I Don't Write...

by Prof. Madhav Sarkunde

I don’t write poetry
To be immortal in books

I write that to remind myself
Of my promises with sorrows

Poetry doesn't come to me
Like those unsolicited emails

It comes like an earthquake
And leaves me in chaos of life

I tease out the tangle of words
And then array them into poetry

I don’t write poetry to be a poet
But to scrub all the unpoetic in me

I write poetry to seed my feelings
In the fallow soil to prove my fertility

26-Mar-2014

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Comments on this Poem

Padmaja Mam. So kind of you to encourage me in such delightful words thank you very much.

truth seeker
26-Mar-2014 11:27 AM

Great lines these:
I don’t write poetry to be a poet
But to scrub all the unpoetic in me

You have so expressively articulated the thoughts of so many os us...Thanks for sharing this lovely poem Dt. Sarkunde.

Padmaja Iyengar
26-Mar-2014 10:51 AM