Forty Four Poems
By Ajay Singh Yadav

The Landscape of My Mind

The landscape of my mind
Has many dark abysses, treacherous slopes,
And hidden valley where I find,
The wreckage of forgotten hopes.

But when I look in the mirror I see
The average healthy, normal male.
A little over the hill maybe
But still alert, upright and hale.

Only a minor twitching of the eye,
Betrays the shadow behind the screen.
Like a solitary cloud in the sky,
That seems otherwise so quiet and serene.

• About the Author • A Hotel In Paharganj • A Modern Politician • The Colors of the Grass • After the second rain • The Christian Cemetery at Betul • Give me a lonely Road • Two Nandis • Black Beauty • A Memory • Silent Witness • Mademoiselle • Alfristoun • On the Way to the Garden • Listen to the Silence • The Forest in Summer • Palash • Kaliasote in Winter • The Abandoned House • Poetry is a Load of Crap • October Rain • Nocturne 2 • The Lonesome Graveyard • Chikaldara • A Forest Shrine • Nocturnal Walk • Samardha • Samardha Revisited • Power • Evening In The Park • Moving On • Moonlight • August Afternoon • The Cemetery At Kashmiri Gate Delhi • The Poet’s Vocation • The Craft of Verse • Uttarkashi • Aurangzeb • The Successful Poet • In Memoriam • The Landscape of My Mind • Epitaph • A Civil Servant Remembers • A Hotel Room • A Good Man is Forever