Showing posts with label POEM ON WOMEN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POEM ON WOMEN. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 January 2020


At my sick bed, at my side
At 70, weaker in strength
Duller in memory than I
She has done it
Over and over again
And now feels no pain
She has done it
What she has ever protected
her gain
In silent whispers
In the echoes of the present
You are all I have,
don’t put me to shame
They will laugh at us,
just put a little in your mouth
At the entrance of my life still calling
Fight on “Brother”
Fight for that life


Wednesday, 9 January 2013

MOTHER'S SMILE




When I look deep at her smile
When she wakes and sees me too
On my heel, prepared to set sail
The joy that I will come back
Tells her that all is not lost
She is at her best
Although my complaint never showed that I saw it all:
Her best.
Her hands in water
Will wear away for my sake
Her little strength
Me to satisfy, my stomach to fill
I must not fail her
But long life I ask
For her to see this hope
This light in my hand
She has turned into perpetual light of day 
  

Thursday, 17 May 2012

struggling for humanity


And I can hear the waters
Falling down slowly into each barrel
Fading strength intensifying gradually
And yet she struggles for humanity

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

The line in her hair



In between the black
The shining long hair
She combs even now
Until in between it
The only line is formed

That line drawn not
With ink nor colour
Brings forth her beauty
On her curved cara

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

From mom to you

There lies there
Breathing of weariness
All the heaviness she has earned
The rising sun
The shining moon
Your heaviness her weariness
To nurture emptiness for fullness
In sight might be nothing as she lay
In depth to be cherished as we live
An award unknowingly behind her back
About to be conferred if she be lucky
Before her heart beats the last

And if she left before her laurel
I will tell you how she desired you
Not for herself but yourself
And if I should recount her smile
Just like yours when I first saw it
Those beautiful set of teeth
Opening to crown my presence
Her only worry that you be better
That you climb the ladder quicker
Higher where the eagles could not lay their eggs

My queen she said,
some day I would leave you
then young you were
not yet developed your enchanting look
my queen you replied
some day I would leave you
only to mimic,
not understanding her saddening look
her warm drops sipping through her pale face
tender arms though strong, you to carry.
I would leave you, some day
Baptizing you with her opened pipe

Mine still lay there breathing of loneliness
Earning weariness out of our heaviness
And if you’ll care to know
I would share with you all I have of her
As she still lay breathing of weariness
Hold my hands you’ll not fall
Slow your breath, its alright
One step at a time, we’ll get there
Picture in your minds, enough energy in your veins
Close your eyes
you’ll open, and we’re there

Monday, 25 July 2011

WEEP NOT MOTHER

From the dim distance the silence was broken
a mother's voice could be heard too
like one having in her arms a baby.
To make her stop crying she sings
to make her happy at her she smiles
and her touch one could still feel from the distance.

They told us she stopped her cries
as soon as she first heard us cry.
She rushed to have us on her side
in her arms even in her pain
because the fear to see us die
was gone even without a trace.

For giving us all we needed
our first food from within
when we lay under her jealous watch
wrapped in silky white linen,
the honour and pride beaming
from her face towards us.

Everything she did for us
some we acknowledged whereas
others caught our blind eye.
We will wipe your tears mother
your land well watered
now grows wealth unexploited.

Oh weep not, wipe your tears
your crops gave double harvest
your barns now fully filled
will no more you wake
the early birds and their songs
for no more your time to work.

Oh smile and laugh aloud wipe your tears
enjoy the bliss what your
hands have created what your
mind has formed what your
eyes have watched and guarded
now the monarch of far and near.

Wherever your soul lies weep no more
for those tears of love you shed
on us like ripples still moving and spreading
across the circumference of our soul
and will last before the rainy day comes
even if the sun should set no more

Monday, 4 July 2011

women of substance

Where the women are
gladness lives; but flees gladness
where the women lack.

The rider

She rode sideways like a he
On a horse in blue jeans
Descending gently
With bangles in her ears and wrist.
Exposed to her thigh from her knee
Her blue jeans to see.
Down around her ankle, golden chains stood
Around about her toes, a ring
Round her finger too;
To show singly like a wig
Her shinning woven hair
Hanging in a tie
Behind her neck.