Vandana Kumar

 

Vandana Kumar

 

Lonesome Traveler

 

I am a lonesome traveler

But for cold breezes for company

On a winter's day

I look at the skies

Throw my prayers in the air

 

 

The sun plays peekaboo

Humanity on the trail

In the midnight moments

The night’s coldest hour

A search for elusive warmth

 

 

 

Tell Me No Bedtime Tale

 

The Cinderella hour came and went

It’s way past midnight, someone said

The millennial generation

Gets no sleep

 

 

The children of the city

Were fed horror and gore

Nothing frightens

Nor fascinates

They grew up

Without wide eyed taste

For wonderland

 

 

The adults pace up and down

The corridor to reconcile

The world of then

And now

 

 

The lights on the blink

Midnight moments

In this town

Come without fairy tales

 

 

 

On Your Finger Tips

 

My breasts are heavy

It is midnight

They heave

Staring at the round moon

 

 

 

Desires

On this planet

Too many

Like the stars

On a clear sky night

Of which I have lost count

 

 

Vandana Kumar

 

VANDANA KUMAR is a bon vivant who loves travelling, working with young minds and exploring possibilities beyond the ordinary. She is a high School French teacher in New Delhi. Her passions include playing the piano and quizzing. Further she is a French translator for various reputed companies and publishers. An educator with over 20 years of experience she is also currently a recruitment consultant.She contributes poems regularly to online publications like ‘GloMag’ and ‘Narrow roads’. She has been published in international journals like ‘Mad Swirl’, Toronto based ‘Scarlet Leaf Review’ and Philadelphia based ‘North of Oxford’, In addition, she has been published in poetry websites like UK based ‘Destiny Poets’ and more recently in the Asian based ‘Borderless Journal’. One of her poems was shortlisted and published by the ‘All India Poetry Society’ in their ‘2017 Annual Poetry Competition’. She featured in the winter 2020 edition of the Houston, Texas based – ‘Harbinger Asylum’. One of her poems on Women was shortlisted in a competition organized by the ‘Woman Inc. – TWIBB Sakhi Annual Poetry Awards 2019 (results of which were declared in March 11, 2020).  She has also been published in the prestigious ‘Madras Courier.’ In her poems in the recent anthology on ‘Mystical Voices’ she explored the mysteries of the Universe. She translated Dr. Ampat Koshy’s English Poem into French which appeared in the Fahisi magazine. She has featured in the book ‘POSTMODERN VOICES – Volume 4’, which is a part of the ‘World Literature India Series’, where she along with five other poets from around the World have been interviewed and it carries fifteen of her poems. Another engaging interview of hers has been published in the book ‘21st Century Critical Thought – A Dialogue With Post-Modern Voices – Volume 2’, which is also a part of the ‘World Literature India Series’, where the scholars have been asked questions regarding the theory of poetry and different forms of poetry and its ever evolving forms and present day challenges. In December 2020 she was published in an anthology ‘Poetry – the best of 2020 which was published by the ‘Inner Child Press International’. Recently her articles on cinema have appeared on websites and journals like ‘Just-cinema’ and ‘Daily Eye’ and Boloji.com. Poetry for her, is her stress buster, her flight of fancy and strangely, what keeps her rooted too.