PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK

 

 

If Love Was A Tree

 

If love was a tree, how would it be?

Its fresh oxygen kissing my cheeks.

Its rustling leaves whispering endearments.

Its canopy giving me shade. 

 

If love was a tree, how would it be?

Its branches surrounding me.

Its fruits nourishing me.

Its sturdiness giving me strength.

 

If love was a tree, how would it be?

The birds in it singing songs for me.

The butterflies hovering around it giving my eyes delight.

The fresh green leaves giving solace to my soul.

 

Oh Wind! Break Me Free

 

Oh wind! Break me free.

Break me free from the drudgeries of life.

Break me free from the overload of work.

Where work piles up and doesn't end.

 

Oh wind! Break me free.

Break me free from all problems.

Break me free from the twists and turns of life.

Where I have to be alerted every moment.

 

Oh wind! Put me down.

Let me be tied up with my loved ones.

Let me be tied up with fruitful creativity.

Where nature, work and my loved ones give me solace.

 

The Rikki Tikki Tavi Moment

 

Sitting on the Joe's Folly verandah,

Sipping a freshly brewed Darjeeling tea

Accompanied by a fish corn pie.

Suddenly a furry creature with a fluffy tail

Comes out of the bushes and roams around.

The morning sun dazzling on the green grass of the lawn.

I shout out, "That's a mongoose there".

I softly tread towards it and the mongoose scurries away.

I follow it around the lawn.

It then goes behind some bushes in an enclosure.

It crawls along and then vanishes.

But the joy remains in my mind.

I realised it was a Rikki Tikki Tavi moment.

The story of Rudyard Kipling read in my ICSE.

The thrill and romance came back to me.

 

PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK

 

Dr. PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK is a scientist, editor, literary curator and an award-winning poet. She has published 11 books and some of her poems have been translated into 45 languages. She promotes peace, multilingual, global and indigenous poetry. In July this year she was one of the recipients of the Mumbai Woman Leadership awards and in June one of the six women around India to be awarded on the theme, " Women: Breaking Barriers, Shaping Futures and Leading Change".