The Earth carries "Arth,"
Means "Meaning"
In my mother's tongue.
A thought emerging
Does this earth lend
Meaning to an insentient universe
As we decipher the codes
Of cosmic conduct?
Is consciousness
Its own reward?
And I "Hear" with my "Earth" ears...
I follow Venus and Mars
In a sky
That's so much celestial awning lit up for the night
Venus beckons "Us"
'We/Ve" are enamoured
Bedazzling beauty
Of Aphrodite and Athena
Morning and evening star.
Mars in reverse eye lock
Red palindrome
"Sram"
The planet of action recommends duty
Jupiter red Jovian
Giant, Zeus, or Brihaspati,
The paternal leader
Already has in its moniker
Sanskrit and Latin
Bio
Amrita Valan is a writer from India and a mother of two boys. Her work has been printed in anthologies, such as Poetica 2 and 3, (Clarendon Press), and The Poet’s Christmas, Faith, Childhood, Friendship and Adversity anthologies. Her poems and short stories have been printed in online journals such as Piker’s Press, Academy of Hearts and Minds, Short Story Town and Spillwords, among others. Her debut collection of 50 poems Arrivederci was published in May 2021, and a collection of 17 short stories titled In Between Pauses, was published in November 2021 by ImpSpired Press.