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Prosopisia a Venture of A.R.A.W.LII https://www.arawlii.net/ Prosopisia A venture of A.R.A.W.LII... Vol - XII, No. 1 & 2, 2018 An International Journal of Poetry & Creative Writing Prosopisia 1 https://www.arawlii.net/ PROSOPISIA Editorial Prosopisia is the official journal of A.R.A.W.LII... (Academy of raite*(s) And World Literati) which intends to provide a literary forum to the creative Editing my recent me… th writers of the world. A biannual journal, it aims at creating a platform for On 12 March, my elder daughter got married. shared experiences of human existence as voiced in the literary products the It is an old notebook I'm writing in. it belongs to my daughter when she was in X standard. A few initial pages are filled up with some world over. mathematical problems and solutions, I seem to bypass as they read Latin and Greek to me. I myself was a very, very poor student of the Patron : SATISH VERMA science of numbers. With all candid shamelessness, I must say that the Editor-in-Chief : Anuraag Sharma problem with numbers I did then face and have been facing ever since Co-Editor : Moizur Rehman Khan is that my eyes and my mind, too, cannot distinguish between 8 or 5, Editorial Board : Les Murray, Bill Ashcroft, or 3 or 7: the all look similar and always seem to play some mysterious S.Asnani, E.E.Sule, John Kinsella, trick upon my soul. Some notorious trapping thus played upon me leaves me embarrassed and insulted. I feel small, bowed down—as I Mark O'Connor, Bibhu Padhi, used to be in my Maths class when I was in High School Christopher Rollason, Nathanael O' Reilly myself—before each digit: each of them looks like a ferocious giant and I trembling like a Lilliput! The fear of numbers quite often has told upon my matrimonial harmony as well, especially when I'm snubbed for not being able to tell exactly as to how much I'm having in my thin wallet or in my so-called fat bank account. I love spending and spending, spendthrift as I am. But when I'm asked a 'how much' (spent or left), the very belittling question slashes upon my spirits and I remember, again and again, my most fearsome Maths teacher with a 2018 neem-stick banging my infantile and innocent rumps! All said and beyond this autobiographical agony—I seek no sympathy, nor any consoling though—I must confess that mankind needs numbers, mysterious though they are, to unravel the mysteries of existence, of time and space, of the universe, of life that is and is with all its prefixed befores and suffixed afters. We need them for systems, for chronology, for definitions and demarcations and even God—the Great Zero needs them for the System. But do we really need the craft of counting? Perhaps yes, perhaps no. Yes, because human mind has a latent love for limits, what though we ve not yet mastered the art or black art of setting final limits. The beyond bully and boggle the human mind. Perhaps no because, since all said be so, the human soul seems prone to dwell and revel in transcendence. And yes, I had begun by saying that my daughter was married on March 12. And hardly a couple of days after, Stephen Hawking breathed his last. The two departures—the one of my daughter for a new home and the other of the author of A Brief History of Time for his Eternal Home—let me somewhat depressed and run-off: a void- 2 Prosopisia Prosopisia 3 https://www.arawlii.net/ filled zero tumbled within and our home felt like a black-hole If he be one who fondled with the stars devouring all its emissions of gaiety gone by. My lone pen wept out the of here and now crossing the bars, lines: then his way and vision Darwaze ki chaukhat par look akin Mahandi ke haath chap kar Mutthi bhar anaj peeth pichhe to the one of the sages of old Ma ke anchal main uchhal kar the rishis who hold Yun tera jana all times are one Jaise koi beet jaye baras all spaces within. Chuk jaye koi udhar Romancing with a meta-life Magar phir bhi aate-jaate rahna He transcended the is-ful ah-ness Meri bachchi Of eehaloka with un-bowing strife. Tareekhon ki tarah baar-baar… Limits last and beyond lies the oracles poetic Mumbled, not minced ( Having your hina-painted palms Whimperd, not winced. Printed upon door frames, A callous corporeal frame Having a handful of grains Rotated upon a pivotal soul Thrown backwards in the Centrifugal-ing a black-hole. mother's lap A fluffy gossemere flew Your hagira this time In the deep blue. Like a year gone by Its floating shadow Or some debt paid off! Illumines the trajectory so But then, my child, A hyperbola turned into a parabola, lo! Keep coming Like dates in a calendar Groping his way in the maze of mathematics, Hawking at the same Again and again…) time—as he lived and lived and finally left—was trying to understand And I consoled myself: the trigonometry of human relations and human existence. The Parinde urr bhi jayen to kya algebraic equations of life have outlived Stephen. Or should I say that Aasmaan ho jaye veeran to kya I seem to feel his presence in the foregoing leaves of this notebook I'm Jab bhi uthenge haath continuing with. Poron par mahsoos loonga Dear Stephen, are you really gone? Parwaaz ke uks… My child, have you really left, leaving blank pages for me, for so many ( Birds do fly away what though I's to come?? And the sky lies deserted what though Anuraag Whenever I raise my hands Would sense upon my finger-tips The trailing clouds of flights taken off….) And the news of Hawking's demise compelled me to pen down: 4 Prosopisia Prosopisia 5 https://www.arawlii.net/ POETRY GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT Niglath 11 Eagle 12 Writing 12 Searching For Light 12 SATENDRA NANDAN A Remembering at Christmas 13 Bhola Sadhu 16 Subscription VALERIA MELCHIORETTO One Year : Institution Rs. 500/- (In India only) US$ 25 (Outside India) Divine Venetian Blind 21 Individual Rs. 300/- (In India only) US$ 15 (Outside India) Hölderlin's Sadness 22 Two Years : Institution Rs. 1000/- (In India only) US$ 50 (Outside India) Covering Letter 24 Individual Rs. 600/- (In India only) US$ 30 (Outside India) (Cheque/Draft should be in the name of ARAWLII) CHARLES ADES FISHMAN (The members of the ARAWLII will get Prosopisia free of cost, plus a discount of A Lost Language 25 50% on all publications of the Academy. The terms/conditions and the membership Desire of Angels 26 form are available on the website www.arawlii.com) Prosopisia will publish only original and unpublished texts. All contributions must SHARON ELIZABETH WALKER be submitted to the Editor or Co-Editor. Under the Street Lamp 27 Contributions : A poem/short-story/one act play/essay, typed in single spacing in Don't let the thistles grow 27 MS-Word, should be sent as an E-mail attachment. The writer must also mention In His Eternal Care 28 his/her name, postal address, and the country he/she belongs to. The subject of the I Long for YesterYear 29 E-mail should be Submission for Prosopisia. The Song of the Blackbird 30 Contributors will get two complimentary copies of the issue in which their contribution finds a place. WILLIAM DORESKI An Optical Exercise 31 E-mail : Editor : [email protected] BOZHIDAR PANGELOV Co-Editor : [email protected] *** (between) 33 6 Prosopisia Prosopisia 7 https://www.arawlii.net/ RUTH FOGELMAN STÉPHANE D'AMOUR She Dipped her Pen in Blue 34 Short Tracker 56 Laughter 34 Luger 56 Jerusalem Light Festival 2016 35 Long Tracker's Threesome 57 Separations 35 Curler 57 Balls of Pain 36 NAMITA RANI PANDA STEVEN SHER To My Scars 58 Revealing Faith 37 My Only Wish 59 Existential Threats 38 My Promise 60 Cat And Dove 39 IMMANUEL SUTTNER JAMES RAGAN Endings 61 A Room on the Coast 40 Immortality 61 Jump 41 Divorce 62 Buying a Print of Van Gogh's Irises 42 An Australian funeral 62 The Swans 43 Per Ardua ad Astra* 63 Where the hell are we? 64 WILLIAM CHAN “Soul of a Full Moon” 44 KOZIBA PHETOGO Feminine Fierce 65 ELIZA SEGIET Sea of Mists 47 KAE MORII A Clock on the World Table 67 TAWNYA RENELLE For Grandmother KATHERINE GALLAGHER A Poem She Will Never Read 48 Broomfield Park, March 68 Cameo 69 MARIELA CORDERO The White Tremor 50 FICTION ROBERT (BOB) FINDYSZ VICTORIA SHROPSHIRE To a God Who Loves 51 Yellow Dog Garden 70 Jerusalem Stone 52 Not Just Another Starry Night 53 DAVID ALEXANDER Two steps forward, one back 54 The Tower 77 Dancing a Fox Trot 55 8 Prosopisia Prosopisia 9 https://www.arawlii.net/ Memoir GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT HOWARD R. WOLF (Belgium) Shadowing Boxing in the Ivory Tower (A Writer in the University) 88 Niglath PROSE Is this of whatever source the voice ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE which murmurs mantras The Ultimate Swan Watch, January 114 or any other psalm between the lips CLAUDIA PICCINNO of the river's bank? The pedagogical value of poetry 116 Out of silence emerges the well MOIZUR REHMAN KHAN and becomes a stream pure water A Pre… to Out of Darkness 118 loaded with shadows flowing to the night ANURAAG SHARMA - or who knows Swinging Between Immanence And Transcendence: towards a track of light.
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