Mysuru: The Kavi Ghosti (Poets’ Meet) held yesterday at the Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar Mahamantapa in Maharaja’s College Grounds as part of the 83rd Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammlena saw a huge gathering as poet after poet mesmerised the audience with their poetry reading. Some of the poems that caught the attention included Sammelana President Prof. Chandrashekar Patil’s (Champa) daughter Meena Patil’s poetry on her father titled ‘Appa,’ Chamarajanagar’s Somashekar Bisilvadi’s ‘Aralimara,’ Bagalkote’s Malatesh Urs Arthikoti’s ‘Appa Mattu Nanu,’ Mysuru’s Gubbigudu Ramesh’s ‘Nanna Kavithe,’ Dr. D.C. Rajappa’s ‘Datta Peetha Mattu Bhakta,’ and Rajiya Balabatti’s ‘Naveega Prayoga Shishugalu,’ all had the audience clapping in appreciation. Rajiya Balabatti’s ‘Naveega Prayoga Shishugalu’ poem looked like stinging the ruling party when it appealed to them to allow them to live as they were not animals to be experimented but were humans who were alive. Bengaluru Joint Police Commissioner Dr. D.C. Rajappa’s ‘Datta Peetha Mattu Bhakta’ poem was a message to Hindus and Muslims to follow a peaceful path. Somashekar Bisilvadi’s ‘Aralimara’ was thought-provoking where he pens the idea that you became the Buddha and made me Bodhi. Gubbigudu Ramesh’s ‘Nanna Kavithe’ was haunting when he read that even though he had a voice he cannot sing, nor was there any heir nor petition and man is just like a skeleton. In all, 28 poets including Dr. Chandrashekar Talya, Pratibha Nandakumar, K. Sharifa, Dr. Latha Gutti, Dr. Kamala Hemmige, Chand Basha, Dr. Somanna Mangaluru, Vijayakanta, Dr. Sujata Akki and Dr. Vasanthakumar Perla presented their poems.
