Teesta Review: A
Journal of Poetry, Volume 7, Number 1. May 2024. ISSN: 2581-7094
--- Sagar Mal Gupta
I was very comfortable
At peace and safe
In my mother’s womb
I had plenty to eat
And drink, had plenty
Of space to play.
Had physical connectivity
And knowledge connectivity
When I was pulled out
Of my mother’s womb
I cried bitterly
But nobody paid
Attention to this cry.
Here I feel so miserable
Smitten by sorrows
Deprivation.
I have only polluted air
Polluted minds
Around me.
There are only shrinking hearts
And shrinking places.
There are disputes
of religion, caste
And colour.
Oh God, why was I forced
To come out?
Couldn’t I have lived
There till eternity.
Dear God if that is
Not possible can you make
This world as comfortable
Peaceful and safe
As my mother’s
womb?
Silence
--- Sagar Mal Gupta
There is stillness of night
noiseless, soundless darkness
has enveloped every nook
and corner of the house
no sound of crickets
no sound of wind.
Even the trees are sleeping soundlessly
furniture, carpet, utensils
store, staircase, roof
beams of the house
everything in perfect silence.
Thoughts are dead
dreams are non-functional
hopes, aspirations, ambitions
all gone to slumber
only a silent prayer
oozes out from the mind
to calm the agitated body
in perpetual bliss.
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Bio:
Educated
at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hawaii, Sagar Mal Gupta earned his Ph. D. in Linguistics from the University
of Hawaii USA. He has fifty-six years of teaching experience of English
language and Literature in India and abroad. He has published four books of
poetry in English and his poems have been published in a number of national and
international journals of repute.
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