Sanjeev Sethi
Philatelist
If emprise were a stamp
I would be a booklet pane.
More unusual, the experience
more intense am I.Â
Additions to curiosa
keep me afloat.
Sigint from neurons alight.
In them, I cipher our chronicle.Â
Slacktivism is for others:
I find it safe to share.
Intimacy with injuryÂ
seals its truth on my selvage.Â
The aware are alone.
Others tap an overworked tongue.
Angst is an expression:
Lease it for limning.
Eternities
Chip butty for one, *vada pau for another,
dissimilar recipes, though in essence
easy to fetch, soul food.Â
Withal the play of
human emotions without
the garb of cultural contexts.Â
Poetry melds with many but pulls back
when the bard fails to obey his brief:
As with astrology and polity.
* Street food, popular in Western India.
Source
Your cenotaph glows amid
myriad leanings along
with laundry and grocery lists.
In the rituals of reality,
your luminosity rinses me
of leeriness and gears
my run with grit.
The potential of the dead
can be garnered
for the greater good.
Once the summations are settled
there are no toxic leakages,
unlike with the zoetic.
This is a boon.
Sanjeev Sethi has authored seven books of poetry. His latest is Wrappings in Bespoke (The Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK, August 2022). He has been published in over thirty-five countries. His poems have found a home in more than 450 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He edited Dreich Planet #1, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. In 2023, he won the first prize in a poetry competition at the prestigious National Defence Academy, Pune. He was recently conferred the 2023 Setu Award for Excellence. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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