Poem of The Week: “Self-Portrait”

This week’s poem is “Self-Portrait” by A. K. Ramanujan, an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature. After his death, he won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection of poems, “The Collected Poems.”

Self-Portrait

by A. K. Ramanujan

I resemble everyone
but myself, and sometimes see
in shop-windows despite the well-knownlaws of optics,
the portrait of a stranger,
date unknown,
often signed in a corner
by my father.

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