Unchained Dreams: Poem by Devika V M
The decisive patch-
Paved way towards the
middle.
I could collect,
I could hustle,
I could ensure –
Your endorsing memory.
I keep reading and
reading,
Pouncing into myself,
Keeping all the secrets
die in me.
The dumbfounded man-
Keep watching me.
Ferocity or concern?
I couldn’t recall from him.
Reluctantly I walked
toward the lobby,
Discontent of my
thoughts-
Stuck me at reading,
Troubling myself into it.
The scenario seems
denude,
Scandalous of amity or
enmity tortured me!
Exaggerating the world-
Indulging myself in
chores.
Run away- provocations
murmured,
But the conundrum
sticks in me
Of the man ;
Eyes keep watching, precision not well enough.
The toddler cried and
cried-
Reeling from shock-
Waiting for ‘She’:
But no one cares!
The frivolous demands,
never been fulfilled.
Rushing; expecting
much!
I could see from far,
The blurred vision of girl,
Catching and throwing ;
Something expected.
Turns five’, five’ and five’,
The voice shouted-
As if a disturbance to
me-
And for the unchained
dreams!
Poem by
Devika V M
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Sujatha Warrier is a writer and editor by occupation, and a poet and translator by inclination. Her articles and poems have appeared in magazines, literary e-journals and anthologies. One More Line and Other Poems is her latest collection of poems. The Attic & Other Poems is a collection of her poems, with illustrations. Fireflies is a collection of her micropoems. Totally Owordosed is her blog. A few awards and jury recommendations have come her way.
Sreekanth Kopuri is an Indian poet, current poetry editor of Kitchen Sink Magazine, Alumni Writer in Residence, Athens and a Professor of English from Machilipatnam, India. He recited his poetry in University of Oxford, John Hopkins University, University of Florida, Heinrich Heine University, University of Gdanski and many others. His poems appeared in Arkansas Review, Christian Century, A Honest Ulsterman, Chicago Memory House, Heartland Review, Lannang Archives, Tulsa Review, Expanded Field, A New Ulster, The Rational Creature, Nebraska Writers Guild, Poetry Centre San Jose, Underground Writers Association, Athereon Review, Word Fountain, Synaeresis, Wend Poetry, Vayavya, Ann Arbor Review to mention a few and are forthcoming in many. His book Poems of the Void was the winner of Golden Book of the year 2022 & finalist for the Eyelands Books Award Greece, 2019. He is the recipient of Immanuel Kant Award for his collection of poems on Silence 2020. An independent research scholar in Contemporary Poetry, Silence, and Holocaust poetry, he is presently working on his research work “Silence in Contemporary Ecopoetics of Transcendence”. He lives in his hometown Machilipatnam with his mother.
