{"id":7038968,"date":"2026-08-16T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/poetry-the-krishna-of-kelowna-by-vivek-sharma\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:22:16","slug":"poetry-the-krishna-of-kelowna-by-vivek-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7038968","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: &#8220;The Krishna of Kelowna&#8221; by Vivek Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>VIVEK SHARMA<\/strong> is a poet from the foothills of the Himalayas who dwells in the myths of the Mahabharata, and whose peripatetic lines chronicle love, loneliness and elephant gods, as well as the mechanics of flipping burgers at many McDonald\u2019s stores across Canada.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" data-id=\"859609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-859609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/THE-KRISHNA-OF-KELOWNA_Vivek-Sharma-600x900.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find Vivek\u2019s complete poem, plus one other poem, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/product\/event-55-1-current-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EVENT 55\/1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                                        <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n                                                    <\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '544480689072765');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\nfbq('track', 'ViewContent');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIVEK SHARMA is a poet from the foothills of the Himalayas who dwells in the myths of the Mahabharata, and whose peripatetic lines chronicle love, loneliness and elephant gods, as well as the mechanics of flipping burgers at many McDonald\u2019s stores across Canada. 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