Volume 5 | Issue 3 | Aug - Sept
2011 |
The Frames of Pictures
Dr. Rati Saxena
I always wish to
Fix myself
Inside the frames of pictures,
To become friends with
The walls.
I place myself into a
Picture from the eighteenth century.
Now I have only two colors
And one pose
But no butterflies on the flowers of
My blouse.
I walk way ahead of my time
Reaching into a twentieth century frame;
All of a sudden so many colors start jumping at me
That my first colors fade.
I don’t think that I can be a friend to the walls,
They only cross my ways.
Pictures, please wait,
Your frames are smaller than my height.
Dr. Rati Saxena - the Illustrious Editor of Krtya.in, is an eminent Hindi poet, translator and Sanskrit scholar. She has authored three collections of poems in Hindi (Maya mahathagini, ajanmi kavita ki kokh se, sapane dekhata samudra) and one each in English and Malayalam (in translation). Among the several awards she has received, the most coveted is the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2000. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Culture and Arts Fellowship, which helped her complete this path-breaking work “A seed of mind-a fresh approach to Atharvavedic study".
e-mail: ratisaxena@gmail.com
Web: http://www.kritya.in
