Crossing the Threshold [for Gauri Lankesh]
Courageous Gauri ascends to cloud realms, leaving pale visages and desolate grief.
Read more →
From ULR
Issue 9 – Violence
Four Seasons
Betrayed by ancient refuge, a boat of hope tragically capsizes for the fleeing, lost forever.
June 15, 2023
As rains lashed the chaturmash
The Buddha, planning his Sangha
Said, gaccami
But His followers
And Hers too
Their Lady, flower in hair, serene
Quite forgot, that bit about sharanam
Refuge. Asylum. Retreat. Safety
Those are for Buddhists, no?
Not for the Rohingya who forsook our faith
Let them flee; gachami!
We can express polite regret afters
Crossing the river of blood
Leaving homeland, they arrived
In a distant capital, Delhi
A mistake
For there too, Islamophobes reigned
Fire did what water could not
Air and earth did their share
And the boat of hope, capsized all the same.
📖
PART OF A COLLECTIONCrossing the Threshold and 2 other poems
View Full Collection →
Lina Krishnan
Lina Krishnan is an abstract artist and writer in India. Small Places, Open Spaces is her chapbook of nature verse. Her poems can also be seen in sixteen anthologies, among them the Black Bough Poetry Winter Anthology; and three editions of the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English.