Some are pushing up daisies.
Others are stiff
due to ideology or intention.
This march has no music.
The band is over.
One is guarded
to get-together another one.
If you wish others
to walk on air for you,
they need to be subsumed
by pecuniary inflows or possessions.
Self-actualization bids
offer goose eggs to others.
On this path, seclusiveness is skywritten.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi is an award-winning poet who has authored eight poetry collections. His poems have been published in forty countries and appear in over 600 journals and anthologies. Some credits: London Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, Stand Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, Hamilton Stone Review, and Indian Literature.
Sethi edited Dreich Planet # India, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in 2022, and in 2025, Fictile Feelings, a poetry special for The Hooghly Review. In April 2026, he was the guest curator of the India Edition of The Candyman’s Trumpet in Scotland. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. In 2023, he won First Prize in a poetry competition at the National Defence Academy, Pune. He served as a judge of the Wood Rose Spiritual Poetry Prize 2026. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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