A Poem
By Kavita Ratna
A poem
may caress
or sting,
lament or reflect,
or even lie vacant
in a no-person's land.
Pray not dissect it
my friend,
for it will
always be too fragile.
Touch it,
lightly, gently.
Read between
it's lines,
for there
you will find the
wide open spaces
as vast as the oceans
that lie
between our
two shores,
ebbing and waning
with the tide
of
times.
Kavita Ratna is a children's rights activist, poet and a theatre enthusiast. Sea Glass is her anthology of poems published by Red River. Her poems have appeared in The Kali Project: Invoking the Goddess within, A little book of serendipity, Muse India, The Wise Owl, Triveni Hakai India, Haiku in Action, the Scarlet Dragonfly, the Cold Moon Journal, Five Fleas Itchy poetry, the Haiku Dialogue, Stardust Haiku, Leaf (Journal of The Daily Haiku), and many others. She was on the Haiku panel at the Glass House Poetry Festival, Bangalore, 2024. She is also a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2024.