PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK

 

Sighting The Elusive

It's that time of the year when the banyan trees shed their leaves.

It's that time of the year when the gooseberry trees are overloaded with gooseberries.

It's that time of the year when the squirrels scamper up and down the trees.

It's that time of the year when the parrots are sitting on the tips of the bare branches.

The poet is overwhelmed with the wondrous nature.

The bare branches of the banyan trees are shivering in the breeze.

She suddenly sees the shiny black red eyed nightingales in the inner branches.

And some grey speckled female nightingales giving them company.

These elusive birds hide in the inner branches

But due to the bare branches they could be sighted.

The sunbirds dance in the China doll bushes nearby.

The poet's heart dances with them on sighting the elusive.

Monsoon Is An Emotion

It's June and we are waiting for the rains

In the city of dreams,

In the city of rains.

Once monsoon starts it will rain incessantly for months

In the city of dreams,

In the city of rains.

The trees will become lush green.

The grey clouds will play hide-n-seek with the skyscrapers.

There will be freshness all around.

The sound of the rain drops all day long.

The rains will flood the streets

In the city of hard work,

In the city of resilience.

There will be traffic snarls

In the city of hard work,

In the city of resilience.

But we will still wait for the happy drops.

We will wait for the rain.

We will wait for freshness and joy.

In Mumbai, where monsoon is an emotion. 

PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK

Dr. PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK is a scientist, literary curator and an award-winning poet. Known as a positive poet, Paramita spreads peace, happiness and positivity through her poems. In January this year, she was awarded the Ukiyoto Poet of the Year. Last year she was one of six women around India to receive an award,” Women: Breaking Barriers, Leading Futures, Shaping Change” and one of twenty recipients of the “Mumbai Woman Leadership Award 2024”.Blessed with many other awards, Paramita has eleven books to her credit and her poems have been translated into forty five Indian and world languages.