Bio
O.P. Jha's works appeared in more than one hundred journals including Rigorous, Mantis, Punt Volat, Discretionary Love,
In Parentheses, Shot Glass, Lothlorien Poetry, The Cry Lounge, The Odessa Collective, Backchannels, Homer's Odyssey,
The Broken Teacup, Poetry Pacific, By the Beach, miniMag, Iceblink, Infinite Scroll, The Rome Review, Tiger Leaping Review,
Wildscape Literary, Pineberry Literary, Valiant Scribe, Kelp, pulplit Mag, Gabby &Min's , Panorama , Quibble Quarterly,
Stone of Madness, Midwest Zen, Hoot, Balestra, Soul Poetry, The Haiku Shack Magazine etc. His poems appeared in anthologies
"We were Seeds" and "We are Resilient". He holds Ph.D. in "Translation Studies".
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O.P. Jha
In Parentheses
I asked a lonely grape-vine,
"Are you bearing sweet fruits
even now, in a war time?"
It fell silent but I found its silence
within many parentheses - ((silence))
Oh! I'm unable to decipher
the connotation of sweetness in silence.
In a tough time
silence resides within parentheses
& sweetness in abyss.