Transitions
Pages: 40
Year of Publication: 2014
Price: Rs 100
ISBN:
978-93-5045-090-1 (9789350450901)
About the Author:
Semeen Ali completed her M. Phil. in English Literature from University of Delhi. She is the author of three books of poetry – Broken Barriers, Rose & Ashes, both published by Writers Workshop, India, in 2008 and 2009 respectively, and Origins, published by Poets Printery, South Africa, in 2012. Rose & Ashes was nominated for the Young Writers Award at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2012 and received the Jury Commendation Award. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies, The Dance of the Peacock: Anthology of English Poetry from India (Hidden Brooks Press, Canada, 2013) and Suvarnarekha: Anthology of Indian Women Poets Writing in English (Poetry Society of India, 2014), and in journals like A Hudson View Poetry Digest, Muse India and The Four Quarterly Magazine. She has edited Dilli: An Anthology of Women Poets of Delhi (Poets Printery, South Africa, 2014).
Teaser:
Me and You
Breathe inside this water
Open your eyes
You will see me
Waiting for you
An album of tragedies
Floats past us
Don’t touch it
Undisturbed by us
It revolves around you
Around me
An invisible circle
Impenetrable
I cannot be you
You will not become me
Tears will connect us
Mine will flow from my eyes
And yours?
Contents:
Freedom / 9
Intertwining / 10
Transition / 11
Love / 12
A Conversation / 13
And If / 14
A parallel world will contain us / 15
Bugle / 16
Birth of language / 17
Me and You / 18
The Makings of a Rebel / 19
Criss cross / 20
Do not look back / 21
Gratitude / 22
Expressions interrupted / 23
Delusion / 24
Falsities / 25
Left in You and Me / 26
Dreams / Reality / 27
I will survive / 28
Toes on Beach / 29
We stood melting with the passing years / 30
Never Ending / 31
Nightmares / 32
Words / 33
Home / 34
Saturation / 35
Past / Present / 36
Memory / 37
Abandoned / 38