Poem by Sreekanth Kopuri
After an unexpected acquaintance with a far-away writer from our common teacher’s introduction to the virtuous profile.
You never know what draws out, line-in, to a likeness, surreal stroke. This sudden, strange acquaintance to the virtuous shades of your image from a teacher, that often flickered in the eye colours you up now, on my canvass within. A segue paces, brushes across roads not taken, wonders what more contours of this intuition to fill your image with, till I recall how our teacher rain-bowed those soft-hued adjectives, and verbs, ad-verbing her love for you, mothering meaning full life, portrait to wall - clock of a memory today.
Sreekanth Kopuri is an Indian poet, Current poetry editor for The AutoEthnographer Journal Florida, Alumni Writer in Residence, Athens, and a Professor of English from Machilipatnam, India. He recited his poetry at Oxford, John Hopkins, Heinrich Heine, and many universities. His book Poems of the Void won the Golden Book of the Year Award for 2022.
