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open sky :: SAMVAAD | 13th August

sanjuktaa

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Kashiana Singh


long before language the S of the river


---- Annette Makino

(Touchstone Individual Poem Award 2020; First place, Porad Award, 2020; A New Resonance 13: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, Red Moon Press, 2023)

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Vijay Prasad
Vijay Prasad
2023年8月19日

Indeed something great !


Man's only task is to tear off the dead skin of language until 'he finds himself in the hour of the great nakedness'.

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Arvinder Kaur
Arvinder Kaur
2023年8月19日

Love this poem.

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sanjuktaa
2023年8月17日

Thank you for all your comments.


Meanwhile, the poet, Annette Makino, says:


Here is a bit of background on this poem.


Every summer for the past 27 years, my family has spent a week at a rustic cabin near the Klamath River, a large river river in rural Northern California. One sunny morning I was taking a walk and noticed that seen from above, the river's curves made an elegant “S” shape. Of course, only we humans, inventors of language and symbols, would identify and name that shape as an “S.”


Meanwhile, I have been thinking about how humans have been destroying our environment, especially with regard to climate change. To counter my feelings of despair, I try…


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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
2023年8月18日
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Thank you so much Team!

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Firdaus Parvez
Firdaus Parvez
2023年8月16日

Such a great one liner!

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
2023年8月13日

Wish I can write these master's stroke lines!!

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