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The Lost Vision

Sushmindarjeet Kaur
Passing through a wondrous lane
Dr. Sushmindarjeet Kaur is an Associate Professor and Head, PG I saw Him
Department of English at G.G.N. Khalsa College, Ludhiana, Punjab. She Essaying to capture only a glimpse of the majestic appearance,
has been teaching English literature to post-graduate students for more I chased Him, but could not.
than twenty years and to undergraduates for the last thirty years. She is also
the co-ordinator of Department of Journalism in the college. Hailing from Followed Him, tread upon the footsteps,
Patiala, Punjab, India, b. 1968, she acquired her M.Phil in Tried to get hold but in vain!
Anthropological Linguistics and Ph.D degree from Punjabi University,
Patiala in Indian English Literature. She writes short stories and poetry.
Stopped, and perhaps slept for a while; and I had a vision,
She has edited three books. She has translated a book Sikh Soldiers in Italy
during Second World War which has been released in England. She has to He denied to be with me,
her credit more than fifty poems and articles published in various As I pained the fellow beings,
Never bothered to heal their wounds.
anthologies and journals. Dr Sushmindarjeet Kaur was conferred with
Master of Creative Impulse Philosophique Poetica International Award at All I was sans humanity, sans compassion, sans a helping hand.
World Poetry Conference in 2019. Besides, she has been awarded with the
title of Edifying Editor at Poetic Confluence held at Hyderabad in I lost Him
September 2019. She has presented research papers in many International And the whole chase was futile.
and National seminars and conferences. To write short stories and poetry is Waiting for one more incarnation
her passion since childhood. I resolved to follow Him
In the true sense of the word.

The Lost Vision @Sushminderjeet Kaur

The Self and the Soul
The conclusion is
He is the only one.
Tried to move in all the four directions
Nobody is like Him. My inside
He is my ultimate solace; Shelter, My owner, My friend, is more loving
My mentor, my guide, and what not. than
Still I long for Him, my outside ;
As I don't know the distance between Him and me,
Would He give place to such a miserable meagre being as me? Since I have
Finding a remedy which can shed off my sickness, a beautiful heart
As I have become sick with the pain, inside
The everlasting pain which will subside, perhaps,
When He comes and takes me in His own self, that loves everybody.
While eradicating my sickness.
Don't know whether self is appropriate or not ...Author
As He is a soul, and not a self;
A Supreme soul;
Waiting for the moment to be one in that Supreme soul.

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