Kerala International Centre | Literary forum
  • Another card arrives

    Gold Spangled

    Chanel scented

    Golden anniversary.

     

     

    Set me thinking.

    Mine is just silver this year

    Parties, now fill me with dread

    Decline, a universal paradigm?

     

     

    April is for anniversaries.

    April is the wedding season. 

    Long time for other festivals

    Dasara- Diwali of most cheer.

     

    He, lost in the deep pools 

    Of kajal lined love.

    She wreathed in...

  • I am a vegetarian

    the same way most

    Bengalis and Maharashtrians

    and Malayalis are vegetarian

    (because my native, is all three)

    Thus you can correctly infer

    I eat only those meats which 

    Are vegetables of the Sea

     

    Exceptions make the rule however.

    See: times when I have a construction worker’s appetite and the vegetarian shepherd’s pie

    isn’t quite filling the hole

    created by balancing my body on a 

    fleet footed...

  • On a Vijayadashami day,

    The evangelical angels,

    With one focus in their minds,

    Drive the festival of light

    Into the darkest corners of the mind,

    Not realizing that light was born just for this. 

    Cornered now, it's back against

    The darkened panes of rudimentary thought,

    Rubs off the soot of intolerance

    As darkness and the angels disappear.

    The light now hugs the fleeing mind,

    And together, glued like in a dancing flame,

    ...
  • Former Ambassador Sri. TP Sreenivasan releases through KIC , Meera Nair's Collection of poems " Maybe it Rains Forever In The Mountains " 

    First copy received by Dr Meena T Pillai .

     ...

  • The KIC Literary Forum conducted one of its vibrant Poetry Meet on Saturday 02 December 2017 with a participation of around thirty poetry lovers. The highlight of the Programme was the awarding of prizes to the winners of the Harish Govind Memorial Prize 2017

    Harish Govind Memorial Poetry Prize 2017

    The Prize carries a cash prize, a medallion and a citation instituted by Poetry Chain and is awarded for a collection of poems by a Kerala based poet. The Poetry Chain is a...

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