Many thanks to Lorette C. Luzajic for including my poem ‘The ghost shall return’ among this fortnight’s selected responses (it is at the end). Honored to be sharing space with Mary McCarthy and Joan Leotta.
Friday, 24 June 2022
Floral Shackle
Many thanks to Lorette C. Luzajic for including my poem 'Floral Shackle' among the responses selected for this fortnight's Francesco Hayez challenge.
It is third from the bottom.
On the other side
Haven't been writing lately, so a little something is very welcome.
I am thankful to the editors of Visual Verse for including my poem 'On the other side' along with many wonderful pieces for the May image by Miikka Luotio.
Mission bay Kids Park
Thank you James E Lewis for nurturing the Verse Virtual community and giving us a beautiful collection of poems every month.
I am happy to have my poem 'Mission bay Kids Park' included in the May 2022 issue.
One Day
A few of many amazing responses in poetry and microfiction, to the Antarctic photography of John Paul Caponigro. Works by Morgana MacLeod, Devon Balwit, Dorothy Burrows, Abha Das Sarma, Laurie Newendorp and more. Please read and please share the works of these amazing writers and this artist.
It is 18th from top and 7th from the bottom.
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
At the Funeral Home
Thank you Lorette C. Luzajic for this wonderful collection of writings, mine is third from top:
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-writing-challenges/nebra-sky-disk-ekphrastic-writing-responses
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Heirloom Lives
January 26, 2022
I am thrilled to have a poem in the wonderful anthology
'Pixie Dust & All Things Magical' (My poem is on pages 212-213)
The Amazon links are given below:
Amazon-India
https://www.amazon.in/dp/B09R2DRYBS/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_2HC3KKDJHZHW0AAJMEBE
Amazon-Global
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09R2DRYBS/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_ETDX7T07JGGW2TG7KCPF
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Bio
An engineer and management consultant by profession, Abha Das Sarma enjoys writing the most. Besides having a blog of over 200 poems (http://dassarmafamily.blogspot.com), her poems have appeared in Muddy River Poetry Review, Spillwords Press, Verse-Virtual, The Ekphrastic Review, Visual Verse and The Sparks of Calliope among others. Having spent her growing up years in small towns of northern India, currently she lives in Bengaluru.
Heirloom lives
The clouds hurried to submerge the skies,
A dirty red oozing from their wounds,
Fatigued, defying shape akin to the jellyfish
Reluctantly sharing space stung from
Quickly turning sharks with hammerheads.
Groups of parrots joyous and young flapped
Unaware of the kites lurking just behind in time
And soon to come bats laden with strength and might.
I must return
Now to when we counted the stars,
Our backs gravitating to the center of the rope knitted cots,
Exposed until the morning burnt on our faces.
Even then, I had taken the divine to be an ordinary one.
As he spoke in the adjacent table sized room
With no windows to its claim, paint peeling off
Revealing water stains and incense rising from below.
In nothingness, I count the days in hours today.
An invisible thread tying us to the souls
Searching for that face in the flames,
A burning remains as we attempt to reverse the nascent truth,
A life is told and another is gained.
A cup of chamomile
February 28, 2022
Happy to have my poem ‘A cup of chamomile’ in the March issue of Verse Virtual, thank you editor James E Lewis:
https://www.verse-virtual.org/2022/March/das-sarma-abha-2022-march.html
When the wishes do not die
February 24, 2022
Happy to have my poem ‘When the wishes do not die’ included in the February issue of Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words’:
https://visualverse.org/submissions/when-the-wishes-do-not-die
The Last Time
January 31, 2022
Thank you Visual Verse for including my poem ‘The Last Time’ in the January issue of your wonderful Anthology of Art and Words.
I want to go home
January 28, 2022
Thank you Lorette C. Luzajic for this wonderful set of writings and for including my poem ‘I want to go home’. It is the last among the selected responses.
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-writing-challenges/selected-responses-ejnar-nielsen-challenge
At Night They Come
January 15, 2022
Thank you Lorette C. Luzajic for including my poem ‘At Night They Come’ among the response to the art piece ‘Angel Production’ by ‘Sonya Gonzalez’. It is the eighth from the top.
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-writing-challenges/ekphrastic-writing-responses-sonya-gonzalez
A Parting
January 1, 2022
What can be better than starting the New Year with a new poem, thank you James E Lewis for including it in the January issue.
https://www.verse-virtual.org/archives/2022/January/das-sarma-abha-2022-january.html
A Truth We Shall Never Know
December 20, 2021
Another Ekphrastic poem of mine is up, A Truth We Shall Never Know’! Thank you Lorette C. Luzajic for including it among the selected responses to the art work by Winston Churchill. It is almost at the end.
Beneath the earth
December 18, 2021
I am thankful to the editors of Visual Verse for including my poem in December issue alongside many wonderful pieces.
Forgiveness
November 19, 2021
I am ever grateful to Lorette C. Luzajic for the fortnightly Ekphrastic challenges, the art works are such an inspiration and the archives of the selected responses a true treasure.
I have my poem ‘Forgiveness’ among the responses of this fortnight (4th from the top) for the artwork by Han Van Meegeren:
Making a choice
November 14, 2021
From the October issue of Visual Verse, I am grateful to the editors and the team for bringing out this wonderful Anthology of Art and Words every month:
Family in Making
November 2, 2021
Thank you James E Lewis for including my poem 'Family in Making' in the November 2021 issue of Verse Virtual:
https://www.verse-virtual.org/archives/2021/November/das-sarma-abha-2021-november.html
The Hungry Spiders
October 30, 2021
Delighted to have a Halloween poem inspired by my granddaughters, thank you Spillwords for including it in your wonderful journal:
Besieged
October 14, 2021
Many thanks to the editor Zvi A. Sesling for including my poem ‘Besieged’ in the fall issue of Muddy River Poetry Review, it is very special to me since it is here that I began my poetic journey in the year 2020.
https://muddyriverpoetryreview.webs.com/Abha%20Das%20Sarma-1.pdf
Could It Be
October 8, 2021
Thanks a lot Lorette C. Luzajic for your tireless commitment towards bringing art and writing together. Here are all the wonderful selected responses to the recent Ekphrastic Review Challenge, scroll all the way down to the end for mine.
The lives we hold
September 23, 2021
Thank you Visual Verse for including my poem ‘The lives we hold’ in September issue of your wonderful Anthology of Art and Words:
Flight
September 10, 2021
Thank you Lorette for this wonderful collection of poems. Mine is the eight from the top.
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-writing-challenges/ekphrastic-responses-joseph-cornell
In a Dream
September 4, 2021
Many thanks to the editors of ‘The Drabble’ for publishing my Drabble ‘In a Dream’ today:
https://thedrabble.wordpress.com/2021/09/04/in-a-dream/
The Decree
September 1, 2021
Here is a new poem to start the September with. Thank you James E Lewis for including it in the September issue of Verse Virtual:
https://www.verse-virtual.org/archives/2021/September/das-sarma-abha-2021-september.html
In a bubble
August 23, 2021
Thank you Visual Verse for including my poem ‘In a bubble’ in August issue of your wonderful Anthology of Art and Words:
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