Towards a New Cosmopoetics of World Citizenship
Updated: Sep 7
An Evening of Breaking Boxes
Towards a New Cosmopoetics of World Citizenship
by Ananta Kumar Giri © 2015
It has been an evening of breaking boxes
not of breaking news
Your lectures on cosmopolitanism
and world citizenship
have broken our many boundaries
between states and faiths
rivers and the sky
I now rush to touch the river
beyond the trap of my social security number
Each breaking
is a moment of awakening
You say citizenship is work and meditation
With beauty, dignity and dialogues
I now pause
have patience and realize
I can start my work and meditations
right at this moment
My work and meditation
is part of an ecology of hope
Hope not only falls from the sky
It is born out of our strivings
Bio-aesthetic strivings and spiritual strivings
Hope work
With and beyond the landscape
of despair
a new self-making
Foundations for a new community
A new science and spirituality
A new cosmopolitanism as part of a new cosmology of being
A new cosmopoesis of citizenship
A new cosmopoesis of our world
Kissing grandeur in each other
In our sour sweet lips
Annapolis, November 6, 2015