HAIKU IN THE MEMORY OF DADAR BEACH CIRCA
1957:DILIP CHITRE
as the butterfly
hovers near a sunset
its
wings touch the sea
YOUR FIRST LOVER: DILIP CHITRE
an early wake-up call
your first
lover
touches your shoulder
the rain has stopped
at
last
a faint breeze
blows moisture
on your eyes
HORNIMAN CIRCLE GARDEN CIRCA 1964: DILIP
CHITRE
discarded lovers
with charred eyes
fall
asleep on the green bench
they don't care any more
your
vision is blurred
but
you don't need any help
Dilip Chitre is a poet, fiction-writer,
playwright, painter and filmmaker. His honours, awards
and prizes include the Sahitya AKademi Award. He is Fellow
of The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New
Delhi; Writer-in-Residence at the Villa Waldberta, Feldafing,
Munich National Emeritus; Fellow of the Union Ministry
of Human Resource Development, New Delhi; Writer-in-Residence
and German Academic Exchange Fellow at the South Asia
Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany;
Prix Special du Jury at the Festival des Trois Continents,
Nantes, France; Fellow and Writer-in-Residence at the
International Writing Program of the University of Iowa,
Iowa City, Iowa. He lives in Pune and writes in English
and Marathi and also translates
either way, especially poetry. He is currently Honorary
Editor of the quarterly journal 'New Quest'(Mumbai/Pune,India)
and Honorary President of the 'Sontheimer Cultural Association'---a
folk heritage foundation in Pune, India.
