MISCELLANEA

POETIC GOAL, 2006

POETIC GOAL, 2006

[My New Year goal.]

My goal for two thousand six?
To go on to seven,
Singing all the way up to
My poetic heaven.

And, also, to get published
Some of my six hundred
Poems that have been piled up,
Though this task do I dread.

I am so busy writing
Fresh poems every day.
When I shall get time for the
Old ones, I cannot say.

That is just half the story.
Four hundred more await,
Written as Hindi ghazal,
I do not know their fate.

In the form of poems, God,
You granted me good luck
Kindly see to it that my
Old ones don’t remain stuck.


* My poetic goal for 2006, as conveyed to Vivian says Merry Christmas, editor of Poetry Newsletter, December 22, 2005
* NOTE—As in May, 2010, two of my Hindi ghazal books have been published in hard form and a third will be published in about two months. I hope to be able to publish my first English poetry book later in 2010.


* Written in abcb, 7-6-7-6 format

M C Gupta
26 December 2005, Revised 12 May 2010