Book Launch - The Attic & Other Poems

When The Attic & Other Poems was launched at Cochin LIT Fest 2018

Book release by Writer Sethu

L to R: Bharati Varrier, Sujatha Warrier, Sudarshan Kcherry (Authorspress), Santhosh Alex.

L to R: Sujatha Warrier, Writer Sethu, Bharati Varrier

 

Love

is at its most intense

in the little moment

before the very moment of love

When the first drop of rain

fills your heart

before the shower soaks you through

When the sea heaves a wave

and surges forth

to hold you in a mighty embrace

When the caress of a breath

fans your cheek

then falters at the drop of a kiss.

© Sujatha Warrier 2015

(Published in the International Anthology of Love Poems, Just for you My Love)

expressive silences

in the moments

when hearts miss a beat

in the abeyance

of long bated breaths

in shared thought spaces

passion lingers

© Sujatha Warrier

(Excerpt from 'expressive silences' published in the World Anthology of Poems on Global Harmony & Peace)

Rocking Chair

Illustration: Bharati Varrier

Whiffs of air

whisper sweet nothings,

Life gently rocks in its chair,

A soft heave backward

reclining

to browse the distant skies,

A smooth lunge forward

dreaming

into the infinite horizon,

A sharp upturn

unawares

And the world is askew,

flipped right upside down.

[First published in Walking Is Still Honest on November 27, 2014 (http://wishpoetrypress.com/2014/11/)] 

New Year

It's the same moon that sets

In the year of 'fourteen

It's the same sun that rises

In the year of 'fifteen

It's the same earth that pirouettes

On the same sturdy axis

For millions of billions

Of trillions of years

It's you that make things new

It's never ever the year

© Sujatha Warrier 2015

(A New Year message for a special friend.)