Not one fresh line to an ailing friend. How
stale is sorrow? Emotional derechos amused
themselves on the carcass of feelings until
I nailed their flux. That is it about emotions
they can only play on till one permits them.
Outage results in the halting of hatred from
the small screen reaching whoever it is meant
to, unlike a homily landing on willing ears and
welcoming minds from an invisible megaphone.
Bliss meets us in unusual ancones.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight books of poetry. Legato Without a Lisp is his latest (CLASSIX, New Delhi, September 2024). His poetry has been published in over thirty-five countries and has appeared in more than 500 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He edited Dreich Planet # 1 India, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. In 2023, he won the First Prize in a Poetry Competition by the National Defence Academy, Pune. He was conferred the 2023 Setu Award for Excellence. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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