Saturday, March 13, 2010

A Drought Inside

On every treetop that blocks the wind,
There is an unheard cry of birth...
Cry of a bud that wanted to bloom into a flower...
A leaf smiling in the sunshine...
With its least moisterous eyes...
And a creeper peeping out to the sky...
Thirsting for a rain...
Can you hear the whispers of our land now?
The soil is translating the monologues of the souls buried inside...
A drought is about to break its shell and scatter around
Its dry chirping all over the sleeping riverside...
We are near the gateway to a graveyard...
Where rainless clouds arch a prison of darkness...
The mountains lay as silent as saints in communication with God...
Even nothingness is on its deathbed to eternity...
Its drought out here...


SOYA V. N.


6 comments:

  1. let me guesss!! did u write this during one of our 'out of syllabus' exams...???:D btw shudn't the last line be "drought OUT here"?

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  2. Thank you Sulfia. That was a mistake from my part while typing. Thank you once again for pointing it out. I have changed it.

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  3. Keep writing, Soya. "Everybody loves a good drought."

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  4. Thank u so much..sir..but i didn't read dt buk yet.i ws rfrng to d actual drought in which we are now...

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  5. I was not thinking of the book there, but sharing the anxiety in the poem. "Rainless clouds arch a prison of darkness". There is so much of poetry there.

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  6. er ! hmmm ! from the comments and explanations,i guess what she meant,she said outright..for a minute i thought it was something else!

    cheerio!

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