Records updates on my writing -- places where it's accepted online and in print, collections and interviews.

Friday, 24 August 2007

Featured Poem at Soul to Soul

This week's Featured Poem as Soul to Soul is my poem, Loneliness: A Mental Indisposition.

Loneliness is not some chosen path
but an obsession maintained carefully,
analogous to mental disease,
the mental indisposition to let oneself
be loved or feel at ease. Loneliness
bites, it severs our sentiment
and leaves us with poetry in our veins.

Loneliness is not a shelter, it does
not give refuge from the storm.
It is bland, colourless and blind
until spliced open, when it chokes
on the metaphors bubbling underneath.

Thursday, 23 August 2007

Two poems in Kritya

Two of my poems, Beauty Evapourated and Past the Heavens can be found in Kritya, an online journal of poetry.

Past the Heavens can be found here, alongside the rest of the issue. To find my poem, press CTRL+F and type "Laala". It'll take you there. Past the Heavens is also the featured poem of the "Poetry in our Time" section of the site.
Beauty Evapourated can be found here, with my biography.