Some Day
Hariharan Balakrishnan's poem expresses a deep longing for meditative simplicity.
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February 15, 2012
Some Day
Hariharan Balakrishnan's poem expresses a longing for that clear simplicity at the very centre of life.
February 08, 2012
Ashes And The Earth
Hariharan Balakrishnan's poem emphasises the ephemeral nature of life.
February 01, 2012
A Blank Screen
Hariharan Balakrishnan's poem tells of the word drought which affects all writers at one time or another.
January 25, 2012
The Toothless Beggar
A chance encounter with a laughing toothless beggar compels poet Hariharan Balakrishnan to consider the meaning of life.
January 18, 2012
Dreamless State
...If dreams are naught would you be you?...
Poet Hariharan Balakrishnan asks a pertinent question which may leave you pondering for many a day.
December 14, 2011
The Silent One
Hariharan Balakrishnan's poem emphasises the shalowness of "society''.
November 30, 2011
Autumn Flowers
Hariharan Balakrishnan expresses thoughts which occur to everyone who tries to weave a magical fabric from words.
November 23, 2011
The Tamarind Tree
...The tangy fruits were all for me
I did not care for the rest
I ran back home with pride and glee...
Hariharan Balakrishnan expresses the immense joy of being young and adventuresome.
November 16, 2011
Feet On The Street
Hariharan Balakrishnan's good-humoured poem considers the feats that feet can perform!
November 09, 2011
The Golden Gate
Hariharan Balakrishnan's poem brings into sharp focus the transience of human existence.
November 02, 2011
Dancing Diamonds
Taking a cooling shower on a sweltering Indian summer's eve suddenly fills poet Hariharan Balakrishnan with a sense of the wonder and glory of God.
October 26, 2011
Rainbow Moments
Indian poet Hariharan Balakrishnan conjures another memorable wonder from mere words.
October 24, 2011
Hariharan's Poetry
Selvi, who lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico, brings appreciative comments on the poems of Hariharan Balakrishnan whose work is now appearing in Open Writing.
Selvi and Hariharan re-established contact after an interval of 55 years and now regularly correspond.
Selvi has given permission for this e-mail to Hartiharan to appear in Open Writing.
October 19, 2011
A Place For The Stars
"I was never taught to be taut,'' writes poet Hariharan Balakrishnan, glorying in things vast enough to fill a universe, yet small enough to clasp in a hand.
October 05, 2011
Images Of Tenderness
Today we welcome an Indian poet to the pages of Open Writing. Hariharan Balakrishnan recently published his first book of poems, A Fistful Of Stars.
Hariharan brings us a poem appropriately entitled Indian Summer.
It is preceded by an introduction to his book written by Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra who won the second highest civilian award in India on the day he wrote the preface. Dr. Mahapatra's poems have been translated into several languages and his work is read around the world.
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