before so I think you’ll be interesting
because I have a lot of respect for them
I will be reading large being English
Anamika is a fantastic Hindi poet so she
will take on the Hindi thread and Saif
will do mentoring what we we were given
a topic so I have to tell you that up
front largely it can be summed by this
four-letter word which everybody knows
which is love I’ll pick up erotic love
as seen in contemporary English language
poetry surf will pick it up and talk
about mystic love as a nor do poetry and
finally Anamika will talk about woman
mouth as in Hindi poetry and right at
the end we all of us as a chorus like
the Greek chorus will but also L do do a
tradition just recite a couplet from our
mother tongues Bengali in my case will
do and Hindi so growing up in India one
of the things I have to say is it is
really alarming and baffling that we
come from a tradition where we have Kama
Sutra that was written in our country we
have the cultural temple the Canora
temples we have this great tradition of
Tamil Sangam poetry we’re fabulously
beautiful
erotic poetry was written as was the
case in the party movement or the Sufi
movement but what is really really
strange is modern India 21st century
India people are supposed to be
liberated but people are very shy in
terms of addressing this very very
important aspect of love and to the
point that they hide it under the wraps
to the point that the government shuts
websites down and so on and so forth so
there’s no place to not only descend but
also humor is missing so what I’ll do is
I’ll read three pawns of mine which from
here or text which will give me a
flavour of three kinds of erotic love
and the first one is called desire under
the soft translucent linen the ridges
around your nipples hardened at the
thought of my tongue
you lying inverted like the letter C
arch yourself deliberately wanting the
warm press of my lips it’s wet to coat
the skin that is bristling burning
breaking into sweats of desire sweet
juices of imagination but in fact I
haven’t even touched you at least not
yet so what happens with erotic writing
it’s a quite a challenge because if you
push it too hard it enters the P space
the pornography space if you undercook
it it’s like callow love poetry which
we’ve all written as high school
students or college students so how do
you scape this very sharp razor edge of
a line where the balances just has to be
just pitch perfect and it’s a difficult
act because the amount of editing that
goes behind this you know to get that
perfection in place this one is simply
called kiss and it uses the Japanese
form the haiku the 17:17 syllable
three-line poem a languorous kiss the
faintest smell of ocean salt lipped
breeze pleading and that’s where this
entire idea of suggestion is
important less is more an orphan in
poetry that is a critical sort of space
where often we forget that in silence we
have more power more energy and I’ll end
with something that will nicely stay
away with what safe is going to do it’s
moving from sort of erotic love to
spiritual or mystical of to me the
separation point is very very fine
it’s almost like either side of the coin
glued glued together we lie incurably
conjoined just as the sky and the earth
are joined by indeterminate horizon so
are we made one by an indeterminate
faith missile school hello Kassadin
charity Mary Zuko hello Casey dim
Cairo’s garage taeho Burris joke is even
an auditor Sudeep thought about erotica
just look at the metaphors that Amjad
Islam just uses in this poem to ask his
beloved to make love so bald yep so
subtle
Jerry kiss Eden Karos garage dae-ho
Baris cow kiss Eden Rosco Oh Katara otro
mera dil mein kisi cheb rocky Toronto
mera dil make efficient or customer a
hotkey cool job kiss Eden Piero deeper
are pushing weekly bearish Manohar
Parrikar who’s the bearish pin harden
bother you people are Jun Jie Zhao QCD
or
that was low mobility Keynesian who
don’t get much pain the cardia kissy
thing yeah I’m jealous laughter and then
the next stage the almost mystic state
in which both of them find themselves
after their desire has been fulfilled
famine areas very bad very bad PR
Fareeda yes and then my friends is
Mustafa Zuri who are the ashes me
announces that his beloved in his
spiritual journey shares only his body
and his bed an unparalleled example of
being sensitive and delicate and yet
sedation’s fan car hood not he marry
funky shrieked not an artist herself she
shared my heart shriek you do for
sharing fan car hood naughty marathon
key Sharif T Porou case affirm a bikini
or cut raha dispay Bobby hi akka Vera
Vera on who each page of the divine
chapter of divinity of modesty was
revealed like in a divine book otra vez
pay Bobby hi akka Marat Marat mr. key in
a second key shiriki or my 80th birthday
after stuff I was a fire worship of the
one I do
Mary get Marcie approached forest ha no
sorry sorry you see Jumanji charity well
sorry’s of yours Chameli ki Sharif King
and who but fares can describe the
condition of a person before he falls in
love and compare it with one after he
falls in love and mind you this love is
not romantic alone it is erotic it is
Miss
it is that selfless love and spiritual
all at once
Tom Jonah I attained to her cheese
mahiti kiddo hey Tom Jonah I ate a
Doherty’s wait he he – hey Ozma hatena
sir Raghu sir Raghu sir
sheesh I am a sashimi Arab sheesh am a
la ronde phonic Guevara una chica Bonita
Champa Iran kaviraja dear our quran
surah Iran will copy Sahib is our
current DARPA puta
ah so hard and so you know they pay us
our current the current Lahore on
Shabbat our current of Jehu to tell now
that we are stay up to Idaho to Tarot
Kakui run query root we shave each an
artery Pierre silk bar her if cheese
very boo-ki – hey asthma haughtiness
iron Rock was a rabu San Shi Shan Mei
Shi Shan Mei and the grand finale ladies
and gentlemen again fails and I was
actually chosen meal for this but
something while I was coming here made
me change my mind to something else and
that something else is the epitome of
selfless love it is fares addressing his
tip the lover of his beloved Rajib say
first binds himself into a spiritual
relationship with his nappy and says and
puts him on an exalted position saying
only you alone can understand my love
repeat say ah que Baba’s transposon
jihadi couch / ultima vez para su
Santiago you could say just lays dil KO
para hana hana ricotta yes he will fat
majority booyah I’m a derecho de gente
of sana bana ricotta
Ashna Terry Pappas a Barajas in Peru who
scheme at home Giovanni Nina at Kihei
karma Posner hey Yusei was here on idk
just key in our economy be sued avada
una de mo passion even of sorrow vote
Ximena be just kept us on melody Hahm a
Dutch Beauty mo query Sahara arcane
Sami Wilfred key witness I’m kicking
around poking vilasa cool how many SPR
may Cal hey Cal seeker hey juice Terry
kisi KO some Dawa to some Janicek
watching oscar photographer and you tell
you it from a given angle every human
face looks divinely beautiful ask a
woman and she’ll tell you that there is
something lovable in the most in the
weakest or the crudest of us in
relationships where even strange
partners survive as great friends more
often than not it’s the a more evolved
with the – who chooses to play the woman
and adopt the more difficult one has yet
another child but bearing the brunt of a
challenge relationship is not that easy
and that’s why they take recourse to
humor humor you all know is a great
leveler and how do they create humor by
a funny coupling of the heterogenic
opposites personal coupling of the
personal with the political sacred with
the profane
and cosmic with the commonplace hindi
love poetry especially my poetry offers
you a mocktail of Russ’s shrinker hassan
coruña and the poem i’m going to present
is called a Erica Pella
Raj key a promise hotel become ramita
Hillary apnea Kelly pencils me Murray
GaN Jiu Shi Cassatt hot Malaya chimera
Miyagi errata coupon dear otaku Iike
escape heater be sorry Deborah at Orion
redeeming Niki switch pannonica
viral ad hoc ilaha Durvasa Miranda
Quiroz Mesa he can sell ricotta Sam is a
buzz Roger Bera to Art Basel sadhika
whose new engine Sanchi or bhai credit
he credits there was a band Correa there
was a band who teddy
roshni ke kula guru Sahasra del Carmen
Bella bond wanna see roshni cacao Arista
who’s my socha Dunlop and et cetera –
big cahier it gave heater to cake
Rajkumar hey buddy hey Haru earth or Sun
the rich okay Peter views coach of Java
echoey matter Donna Adam Smith Yuka
perenna Koba hawkwood Baraka Paris may
bocce telephone talika or john na cha ha
and the Rashtriya dude pashka tick tock
culture paired up with some dollar a
Hearst kuru smith pinky a novella called
sub SEPA Holly apply BTC caja halal meat
spec Inca what suitcase may he to get
here Jesse
subsea de yada already had
– Homer a subsidiary and in donor Bank
Nia Allah galagos Mecca he doctor my
banker unshunned search the
appropriation tip Djokovic in tip Burton
had Cathy Abney Massey I would say we
did a study Pesci hua khuda ke saamne
kc8 Tsubasa with me ting ting Dobis AKC
ha ha – Homer a subsidiary yet Oh Sarah
Sarah toka subsea da manhã subsea de
leaking who Danny Callum Roxy or kaha or
a hey who’s Meggie so I just decide just
two lines from my favorite poem in the
entire world this is a modernist poet
Giovanna Nando – and the epic poem many
of you in the audience probably know it
Bono lot ashamed I wish I was related to
her then I could marry her
unfortunately she’s only a mythic
character the bengali of course is very
very beautiful i just read – – the first
two lines of the second stanza Schulte
are quebec are on da car Vidisha Aisha
Mukhtar shrawasti kuru kuru
like the dense ink night of Benicia her
hair black deep black her face like the
filigree frieze of shrub asti’s filigree
frieze is sharp edge along e PR PR Kiba
Z is sharp edge along e PR PR Kiba zg2
total a palm Haru
theory and this is my encourage to a
dialogue with a woman the poet
Jenna by a picked up one line and built
up a dialogue and it says hey model kit
NATO comradery hey server keep me Capri
Padre hey kid na are tabooed na couch
dokuro Tanaka hot batad or a couch
dokuro TV Joey hair doe McGirt couch to
Cairo hey mother
yo him Italy no bet [Applause]