Red
When twilight
painted the east red
his eyelids
locked his pair of eyes
that had turned
red overnight
No wonder he
missed morning news
on the bloodshed
in religious riots
In the east
coast
many white
collared and students
felt happy to
watch TV and idle
as the met
department gave red alert
but diverse poor
laborers were united in sorrow
by the rains
that denied them a day’s wage
Elsewhere with
no curiosity
about the
religion, color, gender or caste
of the recipient
patient - youth donated
blood before
heading to work or college
As ever, one of
the few certainties in this world,
the sunset
brought red on the west
darkening
diverse habitats
A Humble Justice
Many of the
audience were in tears
as the
celebrated laurate with a cheque
stood up on
behalf of scores of
children who
emptied their pocket moneys
in their piggy
bank,
blue collared
women and men of the third world
who had donated
one day wages,
and
conscience-guided white collared
who had donated
liberally
He was to hand
over a cheque
to the UN for
the rebuilding of
thousands of
families
whose homes and
children
were preyed by
raining drones
Trillions of
angry common men women
irrespective of
race, color, gender or nationality
watched the
event online and felt
some justice was
still possible
MURALIDHARAN PARTHASARATHY
MURALIDHARAN PARTHASARATHY: He has
been nominated for the ‘inspiring author’ award by ‘theindianawaz’ for 2021. He
is an active member of many global literary societies, and a poetry/book
reviewer. His poems have been published by many literary magazines and websites
all over the world. He is well-versed in all genres of poetry like free verse
and haiku and has participated in the Haiku meets in London. He has translated
two books including Shashi Tharoor’s ‘Why I am Hindu' into Tamil. His blogs on
poetry reviews stand out. His first
poetry collection ‘Exiting the oblivion’ is now on Kindle.
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