From Pratik's Current Issue: "Temples of Stone" by Indian poet HK Kaul (1941-2020)

 

H.K. KAUL

1941-2020

 

Temples of Stone

 

Gods in the valley are alone now.

No watchmen around

No worshippers either.

 

Where have the worshippers gone

Who flocked every morning

Circling gods with charters of demands?

 

They left for safer havens

With family, gold, lost glitter.

Left gods alone in the chambers.

 

In the stones, in the temples

In the temples of stone

Knowing well gods will rise

When stones around will begin to melt

Seeing strewn arms, heads and torsos

Rising from battlefields to life

Taking new forms for the new worshippers.

Founder Director, DELNET-Developing Library Network and Founder Secretary-General and President, The Poetry Society (India), H. K. Kaul was born in Kashmir, India. He edited Journal of the Poetry Society (India) and authored more than a dozen poetry collections including Firdaus in Flames and In the Islands of Grace. 

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