PUSHMAOTEE FOWDUR SUBRUN

PUSHMAOTEE FOWDUR SUBRUN

The Supra Intellectual Truths

The Divine WILL remains a mystery,

Yet the continuance of the cosmos a reality.

And the human spirit for ever hankers,

For the indeterminate infinite wonders,

The supra intellectual truths,

The supra cosmic, absolute Being in sooth.

The yearning is deep for the pinnacle of the identity,

With the absolute Entity,

The fascinating escape, the ascension to the crest,

To a higher than mental consciousness,

To attain peace, universal peace, in the closeness,

To no other than the quintessence,

The supra cosmic source of higher existence.

For our divine connectivity with the all-pervading,

The all merciful, the comfort, the all-seeing,

The all-knowing wisdom,

Reaching the deepest fathom,

Offer humble obeisances, with knees bent,

To the supra cosmic Lord who is omnipresent,

Omnipotent, and omniscient.

On Reading Kabir’s Lyrics

Kabir’s lyrics set my heart in raptures.

I saw myself drawn to his verses,

On the Supreme, there, in the Elysian fields

Where peace and beauty dwells,

With divine music and parks shady,

It’s believed to be reserved for mortals eternally,

Those who are close to God for being righteous,

There where the Lord is revealed in forms plenteous,

The scent of sandal and flowers dwell permanently,

In those fields heavenly.

There you can see the Lord’s manifestation,

In myriads of His creation,

In the form of Brahma, the Lord of creation,

Vishnu, Lord of preservation.

Shiva, the Lord of annihilation.

Ram, Rahim, Sita, Parvati,

Christ and Mother Mary.

The Azure Blue Sky

The sparsely cloud dotted blue sky

Greeting me with its jollity,

Cajoling me to celebrate this day,

To shirk my heavy melancholy,

When Mother Nature’s brilliance,

Is displaying its tantalising radiance.

The palm leaves are swaying gently,

The birds are twittering merrily,

The twigs of the trees are joining rhythmically.

People are out and about chatting,

Walking, leisurely wandering,

Others their respective chores accomplishing.

Light heartedly, the children are playing,

Cheering, gleefully rejoicing.

Imbibing this atmosphere enlivening,

My spirit automatically responding to this vivacity,

My heart steadily dispels the heavy morosity,

To mingle with the pervading gaiety

PUSHMAOTEE FOWDUR SUBRUN

PUSHMAOTEE FOWDUR SUBRUN was born in 1949 in Mauritius. She pursued higher studies in Delhi University where she graduated in English. For the past forty-five years she has worked in secondary schools, seven years of which she spent in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, teaching English in an army school. She completed her PGCE at the Mauritius Institute of Education. After her retirement, she was a member of the Council of the University of Mauritius for three years. She is currently a reader and editor in the Ministry of Arts and Culture. She is the author of: ‘Ella’- a novel. ‘Who is Your Best Friend?’- a play. ‘Short Stories and Fables’- a compilation of stories and Fables. ‘Dreams to Reality’ (submitted to be published by the Ministry of Arts and culture) ‘A lyrical bouquet of Soulful Poems’ to be published in the coming months. Her poems have featured in prestigious online literary magazines such as ‘Setu e zine’, ‘Poetry and Creativity’, ‘Atunis Poetry’,  ‘Recco -World Union of Poets’, Khushi Verma’s ‘Anthology of Poems and Short Stories’, ‘Atunis Poetry’- Destiny Poets’, ‘OPA Anthology of Poetry’, ‘Awakening’,   ‘Best Poetry’, ‘Literati Council’ of Mathura and in International Multilingual Poetry Anthology of Amaravati Poetic Prism 2018 and 2019.