Journey often begins with uncertain
Sneaks its ways through dark lawn
Never finding rest until it's done.
Amidst the confusions of acculturation
Fighting the battle to ultimately sustain
Landed Vijay sheshadri on American ground.
Drenched in the crunch of Eliot
Often his poetry do finds his lot
Colored in mentor's pure honor.
Tinching the Indian essence
The pulitzer winner for three sections
Admires his roots in Kannada Tamil soils.
Vijay sheshadri never turned back
Kept experimenting with narrative
Dipped in compulsive consciousness.
Frost and bishop's
Cajoled with anti-vietnam war
Contemporary American poetry flare
And a poet within him took birth.
The dissapearances, his collection
Addresses elements and human situation
Ultimately reflect September eleven incidence.
Though late, yet my heartiest congratulations on your 500th poem in Poem Hunter.
Nice tribute to an eminent thinker and poet which forms the theme of your 500th poem on this Forum. Congratulations, Varsha Madhulika ji. Wishing you many more similar milestones.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Wishing you many, many more poems, dear Varsha. May your pen keep flowing.