by Dr. Sambhu R
I see Gandhi every day:
not just on currency notes,
on the wall of a government office
smiling out of a picture frame,
or as a statue cast in bronze or cement.
I see him in the martyred trees,
in rivers that starve themselves
protesting peacefully for rain clouds,
in the civil disobedience of flowers
that refuse to comply with the scorching heat,
and in birds singing bhajans.
It is his bloodstained head
that disappears in the ocean
when at dusk the light begins to fade.
About the Author
Sambhu R hails from Kayamkulam located in the district of Alappuzha in Kerala. He writes both in English and Malayalam. He is employed as Assistant Professor of English at N.S.S. College, Pandalam. Vavval Manushyanum Komaliyum published by Pappathi Pusthakangal in 2019 was his first book of poems in Malayalam. His poems in English have appeared in Wild Court, Bombay Literary Journal, Muse India, Borderless Journal, Setu and Shot Glass Journal, among others.
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