Location: Alliance française, 10-2-9 Road no 16, West Marredpally
City: secunderabad
Date: Fri, 2011/02/25 – 6:00pm
Price: Open to all
Category: Festival
Amante égarée
They belong to each other
Like lost fragments of jigsaw puzzles
Leaving behind perfect faults
In a faulty perfection.
Like colorless voids in a colorful mosaic
And silent spells in a symphony
Calling each other through a maze of sounds
Dispersing, dissolving, diffusing away,
They belong to each other
Like falling leaves of a tree
Crumbling, crunching, giving away
To silent soil, silently
Like future dreams of far away past
They belong to each other, still, without belonging to each other.
Poem by Mohammad Zahid*
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, love is in the air! How about writing a French poem or translating a French poem to Telugu/Hindi?
L’amour toujours, “Love forever” is the chosen theme for the competition.
Choose one if those 3 categories to write your poem:
(1) Poems written in French
(2) Telugu translations of French poems
(3) Hindi translations of French poems
Everybody and anybody who wishes to participate will have to send in their entries by Mon, 14th Feb to Alliance Française by post or by e-mail to [email protected]. Click here to download the rules and regulations for the competition.
There will be a poetry reading evening in Alliance, Sat, 26th Feb at 6 pm.
* Mohammad Zahid comes from rural Kashmir, a place called Anantnag. He is a banker by profession. However his interest is focused on literature. Born in 1977, he has been writing poetry since last 15 years. His poem “The Addict’s Lament” has featured as Editor’s favourite poets in The Sound of Poetry, A Collection of 33 Poems by The International Library of Poetry, USA, and an anthology The best poets and Poems of 2002 by the same organization. Moreover his poetry has been published by The Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages in several of their quarterly journals. He also writes articles on various issues that have featured in The Greater Kashmir, a leading local daily from Srinagar, Kashmir with a global readership.