13 Ways of Looking at a Poem

13 Ways of Looking at a Poem

Sep 5, 2021 | Education, General, Poetry, Prose, Society & Culture

Why should I forgo what I think or feel about a poem for what a literary theory says about it?  It is commonly believed that poetry cannot be paraphrased, that once you start unfolding its meaning, line by line, its true essence, like that of a dream upon waking and...
Returning

Returning

Aug 17, 2021 | Environment, Poetry, Society & Culture

Eyes can never have enough of the sea she has borne. They say that the centre of the Earth is a woman’s belly- button, on the ocean floor. Drain the seas and her oyster eyes appear, encasing tears, reflecting books tall as skyscrapers, the riot of trees...
A Dream

A Dream

Nov 23, 2020 | Poetry

Her toes teased the pull my feet lay idle onI was drawn by almond slits that claimed eyesSaw a scene I can’t recall. I wanted to touch her, was she soft?Or were her fingertips calloused with the earth’s dirt she didn’t bother shed?I crouched to her level, fumbling for...
Prepared

Prepared

Nov 1, 2020 | Poetry

Anam Khaleel’s spoken word poetry touches upon every student’s dilemma as they prepare to step out into the world. Give it a listen! Prepared by Anam Khaleel https://centreforconversations.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Anam-Prepared-Spoken-Word.mp3 Anam...
Uncle

Uncle

Aug 19, 2020 | Poetry

Right from the smell of petrichor on its collision with the earth,to the chatter of the streets and the misty haze of the sidewalks,I imagined your memory.I imagine you, a little boy enslaved in the body of a man, as he guides his niece down a memory, hauntingly...
Let Go, Let Life Flow

Let Go, Let Life Flow

Jun 20, 2020 | Poetry

Namaste, no high five or hug Covid 19 is a contagious bug They say it spreads like wildfire And sometimes with consequences dire Our world has changed and can never be What was before for you and me Why, when I met my near and dear ones the other day Post lockdown it...