Poems by Samartha Vashishtha

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Poems

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Swadesh Deepak, sir
Escape
Iraq Prayer
Grandfather on His Deathbed
Innocence
Women
The Story of Adam and the Thirsty Crow
Dadiji: The Last Recollections
Homecoming
For Father On His Fiftieth Birthday
The Making
Lesson
Before the Sky Became a Twig on
                                               the Roof

Perfection
Learning About Women
Permanence
Void
Detour
Looking for a Forgotten Friend

Long Poem

Suicide Notes, or reasons to live


Simla, a long poem

Jayasurya
The Escort
Mitthuchalisa
The Crossroads
Gyration
Rain
So'ham
The Jungle
Chadwick House
silence too is a canvas
The Last


The complete long poem, Simla

Prose

Politics in Poetry
Review: Girish Karnad's 'Tughlaq'
Review: Jagjit Singh's 'Different Strokes'

Poetry Translations

Two poems by Asad Zaidi
Proximity by Soumitra Mohan
Wednesday by Soumitra Mohan
A Burnt-Out Aircraft at Dusk by     
                         Shailendra Shail




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The poet is grateful to the editors of  the literary periodicals, in which these poems first appeared, for permission to republish on the Web.


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