Good night Two years ago

And yet somewhere the Unicorn runs

with that mysterious horn on its brow;

somewhere a ballerina swings

on her tired leg endlessly;

somewhere the dervish goes in a trance;

somewhere slowly bridges are getting built;

somewhere the season turns;

somewhere the sun rises behind the hill

somewhere in spite of all

there is a place and a reason to dream.

Sushama Karnik (c)

Sonali Dalal

There is a place and a reason to dream, Filled with hope when there are reasons to despair.

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Sushama Karnik

Sonali Dalal And yet....The indomitable will

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Françoise Dhulesia

I like how the poem starts: "And yet", as if we knew what the narrator has already expressed before, as if his/ her thoughts had been interrupted by the night and would continue to flow on waking. Maybe as if the narrator had slept on it. In French, we say: "La nuit porte conseil".

Or maybe as if night and sleep had made some answers obvious.

This opening has marked me.The anaphora announces what is now absolute certainty, unquestionable.

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