A Lament for the River
The
intermittent sibilance of
The
insomniac sea brooding over the
Translucence of the morning
Its
velvet touch still fresh in his mouth.
The waves swiftly arrive and the sea
Embraces
them in his anguished arms
while
the night groans buried in a
shipwreck
of shadows of the dead.
When the river rushed and drowned in the sea
There
was no trace of her body, only
Her desires still float, like spilled blood,
On the barren sand without any walls.
***
The
Ashvattha Tree
Ashvattha
is that which lives not tomorrow
An
apt metaphor for the transience of life-
Nature’s
law of creation and destruction.
But
the seeds of Ashvatth never die .
The roots of Ashvatth are our desires
That bind us to the wheel of life. The upward
going
Branches
know the higher realms of consciousness
While
those that move downward
Confine
the body to the material world.
The tree makes us gasp at His imagination
Asha Viswas
is a former professor of English, Benares Hindu University , Varanasi, India.
She has also taught at Aligarh and at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She
is the author of Keki N. Daruwalla: the
Poet and Novelist , Tennyson’s Romantic Heritage and Mapping the shore:
Exercises in Criticism and has edited The
Black Novel and Keki N. Daruwalla: Reviews and Interviews.
She
has also published four collections of
poetry and has won the second prize in All India Poetry Competition
2017. She has read her poems in Western Europe, The U.S.A. and African
Universities and had a fan club of her poetry in the U.S.A.
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