the following's written after an earthquake in iran a couple of years ago. it's published by postcolonial discourse, an online literary journal from canada:
life-force
once again the earth
stealthily gnawed at her own margins
entombing gods and humans alike.
freezing all human activity
in its innocent sleep
the buried gods
from the earth below
bear witness to
frozen petrified children
still at their study
panting parents
under the dead weight
of their young ones
a just fed infant alive
with a mouthful of milk
in the arms of a mother dead
a life entrapped for thirteen days
with its breath still intact
the debris of several limbs
under the rubble of once
a make believe world
and
piles of decaying bodies
impatiently await
a mass burial
as bulldozers devise
bizarre beds
for the dead amid the rubble
overwhelmed and stunned
the sorrow of the world
erased its boundaries
to find one another
once again.
Indira
Rumjhum Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is a very nice poem, especially liked the last stanza,Rumjhum
On 12/15/05, shomad_2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:a women was found alive from the oct2005 earthquake debris in
pakistan after nearly 60 days.
what can one say about miracles?
Quake thoughts
deserted paths broken homes
a tireless being gropes
for humanity alive
amongst the debris
i look for the lost child
the doll house left behind
clouds and thunder
plunder
the shriek which fails
helpless sorrow and wails
against our lord divine.
lets play the gardners game
dig with hands, sticks, stones
making holes in the ground
not for jasmines or dafodills
but for my parents burial
planting my father with love
which will bloom one day.
tree of life
did not survive
who killed it with stones
uprooted the roots
lifeless, still
the earth is moot
filled with ashes and soot
yet
a woman rises from her womb.
shoma
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