Colin Phillips’ Poem

Hootoksi Tyabji, Kathmandu, 2002

Colin Phillips was married to my cousin Gulcheher. In 2002, he spent a month with us at home in Kathmandu. Colin was an avid poet but never wanted to publish his work because he felt that the joy was in the writing of poetry and that was all there was to it!  He wrote and presented us this beautiful poem when he left Nepal.

A POSTSCRIPT

From the Nenuphars and the seminars

From the relics of the mind

From the dirt, the lust and the avatars

We seek what we can find

From the playboys and the ploughboys

From the furrow of the word,

From the sounds, the signs and the broken toys

We seek what can be heard,

From the travelers and the revelers

From the entrails of a crow

From the stars, the bars and the metaphors

We seek what we can know.

From the lectures and conjectures

From the mortuaries of art

From the lists, the works and the structures

We seek what's in the heart.

Kathmandu, January 27th, 2002

To read more about Colin and his poetry please click HERE