Poetry Corner* Dr. Archan Mehta

 

Dr. Archan Mehta has earned a PhD. in Management. Currently, he is a Consultant and Writer based in India. In his free time, Dr. Mehta likes to stroll in the outdoors and party with close friends. He is also fond of meditation. Please feel free to reach out to the poet at archanm@hotmail.com at your convenience.

ON CREATING POETRY

It is midnight and

I feel as if

My brain has

Popped out of its skull.

Why?

Well, because I create

Poetry and I am a poet:

I am losing my sanity,

But insanity is a good thing

Because this pleasant

Madness, after all, enables

Me to create poetry.

Thus, I move from here

To there but I know I

Am not going anywhere.

The only fever

I have is for poems.

Otherwise,

Life goes on

At an even pace,

And I feel bored to death.

Therefore, as it turns out,

Poetry is the only saving grace.

Otherwise, I feel almost as if life

Is devoid of any meaning or purpose.

Meanwhile, life rolls on like

The taste of scotch

On your tongue and

You feel almost as

If you are less than one.

Only those who create

Poetry can be considered winners.

The rest of us, I guess, are sinners

Who are destined to walk 

The plank on board

A pirate’s ship—or we

Are like condemned prisoners

Sent to the gallows or we

Are fated to be dropped

Into a raging inferno of nothingness.

Therefore, let poets, like lava,

Emerge slowly but surely

From an erupting volcano

And pray let that volcano

Burn and rage for an eternity.

After all, only poetry can

Lend a helping hand to

Feed and soothe our souls

And heal wounds which we

Have accumulated over

A life-time and even beyond.

Finally, poetry will enable

Mankind to escape from

The transient pleasures

And pains of our bodies

To embrace our shared

And collective experience

Of cosmic consciousness.