SUNIL KAUSHAL
Phoenix Flight
Has the time come
when she must kill her,
choking all that
reeks of a weak, obsessed mind,
infested with
crawling maggots of longing
that sap all
strength?
Should she disown
her mangled corpse,
rotting in the wilderness
called ‘womanhood’?
Having suffered
it all, fulfilling needs of the flesh
now turn towards
her bruised soul;
re-mould the
decaying remains,
carving a new
woman of substance
who yearns not to
hear, from other lips,
words of love and caring.
Instead within herself be so fulfilled,
as to sublimate her very existence.
Crucified a million times, burnt at the stake as many times,
reduced to ashes,
she grows new wings.
Glorified,
liberated, empowered at long last
free of fetters, having severed shackles, broken bonds.
Woman, the giver
of life, love, abundance and prosperity;
the goddess showering her infinite wealth
free to soar,
soar, soar on her phoenix flight.
Copyright@Dr. Sunil
Kaushal
A Brave New
World
A brave new world
I keep resolving
to make
within myself
where I will not
seek myself
through others
where I will not
be judged
as black or brown
young or old
where my caste
will not
be the stumbling
stone
to trip my
hurried steps
trying to catch
up with life
fleeing from my
grasp
through gnarled
fingers of time
where time and
space
are no constraint
to flights in
freedom.
Copyright@Dr. Sunil
Kaushal
The Person That
She Is
Perhaps not, the
woman you would want -
stereotyped,
boxed, suffocated,
demeaned,
battered, humiliated.
Burdened bearers
put out ads
that almost read
“Dowry in
millions, girl free
as *donation
(*kanya daan),
enhanced by two
assets
salary,
education.
Best investment
in relations.”
She hardly
matters
the woman that
she is !
Your youth, an
adventure sowing wild oats,
Sita’s- a trial
by fire
for only your
orders,
should awaken her
sexuality.
Salving your
ego’s wounds,
forgets her own
the woman that
she is!
The wing clipped
bird, caged
peers through
bars, dazed
wiping from eyes,
blinding dust of
time, servility;
has lines of her
palms read, hoping
to create new
destiny.
Propitiated stars
change
the woman that
she is.
An auspicious
star descends,
a seed sprouts in
the warmth
of the holy crypt
of womanhood.
Sadistic
barbarism forced to relent
captive freedom
as she chooses to
bear her child
not by
compulsion, in the mirage called marriage,
the woman that she has become!
The sun embraces
the ice maiden,
as cool breezes
caress heavy limbs,
buzzing bees hum
lullabies, lilting birds sing,
wafting with the
fragrance of spring
as she croons and
paints joyous colors
for the life
within
snapping self
imposed shackles of solitude
gazing skywards,
starry eyed ,
becomes the woman
that she is !
The dormant
volcano spews lava,
lips sealed no
longer.
In drunken stupor
you force kisses,
expect her to
swallow humiliations.
Is she too large
a pill for you to swallow,
for fear it may
cure you of male chauvinism,
her perfume too
heady to be confined
within four
narrow walls called home
the woman that
she has become!
Her body ages,
energy at low tide while you still expect
a ravishingly beauteous,
coy, sensuous,
woman in bed,
lascivious as a whore,
at dawn all
virtuous and demure,
on whom no man
shall cast his eyes
while your own
life, a web of lies.
The fire you wish
to rekindle
with your drunken
bouts
knowing not, she
will douse it
the woman that
she has become!
Copyright@Dr. Sunil
Kaushal
SUNIL KAUSHAL
Dr. SUNIL
KAUSHAL, gynecologist, trilingual writer also writes haiku, micro-poetry,
and limericks. Published in a number of National, International anthologies and
magazines, she has won many awards and competitions. Her poems have been
translated into French, German, and Greek. Read her in Crumpled Voices 2,
Feathers, Nature Poems, Forever a Lie, Bloodshot Eyes, Learning and Creativity,
Love – A Divine Madness Vol.1&2, Episteme, Kafiyaa, On Fire Cultural
Movement, Setu, Storymirror, Kalaage,
Muffled Moans, The International Multilingual Amravati Anthology, Glomag, Quill Master, Gems ll, a Hindi anthology-Khatti Meethi
Batiyan. The Significant League’s Roseate Sonnets Anthology(International),
Aatish 2, Her memoirs Gypsy Wanderings & Random Reflections Part1, and her
blog sunilkaushal44.blogspot.in. In October 2017 she was honored at the Indian
World Poetree Festival with The Enchanting Muse Award(International) and Fellow
of the Regal World of Scribes(FRWS), by The Pentasi B Poetree Group. She has
been designated as Literary Brigadier by StoryMirror. Literoma publishers
conferred on her the Woman Achievers Award for the year 2019. Her debut book of
memoirs, GYPSY WANDERINGS&RANDOM REFLECTIONS recently won special category non-fiction,
prize from Nissim Ltd.awarded by The Significant League for its ‘the exquisite
prose’. Currently, ‘Gypsy Wanderings Part 2’, her book of poems and translation
of her brother P.S.Gill’s book from German to English, keep her busy. An
accomplished actor, she has done a number of stage plays, TV, and radio
programs. Having been on the Advisory Committees of National TV and All India
Radio, and as the medical doctor on board, All India Radio, Jalandhar, for 30
years, she brought about a number of changes for Women and Children’s Welfare. In
1982, she was awarded ‘Best Lioness President, Asia. She has also been
chairperson of a number of socially committed organizations for many years and
is associated with Mother Teresa’s Home. She can be caught sketching or baking
when not travelling. Yoga, meditation, Classical and Sufi music charge this
75-year-old with vitality, staying in love with life!
Very nice poetry
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