Aquarium
by Vihang Naik (India)
Source: Making A Poem (2004) p.38
A silky silver fish
with oily fins,
shiny scales,
through the glass
of your eyes,
swims. You
think of beauty
braeathing
in the desert of waters
and bubbles.
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The End of an Affair
by Vihang Naik (India)
Source: Making A Poem (2004) p.31
In a South Indian restaurant
I resolved to be a poet for her.
She became a gazal in return
First silence is poetry than words.
My heart served in a clean plate.
I never knew that the life of a poet
could be cut into two with fork and spoon.
After our affair she discovered life
is a tale of prose. I felt love as short as haiku
A time to part. Let us kiss and depart.
She left suddenly. After then the letter
returned with a song of parting,
She specified, she wouldn't sing.
(This poem is nominated Best Poem of the Year 2004.)
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Copyright (c) 2005 to Vihang Naik.
Available in print edition.
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Vihang Naik is born in Surat, the city of South Gujarat, India. He now teaches English in Shree Ambaji Arts College (Gujarat) in India. He also taught at Smt. M.C. Desai College at Prantij near Ahmedabad, India.
His poems have appeared in India's leading journals and anthologies and won awards. His poems have also appeared in leading e-anthology of poetry by world poets published by Rattapallax Press in NY, USA.
His latest Gujarat collection of poems Jeevangeet is published by Navbharat Sahitya Mandir (Ahmedabab) in 2001. He also translates poetry from Gujarati into English. His first collection of poems City Times is published by Writer's Workshop (India) in 1993.