NITA B GEORGE

 

 

...When Love Is Only Lust!

 

Love?

What is love?

You,

Are a need

A

Habit,

Like

The liquor

I

Gulp

With

Slivers of potato,

The

Smoke

I blow

From

Time to time.

You

Are

A

Habit

That

Grows on me...

 

Encaged

 

Cages, cages, cages

My desires

My emotions

My body

My mind

My Spirit.

Do

I seek

Freedom from

These

To

Be

The breeze

That

Gently flows

Directionless,

Or

The Clouds,

Wayward...

Cages of gold

Entice

Me so

And

I,

Encaged,

Abide...

 

Boundaries

 

Boundaries

Some

Concrete

Some

Abstract

Bound me

Some

Seen,

Some unseen...

Freedom

From

Time

Leads me to

Nothingness

Freedom

From

Circumstances,

To

Chaos.

Boundaries...

Some

Concrete,

Some

Abstract...

 

 

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...