By V. Shruti Devi (quill-o-the-wisp)
23rd July, 2024, Gurugram, India
Esteemed readers of this blog, thankyou for your readership!
As I participate in the #WriteAngleChallenege to publish at least one poem a day for 21 days, and to have the final collection published as an individual book, I would like to share with you, that I have uploaded 12 poems to the organizer-publisher's site so far, and look forward to the publication of my second book of poetry by September/October 2024, I think.
All these poems dwell on paintings, artworks that I have made in the past, which I intend to exhibit with their corresponding poems in the near future.
The book's title will be:
CANVASSING ART
Here is my first dispatch of some sneak previews from the manuscript for you!
Buddha
in the Sky
The pages
flutter:
Books on
Zen,
Tich Nhat
Hanh
Which
chakra, which dhaam
or vihara
and then
some
Many-hued
flags
twirl
around those poles
horizontal
lines
and yogic
goals
Contortions
of space and time
Herbs in the
garden
Spencer’s,
the line
Peaceful,
eventful, giant outreaches
Moon-ward,
star-clad
-sparkling
wine
Glittering
windows,
flitting
jet
The heavens
are busy
The makers
are met
Within,
without,
Reality
emerges
-merges
with Kirlian waves and dirges
sung to the
moment, to the here and now
To
reincarnate
as a new
chant,
a ripple in
space,
a plant
Moonbeam,
crescent, primary colours, ocean’s dew
Dark be the
night,
-the luna
blu
Molecular
calisthenics,
Stellarine
aesthetics
Wiggle-room
on the moon-bound
broom
-sketchy
Ideas,
magnetic meanderings
Skylines
loom
The
fragrance of the moon garden
Citric,
white, to bloom at night
Skyscrapers
smudge the solar view
Nebulae,
supernovas, star-systems, swirls
Sheer
billows amidst elevated worlds
Spaceship,
Earthship,
the voyages
dawn
Earth to
Moon
and back
upon the
revolution
Starship,
round-trip
astral
planes
Travel made
light with human brains
Humans to
stay, humans to go
A touch of
mechanical
a whiff of
robot
Intonations
inked on those rainbow flags
Sound
waves, mind waves, electric rags
The more
they fade, the farther they go
(the
intentions made, the force of thought-flow)
Magnified
by the moment, by the pigment
-Figments
The flower,
the great chakra
churns the
helminths of the brain
-squiggling
-Fruitful
O,
bounteous moon
whence
didst thou thine treasures fetch?
The
ropeways to the Earth
Trapeziums
of dotted shades
Slide to
hills, to sapphire-lit glades
From
craters to concrete:
Live
monuments, sheltering fleets
of the specie
tech geeks,
cyber gurus, social media rishis
that
conjure, that meet
the drums
of horizons
ever-expanding
By V.
Shruti Devi
PAINTING, BUDDHA IN THE SKY BY V. SHRUTI DEVI
