All posts by Meena Chopra

Meena Chopra, an award-winning poet & visual artist, was born/raised in India and resides in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from Isabella Thoburn College Lucknow, qualified as a designer from Delhi and as an Artist Educator from RCM Ontario. After a fashion industry career, she switched to fine arts and writes poetry in English and Hindi, her native language. She authored three poetry books and is published in literary journals worldwide. The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada awarded her accomplishments in art and writing. www.meenachopra-artist.com

She Descends – Poem by Meena Chopra

Crisp autumn air
Splendid bronze
Marinated gold
Silver and copper
The entire landscape
Quilted

She descends
The deepest splendour
The palette
for she has swallowed
All the colours and
The fire
The skyline
The setting sun
The gold and the orange
Burnt earth
The molten core
Sienna and the umber
The cool clouds,
Icicles
Bright and royal purple sky.
Dripping ceruleans
The formidable sea
SHE! The Restless Streak

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Evolving Ethnic Literature – by Meena Chopra

Language and culture are inter-woven in our normal lives, but the depth or the centre point, from where all the imagination and creativity originates in the form of art and literature, is obscured in the hidden layers of the unconscious self. It is from the deepest layer of the self where all the diversity of life springs. At the same time, it is the focal point, or an ultimate abode, for diverseness becoming oneness of being.

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