Succour

Here is a place where we learn about our prayer.

We bring our stained alms without knowing
watch the sky which is lit and bright.

The wind resumes ceremony from absence to embrace
blur the edges of fallen leaves for future weaving.

Held our breath when something touches us,
it’s like a silent space of thousand words

We bring our palms being folded interior,
by pointing perhaps as far back into time.

And awakened in the twilight hour with
only the beautiful earth in our soul.

Here is a place we seek for succour and healing.

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Gopal Lahiri
Picture Nick Victor

@gopallahiri

Short Bio:

Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 31books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry and prose are published across more than one hundred journals and anthologies globally His poems are translated in 18 languages and published in 16 countries. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021. He has received Setu Excellence Award, Pittsburgh, US, in poetry in 2020. He has been conferred First Jayanta Mahapatra National Award on literature in 2024 for his significant contribution in Indian English Writing. His collection of poems ‘Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets.’ has received Pan Asian Ukiyoto awards. First Prize Winner in Poetry Contest organised by 43^rd World Congress of Poets in 2024.

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