the strain
immersed in mists.
It restores the child in us and those missing senses.
Four walls form a powerful song that erupts suddenly
in dark recesses of soul, home takes me complete and cured!
I navigate my kite, the sky is
my dear sheer blue life.
Gandhāra art, style of Buddhist visual art that developed in what is now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan between the 1st century BCE and the 7th CE.
Photo Credit
Bodhisattva, Gandhara Art – By Zde Wikimedia Creative Commons
Guest Author Bio
Jaydeep Sarangi
Jaydeep Sarangi , is a bilingual writer, academic, editor, translator, academic administrator and the author of a number of significant publications on Postcolonial issues, Indian Writing in English and Australian Literature in reputed journals/magazines in India and abroad. He has recently collaborated as peer reviewer for CLR, Universitat Jaume I, Spain. He is one of the Editors, “Writers Editors Critics” and the Vice President of literary organization, GIEWEC (head office at Kerala). Widely travelled and anthologised both as a poet and a critic, Dr Sarangi has delivered keynote addresses in several national and international seminars, conferences and read poems/research papers in several continents. His latest book of poems in English, A Door-somewhere? was released at Rzeszow University, Poland in the Summer 2014. He is Associate Professor in the Dept. of English , Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College (Calcutta University), 30,Prince Anwar Shah Road, Kolkata-700033, WB, India. E mail: jaydeepsarangi@gmail.com
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Joydeep’s poetry evokes, rather than states. When we read him , we participate in a process of meaning-making.