Bio: Mini Babu is working as Associate Professor of English with the Dept. of
Collegiate Education, Govt. of Kerala and now working at BJM Govt. College,
Chavara, Kollam. Her poems have been featured in anthologies, journals and
magazines. Her collections of poems are Kaleidoscope
(2020), Shorelines (2021) and Memory Cells (2022). Her co-edited
collection of poems is Meraki (2021).
POETRY
Poetry is the
little bird
that takes a lazy
flight
off the window of a
pale-lit
room in a woman’s
soul,
she follows its
gradual flutter
into the concealed,
into freedom,
while she regresses
to a woman’s life,
subsequent to
letting a bit of soul
to drop off
to time.
Poetry is a whimper
that parts the soul
for a terrestrial
ride.
A WOMAN IS A POEM
A woman is a poem
and quite different
from
a short story, a
novel or a play,
for the reason
that,
they have numerous
attributes
to fall back to,
to hold on,
to draw them
straight,
the scenes and
talks
and people and
plot.
While,
a poem is an
amoeba,
self-flagellating –
a thought, a feel
or a dream,
that pulls back
