Marsilah Binti Mohamad Isa's poems

 Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 3, Number 2. November 2020. ISSN: 2581-7094

Remembering Orchid

                                    --- Marsilah Binti Mohamad Isa

The awe of remembering

traversing the timeline of memories

where I used to be and forever ruminating

 

The path of mine coincides

the array of orchids in the garden of mind

capturing words from the wise

 

If time permits physical memory

mind if I touch orchids of remembrance

embracing each scene before a departure

 

I lay now wondering

in awe of remembering

the sweet of sight and scent where I began

 

if time can turn

mind if i trail those sweet orchids

where I blossomed and where I grew

imprinting the heady smell in each step

 

To the time I begin and grow

The orchids remain sweet

While the journey rocks a mould

Of an innocent youth