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open sky :: SAMVAAD | 17th April

Writer's picture: Vandana ParasharVandana Parashar

Updated: Apr 18, 2022

hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar


high tide

the pile of words

outside a poem


---- Lorraine A Padden

(Presence, Issue #68, November 2020)

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Richa Sharma
Richa Sharma
2022年5月06日

Wonderful poem!

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Vandana Parashar
Vandana Parashar
2022年4月20日

Lorraine says-


“Here's a bit of background:

I was interested in how wave action shapes a shoreline, and how I might juxtapose the movement of water and sand with the process of writing haiku – what shifts, what's taken away, what remains.”

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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
2022年4月18日

Ab lovely!

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sushamakapur
sushamakapur
2022年4月17日

Beautifully resonating. :))

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
2022年4月17日

WoW!! This is so beautiful. Amazing juxtaposition! Loved 'a pile of words' .

The whole poem justifies the experience of 'high tide' with the pile of words by the common man.


I feel there is a poem inside a poem. There are three layers. One is the outer beauty, the second is the inner beauty and the third is the individual perspective.

Outer beauty reflects the way one perceives the poem from outside.

(the whole poem)

The inner beauty lies in each line of the poem; its construction. (each line has its own weightage) As of here, you take any line; it throws light upon a wider image - the zooming in and zooming out.

The final layer is th…


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