By Kirpal Singh
SPRING IN INDIA
I arrive just as Spring begins —
There are the usual songs
And dancing which excite,
Especially, the merry young.
For oldies, like I, it’s nostalgia.
I recall Yeats and his haunting line —
The young in one another’s arms —
What happened in my life?
Where did my youth go?
It’s okay mutters a soft voice —
You have other springs to enjoy!
Kirpal Singh is a poet and a literary critic from Singapore. An internationally recognised scholar, Singh has won research awards and grants from local and foreign universities. He was one of the founding members of the Centre for Research in New Literatures, Flinders University, Australia in 1977; the first Asian director for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1993 and 1994, and chairman of the Singapore Writers’ Festival in the 1990s. He retired the Director of the Wee Kim Wee Centre.
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