Kavitā \ Poems

कविता

The word kavi, from which kavitā descends, did not originally mean poet. It meant seer. The one who sees. Someone who perceived what others walked past. In the Vedic tradition, poetry was not craft or decoration. It was the closest language could get to direct seeing. To saying what was glimpsed, before it could be reasoned into something safer. That ambition has not changed. These are attempts to use fewer words than the thought demands and somehow still arrive. Some land. Others reach.

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