Sans cockade, we cruise along scraggy terrain
oblivious of the oppugn that runs the row.
Steers come by and by. When the equation
is emotional, pulchritude is not for purchase.
Volant emotions, if unsated, find acquittal in
stanzas. There is almost no deaccessioning
for books. The mangled are outcasts, like
emotions that have exhausted their animus.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight poetry collections. His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and appear in more than 500 journals and anthologies. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press. Sethi is among the top 10 finalists for the 2021 Erbacce Prize. He is the recipient of the 2022 Ethos Literary Award. 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 poetic excellence. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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