Poet : VINbits by Vinod Venugopal
Stillness on the surface betrayed the bubbling effervescence deep inside…..
Bright lights in the sky, camouflaged the violent streaks of brilliant lightning …..
Pervasive silence muffled the loud echoing in the empty caverns of the core .
This fateful night, the crust would shatter, creating gigantic waves of destruction…
With the power unleashed that would shame a tsunami of tsunamis….
Everything would be annihilated by an unparalleled catastrophic deluge.
She lay there crouched with dismay in the midst of the cosmic garden…
all drenched in tears that glistened in the bright starlight of the Milky way….
Wished someone had cared to know, how it hurt her deep in the heart ….
For the one, she had proudly wanted, to live happily snuggled against her bosom…..
turned out to be the one who exploited her, till she could sustain no more.

I am a person who looks for imagery in all that I see. In my poems, I try to create a visualization of the images in the mind with the help of words. It is a great pleasure, when you observe that the poems have triggered feelings in a reader render the same image that one tried to express, garnished with some more nuances which the reader brings in. As per me, this juxtaposition of thoughts of the poet, and that of the readers, create a telepathic connection that is so beautiful and awesome.
I write poems, in a way of just penning down random thoughts that come to me, like to do small poetry, that does not take too much of a time to compose. I do not follow too much of a meter or a rhyme. The words I chose normally come with the flow during that small period, and I believe that helps the readers also feel a sense of flow in my poetry, when they get into the imagined visualization, that the poem set out to create. I post poems in my Instagram page @VINbits…Not a very prolific writer, in any sense, but enjoy doing this, when I do!
Optimism and Goodness is the spirit that fuels me as a person, and I look for it in all things around me. And I believe that artists, including poets, can bring about societal transformation in a powerful way, specially in this age of social-media based mass communication.
