I haven't shared my creative writing with many of you reading this blog...I'll post a poem or two...and welcome feedback/critique! (Especially from my writer friends who are reading this...we can create a writer's group miles apart!)
Balcony Views - Saila Nibas Complex
A painter's bamboo scaffolding,
splattered in whitewash,
canary yellows and melons,
tangerines and
robin egg blues of the apartments
its supported,
mushrooming from rice paddies
at the edge of Kolkata.
A father's bike,
shiny black,
daughter on front,
son on side,
crisp, pink school uniform shirts
and pale cream bobby socks, starched lace,
sing-songing about the day to come
in the beautiful Bangla of Kol
through muddy lanes,
soon after sunrise,
their long journey to school begins.
A woman's sari,
crimson, wrapped quickly in dawn's grey
evening dishes,
set beside the door, wait to be washed.
Her husband bathes,
tucked behind a clay wall,
fingers through damp hair
smiling at her as she works.
The morning's dew,
invisible,
resists landing, determined to stay aloft
linking the world,
droplet by droplet
connecting traditions with
telecom lines
transecting power and
poverty
lubricating the transition from
isolation to integration,
celebration
vibrant, complex
West Bengal
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Location:Kolkata, West Bengal
Awesome Ann lindsey.This is Pammi ghosh
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