# A Dinner Invitation to God and other poems

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/07/01/a-dinner-invitation-to-god-and-other-poems/
- Published: 2016-07-01T01:18:05+00:00
- Author: shuktara

5/5 - (1 vote)

**Author:** Priti Aisola[⌊WP_20160627_12_27_03_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP_20160627_12_27_03_Pro.jpg)
**
Pages:** 80 **Year of Publication:** 2016 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
130-4 (9789350451304)

_**About the Author**_
 Priti Aisola’s first book, _See Paris for Me_, was published
by Penguin in October 2009. _Beyond the Gopurams_, a spiritual travelogue, was published
by Wisdom Tree in July 2014. Her travel pieces and poetry have been published in
e-journals.

_**Teaser**_

_My Hidebound God_

God dear,
 Silence divine, It’s time someone Told you some home-truths. You are 
quite hidebound, you know. Prayers as age-old chants please you. To mantras you 
give a grave hearing, Prayers set to ragas enthral you. Kirtanas, kritis, bhajans,
abhangs Flatter your classical ear, gratify your taste For musical devotion. Deny
it if you can! My prayers are mumbled incoherences, The result of panic and quarrels
with Your silence: seamless and too august To stoop and hear my spluttering of words
In choppy flow. Can’t you see Their clamour will cease, their agitation calm If 
you were to widen your choice of prayers, Be less picky, become what you really 
are – God… _samadarshi_.

_**Contents**_
 44 poems