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It's common passion for poetry that kindled Shanta Mohan, Neera Kapour and Jag Shastri to launch www.kavitanjali.com
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There are deadlines to meet and headings to give,
Stories to edit and captions and by-lines,
But what about blue skies and butterflies?
I miss them friend, they are well... life,
I miss the colours and birds in the trees,
I miss just doing what I please.
THE POEM by Helene Fernz, a journalist from Malaysia, is but a sample of the kind of poems one can find in www.kavitanjali.com, a website dedicated to those who love verse.
The site has been put together by Chennai-based Shanta Mohan, Delhi-based Neera Kapour and Canada-based Jag Shastri. And mind you, the three of them have never come face to face with one another even once!
"Neera, Jag and I `met' on the web. We discovered a common passion for poetry and decided to launch a website," says Shanta.
"Poetry is a beautiful medium of expression, a common language. The site has given us an opportunity to `meet' different kinds of people and understand their thought and emotion," she says.
The site, that's aesthetically presented, has people from different walks of life — U.S. Navy officer, Indian Air Force pilot, priest, cardiac surgeon, housewives — pouring their hearts out in verse form.
Open the webpage and you are greeted with categories such as Reader's Contributions, Teens Nook, Kid's Kingdom, Poets Gallery, Haiku and Nazrana, the Hindi corner. Click on Poets Corner and you'll find names of various contributors, who have sent more than one poem. Sample this:
Dormant wisdom lying waste,
Waiting for a reader
To speak out their story,
Live again on his lips,
Play in his mind,
Lead him to a new world
Join souls in an unearthly connection,
Lead him to a new world.
Poetry, Words on paper, Waiting...
__ Rahul Misra
Shanta, herself a poet, says, "There are no barriers here, as emotions are universal. That's what makes the site interesting." Only its upkeep is proving to be expensive. Shanta hopes somebody, corporate or otherwise, will pitch in.
Let's round off with yet another poem by Michael Baum:
To contemplate self
Is to find the soul hidden
Amid what is truth.
As ubiquitous
As life is on this planet
So it is in space.
The sun is rising
Ever toward the zenith
Of eternal night.
SAVITHA GAUTAM
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