Poems

Abstract

ABSTRACT ‘Impact’ conveys the ironies underlying violence–the dialectical tension between love and hate, pleasure and pain. I wrote ‘Skin Deep’ in sonnet form to convey the ugly irony behind the love for whiteness. (The sonnet is a traditional form for love poems!) I wrote ‘Palimpsest’ as a sestina to convey the haunting nature of history, as if entering a cave of echoes, here, the ironies of caste inherent in classical Indian dance.