Nikita Parik
Nikita Parik is a seasoned poet! Using colours and images artistically the poet paints spring in her home town conveying the blossoming of flowers with festivals like Holi that bring the people of different beliefs together in celebration. In a similar vein she captures the beauties of spring smearing the skies and paths of London with resplendent hues! The poet berates herself for not being able to write poetry in such an environment when nature is celebrating itself! These poems bring out the response of the poet towards the same season in different climes!
Nikita Parik is a 2023 Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
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- April in London
An April commutes via tube in London.
They say summer is finally enroute in London.
Cold winds pierce the grey clouds,
Blue sky-pockets sprout like shoots in London.
As pink blooms mark Bloomsbury’s skies,
Yellow petals paint our boots in London.
A liveliness dances on the Tower Bridge,
River-winds sing songs of pursuit in London.
Why aren’t you scribbling poems, Nikita?
Isn’t everything poetry when spring’s afoot in London?
- Daffodil City
(19 days before flying to Edinburgh)
What do you call this tender obsession
with one city, this lunacy, I wonder
as we fly—
me, and this driver in a pista-green salwar kameez,
amidst sprouting Holi bazaars,
on palash-spilled streets.
A swift turn, an angled gaze:
a sliver of the mosque
from the car window-
mint green,
a lonely, marbled minaret
extending
to the heavens,
overlooking
this city
manifesting
as yellow summer haze.
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పెద్దన్న
శ్రీరామ్
ఏ.కె. ప్రభాకర్
గూండ్ల వెంకట నారాయణ
అరిపిరాల సత్యప్రసాద్
ఉణుదుర్తి సుధాకర్
హరివెంకట రమణ
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