MURTYMUSE

  WHO READS MY POEMS?   TWO-WAY MIRROR POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS OF B.S.M. MURTY Author: B.S.M. Murty Publisher: Vagishwari Prakashan, 2020; 182 pp., Rs 395 Available on Amazon.in   Book Review by: Thomas Graves, Poet, Editor, Scarriet blog & Professor, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, US Salem, MA 6/19/20 The poem is, for some, what we need to hear—but don’t want to hear. The poem pours morals all over us. But forgive me. As a critic, I’ve already ruined everything, defining morals as some vague, liquid, cure-all which we don’t want. This poem by B.S.M. Murty, the third poem in his just published, elegant book, Two Way Mirror, demonstrates how not to ruin everything:   Forgiveness   Forgiveness is a blessing A divine Benediction That only comes to a heart Cleansed by true Repentance True Forgiveness comes Not from incontrite solicitation But from earning it the hard way Through sustained Repentance It will only enter into a heart