Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma Poems

It was just a momentary untruth in my way,
bodies of the crowd blocked the big blue outside.
...

There's a structure for idiocy—lamplight—
all over the nation; it's an illumination
...

After being humiliated one continues the manuscript of identity.
Activities, diseases, doldrums, the crony affair after the situation,
...

It was not a romantic sentiment, nor self-determined; rather, it was embarrassing.
My love of spearheading, from introvert to extrovert,
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more so than we did before, but now we know what to do with them.
We hang our troubles on them and wipe our shoes against them.
...

All this noisy commotion isolated a fairly
small universe of nothing special.
I had faced the assistant to the incumbent,
...

Clatter into the window this late night.
We were flabbergasted, tired
of the newly-minted drunks and meth-kids
...

I find ways to keep a sense of peace
but it is not always easy; for example,
I can't keep my questions tempered.
What kind of sun expounds its rays
...

The forest service team came to my house to give me a thin-leafed tree,
and to say you can have something, if you wish.
You can have this native tree, a skinny branch, a skinny leaf
...

Do not fall in love with a poet
they are no more honest than a stockbroker.
...

Some formula for sacred council as not to weep
into the meadow grass. And a man that frequents
open fields to scale for insects or the representation
...

12.

There are silverfish bugs across the window sill
in the white house. He says: my name is Jug Dish,
and you are pointing west when you say dish-desh
...

There is nothing to really note in this world

you might say. But since crescent moons
...

My sweetie's underpants have argyles on them and grip his
thighs.
O his European underpants with pastel colors,
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There are populated gestures
in the dining room where we become public
partners of a compromise. If I never lift this explosive
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Ring the changes on or take up the cudgels for,
to toe the line
and ride roughshod over,
...


The glove was lost under the twinkling of night, under the premise
of an open pocket and led me to the question of captivity with a brass
...

The poem started in Providence
where something begun in my head
but continuous then I could imagine.
...

Prageeta Sharma Biography

Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1972, shortly after her parents emigrated from India in 1969. She attended Simon’s Rock College of Bard for her undergraduate studies and received an M.F.A. in poetry from Brown University in 1995 and an M.A. in media studies from The New School in 2002. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007); The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), winner of the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize; and Bliss to Fill (Subpress Collective, 2000).)

The Best Poem Of Prageeta Sharma

Belonging as Consequence: On Poetry

It was just a momentary untruth in my way,
bodies of the crowd blocked the big blue outside.

Now I have a stealthy cause: to try and be myself,
to further a personal idea of arrangement,

of how to use those thoughts, the ones that don't get used.
But how to let them tick without abuse.

How to repay the debt, use the solvent,
blast the botched & troubled nearby—

What does everyone else caress?
All those etched poses neatly joined:

Mastery, hierarchy, witchcraft & shamanism.
A spike in the dander keeps me plain enough—

but to insist! To consolidate those fears—after months of uncertainty
couldn't cough or breathe or pilfer correctly.

Now this victorious shape, this idea moves
through muteness, shyness, weakness—

then it awakens:
Becomes a nonconformist happenstance—
A person saddled beneath

Reaches up for a fiction,
abundant and unrestricted ideas

poised and in front.

Prageeta Sharma Comments

John Jacobs 18 August 2019

I walked you to school one day in Saxonville. I started as a student of your Dad's only to become a friend. Bob Lee is a family member. I visited Missoula last week and inquired about you only to find you moved on. Would have been nice just to say Hi. Once a math prof at MassBay CC, i now live, happily retired, in Carrollton, TX. Hope all is well. JCJ

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