Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
SAMAL SARBESWAR
Locked in self-exile
and the barricade
of loneliness
he hums
the sad old
tune of life.
injuring his bleary
sickly eyes
and rummaging
his homo-sapien skull
he pours over
a vast disconcerting land
looking for a new horizon
that will at once stun
and illumine the world.
But everything blurs
and diffuses
in the desert of
distraction
only despair gathers
like bubbles of
black blood
in the bargain of
light and enlightment.
yet, while stumbling
through rugged paths
and writhing as Sissypus
he hopes to crown
his impoverished life
that continually negates
and belies everything.