I am trying to innovate on existing forms of poetry with this post. This is an innovation inspired by the haiku tradition. The presentation of this poem is designed as follows:
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- The expression is in the form of very short phrases leaving the interpretation open to the reader to some extent
- It begins with two related but seemingly different question
- Each stanza answers the two questions, in order of their appearance, in a concise way till the point both the questions seem to merge
- A final conclusion is in the form of a word picture
जीना...
लिखना...
क्यों?
अपरिचित क्षमताएँ.
अनदेखे सवाल.
उलझे राज़.
हकीक़त का रोग.
खुद का एहसास.
सपनों की तलाश.
चैन की सांस.
स्वछन्द सोच.
अपरिमित ब्रह्माण्ड.
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