Short In The Doldrums Poems
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BEFORE AND AFTER
For long years then
My days were lifeless
Dark and dry then
Like a boat adrift
In the doldrums then
Now I feel like a sail,
That was in the attic
And now is taken to the sea
Where real ocean winds
Now are blowing into it.
It wasn’t monsoon
but toxic rain.
Diya drenched
in the doldrums.
Her head bloated,
brain turned barren.
Her body curved
as a cashew nut.
Her legs and arms
dried.
Aches and anxieties
grow up
in the cashew farm.
Sad sap oozes
out of her mouth.
Her doll lies dead.
Now she isn’t a girl
but a remnant
on an empty mat.
[Endosulfan is a
deadly insecticide.]
The self
is but a wicked dream
that lifts you high
to let you fall.
"Inflatable", men call such boast
that stretches the imagine
so to propel the I
to heights unknown to none save "me".
A bloated thrill is I
whose bubble bursts too soon,
fading into the insignificance
of a splat of spit.
Why do we flatter ourselves
by raising pompous sails
to catch the wind that blows
in the doldrums of our self-esteem?
From cradle to grave the sun baked
the skin leather, un-oiled
and rain did not fall
for Isis with held her tears.
From the bloody care of womb
children popped like bread from
the oven of women, the urns of life,
earthen were their colors
ocher, saffron, and
some as black as basalt, rich…
with a Nubian glow.
How the small ones squeal
at the wadi’s edge.
How the toes of man and beast
dance at the skirt of mother Nile,
sensuous, rippling with the wind,
or placid in the doldrums of summer sun.