Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic and creative writer and writes on
travel, film, short stories, poetry and on Alzheimer’s Disease. Her work has
been published in various journals and magazines. Her publications include a
monograph on Derozio (2010), a
collection of essays on travel, Out in
the Open (2019), an edited volume of essays on travel, Across and Beyond (2020) and a volume of poems, The Real and the Unreal and Other Poems
(2020).
As
the world goes on
The
narrow meandering road
that
bends and turns
As
the world goes on -
small
fields on either side
the
stubble with some green
in
between
a
few bales lined up in a corner
furrows
in another field in the distance
As
the world goes on -
The
lone farmer at work in the green field
stops
and looks around
sits
down for a while
before
getting to work again
his
routine it seems
he
looks up at the winter sun
takes
a puff, ponders
as
he goes back to work
work
he has to
As
the world goes on -
the
rhythm of life - the land and the crop
his
life as it has been
Will
it change for the better?
Or
the worse as others decide
As
the world goes on
he
goes back to work
the
gentle sun on his back.
Iron
Spires and the Masonry
Rows
of structures that go round
in
two circles – one small
the
large one, encircling.
blending
into each other
yet
standing out, holding on
a
few bent into the earth
that
will claim all.
Brown,
grey and white
remnants
of times past
of
glory and wrath
with
their iron spires
bent,
broken, twisted
into
myriad shapes that stand
against
the dull grey sky
the
sound of white pigeons cooing
that
disturb the quiet
the
truant hedges, the wayward
grass
spreading out
tall,
forlorn – life in these
derelict
times.
Florets
on the plate
As
he pulls in the heavily laden
bicycle
and leans it on the wall
just
below the window
through
which a little sun peeps in
The
purple long flower among his wares
that
lands on the newspaper
on
the table – with people cooking
on
the streets as they voice.
the
florets soon heap up the plate
Cleaned,
chopped, cooked
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