Vol.1, No.7 • January, 2008

 

A Poem by Abhay Kumar


The Way Forward...

Words for words
The dead end
Words with silence
The way forward...

Thoughts, imagination, reality
Dimensions galore
All lead to you
All is your revealation!

Can borders be there?
When all belongs to you
Humanity ?!
What are you waiting for?


Abhay Kumar was born in Nalanda district in Eastern India in 1980. He was educated at Delhi University(DU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU)in New Delhi.He joined the Indian Foreign Service(IFS) in 2003 and was posted to Moscow in 2005.

He is a writer-poet-diplomat and is currently serving India as Consul of India in St. Petersburg, Russia.

He is the author of " Enlightenment- Poems for heart,mind and soul"- a collection of more than a hundred poems that have been read and appreciated the world over. His poems "Smitten by Green" & "I Believe" have been published by the Forward Press, UK in two separate anthologies titled" Natural Spirit" edited by Michelle Afford(2006) and" A Moment of Déjà vu " edited by Annabel Cook(2007). His poems "Hero", "Child within me" & "It's never too late to try again" have been published by Bolokids.com, a poetry website for the children.

His latest book "River Valley to Silicon Valley"-Story of three generations of an Indian family; has been published by Bookwell India in May 2007.Since then it has been translated in Russian and Hindi. It is also being translated in Korean language.

You can visit him at www.abhayk.com