Xoliswa

forestblack
nightscapes in
luminous rivers
eyes
stretched
peacock skies
a horizon burnt

Acrylic on Paper by Amitabh Mitra

Road from Makiwane, Mdantsane

Acrylic on Canvas by Amitabh Mitra

Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Poetry Workshop

I was amazed by the impromptu poetry creation and recitation by scholars from Selborne and Clarendon School who have received the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Award. Ricardo Johnson, Development Officer of the Foundation, facilitated the programme.
The Workshop was held at Selborne School, East London on the 16th March 2012.

Poets Printery International Best Poetry Web Site Award for Creativity and New Age Poetry

This prestigious award will be given to websites which publish exclusively poetry and shows innovation in creativity.
Poetry and Blog sites publishing PoetryArt and showcasing Poetry Films would be preferentially considered.

If you feel that your blog / website deserves this award, please feel free to contact us with your website details.

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Cecilia Makiwane Hospital, Mdantsane

Acrylic on Canvas by Amitabh Mitra

Huzrat Kothi, Old Delhi

Watercolor by Amitabh Mitra

Janpath Days

janpath market
checking shawls,
life effervescing then in a close knit pashmina
i thought of words written on bargain threads
not knowing breaths had sealed then
an oddly different sky
at a connaught place middle street we kissed
life flowed in each other quashed in the shawl
within lips
i asked of a river
it had always escaped
afternoon of repertoires
of smalltalk
in a faint punjabi accent
touching your tongue
i saw a sun went hiding
in our ancestral sharing
eyes closed in pursuit
we hurled in colours and stars
of another momentary season.

Poem / Pastel / Watercolor by Amitabh Mitra