Prof Dr. Molly Joseph Poetry

 

Prof Dr. Molly Joseph

Bio

Dr. Molly Joseph had her Doctorate in Post war American Poetry. She retired as the H.O.D., Department of English, St. Xavier's College, Aluva, Kerala, and served as Professor, Communicative English at FISAT. A bilingual writer, reviewer and translator, she writes Travelogues, Poems and Short Stories for children, has published 18 Books of Poems including 3 Books of Poems in Malayalam. 2 Novels, 2 Dtory Books for children. A critical study on

Dr. Molly Joseph’s poems have come out, “The Myna’s Melodies , Poetry of Presence , A reader’s Entry” With her Doctorate in Post war American Poetry, she has evolved an indigenous diction , with short lines called ‘ribbon poetry ‘ that rolls around, approximating the contemporary. Dr. Molly has edited a seminal book "A Chapbook on Contemporary Ethics." She at present serves as the Member Board of Directors , International Academy of Ethics. She travels around attending National and International Poetic Fests and has won accolades and awards which include India Women

Achiever’s Award in 2019 by Asian Literary Society in 2020. She won Yan’an Gold Medal-The Outstanding Poet’s Award from Yan’an Literay Society, China in 2021 and International Maharishi Vedavyas Award as Creative Author and Azad International Award - Master of the Alphabet in 2022. She is the recipient of the Award master of Creative Consciousness at 5th World Poetry Conference 2023. Her poem ‘Come out of the Ark‘ won appreciation at Writer’s International Foundation, Italy Biennale of Hagiography & Hymnography 2023. In 2024 She has won Mahaakriti Literary Samman from Literoma , Calcutta.

kavyasreshta Puraskaram by Sree Ganesolsvam 2024, Trivandrum on 28th July 2024.

Contact. mynamolly@ gmail.com

Do you know?

         .....

Do you know 

                I am there

in the wind that

         wafts over you

in your stressful

            moments?

when you walk 

    the thorn strewn

path, uncertain, 

when you stand 

             on shores

watching the 

      restless waves

spitting their 

        phelgm on you

in derision, 

          Or, 

when  you revel over,

         ecstatic 

in your moments

               of triumph 

sharing love

          togetherness,

or embittered,

    seeking your self

           shrouded in

self pity,

         I am with you

inhabiting 

       your inner core

of your self.

 

me,

the invisible there

        in the fullness

of your being, 

veneered by

         an absence 

so full of 

            presence...

I am not gone

             but am there

everywhere

           meeting you

as changing 

                 seasons 

flowing through 

                     time 

as continuum

me, the pulse 

         of the universe             

lying in

        the thingness

          of things...

Do you know,

          you are on way 

to becoming me?. 

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