Volume 5 | Issue 3 | Aug - Sept
2011 |
Time Near To Me
Dr. Rati Saxena
Today I woke up late,
Ignored the cup of tea,
Started reading an unknown Lithuanian poet.
His poems were open, like cattle
And my words started filling the spaces between them.
Today I ignored the unclean dishes in the sink,
Didn’t bother to fold the washed clothes.
I turned on the TV, changed the channels
And let my room fill with many voices.
Words took flight from my fingertips,
Fingers on the keyboard
When a poem took birth on my computer.
Time was wandering around me
Like my tame dog.
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
