Free Verse
Stone moon
I will drink
the moon tonight
this vast inferno raging
inside the heart
can find no other means
to cool itself
The great gel
of cold shimmering silver
should help
we deserve everything
we get
the pain, the suffering,
the endless want
the wait…all of it
is cloaked under our karmas
A singing river says
I deserve this night
the darkness rounds on me
like a plate going too close to the eyes
the moon in my hands
cares little about its cooling magic
cares little that it is about to do me good
it is still fixing its craters
with matt grey stones
A burning heart or a cold crater
pain cannot be measured
it never grows old.
About
Vinita
Agrawal, IN
Vinita
Agrawal was born in Bikaner, India, on August 18th
1965, Vinita is a writer, researcher and poet. She has been
published in several magazines, journals, newspapers and
websites and (Kritya.org, Touch- The Journal of
Healing, Museindia, Everydaypoets.com (June 18th ,
2011), mahmag world literature – mahmag.org
(March 2011), Femina, Free Press, Beyond Borders – An
Anthology of Poems from the SAARC Region, indianwildlife.com,
The Criterion – An International Journal in English
(April 2011, Vol. II, Issue I)
http://www.the-criterion.com/V2/n1/Vinita.pdf, The
Brown Critique (May 2011),
contemporaryliteraryreview.blogspot.com (June 2011)
E-Women Issue 9 august 2011
http://www.the-indian-subcontinent.org/content/tonight
a micro fiction titled ‘Barren’ on
www.twenty20journal.com
http://twenty20journal.com/archives/summer-2011-issue-3-india/fiction/vinita-agrawal-barren/
) etc.
She lives in New Delhi with her husband and has a son who is
attending college in the US.
This is Vinita
Agrawal's first appearance in Sketchbook.
