Prageeta Sharma

Aug 29, 2023 | poets.org | Prageeta Sharma |Douglas Kearney

Find and share the perfect poems. For ValorieFirst a flabby belittlement by some well-meaning white folks when they cross me because they weren’t meaning to, they say. It was only that I had become wholly invisible  and they enjoy their heaping, entitled vocalizations that enforce their platforms of corporeal speech. But through this I learned that I had no real power to wield,  and this crown I wore, glittering in green fermentation, put my head into a state of chronic query.

Jun 26, 2023 | chicagoreview.org | Prageeta Sharma

for Bimla SharmaI see the force of a celebrant with power in gold bangletteson somebody’s hilltop. I was reminded of my mother while admiring it,as she loves miscible jewelry all over hands and wrists. I thought one moment garish,even as I was raised in this quality and felt it was a real acquisition. I was cutfrom my mother’s cloth because I agreed wholeheartedly in how I couldn’t help my ownmixing, my own tastelessness.