Rati Saxena (India) is a poet, writer, translator, Editor and vedic scholar, writes in Hindi and English. Presently lives in Trivandrum , Kerala, India. She is also festival Director of kritya International poetry festival for 10 years. Rati Saxena is writing in three directions. she has done research and explores the cultural, philosophical and historical aspects of ancient India through study of Vedas. She has published a number of papers on related subjects. She holds an eminent place in world poetry and writes in Hindi. Apart from these subjects, she writes travelogues and criticism too.
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DIARY FROM TURKEY
The city that didn’t speak your tongue
Which one could understand even while asleep
The sound of the tongue clicking on the palate
Coming through the lips like a whistle
Leaving you feeling lonely
In a matter of seconds the city turns into a jungle
And people begin plucking leaves from the tree
The tongue is not your maid
Who swims in your ear like a fish
The history of centuries
Ground on the millstone
To a fine paste like chutney
Savoured with bread
For months now I have been living without my language
I fear my words don’t pull over a sheet and sleep off coffined
And will be left behind without a language
CITIZENSHIP
he started taking down the one after another
small pieces of skies from his roof top
a piece of sunlight , which entered forcefully from the window
and the tin shop standing in the corner the lane
he started taking down the pink cloth hanging on cloth line
the aroma of wheat from the oven
he started waking, he stated running, swimming
and when his soles touched the earth
he could see so many holes on the sky like tent top
though his own sky was missing
sound of tin, and the aroma of the baking wheat
now he could understood that
he lost his own citizenship