MADHU
SRIWASTAV
OH... DARKNESS!
Oh... darkness I
enjoy
The dense inky sky
With only the pale
moon
And his beloved
star
To reflect joy
The gentle wind
Wafts my tresses
away
As l lie face up
In the lower berth
Of a rail from
hills
The moon and star travel
with me
Keep company
through the cacophony of the grumbling rail
I inhale the
blessed night
For its transient,
bygone
The wind dies ,the
neon’s invade
The purity of the
night
As darkling fields
give way to concrete
The darkness cries
to be itself
Lights have
conquered all
The darkness in
man reigns
Forcing light on
the nocturnal
The cycles turn
anticlockwise
Obscuring
dichotomies, annihilating.
VERDUROUS ARCH
The Banyan tree
bends low
Arching to the
other side
It's leaves
entwine the Ashok
Forming a leafy
arch
Trees know no
hierarchy
They bend to fill
the space
Unlike the people
below
In cars , cycles ,
buses
Plying on highway
to go
I wonder at this
beauty
The intelligence
of mute life
Who are forced to
bear
The honking of mindless traffic
Trees after trees
unite
Forming this
verdurous door
Leading to
everyman's destination
Filling their
hearts with allure.
ENGULFED BY LOVE
A warm day dies
Dusk lingers
sometime on western sky
It is love child
of day’s union with night
I breathed your
odour like morning bloom
You contained me
like pea in pod
My heart raced
fast, mind in a daze
I cling to you as
last leaf to storm
Like ship to star
I searched for directions
To your whims I
swayed, scattered and distraught
Like a tube on the
waves discarded on the shores
Engulfed by your
love I arrived to find myself.
MADHU SRIWASTAV
MADHU SRIWASTAV is an Assistant
Professor in English based in Kolkata. She has written and published her poems
and short stories in National and International Journals like Setu, Glomag,
Daath Shradanjali. She has translated and published short stories from Bengali
and Hindi into English. She has written and published several academic papers.
She also takes part in poetry and storytelling performances.
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