T Wignesan Poet Quatrain

The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Thirteen

The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Thirteen

Oh! Woe! Woe! On pubic islet the dirty deed’s done
Bloodied needle leaves stain the Zen-rock cobbled garden
The derelict torn womb spills seminal fluids on the ground
Fallopian tubes shredded by the elements count down

Her mons veneris rough-scaled and crushed by bombarding rams
The cicatrised wooden ramparts no more serving as soil dams
Not a lamina of palmate leaf even so much as shaking hands
Where the maple tree once swayed to vulva-lapping tom-toms

This soggy desolation of mud and gangrened charred rock
Three weeping willows drooping wan lifeless at the water mock
Where even the wild fowl desert the juicy period spoils
Tell-tale signs of the Lady Lake’s pilloried grief in stock

Where the surgeon’s thrusting irons reigned now stands the shiny 
                    bridge
Three dark as dungeons evergreens bear lurid witness knowledge
Of an unwholesome demonic deed done to the locked-in Dame
Look! That Ancient Bard of Nishapur will surely acknowledge!

Hark! The tulip-lipped Lass from Lahore walks downcast on stones!
The Maiden of the Main lifts her head to utter bye-bygones!
Pale Ol’ Khayyam still roams dreaming of the Dame of the Lake!
Yet the foul deed still resounds up to the highest heavens! 

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013

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S.Zaynab Kamoonpuri December 26, 2013 at 10:58 AM I've been in lahore as im an indian lassie n nishapur is not far away frm my hometown. So did u translate omar khayyam's rubaiyat here? Anyway rubaiyats though not a modern form yet i admire them deeply n hope to write one someday. I must say, what with the mention of fallopian tubes and all OMG dis is a dark quirky weird poem that i enjoyd nonetheless. Gah! Do just read my latest, but dis time no coments pls. Thnku n meerie xmasss! T Wignesan December 27, 2013 at 1:35 AM Hi, Zaynub! Thanks for your comments. I read your piece, and as requested: No Comment! I think you're mad at me for what I said about the poem you wanted me to read. If that's the case, I guess you're right in asking me NOT to comment. Omar Khayyam only wrote ONE ruba'i. Read the note in my Ruba'iyat Three. Do my ruba'iyat sound like Khayyam's to you? Every good wish. Wignesan