We close our Friendship Fortnight poetry festival with this poem by Arundhathi Subramaniam. This Could Be Enough by Arundhathi Subramaniam We are warm with Mojitos and your stories of Poland and your verities about men who fear intimacy. This sisterhood could be enough and still it isn’t, we know. And those men … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: This Could Be Enough
Anupama Sekhar organised Prajnya’s first poetry reading in 2008. After twelve years, she is a part of one of our poetry initiatives once more. Two states of home by Anupama Sekhar In one pastless moment, I line my eyes with the velvet soot of this burning border, which I am certain cannot be … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: Two states of home
Swarna Rajagopalan wrote this after a 2017 gathering of feminists and women human rights defenders in Antigua, Guatemala to discuss common issues. She shares it here to honour all her friends from peace networks and processes everywhere. When sisters gather by Swarna Rajagopalan Sisters gather, sisters who are strangers, in the hope of finding themselves in each … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: When sisters gather
Priyanka Sacheti is a PeaceVerse contributor and combines poetry and photography in her work. A Friend is a Ship by Priyanka Sacheti An ode to precious long distance friendships in my life that have shaped and strengthened me over the years. A silver ribbon threads through lands, seeking the sea: the water knows … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: A Friend is a Ship
Vasanthi Swetha contributed this poem to PeaceVerse and we are happy to have another poem by her in this blog. Home by Vasanthi Swetha At this very moment I don’t know what language I breathe in, the sound of nostalgia swirls into my heart, asking questions I never knew needed an answer. I … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: Home
A second poem shared by Rathi Jafer. The sea & I by Rathi Jafer The sea is languid approaching the shore in no haste as it used to before. Perhaps it wonders where the crowds are who watched and welcomed its racy roar. It now invites you with a flat floor tucking itself … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: The sea and I
The last of Rajashree Gandhi’s selections. Poem by Langston Hughes I loved my friend. He went away from me. There’s nothing more to say. The poem ends, Soft as it began— I loved my friend.
This poem was selected by Swarna Rajagopalan. The Arrow And The Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: The Arrow And The Song
Rajashree Gandhi shared this poem. The Language of Friendship by WH Auden Easy at first, the language of friendship Is, as we soon discover, Very difficult to speak well… And, unless spoken often, soon goes rusty. Distance and duties divide us, But absence will not seem an evil If it make our re-meeting … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: The Language of Friendship
This is one of the poems selected by Rajashree Gandhi. Traveling by William Wordsworth This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun Shine in between the fading leaves! the air In the habitual silence of this wood Is more than silent: and this bed of heath, Where shall we find so … More Friendship Fortnight 2020: Traveling
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