Vineetha Mekkoth

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Vineetha Mekkoth Biography

Vineetha Mekkoth is a poet, writer, translator, editor, reviewer. She lives with her family in Calicut, Kerala. Works as State Tax Officer in the State GST Department. Has translated for the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and has also contributed articles for the Malayalam Literary Survey, a quarterly brought out by the Akademi. Her poems and short stories have been included in various anthologies. She has been selected for the ICOP Critics Award for March 2015 by Destiny Poets, UK. Her work has also been featured in Destiny Poets, Glomag, Duane's Poetree, Learning and Creativity, Spillwords and Mad Swirl Magazine. She is co-editor and participating poet of the anthology ‘Umbilical Chords: An Anthology on Parents Remembered' published in 2015. She has also coedited and contributed to The Roseatte Sonnet Anthology. Her debut poetry collection ‘Ashtavakra and Other Poems' was published in August 2017 and is available on Amazon. Her book finds mention in the Highly Recommended list of The International Prime Poetry Festival,2019 and is mentioned in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature,2018, Vol.53(4) p618. Her latest book, ‘'Penpiravi - Birth of A Woman', is the translation of the contemporary Malayalam poet Girija Pathekkara's poetry collection published by Authorspress, New Delhi in October 2021 and is available on Amazon. The book has been chosen for the Reuel International Translation Prize,2022. She has also co-edited and contributed to the short story collection, Cocoon Stories: Imprints of Childhood published by Authorspress, New Delhi,2022.)

The Best Poem Of Vineetha Mekkoth

You

You make me look at myself
Warts and all
I try to run, hide, dissemble
You hold the mirror
My soul flinches
On seeing myself
reflected back at me
I cannot put on make-up
Or wear masks
I'm revealed to myself
A sight which I would rather not have seen
Then you step forward and embrace
I'm a blaze.
The mirror is a lake
I skim the surface and then take flight
The sky is our home

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