Tuesday, November 4, 2025






A LUXURY CAR.

 

 

I  walked the road with a heavy load

Keeping pace with the life race

.I tripped and slipped and lost my grip

My basketful of labour spilled on a parked car.

 

spontaneously I heard a shout, angry and loud

The owner of the luxury  car shouting at me

Are you blind that this car was hit

You may have scratched and dented it

 

The angry voice directed me

to clean the mess and get away immediately

I almost fell,  humiliated and embarrass

As passers by were looking with interest.

But I did not let it be a burden

Just forget the incidents, leave it where it happen

They are just gravels and small stones

in this uneasy road of my own

 

But today I remembered the incident

As we are busy with the state election

my husband and I getting ready to the polling station

Just as I closed the door and gate

A car has come to wait

the driver got out and bowed politely

Father, mother,  I will drive you to the voting centre.

So we got in, without much thinking

To do our duty and come home early

 

 In the car he kept telling us

I am contesting the election

 Vote for me , don't choose other person .

 

I remember at that instance

This is the owner of the luxury car

Who insulted and humiliated me

During the last term.

 

 

 

 WHEN NATURE CRIES

 

I have spoken out

when they injured the hills

and wounded  the trees  

Where I learn to write poetry  

 

But they said

I must learn to face reality

This is the age of industry

We cannot avoid deforestation

We need more houses

for the growing population

May be they are right

but it breaks my heart

as they sit to calculate their profit

the wind is jumping on the roof

Water attacking villages and  coasts

Its my people who suffer the most

 

Let the poor cling to lifeboats

or drift with the mud and tide

we need stylish houses

For the country’s  images and pride

 

Let the earth be sad and desparate

The country does not need romantic poets.