NITA B GEORGE

 

 

Longings

 

Like

An empty

Pot

I

Needed

You

To

Fill me

You,

Just

Turned

And

Slept...

Unspoken words

Tell

What

Voices

Hide.

Live

I

In

A

Hall of mirrors

Illusions,

Delusions,

Fantasies,

Reverberate

Again

And

Again

And

I,

An empty pot

Reverberating

Remain !

 

Fishing...!

 

He

Has cast

The

Net

And now

Waits.

Waits

For

His catch.

Money, lucre, love...

What

Will

I fall for

I

Wonder...

 

The Unwelcome Guest

    (An Ode to Death)

 

You have visited me

Many

Times

Forcing me to say

Good bye

To

My loved ones.

You

Leave me in tears

When you go

For,

You take with you

My happiness, my cheer.

Today,

You stand

At

My threshold again

I know

I will open the door

And

Let you in

Unwelcome guest,

Unwelcome guest!

 

NITA B GEORGE

 

NITA B GEORGE, the Poet, has been an English teacher at the Graduation level for 37 years. She comes from a family that has its roots in a poetic ethos. Poetry in her has deep springs that bubble out in the form of beautiful poems. She has developed her own style of expression that is marked by simplicity in diction, judicious use of imagery and poetic techniques and economy of words. No long-drawn repetitions or wasting of space is found in her style of poetry. Structurally too, her innovative 'one word in a line' and minimal punctuation is an attractive element of her poems. Although Fantasy plays a great role in her poems, it is the ground realities of life and experiences that are her source of inspiration. Her poems are spontaneous outpouring of the heart...the titles of the poems declare the themes of the poems and help the reader to relate the poems to the ideas that stream out consequently...