Preface
At the time I write this preface, I feel a certain void which I find hard to explain...
.....I feel none of the euphoria normally associated with writing a preface...
Rather I remember these lines from my poems......
" The will to move...that would put mountains to shame
The efforts to look within...to myself tame
By quirks of fate ...I've lost interest in the game"
These are some of the poems which I am not fairly comfortable with...
Some I never intended for the public...others I consider as being too gross!
Some I ghost-wrote for my friends----for 'her' eyes only.
Yet I offer them to public scrutiny in the hope that in this way
all my ghosts may be ultimately exorcised.
I would like to mention a few persons who had tolerated a majority of these poems
and if I continued to write worse poems it must be credited to these folks for they
were the only audience that encouraged this madness in me. To them should go all the
blame.........Sumantra Datta Roy and TVJ Srikant.. Yes ! they are the persons who at one
time or the other did manage to give an impression that they were listening to what
I was trying to say! And thus I continued to march towards more and more incoherence !
Regards,
At the time I write this preface, I feel a certain void which I find hard to explain...
.....I feel none of the euphoria normally associated with writing a preface...
Rather I remember these lines from my poems......
" The will to move...that would put mountains to shame
The efforts to look within...to myself tame
By quirks of fate ...I've lost interest in the game"
These are some of the poems which I am not fairly comfortable with...
Some I never intended for the public...others I consider as being too gross!
Some I ghost-wrote for my friends----for 'her' eyes only.
Yet I offer them to public scrutiny in the hope that in this way
all my ghosts may be ultimately exorcised.
I would like to mention a few persons who had tolerated a majority of these poems
and if I continued to write worse poems it must be credited to these folks for they
were the only audience that encouraged this madness in me. To them should go all the
blame.........Sumantra Datta Roy and TVJ Srikant.. Yes ! they are the persons who at one
time or the other did manage to give an impression that they were listening to what
I was trying to say! And thus I continued to march towards more and more incoherence !
Regards,
Sandeep Gautam
8th July, 2000
8th July, 2000
PS on 8 mar 2024: I am putting this here now, but I had made a poetry book out of this long time back.
Prologue : I Still Believe In You
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