The deadline for PNWA Literary Contest is fast approaching. If you have a manuscript or you're working on one, I strongly recommend sending it out to the contest. Here’s the link. You may enter multiple manuscripts for various categories.
( http://pnwa.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=6 )
( http://pnwa.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=6 )
On the personal front, the funny part of being jetlagged and waking up at odd hours in the day is that my characters too arrive at odd times with names, stories and even astrological signs. Isn’t that cool?
So, here’s a poem that I wrote a couple of years ago. It fits my current state of mind perfectly. Happy Reading!
Winding back
The silent road outside my house
in Woodinville, USA
carries me somehow
to my home in Bangalore
where my memory wants to go.
We see people, so many of them,
walking, moving on cycles,
rickshaws, bikes and in trucks,
fruit and vegetable vendors
with their wooden carts,
housewives gossiping between compound walls,
boys barefoot,
playing gully cricket
in the middle of the road,
cement houses,
girls quarreling over a bucket of water
at the public roadside water pump,
crows cawing from lamp posts,
and the rag picker collecting plastic bottles
from the road-side dust bin.
My silent road asks me:
How will our people transcend
from years of shunning silence?
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Also, my friends, I’m happy to announce that I’m planning to start a new series titled
“Picture Friday” starting February 04, 2011 where I’ll be posting lines, poetry, short pieces of fiction, scenes or stories based on a picture from our everyday lives.
On that note, you may share with me any pictures that you'd like to write or would like me to write about.
Do you have any pictures to share?
2 comments:
That is such a vivid poem, Suma! It brought to my mind exactly what happens in any city or town in India on an average day! Thanks for sharing!
Ooh, Picture Friday sounds like a cool idea; look forward to it! (Will keep this in mind next time I come across a quirky picture. :))
Thank you Hema! Im sure you can relate to it more, because you've lived in India.
I look forward to your pictures, we should be able to bring something out together:-)
Best,
Suma.
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