Poetry Wednesday; Amrita Bharati

Amrita Bharati

This is not the sort of poetry I have ever posted before, I came across this by accident and really liked it. I know very little about this poet (Amrita Bharati born in1939) but love the simplicity of her work. She is a Hindi poet, she studied  Sanskrit and has a MA and a PhD in Sanskrit from Benares Hindu University. She is a writer, a poet, a translator and a publisher. This poem has a vey spiritual quality, it is called

In the Stillness of a Word
by Amrita Bharati

Both
are so alike -
his earth
my sky

I wanted
to follow him
wherever he went
But our paths
were so different -
he was on one

I on the other
with a line between us -
his
and mine
We
were one
in our soul
But
he walked
on the low peaks of the earth
And I
in the high chasms
of the sky
Maybe
these two paths
will turn
one day
in my poetry
so we may walk together
in the stillness of a word

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