Molly Joseph (Colours of Love and Barriers)

Molly Joseph

Dr. Molly Joseph is a Professor, Poet (Bilingual Writer) from Kerala India who   had her Doctorate on Post War American Poetry.   She has published fifteen books, 12 Books of poems, a Novel and a Story book for Children. Widely anthologized, she has won several accolades (National, International) which include, Wordsmith Award 2019, India Women Achiever’s Award (2020 India) and the Yan’an OutStanding Poet Award (2021 China). She believes in the power of the word and writes boldly on matters that deal with the contemporary. 

E-mail- mynamolly @gmail.com  Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/user/mynamolly

Love perennial

   

What divine intricate feel

is this, love!

the tiny gossamer thread that straddles

between minds, 

the waxing waning moon between the clouds

but leaving a soothing radiance behind...

 

on its heels how sizzling it turns, the mind 

the fresh water eel...

dazzling, weaving out magic...

how moments glimmer in fun and zest for life

 

Why block its smooth flow

stacking boulders on its way

let it transcend manmade walls

of race, caste and gender

let it render a free space for all...

 

sometimes starting with a clinging note

of possessive riveting, hijacking space and time,

how fast a bonding grows into bondage

of emotional, psychic hassle...

 

when expectations galore

become encrustations

sure, it is crushed within 

to taper out its glow and to grow into

a wild desperate cry...

 

better allow love to mature itself within,’

 by "let go" allowing the freedom for it

to float over, encumbered by 'me' and mine,'

sure, it will turn back to its tethers, uninhibited,

forget the hurts love offered on its flow

let the absorbing contours of your sensibility

soak them in...

 

let there waft in the self-effacing content

of the autumn leaf at peace with itself

having given away her very best, her youth,

her green, her fresh air,

now to merge with the soil nourishing it

to melt itself into thin air, erasing itself

as the presence that pervades the perennial...

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Colours of Love :: Setu, July 2022