Morning by the Bosphorus

The sun rises in great silence but the waters, pregnant with legend, speak in silvery whispers. Behold, o nameless pilgrim, behold the holy flame...

Oct 28 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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October 2024

That Day

Today I found a picture from my past which recalled a day that once was. A night spent asleep on a pier. A sunrise train with red upholstery. The scent…

Oct 30, 2024 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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April 2024

Cineteca Nacional

[Self-translated from the Spanish original] My ear to your skin, listening to the bare landscape of a poem unwritten. Word after word tumbling into the…

Apr 11, 2024 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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March 2024

Bridges

I have been thinking about the way your hands used to grip mine.

Mar 24, 2024 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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September 2023

El Universo Nuevo

(Or) On writing my first poem in Spanish

Sep 9, 2023 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

August 2023

Dear México

Forgive me, querido México, I am late but you, who existed long before they invented history, know what it means to wait. Who and what you are, my…

Aug 22, 2023 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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May 2023

The Ninth, and final, Farewell: Nihonbashi, Tokyo

It had to be here.

May 27, 2023 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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The Eighth Farewell: Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo

To be seated on the stone benches of the Aoyama Cemetery on my last night in the city, with streetlamps and stones for company, it feels fitting…

May 27, 2023 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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The Seventh Farewell: Hokusai at the Ukiyo-e Museum, Osaka

This is an allegory, truth buried in the language of drama. A story of the world and us. Fuji San, immovable, in the windy distance while we struggle…

May 27, 2023 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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The Sixth Farewell: Fabrics of a lost culture

The opportunity to touch history is not something that falls to us often.

May 27, 2023 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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The Fifth Farewell: Reading the poetry of Izumi Shikibu

He was in a Zen garden one morning gazing into a rock when he felt the weight of her words rush into his heart like a landslide. A thousand years apart…

May 26, 2023 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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The Fourth Farewell: A Nightwalk in Kyoto

Tonight, you are nothing but light and I, your shadow. [3:29 am, 25th May 2023, Fushimi, Kyoto.]

May 25, 2023 • Dheeraj Reddy Budamala

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