In the desert,
The heat scalds the skin,
Cutting deep,
A certain sepsis of the soul...
On the road to Oasis,
Blisters seldom heal,
Down on his knees,
The lost traveller begs Allah to end his misery,
Look at the plight of Allah,
He doesn’t know what is he accused of,
The sand storm is to bring the traveller home,
Didn’t the water in the satchel and the faithful camel,
Abandon the traveller long ago?
Yet, he lives to beg for mercy,
His cries lame, pain acute,
Allah’s name he calls out loud,
But never ‘shukrana’, a word of thanks,
‘Pray tell’, says Allah, ‘How do I save your miserable soul?’
6 comments:
Nice lines..loved it...looking forward to visit your blogs.
You can visit mine at
http://jayendrasharan.wordpress.com
Hi Ismita,
Got to your blog from Indiblogger. Was just browsing around. Nice to know that you authored a book, guess you should stop calling yourself a "lesser known" poet now.
From an unpoetic life completely devoid of rhythm, let me try to see if I can make some sense out of your blog ideas :)
@Jayendrasharan...thank you so much for dropping by.
@Vicky Dada, quite a blog name you have there :)
The world only knew shakespare much later...thsi lesser known poet has along journey ahead...
And sense you shall make, in this mad rush atht we call life...something within wants to pack a li'l meaning :)
Lady Author,
Thanks so much for your compliment. I came up with it myself and later found on Google search that it wasn't really so novel.
I shall keep a tab on your blog and come back often.
I am really eager to know your experience of how you went about writing, preparing, publishing a book - the entire life-cycle of it - in case you have it chronicled somewhere?
@Vicky...these are some of the links that I could find, hope they help :) thank you.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/people/Its-love-on-the-rocks-for-Ismita/articleshow/7979482.cms
http://www.bookchums.com/blog-details.php?blogId=MjY4
http://coolkamikazecat.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/an-evening-with-ismita/
Thank you so much, Ismita ji, for your time and effort to put the links together. I went through two of them and it is eye-opening. Will go through the rest and mail you offline if I have any specific questions.
Wish you all the best for your next book!
Post a Comment