Showing posts with label Molly Joseph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Molly Joseph. Show all posts

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...

Voices Within: Molly Joseph

Molly Joseph
Dr. Molly Joseph, had her Doctorate in post war American poetry. She retired as the H.O.D., Department of English, St.Xavier's College, Aluva, Kerala, and now works as Professor, Communicative English at FISAT, Kerala. She is an active member of GIEWEC (Guild of English writers Editors and Critics) She writes travelogues, poems and short stories. She has published five books of poems - Aching Melodies, December Dews, Autumn Leaves, Myna's Musings and Firefly Flickers and a translation of a Malayalam novel Hidumbi. She is a poet columnist in Spill Words, the international Online Journal. She has received various awards.

Face it alone.... 


Face it alone.... 
 ..... ..... ... 
the most 
 vital moments 
of your life,
 you face it 
 alone...

you cried out
 and yelled
all alone
 once out 
of your
 umbilical
support...

you face it
 alone...

you are ill
 and weak,
you face it 
 alone...

your comfort
 zones
close 
 in a moment
unawares,
 you face it
alone... 

at life' s 
 cross roads
you halt
 to negotiate
the curve,
 you face it
alone.. 

to be happy 
 or sad
you decide,
 you face it
alone. 

even at 
 the fag end
of all twists
 and turns,
when you
 succumb
 to death,

you face it
 alone...

if we
 are never
alone,
 we realise not,
our strength
 so new
so powerful
 hidden 
within,
empowered
 by the
 mighty force
 from above...

 better
 gather strength
 to withstand
 the whirlwinds
that sweep
 cross..
wait 
 and watch,
there is 
 always
a calm
 after
the storm...

Raining... 

Raining... 
 . ... ..... 

searching 
for the right key
on the heavy key ring
to open the lock....

before the sunset glow
fades on horizons, 
to trace the lost
before dark...

relishing
the honey drops
that fall from 
heard melodies
turning sweeter...

the urge 
to perch on those
myriad branches
dancing on to the
meadows that stretch....

one second!
let me hold you close,
 your world and mine
heart to heart..

I loved you
still I love you....

like vapours
rising from the lake
our love, went up high,
scattered...

only to come down 
as rain
covering, hugging
the plains...
from frozen, silent sorrows,
would have been,
melting 
down, down,
raining...

New bridges

New bridges
............ ... 

To rouse you
 up
from ennui,
 what words
of mine
 will suffice? 

Shall I
 keep on 
blowing 
 into 
those ashen
 embers
smothered 
 in time
to make 
 it glow...

I love you.

shall I
 fondle 
your dreams
 lying dormant
and tickle 
 them
to blossom....

Shall I
 energise
your hopes
 stranded
in silent
 castles
that echo
 the rushing
mundane,
 its fading 
footsteps...

Shall I 
 sing soulful
into
 your ears
stories
 of resurrection
from
 devastation? 

bridges
 may break
while 
 we cross,
leave it....

We can 
 always
build it
 anew,
build it
 different....

Let us
 laugh it out,
our journey,
 its falls, rise....

Sure, we
 will resurrect,
crossing
 the worst,
braving 
 the odd, absurd...

our will
 to power
turning 
 the formidable
feeble..

the trees
 getting
clearer
 in woods
as we 
 watch 
and wait...
Voices Within - Complete List of Poets :: Setu, January 2019