POETRY
DAYS
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Gopikrishnan Kottoor (India)
Poetry Day 1
Write what you feel.
Poetry Day 2
Go back to what you felt. Go back to it many times. Don't
touch it yet.
Poetry Day 3
Touch it now. Hold it. Feel it. Kiss & bruise it. Hurt it a little. Toss it up
and down. Look for what you missed in what you have in your hands.
Poetry Day 4
Look what you have done.
Say sorry.
Begin all over again.
Poetry Day 5
Now you know. The poem is begging for your mercy. It wants
more and more of you deep inside it. Not
just touch and go. Because it knows you love it,
It now wants you to
tear it apart all over again. So it can bud anew. So it can regenerate and
become more and more of what you want it
to really be. Every word, every little
period, seeks your attention.
Poetry Day 6
Your poem has put on a new tone. It is now myriad, intense,
more and more of a mirror to you. More
and more of what you wanted it to be.
Poetry Day 7
Now you know. Poetry is rebirth. Birth after birth of new
forms of the same embryo. Multiple births.
Some spotted, some dark. Some light.
With which one will you step out for
a dance in the evening?
Poetry Day 8
Unlike God, a poem has no Sabbath. So at one point, you
tell the poem, I've led you this far. Now I must leave you. Go your own way.
Poetry Day 9
They have all fused together.
They are all one.
Even you can no longer spot the difference.
Poetry Day 10
Still clinging to you, never leaving you, your poem says
good bye.
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