- The classical is weight as well as fetter, the gravitas choking the possible
- Meeraji (1912-1949) can most aptly be described as a “tragic” poet, where the tragic is silent on the joy infusing his song
- i. The guardian of the past is calm / standing fearless and firm on earth
ii. magar ye maazi ka paasbaaN pur sukoon dil se / zameeN pe ik be-niyaaz andaaz may hai qaaim
iii. Father fear, can you calm the
— possibility of fear,
— the child alone in the knowledge of fire,
— the woman quiet as the burn within rages without?
Monthly Archives: January 2022
It took calm to hoard sea-blessing
It took calm to hoard sea-blessing, earth-char, mountain-hark it took all the strangeness that the mussels could gather midstream to bring Song to flute, need to burn, soothe to tremor it took hearsay, birdflit, hearttick to overcome flight, reduce roadtear, become multipludinous -