Retrieved via the Wayback Machine. Originally posted by Peter Griffin
My thanks to my fellow jury members, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Jane Bhandari, Jerry Pinto, Menka Shivdasani and Manisha Lakhe, who took time out of a busy week to help judge this contest.
The winners: first place, Rohinton Daruwala; second, Devashish Makhija; and third, Rinku Dutta.
Their poems:
stray hair on a pillow. a half-open book. cast-off clothes slippers cups glasses. 7 phone mins 17 photos 183 e-mails. the joy of a day spent collecting you.
Rohinton Daruwala, 1st place
‘if’
if
u wr
a slate dusta 2
my blakbord nites
morn’g memries
wud b
chalk dust.
i’d dip a finga
scrawl ‘I ms u
my vowel’.
Devashish Makhija, 2nd place
Folded in your arms
I am a book
Willing to be re-written
Rinku Dutta, 3rd place
Comments
Comment by aparna on February 13, 2006 @ 11:16 pm
Really interesting stuff.congratulations winners!
I especially enjoyed the poem entered by Devashish as it used texting lingo.in my mind it is true ’sms poetry’ (as opposed to short poetry sent by sms). However, that is not to say that I did not enjoy the other poems!
Well here is a limerick I wrote for sms poets and poetry.will put it up here.
An SMS poet was found telling
Readers why his poetry is selling
Smiling (with a dimple)
He said, “It is simple
Who the hell today knows the real spelling?”
Congratulations again!
Cheers
Aparna
Comment by Kaushik on February 17, 2006 @ 12:09 pm
Winners have good stuff out here.. I feel other entires must also be hosted.
